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: ** Gun expert indicted on fraud conspiracy in museum case A well-known author and antique gun expert helped an Alabama couple defraud a Louisville museum founder out of nearly $2 million by inflating the values of some antique firearms, according to a federal indictment ** Dali, elks, a Spitfire ... Before work started in 2003, Kelvingrove was the sixth most popular museum in Britain and the busiest outside London, attracting over 1 million visitors a year ** Guggenheim Foundation agrees to build its biggest museum yet in UAE The New York-based Guggenheim Foundation has signed a memorandum of understanding to build its largest art museum yet on an island in the United Arab Emirates, vowing that exhibits will respect Muslim traditions ** Anyone seen our missing 38-ton sculpture? The disappearance of a 38-ton metal sculpture, last exhibited in Spain's greatest modern art museum, has mystified police ** Getty Museum to Return Ancient Sculptures The works to be returned by the private museum in Los Angeles are a sixth-century B.C. votive relief from the island of Thassos and a fourth-century B.C. carved tombstone from near Thebes, an antiquities-rich town some 56 miles northwest of Athens ** The Tartan wave As a new exhibition at the Aberdeen Maritime Museum shows, Scottish men and women were surfing years before their Antipodean cousins even knew what a surfboard looked like ** Footprints on the Land Features Mental Hospital There is a donated drug compendium from the 1940s, open to a page of colour pictures of bottles including sodium amital -- an addictive barbiturate used at Tokanui until the 1970s ________________________________________________________________ **** 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** Major Balenciaga exhibit in Paris shows perfect, princess-worthy couture The exhibit at the Museum of Fashion and Textiles features the Spanish designer's work from 1937, when he opened his house in Paris, until it closed in 1968, four years before he died ** Hosts report mostly smooth sailing for tall ship event Proceeds from the Americas' Sail will go toward Olde Beaufort Seaport, a turn-of-the-century maritime village being developed on the museum's 36-acre annex on Gallant's Channel ** New, Delicious Species Discovered Very few scientists are lucky enough to discover a new species, let alone a mammal with a palatability on par with a tender, juicy steak ** Later hand painted $67m 'fake' Madonna A painting hailed as a 14th-century masterpiece when it was bought last year by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for a reported $US50 million is a 19th-century fake in the view of a leading American scholar. New York museum dismisses fake charges ** Japanese Season The Van Gogh Museum opens an exhibition this week showing the influence that Japanese art had on 19th-century Dutch painter ** Beastly Colours - Mammoth Blondes and Really Hairy Brunettes Museum dioramas typically portray mammoths as having shaggy brown coats, but some of the hairy beasts might have been blonde, raven-haired or red-bodied in real life, thanks to a gene that controls hair colour in humans and other mammals ** Malaysian Police museum a huge hit Many came to see the historical site where policemen and members of their families put up a fight against a group of communists terrorists who attacked the station on Feb 23, two days after the Chinese New Year, in 1950 ________________________________________________________________________ GLOBAL PANDEMIC NEWS - live news feeds & information on the spread of Bird Flu' http://www.pandemic-news.info ________________________________________________________________________ ** Native art: The thrill of first contact But when the little man with the rakish sideburns and goatee first crossed paths with Donald Ellis, it was guilt by association: time had deposited him in a private Los Angeles collection of cigar store Indians ** Museum sells its yacht According to the Seaport museum's public financial statements, it lost at least $3.5 million restoring and operating the Enticer, even after leasing out the boat for as much as $22,000 a week ** Museum tells story of 9/11 evacuation An exhibit uses the voices of those who were there - tug captains, police officers, maritime workers, financial experts, students, teachers, stock brokers and other citizens - to tell the somewhat overlooked story of how thousands of people escaped lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, by boat ** Using His Cranium Krantz was a legend in anthropology circles - and semi-famous in the wider world, too, as the eccentric professor who drove around the Pacific Northwest with a spotlight and a rifle, searching for Sasquatch ** Dinosaur museum takes a bite of homeworking The home of London's robot dinosaur, the Natural History Museum, is moving to an IP communications infrastructure to help its staff work more flexibly ** The Death of President James A. 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