GLOBAL MUSEUM http://www.globalmuseum.org now read in 67 countries by a discerning cast of thousands! In your free Museum EZINE, GLOBAL MUSEUM, this week: ** Mona Lisa to Get Room of Her Own ** The Mona Lisa will move from a crowded gallery to a room of her own in Paris's Louvre within three years ** UK's Natural History Museum announces revamp ** Britain's Natural History Museum announced a major building addition on Tuesday designed to display most of its 68 million exhibits and to show science in action ** Rome virtually reborn at click of mouse ** Take a heap of Roman ruins, add a dash of Hollywood razzle-dazzle, some Pentagon technology and a wily professor. Stir gently and, with a click of a mouse, you are virtually transported back 2,000 years to ancient Rome ** Israel battles illegal antiquities trade ** Through their infra-red binoculars, Asael Levi and Zohar Yaakoby scan the moonlit hills near Jerusalem for robbers plundering the site for antiquities, remnants of the biblical community that once lived there ** Need to protect historical monuments stressed ** Veerendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari of the Dharmsthala temple, said students should be educated to protect India's historical monuments ** World's oldest clipper saved from a watery grave ** She is the world's oldest clipper, arguably more important than the Cutty Sark, one of the élite, romantic vessels that raced to the colonies in the 19th century ** Art scholars not sold on O'Keeffe collection ** Art scholars producing the definitive catalog of Georgia O'Keeffe's work have questioned the authenticity of 28 watercolours attributed to the painter. ** Kansas racing museum opens ** The new 14.8 acre, $1.1 million Kansas Auto Racing Museum opened its doors Friday to exhibit Kansas' rich racing tradition. Open seven days a week, the museum houses a variety of racing photographs, memorabilia and other displays ** Rare Fossils Abound in South Carolina ** In the back rooms of the South Carolina State Museum, rows of metal crates protect fossils of whales, woolly mammoths, turtles, snakes and other ancient creatures. ** Smithsonian New Year's Event Scaled Back, Moved Indoors ** The Smithsonian Institution is moving its New Year's millennium celebration indoors and scaling back the scope of the three-day event, a signal that fund-raising has not kept pace with the more ambitious party plans announced earlier by the White House ** Stebbins resigns from MFA ** Just three months after being promoted to one of the premier positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, longtime curator Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. abruptly resigned yesterday ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eurorail passes, hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather forecasts, car rentals GLOBAL MUSEUM TRAVEL http://members.xoom.com/globalmuseum/global_museum_travel.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- ** Now where did I put that?: Time capsules are lost to time ** The '70s must have been very good to the people of Fillmore, because no can seem to remember where the town's 1970s-era time capsule is buried **Guide dog ban at zoo challenged: Policy angers blind woman ** Mary Dignan's Saturday was off to a cheerful start. A visit to the California State Railroad Museum, then lunch at La Bou ** Timely Exhibit at US History Museum ** It was the recent invention of the stopwatch that made it possible in 1855 to determine that the stallion Lexington had set a record of 7 minutes, 19.75 seconds for a four-mile race ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ PLUS * more then 50 reasons to change JOBS in GLOBAL CAREERS * FORUM * a BOOKSHOP with over 1,000 Museum & Nonprofit titles, videos, Cd's, DVD's ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- send your NEWS, VIEWS & VACANCIES to GLOBAL MUSEUM by emailing the [log in to unmask] ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ museum-l.html. You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).