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week's edition include:
** Wishing All Of You A Happy New Year
There is no doubt that this year promises to be tough both for museums and
for individuals. I wish all of you the very best for the year ahead - there
will be better times ahead so keep smiling!
** On Saddam anniversary, Iraq readies macabre museum
The man putting together Iraq's newest museum doesn't like to be alone in
his office, where he keeps bloodied nooses, a medieval-looking torture
device and boxes of documents chronicling atrocities under Saddam Hussein
** Cincinnati Museum Centre's Roof May Sprout
The Cincinnati Museum Centre needed to replace part of its leaking
19-year-old roof, but rather than buying a new roof, it's testing the
feasibility of planting vegetation on the flat parts of its roof
** Mountain Bike Art Museum Opens
The sport of mountain biking is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2009,
and leading the celebration is The Museum of Mountain Bike Art & Technology,
a recently opened museum that preserves and chronicles the evolution of the
sport, and its personalities and products
** Hugo museum to capture thrill of the circus
Because Hugo has been the off-season home of circuses for more than 65
years, an effort is under way to create the Circus City Museum and Park
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** Iowa museums aim to protect art works
Additional steps will be taken to better protect valuable artwork being kept
at temporary galleries in Iowa following last summer's floods
** Chinese American Museum nods to past, looks to future
As CAM marks its fifth anniversary this month, Wong and her colleagues are
working to raise the museum's profile, shift its focus from history to
community and secure funding for a $5-million expansion
** Satellites unearthing ancient Egyptian ruins
Archaeologists believe they have unearthed only a small fraction of Egypt's
ancient ruins, but they're making new discoveries with help from high-tech
allies - satellites that peer into the past from the distance of space
** Shaoshan Mao Zedong Relic Museum opens
The relic museum opened to mark the 115th birthday anniversary of China's
late revolutionary founder Mao Zedong
** When the woolly mammoth ran out, early man turned to roasted vegetables
Long before early humans in North America grew corn and beans, they were
harvesting and cooking the bulbs of lilies, wild onions and other plants,
roasting them for days over hot rocks
** Nevada Museum Of Art Forced To Make Cutbacks
They say the cutbacks will mean less money going toward staff pay checks,
electricity and security, plus, a way to keep the museum open for good
** Whose Rules Are These, Anyway?
She knew that both the American Association of Museums and Association of
Art Museum Directors had firm policies against museums' selling off artworks
because of financial hardship and were not going to make an exception
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** Half of the English Population now using Libraries and Museums
Museums, libraries and archives are delivering a wealth of opportunity for
people in all areas of the country, much of it free of charge, playing a key
role in the long-term skilling, learning and well-being of the country
** Wedgwood: Artistry and Innovation
Exploring the genius of Josiah Wedgwood I (1730-1795) through 160 pieces,
the exhibition is drawn almost exclusively from the Museum's outstanding
ceramics collection, the finest in Canada, and highlights Wedgwood's
diverse, high quality products and business practices
** Great Year For Australian Museums
The big names in painting - Picasso, Monet and Degas - have helped push
attendances at our major galleries to more than 2.5 million visitors
** Astrological Predictions For 2009
Aquarius, January 20 to February 18 - A fresh start awaits Aquarius in the
months to come, though truth be told, you'll lack the mental faculties to
really appreciate it
** Priceless antiques on display at Shenzhen Museum
Want to know how ancient Chinese kept their food fresh before the
refrigerator was invented - It was kept inside the tong bing jian (literally
translated as "bronze ice box"), technology that can be dated back to around
300 B.C. in the Warring States Period
** World War I Museum seeks to keep exceeding expectations
The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial has been far more
successful in its first two years of operation than was anticipated before
it was built
** Santa Cruz Surfing Club wants its logo back
As surfers around the globe write checks to help save the Santa Cruz Surfing
Museum, the museum's co-founders are steamed that they no longer have one of
their best fundraising tools: T-shirts bearing old surfing photos and the
logo from the original Santa Cruz Surfing Club
** Serious Historic Machinery demonstrates it can still perform with verve
and vigour
The 30 dramatic acres that make up Brooklands Museum, on the site of the
first purpose-built motor racing circuit in the world, will come alive with
high-octane action
** Our Professional Identities in a World Gone Digital
The University of British Columbia Student Chapter of the Association of
Canadian Archivists
** Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt's Etchings
Selections from the John Villarino Collection at the Morris Museum
** National Museum of the American Indian Hosts Multicultural Festival as
Part of Inaugural Events
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian will host "Out of
Many: A Multicultural Festival of Music, Dance and Story"
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