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week's edition include:

**  Underground artist leaves work at Yale museum
The museum spokeswoman says the note and painting are similar to others that
have been found in art museums in New York, Philadelphia, Washington and at
Princeton University

**  High Stakes
Fearing imminent takeover by a gambling complex, the Cinema Museum rallies
movie lovers in its defence

**  Bank workers say they were wrongfully fired
Five bank employees say they were wrongfully fired for unknowingly helping
the finance director of the Baltimore Museum of Industry steal money for the
museum

**  'Royal' sturgeon to be museum exhibit
The tale of the giant sturgeon caught in Swansea Bay had a new twist
yesterday when it arrived at the Natural History Museum in London

**  Medal to return to War Museum
A Victoria Cross from the First World War that was missing for nearly 30
years will likely be returned to the War Museum in the next 10 days

**  Pergamon Altar's Restored Frieze Unveiled
After a decade of painstaking cleaning, Berlin's Pergamon Museum has
unveiled the restored marble frieze of the Pergamon Altar, the second
century B.C. centrepiece of its collection
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**  Danish museum tells of rescue of Jews
"The decoration of the museum is a nod to October 1943," museum director
Janne Laursen said, referring to how ordinary Danes smuggled their Jewish
countrymen across the Oresund Strait to neutral Sweden to save them from
being rounded up by Nazis occupying the country

**  'A.K.A. Houdini' Exhibit Reveals The Late Magician's Secret
In a compromise between Peterson and the museum, the A.K.A. Houdini exhibit
will not contain references to Peterson's theories about Houdini, but it
will also not specifically preclude them

**  My £32m museum dream
Call on the Government to help restore the National Motorcycle Museum after
its owner revealed he was spending £32 million of his own money on repair
work to the fire-damaged building

**  Exhibit focuses on disease education
Disease experts & Stamford Museum & Nature Centre staff yesterday unveiled
an educational exhibit about reducing the risk of contracting the disease
and eliminating ticks that carry it

**  California Library & Museum to Be Final Resting Place for Reagan
In the high chaparral, where the Simi Hills take on the colour and muscular
contours of a mountain lion, Ronald Reagan's final resting place will be
right behind his expansive library and museum

**  Endangered Mouse Never Existed
The research by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science has opened a new
volume of questions - including what to do about landowners

**  Museums can be fun as well, says expert
John Coppola, an exhibition developer and museum planner, is currently on a
two-week visit to the Sultanate of Oman conducting seminars on museum and
exhibition-development
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**  Investigation Into Babylon Damage Ordered
The remains of Babylon, one of the world's most important archaeological
sites, were occupied since the early days of the invasion by U.S. Marines
and recently soldiers from Poland and other countries

**  Claws and effect highlighted at museum exhibit
"People are just really fascinated by cats," said Marilyn Gillespie,
director and founder of the museum, which opens "Cats! Mild to Wild" today

**  Javanese prince's story comes alive at museum
Most Indonesians remember Diponegoro as a national hero who led a war on
horseback against the Dutch colonizers in Yogyakarta

**  Newark Museum straps its hands cross Springsteen's engines
On June 17, the Newark Museum will open its first major exhibition dedicated
to the people's poet laureate of The Turnpike State, "Springsteen:
Troubadour of the Highway."

**  Guggenheim Reviving Its Main Asset: Itself
In addition to removing nine coats of paint, right down to the building's
structure, to properly fix its cracking surface, the project also includes
repairing the sidewalk

**  Satellite images 'show Atlantis'
Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing
to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato of the fabled utopia

**  The little museum that could
It does give a sense of the complexity - and history - of the city's water
and sewer system

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**  Cities and museums: local and global challenges

**  Finding the Overlooked: Exploring Smaller Social and Ethnic Groups in
the Archaeological Record

**  Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History  - National Museum of Health
and Medicine

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