http://www.museumland.net News from museums http://www.TheBestinHeritage.com The Best in Heritage Global Heritage Forum 2008 a special session on excellence and innovation. 25-27 September 2008. It is a new opportunity in our programme to present your bright practices or ideas that other professionals should know about. Achieving excellence and innovation, confirming a high level of professionalism, will gain in importance in the future. The Best in Heritage Global Heritage Forum Special Session is to be held on September 26th, 2008 at Conference venue - Theatre "Marin Drzic" and Dubrovnik Museums - Ethnographic Museum "Rupe". The organisers of the The Best in Heritage event, the World's only survey of the best museum, heritage and conservation projects held under the patronage of International Council of Museums (ICOM), UNESCO (BRESCE), Europa nostra, ICOMOS, ICCROM, WFFM, IFLA, the City of Dubrovnik and with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia invite the submission of short papers (only in English) on any aspect of heritage excellence to be considered for inclusion in contributed special session. Museumland News Service http://www.slsc.org "Monsters! The art and technolog of animatronics" has opened with a monster event at Saint Louis Science Center. Saturday 3rd May - Monday 1st September 2008. Check out all the cool monster activities at www.slsc.org and www.icmonsters.com Museumland News Service