Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free online compendium, read weekly since 1998 by 8,000+ readers in more than 201 countries. http://www.globalmuseum.org ** So long, Dippy: Museum's Blue Whale Seeks To Inspire Love Of living World We’re using this as a springboard to restate a modern purpose for the museum, to inspire a love of the natural world and to unlock answers to the biggest issues facing humanity and the planet. ** Berlin police make arrests over €$4m gold coin museum robbery The unlikely robbery of the Canadian coin, named “Big Maple Leaf”, from one of Berlin’s most prestigious museums in the centre of the capital & from behind bullet-proof glass stunned Germans. ** Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt – so where are they all then? The National Portrait Gallery is one of the oddest museums in the world; its peculiarity is evident in the labels of its sporadically compelling exhibition of Renaissance and Baroque portrait drawings. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,224? Our Community on the LinkedIn Platform - Join the Global Museum Social Network – Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos & Videos, Blog, Use the Forum. Become one of our first 5,000 members. Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** London’s new Postal Museum and subterranean mail train The museum reflects the vital role Mail Rail played in the distribution of the country’s post with an underground train ride and exhibitions. ** Museum finds cases of 2-century-old wine in its cellar A restoration project at Liberty Hall Museum's wine cellar unearthed spirits 221 years old that had been shipped to the sleepy Elizabethtown cottage shortly after the American Revolution. ** Pair Of Raphaels Discovered Hiding In Plain Sight At Vatican Contemporary sources recorded that Raphael did complete two figures in the room – and the recent restoration of the frescoes helped scholars identify which ones they were. ** Master forger reveals his secrets Using a mixture of clay, earth dug up in the nearby Jumbles Country Park and cigarette ash (in an attempt to get the right surface texture), Shaun Greenhalgh fired the sculpture of a faun in three pieces before crudely gluing them together with Araldite. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,281 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** South Korea to build 'comfort women' museum in Seoul The plight of the so-called "comfort women" who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II is a hugely emotional issue that has marred ties between the US allies for decades. ** Metropolitan Museum Sets New Attendance Record with 7 Million Visitors Amid a turbulent year, the institution has announced that it set a new attendance record that surpasses last year’s then-record high of 6.7 million. ** Which Museum Landed The Fabled €500 Million Cerruti Collection Of Artworks? Turin’s Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art has obtained the legendary art collection of Francesco Federico Cerruti; the iconic trove features 300 masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the 20th century accumulated by the enigmatic Italian collector. ** Hepworth Wakefield Named 2017 UK Museum of the Year The David Chipperfield-designed gallery in the Yorkshire town where the sculptor Barbara Hepworth grew up was competing in a strong field, which included London’s recently expanded Tate Modern. ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 1.84K Pins, 442 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Madrid Museum Must Face Heirs' Claim in Nazi Art Case A federal appeals court revives a lawsuit seeking to force a Madrid museum to return an Impressionist masterpiece to the family of a Jewish woman who was compelled to sell it to a Nazi art appraiser for $360 in 1939 so she could flee Germany. ** A Mausoleum for Endangered Species The cabinets and shelves of the National Wildlife Property Repository, just northeast of Denver, are crammed with stuffed monkeys and ivory carvings, snow leopard coats and dried seal penises, chairs with tails and lamps with hooves. ** Field Museum to serve history on tap with limited-edition beer Made with ancient Chinese brewing techniques, the museum’s newest limited-edition beer, QingMing, features the bubble-gum flavour of sake derived from jasmine rice, and an infusion of jujubes, honey and lemon rinds. ** Family recalls internment-camp era as Utah museum opens A Utah museum is opening to honour thousands of Japanese Americans held in a remote Utah internment camp during World War II, and the family of one its designers was among those that suffered during that era. ______________________________________________________________________________ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles – 193,841 in Circles. 14,361 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Aztec golden wolf sacrifice yields rich trove in Mexico City A sacrificial wolf elaborately adorned with some of the finest Aztec gold ever found and buried more than five centuries ago has come to light in the heart of downtown Mexico City. ** Changemaker at San Diego Chinese Historical Museum is out One of the museum’s original founders said the board met in closed session when it voted to fire Beres and the move violated the museum’s bylaws and raised concerns. ** Argentina reopens museum for tango great Gardel Iconic images of him with a fedora hat pulled over his brow and a cigarette dangling from his lips are plastered on walls throughout Buenos Aires and on those of Argentine restaurants worldwide. ** 10,900 Year-Old Mashed Potatoes Found in Utah Out-of-the-ordinary archaeological finds never fail to fascinate us as we dig into the past – like the prehistoric potato granules unearthed in Utah, which experts say could be up to 10,900 years old. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 166K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,783 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Text And Museum Will Send You Images From Its Collection By Keyword One of the big pitches for "Send Me SFMOMA" is that it allows the museum to leverage its collection of over 34,000 artworks, of which only a small fraction can be displayed in the museum at a given time. ** The Renaissance Art Collection of a Powerful Italian Family comes to Auckland The art and lives of a Florentine dynasty will be revealed in Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki’s new exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence ** Heritage and Global Challenges Workshop: Registration to Attend Friday 6 October 2017, British Academy, London ** University of Strasbourg is World Heritage The inclusion of the Neustadt means that the whole of historic Strasbourg is now World Heritage ** This Week's Horoscopes Capricorn - In a wacky horoscopic mix-up, you’ll encounter a mysterious stranger who takes you on a journey over water just as you’re trying to start new projects at work All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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