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In your free Museum EZINE, GLOBAL MUSEUM, this week:
** Mona Lisa to Get Room of Her Own **
The Mona Lisa will move from a crowded gallery to a room of her own in
Paris's Louvre within three years
** UK's Natural History Museum announces revamp **
Britain's Natural History Museum announced a major building addition on
Tuesday designed to display most of its 68 million exhibits and to show
science in action
** Rome virtually reborn at click of mouse **
Take a heap of Roman ruins, add a dash of Hollywood razzle-dazzle, some
Pentagon technology and a wily professor. Stir gently and, with a click of a
mouse, you are virtually transported back 2,000 years to ancient Rome
** Israel battles illegal antiquities trade **
Through their infra-red binoculars, Asael Levi and Zohar Yaakoby scan the
moonlit hills near Jerusalem for robbers plundering the site for
antiquities, remnants of the biblical community that once lived there
** Need to protect historical monuments stressed **
Veerendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari of the Dharmsthala temple, said students
should be educated to protect India's historical monuments
** World's oldest clipper saved from a watery grave **
She is the world's oldest clipper, arguably more important than the Cutty
Sark, one of the élite, romantic vessels that raced to the colonies in the
19th century
** Art scholars not sold on O'Keeffe collection **
Art scholars producing the definitive catalog of Georgia O'Keeffe's work
have questioned the authenticity of 28 watercolours attributed to the
painter.
** Kansas racing museum opens **
The new 14.8 acre, $1.1 million Kansas Auto Racing Museum opened its doors
Friday to exhibit Kansas' rich racing tradition. Open seven days a week, the
museum houses a variety of racing photographs, memorabilia and other
displays
** Rare Fossils Abound in South Carolina **
In the back rooms of the South Carolina State Museum, rows of metal crates
protect fossils of whales, woolly mammoths, turtles, snakes and other
ancient creatures.
** Smithsonian New Year's Event Scaled Back, Moved Indoors **
The Smithsonian Institution is moving its New Year's millennium celebration
indoors and scaling back the scope of the three-day event, a signal that
fund-raising has not kept pace with the more ambitious party plans announced
earlier by the White House
** Stebbins resigns from MFA **
Just three months after being promoted to one of the premier positions at
the Museum of Fine Arts, longtime curator Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. abruptly
resigned yesterday
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** Now where did I put that?: Time capsules are lost to time **
The '70s must have been very good to the people of Fillmore, because no can
seem to remember where the town's 1970s-era time capsule is buried
**Guide dog ban at zoo challenged: Policy angers blind woman **
Mary Dignan's Saturday was off to a cheerful start. A visit to the
California State Railroad Museum, then lunch at La Bou
** Timely Exhibit at US History Museum **
It was the recent invention of the stopwatch that made it possible in 1855
to determine that the stallion Lexington had set a record of 7 minutes,
19.75 seconds for a four-mile race
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