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: ** 15th-century letter raises doubts about Columbus legacy There's another Columbus letter - this one received by the famed explorer in 1498 and stumbled upon just 50 years ago in a Spanish archive - that continues to confound and tantalize historians, some of whom believe it contains evidence English sailors reached Canada a decade or more before Columbus discovered the New World, and that the Santa Maria's captain knew about it all along ** Search for India's ancient city with Roman connections Much-recorded in Roman times, Muziris was a major centre for trade between Rome and southern India - but appeared to have simply disappeared ** Saskatchewan fossils on move to new home A rhino-like Megacerops and a pig-like Entelodont that roamed the Cypress Hills 35 million years ago will have new digs when they debut in October at the new fossil gallery in Ottawa's Canadian Museum of Nature ** Che sera sera An exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum, intelligently celebrates the life of Che's portrait, tracing its romantic beginnings, right through to its co-option by the forces of corporate capitalism ** Williamsburg uses 21st-century technology as link to 18th century Thomas Jefferson isn't about to start listening to an iPod, with telltale earbud wires dangling from beneath his three-cornered hat as he walks the streets of Colonial Williamsburg ________________________________________________________________ **** 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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Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is launching a massive project to post 48 million pages of documents, 400,000 photos and 1,200 hours of video on the Internet ** Tactics mar museum election Never mind the primary results, the most bitterly contested election in town this week was for the governing board of the Union City Historical Museum ** Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method Armed with only with a Bunsen burner, a modest supply of chemical compounds, and a balance scale - the last of which Hapner has "yet to find any good reason to use" - this controversial nonconformist defies every standard definition of what a scientist should be ** Germany opens literature museum Friedrich Nietzsche's death mask and Franz Kafka's manuscript of "The Trial" are among more than 1,300 exhibits featured at the new Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, which opened this week in the native town of German writer Friedrich Schiller ** Scientists probe 2,000-year-old Greek computer A bronze Greek device constructed in around 80BC could be the world's oldest computer, joint British-Greek research seems to suggest ________________________________________________________________________ GLOBAL PANDEMIC NEWS - live news feeds & information on the spread of Bird Flu' http://www.pandemic-news.info ________________________________________________________________________ ** Papers, items related to sale of Jumbo the elephant to be auctioned Papers and items related to the controversial 1882 sale of Jumbo the elephant to American circus owner P.T. Barnum will be auctioned in London ** 150 frogs from 15 countries Frogs in the show include the Vietnamese mossy frog, the waxy monkey frog and the Chinese gliding frog ** Denver Art Museum Reports Loss Of $5.7 Million This Year The museum said the loss is the result of declining revenue with the closing of some galleries ** Fake Coins Found on Display at Kahramanmaras Museum An inspection at Kahramanmaras Museum has revealed 545 coins dating back to 333 and 361 B.C. have been stolen and replaced with copies. Museum's storehouse manager arrested ** Michelangelo fever keeps British Museum open til midnight The Michelangelo exhibition at the British Museum is proving so popular that the institution is to stay open until midnight for the first time in its 247-year history ** China salvages 60,000 relics of shadow play The one-dimensional leather puppets, tools for making them and rendition paintings will be preserved in a museum for the protection of shadow puppetry in Chengdu, capital northwest China's Sichuan Province ** Idaho museum to open Bigfoot exhibit Included in the exhibit is the Patterson-Gimlin film that shows a large creature striding away before turning and looking directly at the camera ** Volvo Vikings are coming ** The Making a Difference Workshop ** 19th Century Chemistry: Spaces and Collections All this and more for you at Global Museum - See the latest museum JOBS, BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, PODCASTS, 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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