Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free online compendium, read weekly since 1998 by 8,000 readers in more than 201 countries. *** " I love Global Museum! I pull stories for my weekly email to our docents and they enjoy them too. My colleagues even asked to know where I found them because the stories are so interesting. " - User Feedback *** Four Pages of the Latest Museum News & Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org . ** Disgraced British art dealer's priceless treasure trove discovered hidden in Geneva The antiquities were found hidden inside 45 crates and are believed to have been left in the Swiss lock-up by Robin Symes, a high-profile art dealer who fell from grace and was sent to prison ** 'Fake Rothko' trial reduces tragic art to farce It is a story that illuminates in fiery red and perturbing black Manhattan's long decline as an art capital ** The Explorers Club Once Served Mammoth at a Meal. Or Did It? Eating fossil meat may seem hazardous, but animals that died thousands of years ago have been found frozen, and the Yale researchers point to credible reports of palaeontologists sampling the ancient flesh of extinct bison and mammoth _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 3,379? Our Community on the LinkedIn Platform - Join the Global Museum Social Network - Meet& Make Friends, Share Photos & Videos, Blog, Use the Forum, Join A Group. Become one of our first 4,000 members. Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** New exhibition shows diabolical encounters and ghosts from centuries ago Aggressive witch-hunts, devil-disturbed societal anxieties and a widespread belief in the power of magic were features of early modern Europe, where brushes with the supernatural were accepted in everyday life ** Rebel shelling destroys museum in Yemen Shelling by Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels in the heavily contested western city of Taiz struck a museum housing rare manuscripts and the possessions of a deceased ruler ** How to look at nakedness - in art, that is The idea that it might be worth learning how to look at nakedness deserves deeper examination - if not for Rouhani (who never asked, by the way, for the Capitoline sculptures to be covered), then certainly for us, who live in a region groaning with great nudes ** Museum displays desk with 'JFK' carving that didn't belong to the president The story begins in the 1970s, when the wife of a former Choate teacher offered the desk to the school. Choate turned down the offer, knowing the desk wasn't authentic: The style of desk wasn't in use during the time Kennedy attended, from 1931 to 1935 ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 131K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,439 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** How do you put on a torc? We have many examples of truly beautiful torc neck-rings which were worn to destruction - taken on and off so many times that they broke at the back - and they have often been somewhat clumsily repaired ** Children's Museum invites kids with sensory issues to play Before the general public was let in, the museum staff turned down the lights and the sounds, and made noise-reducing headphones available ** Ancient Roman's Egyptian mummy mask joins display of museum treasures The golden mummy mask of Titus Flavius Demetrius, who chose to be buried not as a Roman citizen but as an Egyptian god, is still in gleamingly immaculate condition 1,900 years after it was made ** This Babylonian Astronomy Text Changes History To track the gas giant Jupiter's path across the sky, the Babylonians used a geometric technique-the so-called trapezoid procedure-that's a cornerstone of modern calculus ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,113 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** An ode to our museum volunteers - integral to what we do Volunteers are vital to the work of museums, but it's important to build trust and respect - and tell them how much you value what they do ** Boston Museum Acquires First Painting Frida Kahlo Ever Sold The two indigenous Mexican maids in the double portrait might have taken care of Kahlo while she was still recovering from her bad 1925 accident ** The surprising thing ancient mummies tell us about what to eat The mummy researchers, including cardiologists who look at such scans in living humans, note that the appearance of the atherosclerosis in the CT scans in the mummies is "virtually identical" to the appearance of atherosclerosis in their patients ** This Photo of a Potato Sold for More than $1 Million As for the potato itself, it was one of three potatoes photographed for the series, but the fate of the special star is unknown ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 1.6K Pins, 316 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** London's Most Obscure Museums A look at some of the off-the-beaten-track museums in London, plus a selection out of the 600 crime memorabilia showcased at the Museum of London ** Hieronymus Bosch Is Credited With Work in Kansas City Museum Independent experts have not yet reviewed the project's evidence, and it can take years for scholars to come to a consensus on the authenticity of a painting ** Turtle soup, perchance? Prehistoric humans had a penchant for tortoises New discovery at excavation of Qesem Cave reveals tortoises played a supplementary role in the diets of early humans 400,000 years ago ** Why must a Bradford museum lose its treasures to London? Therefore a world-class institution in a northern city is going to have to give up some of its biggest treasures because it doesn't have sufficient funding - but the magic porridge pot in the capital somehow keeps on giving ** Drowned world: welcome to Europe's first undersea sculpture museum Taylor has just submerged these sculptures in what will become Europe's first underwater museum, Museo Atlantico, in Lanzarote ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles - 196,988 in Circles. 10,002 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Photo Synthesis: What You Need to Know About Photographs This workshop is for staff who care for various types of photography collections ** Working internationally in hard times The 2016 Working Internationally Conference ** The Mysteries of Venetian Glassmaking Techniques Revealed Online The Corning Museum of Glass has released its first-ever scholarly electronic resource ** Virtual Tour of Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park Released Pu'uhonua o Honaunau NHP and the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) ** This Weeks Horoscopes Aquarius - Avoid staring directly at the stars this week, as a rider in their contract forbids anyone from making eye contact with them All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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