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" - User Feedback *** Four Pages of the Latest Museum News & Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org . ** Belgian museum in such poor repair the exhibits are being rained on Staff at the Cinquantenaire Museum in Belgium have resorted to wrapping exhibits in cling film to protect them from rain pouring through holes in the roof ** Museums Push to Get 'Dark Data' Into Light Through Digitization Technology may be advancing rapidly in many fields, but many museums worldwide still do not have their collections of fossils easily searchable on-line ** Mussolini's shrine town will get €5m fascism museum The Italian government is reportedly ready to break a 70-year taboo by funding a controversial museum dedicated to fascism in Benito Mussolini's hometown of Predappio - a place of pilgrimage for modern-day fans of the wartime dictator ** Family devastated by theft of unique Churchill exhibit in museum The 1943 commendation to a hero who bravely tried to save five downed Canadian airmen was stolen by Thorneywork after he was sacked from Evesham’s Broadway Tower, a former folly now used as a military room _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 3,394? 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The museum is also compiling notes from the community on the lead-contaminated water crisis for future reflection ** Philadelphia Museum of Art Pushes Back Against Yet More Facebook Censorship In a statement to the museum, Facebook explained the painting was taken down for “containing excessive amounts of skin or suggestive content.” ** Sharp of teeth: crocodiles in the ancient Sahara Astonishingly, even today there are several areas in the southern Sahara where small groups of crocodiles still endure the harsh conditions of semi-desert zones, and survive in caves, pockets of water and other permanent water sources ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 131K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,462 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** A Microsoft billionaire gives the public a rare view of his art What have we learned? That a man who scored big with Microsoft more than a quarter century ago loves classic paintings of places he has visited ** How cat hair brought down a pair of art forgers When forensic investigators analysed the seized works, they found cat hair embedded in the paint—a characteristic not shared by Hunter’s authentic work ** Mystery 'hobbits' not humans like us Diminutive humans that died out on an Indonesian island some 15,000 years ago were not Homo sapiens but a different species, according to a study published Monday that dives into a fierce anthropological debate ** Museum guns stolen in curious burglary are 'one of a kind' Police declined to identify the guns but said the guns did not come from a controversial recent NRA-sponsored exhibit called Guns and Lace _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,116 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Rutgers sleuth finds new plant species locked in ancient amber Scientists at the Academy of Natural Sciences say the research illustrates the value of museum collections such as theirs, which contains an estimated 1.5 million botany specimens, some dating back to the 1700s ** Six Extinctions in Six Minutes The idea that a species could go extinct is a relatively new one, first proposed by anatomist Georges Cuvier in a presentation in Paris in 1796 in a lecture on the extinction of the mastodon, then thought by some to still be roaming the ill-explored western reaches of North America ** Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of Genius Without this Netherlandish visionary from the artistic backwater of ’s-Hertogenbosch, now the capital of the Dutch province of North Brabant, there would be no Goya, no Dali, no Bacon, no Chapman Brothers ** Sounds into Ceramics In a fantastic melding of art and audio visualization, two Dutch artists have created a 3D ceramics printer which translates sound and music into textures in clay vessels ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 1.6K Pins, 316 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Natural History Museums Are Teeming With Undiscovered Species It's easy to view such collections as soulless stashes, examples of humanity's hoarding instinct unleashed upon the natural world, turning vibrant menageries into dead zoos, and living, breathing, mating, hunting, fighting creatures into mere specimens ** Baked beans obsessed man transforms council house into museum The 61-year-old's baked bean museum appears alongside a Sistine Chapel replica and a mock merchant navy ship on the 11th floor of a tower block in Portsmouth ** The Scientists Who Are Deciphering 'Unreadable' Ancient Texts Easton is one of the only people in the world who knows how to resurrect these lost writings from obscurity, which means he frequently ventures to fascinating destinations in order to study rare manuscripts ** The Making of the American Museum of Natural History’s Wildlife Dioramas Temporally and aesthetically sandwiched between the cabinet of curiosities and “Planet Earth,” the dioramas grew out of the intersection between a nascent conservation movement and an age of swashbuckling adventurism ______________________________________________________________________________ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles – 196,797 in Circles. 10,026 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ______________________________________________________________________________ ** ‘Starboard Boat Struck A Whale’ – And Other Tales Preserved Whaling logbooks conserved and digitized for the Martha’s Vineyard Museum ** The Public Archaeology Field School Fort Vancouver National Historic Site ** Keep it moving? 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