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** Smithsonian Chief Scraps Plan
Small's plan to shut it drew fire from scientists within and outside the
Smithsonian and from members of Congress
** Buddha's ashes to be displayed in Patna museum
Buddhists from all over the world had been demanding to see the urn
containing the ashes of the Lord Buddha
** Charlie Chaplin's house to become a museum
A new foundation has come up with the idea, which is backed by three of his
children
** History museum building is the biggest fossil of all
Lack of investment has preserved the Natural History Museum as a Victorian
curiosity
** Battle to save Crimea's treasures
It is estimated that at least $2m worth of antiquities are smuggled out of
the Crimea every year for buyers in the West
** Sacking 'threatens museum's currency'
Job losses and restructuring at the new Melbourne Museum are undermining its
international reputation, compromising security and damaging its ability to
care for artefacts worth millions of dollars, ICOM has claimed.
** Smithsonian's $35m present
A Washington businesswoman plans to give the Smithsonian Institution $US35
million to establish a "hall of achievement."
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** Cathedrals become temples of Mammon
While admission charges are being scrapped by national museums, the Church
of England continues to take millions in 'voluntary' donations
** Massive Texas Dinosaur Fossil Shipped for Study
What may be the largest dinosaur backbone ever found was airlifted on Monday
from a remote wilderness area in Big Bend National Park in far western Texas
** Greeks Demand Return of Art
400 children and teachers from 16 Greek schools marched to the British
Embassy on Monday
** Ouch! Step right into the house of pain
The Criminal Museum of Meiji University in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward is probably
one of the most painful museums to wander around
** Paris Court Upholds Van Gogh Sale
A French appeals court ruled Monday that the sale of a contested Van Gogh
landscape was valid and dismissed a case brought by the painting's current
owners
** Boca cartoon museum to sell some of its treasures
The first Mickey Mouse drawings will be one of the highlights of the May 19
auction
** Open City: Street Photographs
Open City takes as its starting point the raw and edgy photographs produced
by a generation of photographers in the 1950s and 60s
** This week's horoscopes
Scorpio: (Oct. 24--Nov. 21) You're more than just a collection of annoying,
loosely bundled neuroses
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** Machu Picchu's slide
Is Machu Picchu falling? A team of Japanese geologists has concluded that it
is
** The slave garret of Brooklyn
200 years ago, in this tiny space, 12 slaves were held in old New York
** Number of visitors to Hiroshima museum declines
Museum director Minoru Hataguchi attributed this to the recent trend of
schools taking students on excursions to remote places
** Heritage strikes £3M deal for art, science and photography archive
An online picture library providing access to a range of Britain's
historical art hopes to expand into continental Europe
** Mammal find marks important evolutionary split
Zhailimeryx lived only in Asia and co-existed with early rhinos, primates,
dog-like carnivores, rodents and lizards
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** UCLA/Getty Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing
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