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" - User Feedback *** Four Pages of the Latest Museum News & Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org . ** Italian Museum Shuts Off Free Wifi Because It Attracts Migrants The director said that some migrants tried to sleep in the museum while others started using the institution's bathrooms for personal hygiene. ** Scientists Uncover Pablo Picasso's Chemical Fingerprint In Breakthrough Study An extensive analysis of Pablo Picasso's early work by a Spanish chemical engineer has provided some fascinating insights into the artist's paintings created between 1895 and 1900. ** As Venice’s Debts Mount, Mayor Pitches Sale of Art The most contentious is Mr. Brugnaro’s idea to sell off some of the art treasures in its museums’ collections—such as the Klimt painting Judith II—that he says “don’t belong to the city’s history and tradition.” _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 3,358? 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Not According to Their Slaves New clues suggest slaves were vital to the Viking way of life—and argue against attempts to soften the raiders’ brutish reputation. ** How Wives Brought Down the Wildenstein Art Empire What do a Manhattan-based billionaire, a naked Russian model, and a loaded gun have to do with one of the biggest tax fraud trials in French history now underway in Paris? ** Ötzi the Iceman’s Stomach Bacteria Offers Clues on Human Migration An insight into the peopling of Europe has emerged from an unlikely source — the stomach contents of a 5,300-year-old body pulled from a thawing glacier in the eastern Italian Alps. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 130K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,420 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** The Smithsonian’s Cosby problem only gets worse It was bad on ethical grounds (because it could potentially elevate the value of an art collection owned by a close friend of the museum’s director), and it was bad on curatorial grounds ** Shock Closure of £2.4M Cumbrian Mining Museum Spanning two floors the new museum experience reflects local stories, landscape, traditions and tragedies of the West Cumberland coalfields. ** The concept of the museum is in constant evolution The first challenge for the museum of the 21st century is to create spaces that accommodate the way in which artists wish to work, and to develop [programs] for these spaces that reflect the public’s desire for a more active engagement with the art. ** You're going to need a bigger museum 'Junkyard Bruce', the only surviving prop shark from Jaws to be re-homed in Academy Museum after spending 25 years guarding a junkyard. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,103 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Uncovering Concreted Shipwreck Crossbow A fascinating use of computer technology to illustrate archaeology, using a crossbow found on the wreck of the 1564 galleon Santa Clara that has been cast of epoxy resin from its concretion. ** Someone Has A Good Sense Of Humor At Cleveland Museum Of Natural History The collection of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has the cutest beetle in its collection; that’s right, a tiny VW Beetle hangs among the assorted creepy crawlies ** World's first slum museum set up in Dharavi, home of Slumdog Millionaire The museum in Dharavi, one of Asia’s biggest slums and the setting for Danny Boyle’s hit 2008 film, will showcase some of the many objects produced there every year. ** Anatomy of an oil painting Artist Michelle Hiscock recreated Camille Corot’s painting 'Ville-d’Avray: entrance to the wood’ c1825 over the course of a week at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 1.5K Pins, 312 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Obscure Fayetteville museum is trove of medical relics The relics include 150-year-old obstetrical instruments with wooden handles used in childbirth, ceramic jugs that once stored leeches used to bleed the sick, a horse-drawn hearse from 1800s England and a mid-19th century dental instrument kit. ** Who’d Steal Lincoln’s Hand? About all anyone knows is that a plaster sculpture of the 16th president’s hand, proudly displayed for years at the Kankakee County Museum, has been missing from its shelf since at least Dec. 11. ** Bizarre and Beautiful Typewriters from Before Their Design Was Standardized Here we’ve selected a few incredible examples from The Martin Howard Collection which range from “index typewriters” with pointers for selecting a letter, to ornate models that feature the modern QWERTY keyboard. ** Dogfight over bid to send Amy's bi-plane to Hull Event to celebrate pilot's life marred by row after Science Museum refuses to lend Gipsy Moth aircraft to her home city ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles – 197,490 in Circles. 9,630 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Can you help us identify these US servicemen? Auckland Museum has recently digitised a unique and heart-warming set of photos of US servicemen stationed at Warkworth, a provincial town in northern New Zealand, during the Second World War. ** Three day workshop Preservation of Digitally Printed Materials in Libraries, Archives, and Museums ** Professional Development Courses at the V&A London, UK The Enterprising Museum ** Challenges of Concealed Weapons in Museums MPMA's Annual Conference ** This week's Horoscopes Scorpio - You’re no art expert, but you know what you like, which explains all the meatball sandwiches hanging on your walls. All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. Global Museum - since 1998 www.globalmuseum.org ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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