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Time was up for Israeli burglar's widow
Nili Shamrat of Tarzana was caught after she sold clocks back to the Jerusalem museum that her late husband, Na'aman Diller, stole them from in 1983

Stone Age sights, sounds, smells at Croat museum
The Neanderthal Museum opened last week and was built on the site where scientists have found the greatest concentration in Europe of Neanderthal remains, the bones, skulls, tools and other effects of an extinct offshoot of mankind who inhabited parts of Asia and Europe until 30,000 years ago

New UK Library Fits Within a Phone Booth
The bright red phone booth was purchased by the Westbury-sub-Mendip Parish council from BT for a mere £1, and residents soon began to install shelves and stock them with books that they’ve read, with the opportunity of swapping them out for ones they’ve not

Early Humans Used Brain Power, Innovation and Teamwork to Dominate the Planet
As a species of seeming feeble, naked apes, we humans are unlikely candidates for power in a natural world where dominant adaptations can boil down to speed, agility, jaws and claws

Special painting by Van Gogh discovered in the Netherlands
It was Dirk Hannema who was then the founder of the Zwolle museum and bought the painting from a Paris art dealer in 1975 for 6500 francs or less than 1000 euro

Horses in terracotta army 'castrated'
Most of the clay horses unearthed from the mausoleum of Qinshihuang, the first emperor of a united China, had been "castrated", a Chinese archeologist said after studying more than 600 of the life-sized animals

They have tried to destroy me
Setting up a private exhibition hall to compete with the Grand Palais, the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Centre Pompidou and the rest would be an exercise in futility: like offering Australian wines, or, worse, Burgundy, to one of the leading Bordeaux chateaux

Britain's art of losing treasures
Some of the world's most important paintings may be lost to the nation because there are no funds available to keep them here following the purchase of two works by Titian for £100m

Museum attendance up, income down, survey says
Most of the nation's museums reported better attendance during 2009, but that didn't necessarily salvage the bottom line, says the American Assn. of Museums, which conducted an online survey last month and has released its results

Prince's Palace Found in Volcanic Crater
The remains of what might have been the residence of the Etruscan prince Sextus Tarquinius, son of the last legendary king of Rome Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud), have been found on the slopes of an extinct volcanic crater about 12 miles from Rome, Italian archaeologists have announced

Boar badge pinpoints Richard III death
A tiny silver badge of a boar has allowed scientists to finally pinpoint the precise spot where they believe Richard III was killed by Henry Tudor's troops, bringing an end to more than 500 years of feverish debate among archaeologists and academics

Laser Surgery Technique Gets New Life in Art Restoration
A laser technique best known for its use to remove unwanted tattoos from the skin is finding a second life in preserving great sculptures, paintings and other works of art

Massive redundancies at London's ICA, but will senior heads roll?
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London is fighting for its survival following revelations that its operating deficit could soar to more than £1m, on a turnover of around £5m

The Ministry Of Food
The Ministry of Food were well aware of the importance of keeping Britain ‘fighting fit’ and full of energy, so much so that they devised a rather cheerful chappy called Potato Pete to encourage the eating of energy-rich potatoes

From the Blogs - Meet the "Working Girl"
Discover how early settlers of the High Desert dealt with the universal need for community and connection on the harsh, lonely frontier

Biblical fragments reunited after centuries
Two parts of an ancient biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents were reunited for the first time in a joint display Friday, thanks to an accidental discovery that is helping illuminate a dark period in the history of the Hebrew Bible

Human remains found on 18th century Royal Navy wreck
A skull and rib bones were discovered under a cannon by marine archaeologists investigating the wreck of HMS Victory - the direct predecessor of Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar - which went down during violent storms in 1744

This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn Dec 22 - Jan 19. All of your questions will be answered this week, moments after the zookeeper, the fire marshal, and the roller-coaster operator all tell you, "No."

New museum takes shape at heart of Nazi terror
Five years after opening a sprawling Holocaust Memorial in the heart of the city, Berlin is preparing to inaugurate a major new museum, this time targeting the Nazi perpetrators

Want to nominate us? Best of the Web 2010
If you have enjoyed Global Museum over the years you may care to nominate us for this award? Global Museum for the Museum Professionals category and the Global Museum Social Network and GM Twitter for Social Media category. The one we would really like to be considered for in the Long Lived category as we have served the profession more about twleve years, but we leave it up to our readers to decide the merits of any nomination.

Narrative Space
An international interdisciplinary conference exploring the interpretive potential of architecture, exhibitions and design.
University of Leicester, UK.
20-22 April 2010
Keynote Speaker: Peter Greenaway CBE
Narrative Space is a 3-day international interdisciplinary conference exploring the creation of narrative environments in museums, galleries, historic sites, buildings and landscapes. From the level of the site and the building down to the level of the exhibition and the object, how can we create environments which tell stories of people, of places and of collections? How can spaces, objects and a range of media be utilised to create spatial experiences which are engaging, meaningful and memorable?
Narrative Space draws together museum professionals, exhibition designers, architects and academics to explore practice at the cutting-edge of exhibition and experience making. It covers a range of themes including the ability of sites and buildings to hold or be overlaid with narratives; the history and theory of display; museums and exhibitions as spatial media; harnessing the spatial character, history and potential of buildings and sites; the nature and role of narrative and storytelling in the making of interpretive environments; the role of visitor-centred design in the production of museum space; and the emergence of a new range of interpretive approaches to museum and exhibition making which cut across architecture, film, design, digital media, interior and graphic design, literature and art.
The event will also mark the formal opening of the new Museum Studies Building - we hope that you are able to join us.
For more information on timetable and speakers/events please go to http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/profdev/nspace.html
Narrative Space is a collaboration between the School of the Built Environment at the university of Nottingham and the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.

The Science of...Aliens has landed
San Diego Air & Space Museum
Follow us on a journey through the real science of alien life and into the furthest reaches of your imagination. Get up-close and personal with some classic science fiction films and props, then come face-to-face with the weird creatures that inhabit Earth, before exploring far-flung planets and stars.
Enter the 'Alien Worlds' of leading scientists and meet the aliens they have imagined in a unique hands-on environment. And before you leave, compose your own personal message to an alien.
The Science of... Aliens comprises four exciting sections, each giving a different insight into the subject of extraterrestrial life.
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Taking Stock: Museum Studies & Museum Practices in Canada
Taking Stock: Museum Studies & Museum Practices in Canada
Toronto, Canada
April 22-24, 2010
An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Museum Studies program,Faculty of Information, at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/
Keynote Speaker is Dr. Robert R. Janes who will draw on reflections from his recently published book, Museums in a Troubled World: Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse?
Over the past 40 years, the discipline of Museum Studies has grown beyond its foundational premise as the study of museum organization and management to become a field informed by interdisciplinarian approaches, pedagogies and techniques. Some have argued that Museum Studies has not only come of age, as an academic discipline it has moved into the mainstream. Yet for many, the very formulation of this discipline continues to be a subject of intense reflection and debate, while its relationship with the community of professional practitioners it intends to serve is complex.
While much has been written on Museum Studies/Museology from the UK, US, Australian and European perspectives, less has been articulated about Canadian traditions in the field. Despite over four decades of formal academic training and almost two centuries of professional practices, there are no Canadian national journals, nor annual academic conferences dedicated to the subject of Museum Studies. Doubtless a Canadian museology exists, however the research of Canadian museum scholars continues to be diffused across regional, linguistic, and disciplinarian lines.
The Master of Museum Studies program at the University of Toronto marks its 40th anniversary with a conference that aims to create a forum for a nation-wide debate and critical examination of the academic discipline of Museum Studies in Canada in historical and contemporary contexts, and how this discipline registers within broader global traditions, pedagogies and practices.
This 3-day conference will bring together academics and practitioners, theorists and students from across the nation and beyond to explore the components of theory and practice that have structured the field of Museum Studies in Canada.
Draft program listing sessions and speakers available here.
To register online visit this site.
Students: $50.00 All others: $150.00
(These fees cover the entire duration of the conference, and include refreshments throughout the event in addition to the conference reception on Friday evening. There are no day rates available for this event.)


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