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 ** Construction Delays Sink British Museum's Deal With Abu Dhabi Delays in the construction of the Norman Foster-designed Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi means that an agreement with British Museum - which was to help curate exhibitions and lend the new institution around 500 valuable artifacts - is unlikely to be realized. ** Museums Are Just About the Only Places Ready for the Next Natural Disaster Though all of the museum leaders I spoke with agree that human lives matter more than paintings, serving as a shelter still seemed to compromise their central mission, which is protecting their collections. ** These Museum Personalities are Getting Sassy The personalities in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection are getting sassy; check out the art-ful GIFs on their new Giphy page. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,260? 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Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Fashion's interwoven relationship with nature to go on display at V&A A genetically engineered bioluminescent silk dress, a pineapple-fibre clutch bag and a cape made from cockerel feathers are among 300 items to go on display as part of the V&A's next fashion exhibition. ** Cauldrons and flesh-hooks: between the living and the dead in ancient Britain and Ireland Behind the scenes at the British Museum sometimes resembles Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; so when the British Library asked to borrow a 3,000-year-old cauldron for their exhibition Harry Potter: A History of Magic, we were delighted! ** The Saga of a Long-Lost 15th-Century Illuminated Prayer Book The Luneborch manuscript vanished, and was lost for decades only to reappear again in a mysterious package. ** Honolulu museum show focuses on ancient journeys Hokulea, a traditional double-hulled Polynesian traveling canoe, took three years to travel around the world; now a new exhibition at Honolulu's Bishop Museum tells the story of the journey and other ancient voyages. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,299 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Ancient Skull May Be History's Earliest Known Tsunami Victim A new analysis of the site where a 6,000-year-old human skull was discovered in Papua New Guinea in 1929 suggests that the victim most likely died in a catastrophic tsunami. ** Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots discovered underneath 16th century painting An unfinished portrait of a woman believed to be Mary, Queen of Scots has been found hidden beneath another 16th-century portrait during a significant research project recently conducted at the National Galleries of Scotland and the Courtauld Institute of Art. ** Data breach at Denver Art Museum A data breach at the Denver Art Museum earlier this year involved the personal information of hundreds of customers, donors and employees, although the museum reports that none of their big databases were impacted. ** Works hoarded by son of Nazi art dealer to go on public display Hundreds of works of art that were hoarded by the son of a Nazi art dealer will go on public display for the first time in decades in joint exhibitions in Germany and Switzerland. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. 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The authors of the new study suggest that an explanation for the prevalence of leprosy in medieval East Anglia may possibly be found in the sustained Scandinavian trade in squirrel fur -- an animal known to carry the disease. ** The Oldest Treasures From 12 Great Libraries When you start to think about the oldest books that a library might hold, there are any number of rabbit holes you can fall down. ** A winding trail: following serpents, dragons and other water beings around the world Water serpent beings and dragons can be found everywhere in human history, and even now they continue to wind their way through many cultural belief systems. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles - 193,279 in Circles. 14,261 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Historians May Have Been Wrong About This Ancient Roman Vase For Centuries New research shows that the British Museum's most famous artifact - the Portland Vase - was manufactured by a different technique than the one traditionally assumed by historians and archaeologists. ** The Victoria Cross mystery Mr Gladstone, a former senior curator at the Imperial War Museum for 40 years, had been investigating in private, but as communication between with NAM and Hancocks began to fracture over the past year, he worried he would never get to the truth. ** 20 Years Ago, an Iconically Quirky St. Louis Museum Opened A veritable playhouse of salvaged materials and crafted objects, the City Museum has entertained the young and young at heart for two decades. ** Museum Visitor Completely Freaks After Tapping On 'Shark' Tank A museum exhibit in Washington, D.C., features a video of a shark attack that's so realistic it left at least one visitor on his butt on the floor. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 175K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,832 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** In 'The Square,' A Scandinavian Satire Of A Modern Art Museum A stolen iPhone leads the curator into a late-night chase through Stockholm's housing projects in his new Tesla. ** RE:TRACE International Conference | Vienna, Austria ** Recall Sculpture Sculptures from the collection of the KMSKA ** 2018 AMM Conference Call for Proposals Call for Proposals will be open through Monday, December 11, 2017 ** This Week's Horoscopes Pisces - Pluto rising in your sign this week indicates vast trouble ahead, as you really shouldn't be able to see it with the naked eye like that of the world, which would be better if he didn't keep getting your name wrong All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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