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: ** Guggenheim Museum Receives $1 Million Grant The first phase of the Guggenheim's new four-year study, "The Art of Problem Solving," will be to bring together artists, educators, and cognitive scientists to identify the problem-solving skills that visual arts can most powerfully teach, and to describe the hallmarks of teaching that will most likely result in students learning these skills ** International Museum Communication Awards 2007 An eagerly anticipated event which will bring together more then 500 professionals, from both agencies and museums, in order to celebrate the best visual campaigns ** Alexander the Great's personal sculptor to get own museum The work of Lysippus, one of the greatest sculptors of ancient Greece and the personal portraitist of Alexander the Great will get its own museum near the artist's native town of Sikyon in southern Greece ** Paper-making in China dates much older A 2,000-year-old piece of paper inscribed with legible handwriting has been found in northwest China's Gansu Province, suggesting that China's paper-making and handwriting history are older than previously though ** Treasure hunter seeks more shipwreck riches in Asia He believes there are more shipwrecks resting on seabeds across Southeast Asia, especially in the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes and dubbed by some as a graveyard of ships for its treacherous reefs ** Healing Practices Over The Decades The Brunei exhibition features the display of medical and treatment items from the late 1880s to the 1950s ________________________________________________________________ **** 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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Hillary Clinton was unveiled on Wednesday at New York's Museum of S#x, where sculptor Daniel Edwards hopes it will spark discussion about s#x, politics and celebrity. ** Rare Photo of Florence Nightingale Shown A rare photograph of Florence Nightingale went on display Monday to mark the 150th anniversary of the famous nurse's return to Britain from the Crimean War ** Having A Gardener Is A Wonderful Hobby Eating food that was picked only minutes ago and then carried over to your lounge chair is a completely different experience ** Fakes fear as National Gallery of Victoria starts probe The gallery wants to compare X-rays of pictures painted by the Dutch master over the same period, held at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, to try to prove its painting is genuine ** Smashed vase goes back on display A 17th Century Chinese porcelain vase accidentally smashed when a museum visitor tripped on a shoelace is back on display after being restored ** Volunteers fix up decaying Skylab mock-up A full-size training mock-up of Skylab is slowly rotting away outside the Alabama space museum where it spent years on display ** Ming Dynasty castle damaged in typhoon The typhoons that have killed hundreds of people in China have damaged an ancient castle dating from the Ming Dynasty ________________________________________________________________________ GLOBAL PANDEMIC NEWS - live news feeds & information on the spread of Bird Flu' http://www.pandemic-news.info ________________________________________________________________________ ** Tehran museum playing host to war photos The collection depicts Iran-Iraq war as well as the recent conflicts in Palestine and Lebanon ** Golden dagger found in tomb The dagger, which is believed to be made of gold and platinum, most probably belonged to a Thracian ruler or to a priest ** First Chinese "beauty" robot destined for Sichuan Since the "beauty" is destined for Sichuan Science Museum, where she will work as a receptionist and tour guide, she has been programmed to speak the south-western dialect that prevails in inland Sichuan Province ** Louvre rethinking glass pyramid The Louvre Museum, a Paris artistic icon, has been forced to reconsider its glass pyramid entrance due to a rapid increase in visitors ** Beams reveal Archimedes' hidden writings Previously hidden writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are being uncovered with powerful X-ray beams nearly 800 years after a Christian monk scrubbed off the text and wrote over it with prayers ** Putin orders massive arts audit Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a nationwide inventory of cultural treasures after valuable works were stolen from the Hermitage Museum Thefts From Hermitage Exposes Pattern ** Emerging Geographies Of Belief - University of Exeter, Department of Geography ** Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf ** 6th International Symposium on Aspects of Tourism - Gazing, Glancing, Glimpsing?: Tourists and Tourism in a Visual World 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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