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week's edition include:
** Museum of Art lays off three
With a new museum on hold indefinitely, Tampa Museum of Art officials plan
to lay off three employees to balance their budget
** Bomb museum's bilingual displays give differing historical spins
At Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, photographs of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic
bombing and display cases of personal items found near ground zero are
instantly understandable to people from around the world regardless of
language and nationality, and send a clear message about the horrors of
nuclear weapons
** Honoring Orwell in India with a Museum
The state of Bihara in eastern India is erecting a museum for the late
British writer
** Scientists in Silicon Valley Reach Back 2,000 Years to Bring Egyptian
Child Mummy Back to Life
Examining a two-thousand- year-old child mummy from San Jose's Rosicrucian
Egyptian Museum and Planetarium, scientists were able to generate 35 times
more information than the recent King Tut mummy scans
** Norwegian Thieves Make Off With Dud Paintings
Masked thieves stole three worthless Munch copies in a bungled raid
** Anguished messages from witches of Steri
A Sicilian palazzo once used as a headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition
has been discovered to contain dozens of examples of graffiti by "witches"
condemned to burn at the stake
** Thief takes century-old seal teeth
The choppers were on loan from the Smithsonian Institution for his research
on the historic ecology of marine mammals
** New Museum Complements Lobster Festival
The Maine Lighthouse Museum, which opened in late June in the new Gateway
Visitor Center, is drawing tourists and lighthouse aficionados alike
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** Stolen items may surface on the Internet
Priceless national treasures stolen from the Bermuda Maritime Museum in
Dockyard may surface on the Internet says Museum Executive Director Edward
Harris
** Rodin gift to N.C. museum likely contingent on Legislature
The North Carolina Museum of Art probably won't get a private gift of
Auguste Rodin sculptures valued at $25 million unless the state comes up
with enough money to build a proper space to show off the works, officials
say
** Getty Museum boss 'enjoyed first class flights and a Porsche'
The Getty Museum, the world's richest art museum, is under investigation
after revelations about the lavish lifestyle of its chief executive
** New York City's Police Museum is in the Red
Running up hundreds of thousands of dollars in red ink, the museum has
stopped paying its bills, despite getting nearly $1 million a year in
taxpayer funds
** Earthquake science museum to set up in Beijing
To mark the 29th anniversary of the catastrophic Tangshan earthquake, the
China Seismological Bureau has opened an earthquake educational center in
Beijing, the national capital
** Feature Site: The Museum of Garden History
Enjoying a prominent location on the Thames next to Lambeth Palace and
overlooking Westminster, the Museum of Garden History feels like an oasis of
calm deep within the bustle of the city
** Saudi billionaire finances Islamic art wing at Paris' Louvre museum
Saudi tycoon Prince Al Walid Bin Talal has donated $20.4 million to finance
a new wing dedicated to Islamic art at the Louvre museum in Paris, the
museum announced on Tuesday
** Celebs Join B.B. King for Museum Benefit
Bruce Willis, Dr. John and Kenny Wayne Shepherd were among the artists on
stage with blues legend B.B. King during a special birthday benefit to raise
money for a museum bearing the musician's name
** Cocoa museum to be developed in Ghana
A cocoa museum that would educate people about cocoa as a plant, its various
uses and its processing is to be developed at the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial
Farm at Mampong Akwapim in the Eastern Region to serve as a tourist
attraction
** Dentist commercialized the wooden golf tee
The roots of the modern-day tee trace to New Jersey, where a dentist who
didn't like using a mound of dirt as a tee tinkered in his garage until he
found a better way to elevate a golf ball
** Truth Revealed: Scientists Say 'It Ain't So!'
Culminating centuries of exhaustive, painstaking research, multidisciplinary
researchers have taken on some of the toughest adages in historical culture
and proven them wrong!!
** Picking up the pieces in Soi Aree
The broadcast museum is the latest addition to the growing number of museums
that have sprouted around Bangkok following the city government's decision
last year to open one in every district to preserve the roots and history of
local people and promote cultural tourism
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** Theoretical Approaches to the Interpretation of Flaked Stone Assemblages
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