Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free webzine compendium, read weekly by 7,400 readers in more than 121 countries *** "As far as I am concerned it is the best source for museum professionals in search of employment " *** Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this week's edition include: ** A Special Welcome to our increasing Australian readership Global Museum has received in excess of 60 new subscriptions this past week from readers in Australia who have opted to personally receive their G.M. news postings. We welcome them. ** All that titters A friend of the late Frankie Howerd is opening the comedian's home to the public ** Museum row goes to court Rows within the society stemming from allegations of staffing nepotism and the handling of its gold-mining museum cafe's finances have all but split Gympie ** Environmentalists score victory as Madrid trees get respite The baroness had threatened to chain herself to the trees to prevent their uprooting ** Ali's Louisville Lip For years, popular myth had it that Cassius Clay, as he then was, hurled the recently acquired gong off the Second Street Bridge in 1960 after being refused service at a white-only lunch counter. ** The Lessons of Lascaux Yanik Le Guillou, curator of cave paintings in the Midi-Pyrenees region which includes the caves of Niaux, Gargas and Pech Merle, acknowledges that Lascaux has been a "detonator of concerns for other caves" ________________________________________________________________ **** GREAT FARES & DEALS FOR 2006! **** MUSEUM-TRAVELLER.COM - Global Museum's Travel Service For Business and Pleasure - the leading provider of online museum travel, established in 1998. 40,000 in over 8,000 cities worldwide. 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Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** V&A is UK's most romantic museum Almost a fifth of respondents, 18%, said they had fallen in love while in a museum or gallery ** CSUN artefacts could be fake Experts on Chinese antiquities cast doubt on the authenticity of eight jade, bronze and pottery artefacts donated by San Fernando Valley businessman Roland Tseng ** Holbein art show reunites royals Portraits of Henry VIII, his third wife Jane Seymour and their son Edward are to be hung together for the first time since Henry himself owned them ** True Russian gems Most of these conveniently portable assets left Russia with their humbled, exiled owners after 1917, the grander pieces invariably dismantled so that the more valuable stones could be sewn into hems and folds or swallowed ** TV backing for £4.75m lotto bid Not everyone is aware, that Taunton has such a splendid medieval castle and that it houses such fantastic collections in the museum ** Museum Leaders Confront Critics In Spirited Archaeological Symposium While major museums and archaeologists agree that the looting of ancient sites is deplorable, they have reached little consensus of how best to stop it - despite more than seven hours of scholarly presentations, impassioned speeches, and pointed debate ** Life stories in purses Bejewelled, embroidered, crocheted or made of gold mesh or the most sumptuous leather, these handbags and their contents - from gloves and sunglasses to compacts and chewing gum - were brought together by a collector who has a passion for purses ________________________________________________________________________ GLOBAL PANDEMIC NEWS - live news feeds & information on the spread of Bird Flu' http://www.pandemic-news.info ________________________________________________________________________ ** Greek police in second raid on former Paul Getty Museum curator Agents from the Department of Smuggling of Antiquities searched True's villa on the holiday island of Paros as part of a large-scale investigation after hundreds of smuggled antiquities were discovered on the tiny Cycladic island of Schoinoussa last month ** Bosnian Pyramids - Great Discovery or Colossal Hoax? It's either one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of our time, or man has made a giant pyramid out of a molehill ** Thieves replace stolen Monet with fake Thieves cut a Claude Monet painting worth about $1-million from its frame in the Polish National Museum and replaced it with a forgery ** NASA Announces Plan To Launch $700 Million Into Space Cameras on the craft's exterior will capture images of the bills as they majestically pirouette into the heavens, dotting the black void of space with elegant spirals of green ** Watching the detectorists In many European countries detectorists are not allowed to operate in order to protect antiquities, but the practice still goes on clandestinely with finds ending up on the black market ** Reopening of Orangerie Museum in Paris is delayed The Orangerie, which houses eight mammoth murals of water lilies by impressionist master Monet, will open following a six-year renovation ** Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference ** X/Y Axis: Capturing and Keeping Young Adult Audiences ** Natural Selections: Julie Dermansky ** UMAC Mexico City 2006 - New Roads for University Museums All this and more for you at Global Museum - See the latest museum JOBS, BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, HOT JOB TIPS, great people posting their RESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable WORLD TRAVEL, Podcasts, Museum Accredited Courses, Products & Services. http://www.globalmuseum.org First published on the Web in 1998 and going strong! 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