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week's edition include:
** Mall Site Is Chosen for Black History Museum
The location they selected, at the southwest corner of 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW, had drawn widespread support
** Museum visitor trips, breaks Chinese vases
A museum visitor shattered three Qing dynasty Chinese vases when he tripped
on his shoelace, stumbled down a stairway and brought the vases crashing to
the floor
** Slumping Museum
The Tech Museum of Innovation opened the doors of its $100 million new home
in 1998 amid great fanfare, the culmination of a two-decade dream
** A Struggle for Solvency at Milwaukee Museum
Now the question is whether guns, God and a gorilla - or at least what is
left of him - can restore its fortunes
** Octopus takes liking to sub off coast
"Large male octopuses in the last part of their lives become senescent, or
senile," said Jim Cosgrove of the Royal B.C. Museum. "They get to be like
humans, doddering old fools that have inappropriate behaviours such as being
out in the daytime"
** UK Construction firm sued by museum
The Royal Armouries Museum, which houses the most treasured British armour,
is suing Alfred McAlpine for 1m pounds
** Indonesian police seize multi million-dollar booty from treasure hunters
The operation to extract the treasure involved a team of divers from
Australia, the UK, France and Belgium, who excavated a vessel laden with
rare ceramics which sank more than 1,000 years ago, some 130 nautical miles
from Jakarta
** Soviet cold war weapons discovered
Shocking new evidence has appeared in the recent "ortherised" American
search of old Soviet missile bunkers that the Soviet union was going to
unleash a terrifying wave of "Dogkets" on any ground forces that happened to
invade Russia
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** Former museum president and wife indicted on fraud charges
If convicted, the maximum penalties for the Salisburys are 20 years
imprisonment, a $250,000 fine and supervised release for five years
** Science Museum recognises gaming
Nintendo is paying £1m to sponsor a display of gaming history and an
interactive educational exhibition at the Science Museum
** Experts dig up nautical past of long-buried 1818 whaler
The bones of an old ship found by workers digging the foundations for a San
Francisco high-rise last fall have been identified as the remains of a
188-year-old whaling ship out of the era made famous by Herman Melville's
classic novel "Moby-Dick."
** Museum at former SS headquarters to be built
A museum documenting crimes of the Nazi SS will be built at the ruins of the
Third Reich's secret police headquarters in Berlin based on designs of local
architects
** Getty Villa opens doors
Patterned after a Roman estate that went kaboom with Mount Vesuvius in A.D.
79, the hilltop villa originally was built as a home for the extensive art
and antiquities collections of oil baron J. Paul Getty
** Museum's fossils may be tainted, report says
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle is scrambling to
figure out exactly where many of its 45,000 fossils came from and whether
they were dug up illegally
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** Precious cultural items stolen
Responding to a request from a museum for their most treasured possessions
for an exhibition on migration from Thailand, three Sydney women handed over
objects that showed their cultural roots
** Oil producer opens massive Civil War museum
Richey calls himself a "C-plus" history student who had little interest in
the subject until he and his wife Judy came face to face with history during
a trip to Washington, where they visited the Smithsonian
** Neolithic Europeans Made Cheese, Yogurt
Dirty cooking pots dating to nearly 8,000 years ago reveal that some of
Europe's earliest farming communities produced dairy products, such as
cheese and yogurt
** Scientists Discover World's Smallest Fish
Scientists have discovered the world's smallest fish on record in an acidic
peat swamp in Indonesia, with a see-through body and a head that is
unprotected by a skeleton
** Rest in Pieces
Booth's backbone has a little glass rod sticking through it at a jaunty
angle
** The Greater Boston Museum Educators' Roundtable invites you to join them
for their next meeting
** Integrated Pest Management Site
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