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" - User Feedback *** Four Pages of the Latest Museum News & Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org . ** Yorkshire to sell museum to save collection Yorkshire are in the process of selling their cricket museum to keep valuable memorabilia out of the hands of liquidators should the club ever go into administration ** The $3 Billion Family Art Feud The Goulandris collection is now at the center of one of the biggest and most complex legal disputes over art in Europe-including a bombshell revelation in the Panama Papers ** 'Unforgettable' V&A wins museum of the year award The V&A has been named 2016 museum of the year, winning the UK's largest arts prize, for providing visitors with what judges called an unforgettable experience _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,041? 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Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** The Meaning Of Images In A World Where Disposable Images Are Everywhere It may no longer be possible to come to the usual conclusions, to go on validating (or discrediting) works of art in the usual way ** US museum returns icons to Russia, defusing international controversy An international arts controversy involving Russia and a small museum in central Massachusetts is over - for now ** Eight gold coins mark the site of an ancient Roman massacre Roughly 18,000 men were killed during the slaughter in Teutoburg Forest in 9C, when German tribes led by Arminius ambushed three Roman legions ** British Museum celebrates 'most successful year ever' The institution has hailed its 'most successful year ever', with nearly 6.9 million visitors crossing the BM's threshold over the period ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 134K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,548 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** Original Star Trek Enterprise returns to Museum Thanks to the work of Smithsonian conservators, it appears that the original Starship Enterprise from the 1960s TV series "Star Trek" will indeed live long and prosper ** Medieval weapon-making foundry discovered on shore of Lake Baikal Two furnaces made of stone were unearthed, believed to have been used to smelt iron ore for weapons such as knives, arrowheads and quiver hooks as well as parts for harnesses, stirrups, sickles, and belt buckles ** What is a Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, anyway? So to sum it up, this "Museum of Narrative Art" will be, apparently, a populist art museum with a strong concentration in showing movies ** Top Chinese art collector to hand over museum, sell works One of the world's leading collectors of Chinese art, Belgian billionaire Guy Ullens, is to give up his eponymous Beijing museum -- among the capital's top art centres -- and sell his private collection ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,155 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Self-propelled: Exhibition on bicycle design and culture Two hundred years have passed since the invention of the hobby horse or running machine, yet the idea of being "self-propelled" by bicycle still has an enormously magnetic appeal ** Danish Museum Acknowledges Its Italian Antiquities Were Looted And Returns Them It took years of often tense negotiations, but the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen have signed an agreement that includes the return of archaeological artifacts that Italy said had been looted from Italian soil ** How 2 Rembrandts in a Paris Bedroom Ended Up at the Rijksmuseum Until now, Mr. de Rothschild has never spoken publicly about the sale of the paintings last year to the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre for 160 million euros ** The 6,000-Year-Old Telescope Astronomers are exploring ancient tombs in Portugal that they believe may have been used by prehistoric humans to enhance specific views of the night skies ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 1.7K Pins, 372 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Slavery as free trade In the middle of the 18th century, as the slave trade boomed like never before, some notable European observers saw it as a model of free enterprise and indeed of 'liberty' itself ** Museum fire considered latest chapter for long history of U'mista pieces Work to conserve the fire-damaged collection at the U'mista Cultural Centre on northern Vancouver Island is almost complete, but the pieces are not being restored to their original condition ** Wydr is Tinder for buying art Who needs galleries when you can just flip through a stack of artworks on your phone, swiping right when you like what you see and left when you don't? ** Museums across the UK face closure threat While we recognise that local authorities are under pressure and have to make tough spending decisions, there is a danger that whole communities will be left without museums and the rich and diverse stories that they can tell ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles - 194,479 in Circles. 11, 573 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Drunken NFL player locked inside Palm Beach museum Murphy told police he went into the courtyard and fell asleep on the steps; when he woke up everyone was gone and the doors were locked ** Petersburg National Battlefield Investigates Looting in Park Law enforcement officers at Petersburg NB in Virginia identified a large number of looters' pits ** JIMI 2017 The Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) proudly announces the 17th annual Jekyll Island Management Institute ** This Week's Horoscopes Leo - The times call for rational, well-reasoned thinking. 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