Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free online compendium,
read weekly by 8,000 readers in more than 201 countries.
*** "I love reading Global Museum. I look forward to the articles every
week. The information keeps me informed about what is going on in the museum
community and urges me to explore museums and exhibits online that I may
have never known about. Thanks!" - User Feedback ***
Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org
The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBSITE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the news links) in this
week's edition include:
** Palace Museum rejects links to erroneous guidebook
The Palace Museum has denied that it was responsible for publishing or
selling a Forbidden City guidebook riddled with mistakes after a man from
East China's Shandong Province claimed his son-in-law bought the bilingual
book at the museum
** Museum hit by notorious break-in bounces back with new accolade
The Oriental Museum in Durham has been presented with the top title for its
work to be environmentally friendly and boost sustainable tourism
** Swiss Museums try to generate more buzz
With competition from social media and other online diversions, cultural
attractions like museums must find innovative ways to keep the public's
attention
___________________________________________________________________
**** HAPPY TRAVELERS - BEST FARES & DEALS FOR 2012 & 2013! ****
MUSEUM-TRAVELLER.COM - Global Museum's Travel Service For Business and
Pleasure - the leading provider of online museum travel, established in
1998.
40,000 hotels in over 8,000 cities worldwide. Group Reservations.Interactive
Map with the world's top festivals and events.
CLICK HERE http://www.museum-traveller.com - Use IE browser - Airfares, Car
Rentals, Accommodation, Destination Guides, Condo's and Cruises!
Provider is EXPEDIA, a member of I.A.T.A.
________________________________________________________________
** Yahoo Co-Creator Helps Decode Chinese Calligraphy
Yang, whose passion for calligraphy is shared by his wife, Akiko, can read
some of the poetry, commentary and eulogies brushed on paper and silk for
millennia
** Velvet Elvis Goes Missing
The Museum of Bad Art isn't sure how someone managed to walk out of the
Somerville Theatre with a large, velvet painting of Elvis, but they are
determined to track down the priceless piece of art and is considering
pressing charges
** Spanish Researchers Find the Exact Spot Where Julius Caesar Was Stabbed
Several ancient Roman texts describe the assassination of Julius Caesar in
Rome, at the Curia of Pompey in 44 BC, which was the result of a plot among
a group of senators to eliminate the General
** Field Museum tells opulent story of India's maharajas
Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, "Maharajas" tells the
rulers' story through some 200 remarkable artifacts - artwork, jewelry,
weapons and costumes - from the era, a significant one in the country's
history.
_______________________________________________________________________
ARE YOU ONE OF THE 1,297?
Now on the LinkedIn Platform - Join the Global Museum Social Network - Meet
& Make Friends, Share Photos & Videos, Blog, Use the Forum, Join A Group.
Become one of our first 1400 members. Join Today At
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927
________________________________________________________________________
** War museum vandalism 'beyond distasteful'
Ottawa police are looking for the public's help to find two men who
spray-painted a swastika on a Canadian War Museum airplane in August
** Bedlam? You don't have to be mad to work in the arts, but it helps
Stumbling blindly through 29,000 square feet of underground tunnels, coming
upon a giant blinking eye suspended overhead and then being spun senseless
in a soft hanging swing (and all the while being driven to distraction by
the offensive whirring of a vacuum cleaner) is the stuff of nightmares
** Arms manufacturer halts National Gallery sponsorship after protests
An Italian weapons manufacturer has terminated its sponsorship of the
National Gallery a year early after protests from artists and campaigners
over the use of its space to host arms trade functions
** Dig for Mona Lisa's model
There's no trace of that celebrated, knowing expression, but archaeologists
hope that one of two skeletons unearthed in a Tuscan convent will be shown
to be that of the model who became Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
_________________________________________________________________________________
Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum
87,518 Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 2,894 Followers worldwide
and growing fast
____________________________________________________________________________________________
** Dundee Museum misses out on Scott's compass
The compass was carried by the Scot and his team in their instrument box on
the 1912 journey on the Terra Nova and was returned to his widow following
his death
** Johnny Cash Museum planned for downtown Nashville
Already home to the Ryman Auditorium, the Bluebird Cafe and a host of
country western dreams on Music Row, Nashville will be home to the Johnny
Cash Museum, which has plans to be home to the world's largest collection of
memorabilia dedicated to the Man in Black
** A Marvelous Menagerie
Hot on the shaggy heels of The Manchester Museum's new excursion through the
colourful history of dogs in Britain, National Museum Cardiff's inspiring
natural history gallery is revealing why our domestic best friends have more
in common with wolves than your average homeowner might have thought
** The Master Who Inspires Me
A milkmaid bathed in light, dust on a Duchamp and Ophelia drowning . leading
artists, from Tacita Dean to Rachel Whiteread, decode the masterpiece that
most inspires them
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Become a Facebook Fan - Join 2,003 of us who Like Global Museum on
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
** Restoration Planned for Carracci Gallery in Rome
With the bidding process for restorers now open, work on the Baroque
masterpiece, which dates to the beginning of the 17th century, is scheduled
to start in January and take a year to complete
** Man accused of damaging Rothko painting in court
Umaniec, an artist who co-founded an artistic movement known as "yellowism",
was arrested on Monday and charged last night after the mural was vandalised
on Sunday
** 4 million volts of electricity coming at you - for fun
The Spark Museum of Electrical Invention in Bellingham has its MegaZapper
ready, plus what it says is the world's largest private collection of
mankind's electrical history
** Old letters tell of monkey business
Nude bathers, unattended horses and cigarette-smoking monkeys all feature in
a series of old letters at the Wellington City Council archives
______________________________________________________________________________
Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 484 Pins, 108
Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/
______________________________________________________________________________
** Tom Flynn's speech on the Universal Museum at London Parthenon Marbles
colloquy
I'm not so sure the British Museum - the self-styled "universal" museum par
excellence - would subscribe to any principle, basic or otherwise, that
would support the repatriation of cultural monuments to their place of
origin
** Mammoth carcass found in Siberia
Alexei Tikhonov, from the St Petersburg Zoology Institute, who led the team
excavating the mammoth, said this specimen could either have been killed by
Ice Age humans, or by a rival mammoth
** The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial
On Saturday, October 27, the American Museum of Natural History is
re-opening one of its greatest treasures: the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial.
______________________________________________________________________________
Add Us To Your Google+ Circle - 271 in circles so far -
https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466
______________________________________________________________________________
** VAST 2012: The 12th International Symposium on Virtual Reality,
Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
Brighton, UK, 19-21 November 2012
** The Next Chapter: Rare Books in Modern Times
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
All this and more for you at Global Museum - See the latest museum JOBS,
PINTEREST PINS, BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, PODCASTS, HOT JOB TIPS, great people
posting their RESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable WORLD TRAVEL, the GM Social
Network, Museum Online Document Store, Podcasts, Museum Accredited Courses,
Products & Services.
http://www.globalmuseum.org First published on the Web in 1998 and going
strong!
=========================================================
Important Subscriber Information:
The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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).
|
