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week's edition include:
** Arson attack causes £250,000 damage at museum
The museum often lays on trips for schoolchildren from throughout Northern
Ireland to give them an experience of the bygone days of steam train travel
** Museum closing after 15 months
The 15-month-old Guggenheim Las Vegas museum will close its doors Jan. 5, a
reflection of funding troubles at its parent museum
** Abuse scandal, economy lead Philadelphia archdiocese to scrap museum
plans
The project would have been the largest archdiocesan museum of its kind and
had been in the works for nearly two years
** U.S. fixing 'Southern bias' at battlefields
"We want to get away from the traditional descriptions of who shot whom,
where and into discussions of why they were shooting one another"
** Cuts threat to museum dream
More than 12 years after it was unearthed - discovered by chance after an
overnight storm - ambitious plans to put the West Runton elephant on
permanent public display look no closer to reality
** Fears nonsense, says museum chief
He rejected the proposition that anyone in government would politically
imprint its outlook on a national museum
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** Wartime relic gets new home
Site workers discovered it during a tidy-up and it almost ended up in a skip
** Murky Hudson River reveals its secrets but scientists keep wrecks to
themselves
Officials are fearful that to release the maps would trigger a rush of
plundering by salvagers
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aries: (March 21-April 19): Nobody will believe your outrageous tale of
saving 25 cents on a bar of deodorant soap.
** Preservationists Catalog WTC Artifacts
About 700 objects were plucked from the 1.6 million tons of debris by a team
of architects working for the trade center owners
** Science or dignity? It remains to be seen
Deep inside London's Natural History Museum are the skulls and leg bones of
two Aboriginal men whose lives were considered so morally "degraded" that in
1900 they were hunted down and killed
** Chaplin's Swiss mansion becomes shrine to the man and his work
The conception for the future museum was developed by Quebec's Yves Durand,
whose past achievements include Portugal's leading science museum
Visionarium d'Europarque
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** Big Dig unearths history
The lopsided, grapefruit-sized ball of lathe-turned oak may not seem like
much at first glance
** Beached whale first complete find of ultra rare species
Longman's beaked whales, also known as Indo-Pacific beaked whales, have long
beak-shaped mouths and resemble elongated dolphins
** Tough Times Hit The Whitfield Museum
McBride went on to say that the cuts will leave him as the only full-time
person at the Whitfield Museum - a move that he said will "essentially
cripple the operation."
** Greene show opens in Vienna
The exhibition, at the Historical Museum of Vienna, juxtaposes previously
unseen stills from the film with historic photographs of the war-torn city
** Fresh debate over human origins
US researchers sifting through data from the human genome project say they
have uncovered evidence in support of a rival theory
** Marsupial lion's skull goes on show
The skull of a marsupial lion has gone on show at the Kalgoorlie-Boulder
museum, at least 50,000 years after it last roamed the West Australian
Goldfields
** Spare Iraq's patrimony
The names of some of Iraq's ancient cities - Ur, Babylon, Uruk, Nineveh,
Nippur, Eridu and Lagash - echo with the voices of history.
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** Indiana Jones & the Temple of Learning
** Museum and Library Archives Institute
** New Exhibition Gallery Opens at The Botanic Garden at Smith College
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