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: ** Museum horror as man dies in 40ft plunge Museum visitors were offered counselling today after a man plunged 40ft to his death from a walkway ** May 18th is International Museum Day This year's theme was selected to raise awareness on how young people participate in redefining the mission and practices of heritage institutions in the 21st century, and how museums can contribute to shaping tomorrow's society by interacting with young people ** Lost treasures brought from the seabed to Europe Some 500 treasures retrieved by divers from ancient Egyptian cities that disappeared under the Mediterranean Sea centuries ago are on display in Berlin ** X-rays find older work under painting X-ray technicians performing a check-up on a 16th-century Italian painting depicting the preparation of Jesus' body following crucifixion got a bonus - they discovered the image of a Renaissance man hidden underneath ** Peruvian city unveils restored architectural gem The cross contains 1,518 precious stones including rubies, emeralds and topaz, as well as 615 pearls, one of them in the form of a mermaid and considered the second-largest in the world ** The Cocktail Turns 200 Spearheaded by the Museum of the American Cocktail, parties across the United States, as well as in Europe and Australia, will honour the various delicious, and often intoxicating, cocktails of the past and present. ________________________________________________________________ **** 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** Museum art theft took some weird turns They did not realize that one of the most significant - and strangest - art thefts in the museum's history was under way ** Former space museum head gets three years for artefact theft The founder of a space museum was sentenced Monday to three years in federal prison for stealing and selling spacesuit components and other artefacts that belonged to the institution and NASA ** Earl's rich tribal auction likened to Holocaust sale For almost 150 years the contents of a trunk brought back by the ninth Earl of Southesk from his trek across the Rocky Mountains - where he described some of the people he met as "bloated, disgusting savages" - lay gathering dust in the attic of Kinnaird Castle, his ancestral home in Angus ** Blogging comes to the South Pole The Natural History Museum has launched an Antarctic Heritage and Conservation website, which features a blog from conservators working on preservation projects near the South Pole ** Smithsonian Opens Lewis and Clark Exhibit Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were dispatched by President Thomas Jefferson in 1804 to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory, an effort that brought them to the Pacific Coast ** Top European museum prize goes to Spain A science museum in Barcelona, Spain, which includes a simulation of a section of Amazonian rainforest, has been awarded the 2006 European Museum of the Year Award at a ceremony in Lisbon ** Spoon-bending psychic buys Elvis' house on eBay Psychic Uri Geller and two partners have bought the Tennessee house Elvis Presley lived in before moving to Graceland ________________________________________________________________________ GLOBAL PANDEMIC NEWS - live news feeds & information on the spread of Bird Flu' http://www.pandemic-news.info ________________________________________________________________________ ** U.S. museum rejects deadline for returning mummy mask to Egypt Museum director Brent Benjamin called upon Zahi Hawass to provide documentation substantiating his claim that the mask was stolen - or to cease his attacks on the St. Louis Art Museum. ** Canada's most visited museum celebrates 150th anniversary The Canadian Museum of Civilization is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a new exhibition chronicling the organization's long and rich history ** This Week's Horoscopes Gemini May 21 - June 21. What at first appears to be a curse will turn out to be a blessing in disguise, or so you'll believe before discovering that the blessing is actually an even bigger, more physically perilous curse in an even more convincing disguise ** Getty Museum agrees to return 'stolen' antiquities Greece has won round one in its battle with one of the world's richest museums over the return of priceless antiquities it says were taken out of the country illegally ** What does 225-year-old chocolate taste like? The concoction is on the menu at New York's Fort Ticonderoga, where people dressed in colonial-era costumes demonstrate how it was made in the 18th century ** Seven-decade mistake? Long known as the work of the great Italian Renaissance painter Titian, this sombre, unsigned oil portrait of a middle-aged, 16th-century Italian duke was consigned to obscurity when an art critic questioned its authenticity nearly 70 years ago ** Puzzle of Fish With a Message A tuna caught in the Indian Ocean off Mombasa with a Koranic message on its scales has left residents baffled ** Small Museums Association 2007 Annual Conference -Call for Papers ** Heritage Education - Capacity Building in Heritage Management ** The Archaeology of Destruction 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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