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/> http://www.globalmuseum.org ** How museums are responding to an era of alternative facts Nearly eight in 10 Americans consider museums more reliable sources of information than newspapers, non-profit organizations, or the government, according to the data and technology company Impacts. ** Report urges massive digitization of museum collections The United States should launch an effort to create an all-encompassing database of the millions of stuffed, dried, and otherwise preserved plants, animals, and fossils in museums and other collections, a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored white paper urges. ** Swept away: the art and artefacts destroyed by the world's greatest museums Anyone who has ever been told off by a snippy museum guard for getting too close to an artwork may be interested to learn that galleries and their staff are not always the unassailable guardians of culture they appear to be. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,466? 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Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Florence study proves artist Leonardo da Vinci was ambidextrous The findings were announced a month ahead of the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo, with museums around Europe organizing exhibitions and events to celebrate the life of the man responsible for such masterpieces as Mona Lisa. ** China's foot-binding culture crippled millions of women The Chinese Footbinding Culture Museum (CFCM) in Wuzhen, a water town close to Shanghai in eastern China, is a sombre, musty place where visitors are usually an uneasy, silent trickle of domestic tourists. ** Shedding light on preservation mystery of Terracotta Army weapons The chrome plating on the Terracotta Army bronze weapons - once thought to be the earliest form of anti-rust technology - derives from a decorative varnish rather than a preservation technique. ** Scottish museum thrown lifeline from American supporter The future of the museum of the famed Scottish sailor who founded the US Navy has been secured after a retired naval commander from California offered $15,000 a year to keep it afloat. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,557 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574?> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Retiring Air Force One Plane Going to A US Museum? The George and Barbara Bush Foundation has asked that an Air Force One plane set for retirement in 2025 be permanently exhibited at the late president's museum in Texas, US. ** ICOM Already Has 134 Proposals For A New Museum Definition Take part in creating the new museum definition: the points of intersection between museums and communities are continuously shifting. ** Edvard Munch: booze, bullets and breakdowns Traditionally, woodblocks are in one colour and printed sequentially, but Munch found that if he chopped the blocks up he could ink the pieces separately, then fit the block together and print in one movement. ** Sexism does not belong in a museum A spokeswoman from National Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI), which runs the Hollywood museum, said it would "revisit" the specific issues raised by Bradley in the short term, and was planning a strategic review of its interpretation in the longer term. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 2K Pins, 589 Followers <http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/> http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** The weird and wonderful world of Whare Kahurangi What does a dog-skin cloak, a meteorite, a missing face towel possibly belonging to King Edward VII, the oldest picture of New Plymouth and a Transformer all have in common?. ** Can Museums Heal History's Wounds? As a museum curator and scholar of the repatriation movement, I am stunned by the pace of these unfolding events, which seemed unlikely not long ago. ** Airbnb contest gives winner rare Louvre Museum sleepover After a private tour with an art historian, the lucky guests will enjoy an aperitif and dinner made by a personal chef, an acoustic concert in Napoleon III's fancy apartments and breakfast in bed the next morning. ** Car hidden from Nazis in 1940 rolled out for museum exhibit The 1926 Trojan Tourer was hidden after Helene Gacon ordered her gardener to park it in a building in her vineyard on Guernsey. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - <http://twitter.com/globalmuseum> http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 198K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,767 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** Stunning 10-Foot Statue Of Roman Emperor Found Under Ancient Fountain Archaeologists working in the ancient Turkish city of Laodicea have discovered a monumental statue of Trajan, a famed Roman emperor who led the empire to its greatest geographical extent. ** It's Time for the Heroic Male Palaeontologist Trope to Go Extinct The contributions of pioneering palaeontologists such as the Philpot sisters and Mary Anning are often overshadowed in historical accounts by figures like grumpy British anatomist Richard Owen. ** Conserving 2,500-year-old objects Te Papa's Conservator takes us through the conservation techniques he's using on some of the international material in their collections - two Greek objects around 2,500 years old, and a 1894 copy of the famous Portland Vase. ** New museums focus on darker sides of history: repression, torture, slavery, racism The El Museo de la Memoria y Los Derechos Humanos, or the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, chronicles the abuses of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet that tyrannized this country from 1973 to 1990. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ Gifts & All Sorts of Swag In The Global Museum Store - http://www.zazzle.com/thedigitalconsultant T-Shirts, Prints, Mugs & More . You Name It, We've Got it! ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** Investigators Recover Jewels Taken From Rome's Etruscan Museum The theft of precious ornaments from the Castellani jewellery collection at the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome, on the eve of Easter in 2013, was the stuff of the edgiest heist movie. ** Learning Laboratory and Community Center: Positioning the Academic Museum for Success AAMG's Annual Conference ** Peace making after the First World War 1919-1923 27 June - 28 June. The National Archives and Lancaster House ** A Roman-cantered field school in Italy June 30-July 27 ** This Week's Horoscopes Cancer - Venus rising in your sign sounds like a welcome harbinger of romantic good tidings, but the zodiac assures you it's merely decorative. All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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