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" - User Feedback *** Four Pages of the Latest Museum News & Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org . ** Marilyn Monroe's "vulnerability and humanity" shown in glittering display of personal items Marilyn Monroe was a part-time poet and artist with a love of naïve still life drawings and figure studies, according to a new exhibition featuring the original costumes she wore ** A Gecko Walks Into A Museum...And Cleans Up The Yale team is also currently working with conservators at the university’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage to refine the gecko adhesive for actual museum use ** Against the Crowdfunding Economy The non-profit fundraising world raises the frightening spectre of an undemocratic welfare state run solely on donations and subject to the caprices of the wealthy _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 3,924? 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Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** The Selfie Has Become a Museum Menace At the British Museum in London, I tried but failed to grab a look at the Rosetta Stone, because of the mass of swinging hands aggressively thrusting selfie sticks and cameras flashing ** How Dalí almost suffocated bringing surrealism to Britain Eighty years ago, as Dylan Thomas served boiled string, Salvador Dalí put on a diving suit, grabbed a billiard cue – and changed British art for ever ** A Shocking Find In a Neanderthal Cave In France The new findings have ushered a transformation of the Neanderthal from a knuckle-dragging savage rightfully defeated in an evolutionary contest, to a distant cousin that holds clues to our identity ** Life on the Space Station Beamed Into NYC Museum It's all a part of StationLIFE, an exhibit designed by NASA to show the science, the technology and a bit of the human side of the space station, including almost-real-time data from the station itself ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 134K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,529 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** 'Jurassic Park' palaeontologist retiring from Montana museum he built Jack Horner, the palaeontologist who discovered the world’s first dinosaur embryos and found that dinosaurs had nests and cared for their young, is leaving the Montana museum he spent decades filling with fossils from across the globe ** Sacred Cape and Helmet on Loan to Oahu’s Bishop Museum Despite the quiet of the museum, there were times I was convinced I could hear the distant chant of ancient Hawaiians, when in fact the only sounds to be heard were the clicking of cameras and the voice of our guide ** Francis Bacon's painting gloves are going to auction – praise be! The paint-splattered gloves are proof that we worship artists’ relics – from Turner’s paint box to Pollock’s brushes – as traces of genius in their own right ** Oldest handwritten documents in UK unearthed in London dig Tertius the Brewer, Junius the Cooper and Julius Classicus – the up-and-coming military commander who would turn traitor against Rome a decade later – have sprung back to life from the first decade of Roman London ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,148 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Museum of Russian impressionist art opens in Moscow The move is hugely ironic: the Bolsheviks, who glorified Soviet realism, shunned impressionist art up until the political thaw of the 1960s ** Top 23 Museums in London - Infographic I love museums and haven’t been to nearly enough of these, but I can vouch for the Science Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, The Natural History Museum, The British Museum, and my favourite, The Tate Modern ** There’s a museum for everything. Even Civil War battles — depicted by cats In September, in the shadow of the historic battlefield here, twins Rebecca and Ruth Brown opened Civil War Tails, possibly America’s most whimsical war museum ** Pranksters put glasses on museum floor, people think it's art As SFMOMA expressed in response to the antic, Khayatan’s move isn’t all that different from Marcel Duchamp’s notorious art prank “The Fountain,“ a signed urinal placed atop a pedestal, which has gone from intellectual hoax to one of the most iconic and influential artworks of all time ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 1.65K Pins, 361 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Museum show explores 'Science of Fear' This is the first comprehensive exhibit on fear that engages visitors with fun experiences that trigger an authentic fear response and then motivates them to learn how the brain and body work together in response to danger ** Tutankhamun's knife of meteoric origin Researchers were able to match the chemical composition of the blade to a meteorite named Kharga, which was found in 2000 on the Maras Matruh plateau in Egypt, 150 miles west of Alexandria ** Shiver me timbers! Remains of fabled warship The bones of a great ship once captained by Jane Austen’s brother and hidden for almost two centuries returns to public view as the centrepiece of Command of the Oceans, a major new gallery opening at Chatham Historic Dockyard museum ** Has Aristotle's Tomb Been Found? Archaeologists Doubt Claims An archaeologist thinks he has found the tomb of Aristotle at Stagira, an ancient city where the Greek philosopher lived for much of his life ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles – 194,948 in Circles. 10,825 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** In Brussels, Art Museum Brings Hope to Muslim Neighbourhood To attract young people from the neighbourhood of about 100,000 people, the museum’s founders have sought to form alliances with schools and have taken steps to create a cultural exchange with the nearby Brussels Boxing Academy ** Scottish Migration and the Wool Industry in Colonial Australia with Rebecca Evans The Johnston Collection - East Melbourne ** Symposium on the Evolution of Marine Mammals in Tbilisi Georgian National Museum on 29 September - 1 October 2016 ** Mingei of Japan: Treasures New and Old Mingei International Museum ** Helpful Museum Map Highlights Exhibits Visitors Don’t Have To Feel Too Bad About Skipping All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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