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The headlines this week: ** Shroud of silence on museum numbers It seems only yesterday that Auckland Museum boasted of being the most visited museum in Australasia. This was justified by claims the institution had more than a million visitors a year ** Ready For Red The first Martian space habitat has been parachuted onto location. It will be assembled over the next few weeks by a team of researchers ______________________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Great Summer reading for Global Museum readers who are enjoying this season.Bill Bryson follows his Appalachian amble, A Walk in the Woods, with the story of his exploits in Australia, where A-bombs go off unnoticed, prime ministers disappear into the surf, and cheery citizens coexist with the world's deadliest creatures: toxic caterpillars, aggressive seashells, crocodiles, sharks, snakes, and the deadliest of them all, the dreaded box jellyfish. Essential pre Olympic reading! ( see NEWS section ad.) ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Museum may lose Mickey art Mickey Mouse could be in police custody Wednesday ** St. Thomas: Birth of Impressionism? The 19th-century master's great-grandson says the key to Pissarro lies in his little-studied origins a world away from the drawing rooms and gardens of Paris ** Ballot Initiative Opposing History Museum at Pier 45 Four San Francisco supervisors carried through on their threat yesterday and filed a November ballot initiative that will try to derail plans for what they say is an ill-conceived city history museum at Pier 45 ** Your Elgin Marbles The Parthenon sculptures known as the Elgin Marbles have been a source of international contention for almost two centuries. But one lucky homeowner will soon be able to watch television surrounded by the frieze ** National Museums may move to save Carrick The National Museums of Scotland is to investigate taking ownership of the Carrick, the world's oldest clipper, in order to save her for the nation ** Famed scrolls pass gently into our care Sydney is experiencing one of its biggest pre-Olympic security exercises this week - but you won't be hearing helicopters, full of men in black, hovering overhead _____________________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Global Museum Travel: " I DISCOVERED THE TRAVEL SERVICE BY ACCIDENT. I USED IT TO FIND A HOTEL ROOM IN LOS ANGELES, AND BOOKED ONE, AT A GOOD PRICE TOO! THANKS." D.S. Montreat Rail passes, hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather forecasts, car rentals.. We provide competitive rates for more than 40,000 hotels in 5,000 cities and 140 countries. Global Museum Travel offers discounts of up to 65% on over 700 hotels in almost every major city and up to 40% on over 7,000 hotels around the world. In addition to hotel reservations, car, air, and cruise reservations can also be arranged ________________________________________________________________________________ ** Bruce Lee plans alive and kicking A museum honouring kung fu legend Bruce Lee may be opened at a site in West Kowloon ** New breed of collector fuels boom in antiques The art and antiques market is attracting a new type of private collector who is at least as interested in financial returns as in enjoyment of the hobby ** Real Gauguin? A Hairy Question Four hairs stuck in a depiction of an outrigger canoe on a harbor may help decide whether an oil painting is the work of Paul Gauguin ** Is Okinawa museum rewriting history? The prefecture's apparent aim was to play down the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers against their fellow citizens ** New tenants move into their $287 million home Copperhead snakes destined for the Melbourne Museum's forest gallery were still in their temporary homes when Victorian Arts Minister Mary Delahunty visited the gallery ** Newseum Bids For D.C. Site The Freedom Forum, the media foundation that runs the Newseum in Rosslyn, has offered the D.C. government $100 million for a prime Pennsylvania Avenue site ** Shanghai curator quietly brings back Treasures Mr Ma said he was shocked and dismayed at the abundance of superb Chinese art on offer by dealers when he visited Hong Kong in 1992. ** Camping Tips When facing an enraged grizzly bear, be sure to wear comfortable, waterproof shoes and thick socks ** Getty Exhibit Examines Gothic, Renaissance Stained Glass Art An exhibition exploring the art of stained glass during the late Gothic and Renaissance periods in Germany and Switzerland (1480-1530) opens in Los Angeles ** The Death of Museums ? Museums and galleries are faced with the same pressures as every other sector of society. Funding is often precarious, and we need to be diligent in identifying alternative sources ** Scientists Find Archimedes' Words Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology are restoring a 10th century manuscript - the only known copy in the original Greek of some of the writings of mathematician Archimedes ** Beatlemania alive and kicking for new generation Work is going full steam ahead on the John Lennon Museum in Yono, Saitama prefecture, just south of Tokyo ** Eighth International Conference On Information Technology and Tourism "Change - Commerce - Communication - Convergence" April 24-27, 2001 - Montreal, Canada ** 4th National Remote and Regional Museums Conference - Australia hosted by Griffith Pioneer Park Museum Griffith, NSW 18, 19, 20 October 2000 ** AVICOM - AUDIOVISUEL ET NOUVELLES TECHNOLOGIES 22 - 25 novembre 2000 Budapest . Hongrie **Gods and Heroes Ancient Lives: Greeks Romans and Etruscans Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide July - 3 September 2000 ** Herluf Bidstrup at The Workers' Museum - Copenhagen ** Wandle Valley Mapping Project - UK ** MA European Heritage Planning and Management ** Jekyll Island Management Institute ** Masters of Sea & Sail -video release ** ICOM / ICR Annual Conference Nairobi, Kenya October 29 - November 5 2000 All this and more in GLOBAL MUSEUM now read in over 72 countries http://www.globalmuseum.org _______________________________________________________________________ +++++PLUS+++++ Chat in real time, the latest museum JOBS, BOOKSHOP, great people posting their RESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable world TRAVEL, MALL, Museum Accredited Courses ( a vast international resource), a Health Store, Toy Store, Classical Music store, and a Jazz Emporium ALL FREE AND AVAILABLE AT http://www.globalmuseum.org ** In FORUM this week - What's Piping Hot and takes only ten minutes
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