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" - User Feedback *** Four Pages of the Latest Museum News & Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org . ** The Big Fake: Behind The Scenes Of Knoedler Gallery’s Downfall The art market is notoriously opaque—the cliché is that it is the largest unregulated industry in the world, besides guns and drugs ** Sudan palace-museum recalls restive Darfur's royal past Silver swords, antique rifles, richly coloured robes and even the throne from which autocrat Sultan Ali Dinar ruled Darfur's vast expanses between 1891 and 1916 line the walls of the palace museum ** Fire guts India's National Museum of Natural History The state-run natural history museum features thousands of exhibits on plants, animals and mineral wealth in India and around the world _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,047? 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Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** The secret life of an archaeologist: soil in your sandwiches and sexism on sites When you see a colleague salivate over a piece of flint, or another jump for joy over a tiny lump of fired clay – the only piece of pottery that has come out of a tonne of soil – you start to understand what archaeology is really about ** ‘Vindictive’ Polish leaders using new war museum to rewrite history Poland’s conservative government is taking steps that threaten an ambitious new World War II museum which international experts have spent eight years creating — the latest ideological battle the nation’s nationalistic authorities are waging against the pro-European rivals they ousted from power last year ** Great News: Artists Might Share Common Traits With Psychopaths We argue that emotional disinhibition, in the form of psychopathic boldness, is actually integral to some creative personalities and functionally related to the creative process ** Museums go Bard: the best Shakespeare exhibitions Theatres across the globe are pulling out their best ruffs to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death this year; but museums are also getting in on the act ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 133K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,506 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** Off the Beat and Into a Museum: Art Helps Police Officers Learn to Look Law enforcement officials tend to view the works through the lens of the job: Who has done what to whom? Where is the perp? Read more. ** Do as I say, not as I do The deputy head of the National Museum of China, who criticised people for taking photographs inside museums on state television, has been found to have done exactly that himself – while visiting museums abroad ** Fashion may be art, but does it belong in a museum? If Jeff Koons’s “Puppy,” a giant terrier made of flowers, evoking more joy than gravitas, can land in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, there’s no reason Mizrahi can’t qualify for museum status ** One of the “most important” shipwreck treasures ever discovered When the Texel Divers Club glimpsed a package in the sand-buried remains of a sunken ship off the island of Texel in the Wadden Sea, they brought it to the surface—only to discover it held a wealthy lady's most prized possessions: a silk damask dress, velvet embroidered purse, perfume ball, lice comb, stockings, and books bound in beautiful leather ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,135 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Indian Artists Are Protesting a Private Takeover of a Public Art Gallery While this may sound like a good deal for the museum, many artists in Bengaluru are upset over the secrecy surrounding the deal and fear that putting control of the previously public art collection in the hands of a private organization will stifle public access to the artworks ** Flying the flag: Decoding sailing's secret symbols Hidden within the vast storage rooms of London's National Maritime Museum are hundreds of historic sea flags rarely seen by the public - until now ** Mammoths had lots of 'interspecies' sex, study shows The study, based on analysis of DNA from 67 specimens of species other than woolly mammoths, uncovers new insights about how mammoths evolved and calls into question whether they were really separate species ** Wood found in Arkansas thought to be remains of cross left in 1540s Archaeologists unearthed what they believe are remains of a large wooden Christian cross Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto placed atop a hill in 1541 at what is now part of Parkin Archaeological State Park in Cross County ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. 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At this museum, you decide Historians will ever debate whether Surratt, the first woman executed by the U.S. government, was aware that Booth’s far-fetched idea to kidnap Lincoln to force the release of Confederate prisoners of war had morphed into a plot to kill him ** Met Plans Job Cuts and Restructuring Since salaries account for 70 percent of the Met’s expenses, the museum plans to reduce its head count over the next 12 months by dozens ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles – 195,493 in Circles. 10,481 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** 14 rarely seen fashions from the National Museum of Scotland Collection The Edinburgh institution is set to open 10 new galleries, comprising 3,000 of the 12 million objects in its collection ** To the Moon and Back: An Evening with America’s Space Heroes Celebration set for June 23 at the San Diego Air & Space Museum ** Technology & Practice Call for posters for the International Conference: “Technology & Practice: Studying the European Visual Arts 1800-1850: Paintings, Sculpture, Interiors and art on Paper”. ** Science Communication and Public Engagement Evaluation Workshop May 23rd, London, UK ** This Week's Horoscopes Virgo - The flame of true love will finally gutter and die in your soul, but take heart: the flame of too many video game systems plugged into a single outlet is burning bright in your den. 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