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include:
** Field lobbies for $60 million
"If a football team needs a modern facility, so too does a great natural
history museum," said Field CEO John McCarter
** Faces Turn Red at the Guggenheim Bilbao
Barely three years after its inauguration, the pristine image of the
heralded Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is being blemished
**Mungo Man could be African: scientists
Scientists expressed caution yesterday over claims by Australian researchers
that cast doubt over the theory that modern man emerged from Africa
** 'Lost' map shows Tower of London in new light
A map showing a detailed architectural picture of the Tower of London in
Queen Elizabeth I's time has been identified after lying in the archives for
centuries
** OU scientists discover two species of rodents
Two or three times a year the museum director finds himself in Argentina,
handling poisonous snakes, avoiding quicksand or watching out for cocaine
traffickers
** Morikami Museum unveils latest expansion
About 200 invited guests came Monday to see the latest expansion of the
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens west of Delray Beach and what an
estimated $15 million in Palm Beach County money has created over 23 years
** 14th century painting unearthed in Coventry
A medieval wall painting has been discovered after lying beneath Coventry
city centre for more than more than 600 years
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** Buried 1,800 years ago, 43 coins offer clues to high-society Roman
London
A perfectly preserved hoard of gold coins, which were hidden under the
floorboards of a palatial Roman villa 1,800 years ago, have been discovered
by archaeologists
** Vail to get art museum you'll probably never see
Kent and Vicki Logan are building a four-story, 6,500-square-foot private
art museum adjacent to their Potato Patch house overlooking Lionshead
** Chiang Kai-shek's Office to Become Museum
Chiang abandoned his office, situated in downtown Nanjing, before he fled to
Taiwan more than half a century ago after the then Kuomintang government
failed in the civil war
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** Portraits of a Century in Turmoil
What started as an amusing blend of bibliophilic one-upmanship and
epistemological hero worship à la Dead Poets' Society has now also spread to
the ranks of our canonized painters
** Montreal art museum to see if collection includes pieces stolen by Nazis
The laborious job of contacting art galleries, dealers, other museums, even
embassies, began Monday after employees returned from a two-week holiday
break
** SciTrek out of cash, may close
The museum's 42 employees, who were paid a few days ago, have been told
there is not enough money in the till to meet the next payroll
** Three portraits of Bacon's lover could fetch $9-million
When Bacon died, he left his $135-million estate to Edwards, a dyslexic
recluse who now lives in Thailand
** Masks of Mystery
China reveals another dimension to its distant past in this remarkable
exhibition of Bronze Masks from the Sacrificial Pits of the Ancient Shu
Kingdom
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** The concrete facts about Stonehenge
Every year almost a million people visit the mysterious circle at Stonehenge
but only a few realise that it bears little resemblance to its original
format
** Germany's Legendary Epic, Relived Virtually
The museum is to be housed in two towers of the old city walls of Worms in a
subterranean room, coming topographically closer to the sunken treasure on
the bed of the Rhine
** Bibliomane
With the help of a non-political benefaction from Paul Hamlyn, the Round
Reading Room at the British Museum is in the process of acquiring 25,000
reference books
** Library Humour ... if we can't laugh at ourselves, who can?
Of the beasts of the field, and of the fishes of the sea, and of all foods
that are acceptable in my sight you may eat, but not in the Library
** Ancient cemetery registered as a national heritage
An ancient cemetery known as the "cemetery of gray clay objects" discovered
in the compound of the Kaboud mosque in this northwestern provincial capital
city has been registered as a national heritage
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** Accessibility in Exhibitions for Visitors Who are Blind and Deaf
** Australian Militaria Collection
A Queensland collector based in Longreach who is retiring and wanting to
dispose of his extensive military collection.
** The Proceedings from the Conservation Center for Art and Historic
Artifacts (CCAHA)'s Architectural Records Conference, "Architectural
Records: Preserving and Managing the Documentation of Our Built Environment
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