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:
** No bones about it, whale fossil reveals a fearsome ancestor
Melbourne Museum has unveiled the 25 million-year-old skull of a new species
of prehistoric whale, Janjucetus hunderi, a discovery of global significance
** A dram good story behind museum's latest exhibition
The kimono is a symbol of an intriguing love story between a quiet and
fragile Kirkintilloch girl and a stranger from the orient
** In the footsteps of Captain Cook
At Dusky Sound in Fiordland, Adams shot from the scene where Hodges would
have painted a family standing by a rock on the water's edge
** Hermitage Director apologizes for thefts
The director of Russia's State Hermitage Museum apologized for the theft of
$5 million worth of jewellery, icons and precious items, as police recovered
more items from the famed St. Petersburg museum (see also story below)
** Modern Iraq better known for looting than luting
Iraq in recent years has been so much associated with images of death,
destruction and anarchy that it is easy to forget this country was one of
the cradles of modern civilisation
** Lost document reveals Columbus as tyrant of the Caribbean
Punishments included cutting off people's ears and noses, parading women
naked through the streets and selling them into slavery
________________________________________________________________
**** 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. Discounts up to 65% off. Rooms for
sold-out dates. Group Reservations.
CLICK HERE http://www.museum-traveller.com
Airfares, Car Rentals, Accommodation, Destination Guides, Condo's and
Cruises! Provider is a member of I.A.T.A.
________________________________________________________________
** Archaeologists unearth abolitionist home
While the history of the Lloyd family, which has owned the property since
the 1600s, is well documented, much less is known about the daily lives of
their slaves
** Tests on mysterious stone could help rewrite Illinois history
University of Illinois scientists have agreed to examine the limestone slab
some believe proves French explorer Robert Cavelier de LaSalle was the first
white man to see the upper Mississippi River in 1671 - two years before
Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet made their famous trek
** Museum explores appeal of pirates in pop culture
A new exhibition at The Mariners' Museum uses artefacts, images and costumes
to look at how literature and film have transformed the brutal thieves and
murderers of the high seas into legendary figures with lasting appeal
** Aussie lasers expose fake antiquities
Emma Barttle is using lasers to help trace pottery back to the kiln site of
production as part of her doctoral studies at the University of Western
Australia's Forensic Science Centre
** A German museum with a tasty side
In a converted factory with walls of windows, the Schokoladenmuseum
(Chocolate Museum), offers a different version of "taste" than the dozens of
other museums in the industrial city of Cologne
** Museum for the Elephant God
A multifaceted personality, Kahaan is a businessman, a qualified detective
and auditor
** Frozen out?
New archaeological research has severely dented the controversial theory
espoused by Australia's high-profile scientist and intellectual, Tim
Flannery, that early Aborigines wiped out Australia's megafauna
** Possible ringleader of Russia's Hermitage museum thefts detained
Police have detained a fourth suspect in the theft of art objects worth $5
million US from the State Hermitage museum who could be the mastermind of
the crime
________________________________________________________________________
GLOBAL PANDEMIC NEWS - live news feeds & information on the spread of Bird
Flu' http://www.pandemic-news.info
________________________________________________________________________
** Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Debuts at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
Most museum visitors have given rave reviews to the new exhibit showing
Brad, Angelina, and two-month-old baby Shiloh in an African-themed nursery
** Archaeological finds in Syria - looters and a tomb
Two of Syria's most famous sites from antiquity were in the country's news
this week - one for the discovery of a Byzantine tomb and the other after
the arrest of alleged looters trafficking in stolen artefacts
** New museum exhibit tackles drugs
The anti-drug message is spread across 5,000 square feet at the Museum of
Science and Industry, replete with depictions of a drug-addled brain, a mock
methamphetamine lab and twisted wreckage from the World Trade Centre
** Testing genies
The popular Mysteries, Genies, Ghosts and Coffins exhibition at the Sultan
Alam Shah Museum in central Selangor state has drawn criticism since it
opened on July 4
** 'Alton Mummy' finally resting in peace
Lee, who after death became known as the Alton Mummy, was a poor,
hard-of-hearing fisherman known for delivering drunken sermons on the
Missouri and Illinois riverbanks
** 2006 Directors Forum
** .with a little help from our friends.
The Beatles Story calls on friends worldwide to help create the first
on-line, fully interactive encyclopaedia devoted solely to The Beatles
** ICMAH Annual Conference 2006 - "Site Museums"
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!
BLOG READERS & MUSEUM WEB SITES - Use our RSS news feed on your site, from
this address: http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/gm.xml
A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org.
For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp.
To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask]
In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname
*or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES
To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask]
Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at
http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html
Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>