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**  Russia Links Lincoln With the Freedom of Serfs
The exhibition of more than 200 objects from Russian and American collections, which opened Tuesday with a Kremlin military band playing in czarist uniform at the State Archive of the Russian Federation, represents the latest attempt by Russia to find positive lessons in its past

 

**  Egypt re-opens museums and sites to draw back tourists
It was very important for us to open the museum to stop the rumours like 'the mask of King Tutankhamun was stolen' or there had been an orgy of looting

 

**  Smithsonian Museum will have a video game gallery next year, wants you to vote on what's in it
Charting the 40-year evolution of gaming from paddle-based pixel exchanges to sophisticated online multiplayer extravaganzas, this collection of memoirs will focus on the most visually striking and technologically innovative titles
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**  In Amsterdam, a Look at Picasso’s Paris Days
The works, borrowed from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, include the handsome “Self-Portrait With a Palette” and “Le Moulin de la Galette,” a vibrant scene of revelers

 

**  Unpaid internships at museums ‘exploitation’
London’s leading museums and art galleries have been accused of exploiting interns who work for no pay for up to nine months at a time

 

**  Can an exhibition change our view of Afghanistan?
The exhibition aims to draw attention to the country’s former existence as the cultural crossroads between the ancient civilisations of Iran, India, China, the Middle East and the West

 

**  Aviation museum opens new wing
Visitors to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum will enter its new grand hall under the wings of a classic jet suspended upside down and painted in the colours of the Snowbirds Demonstration Team
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**  Ancient China's blood-sweating horse legend
The bones of 80 horses unearthed from the mausoleum of a Chinese emperor who lived more than 2,000 years ago have rekindled an ancient legend about blood-sweating "heavenly" horses from central Asia

 

**  US left hanging as Russia refuses to share artworks
Directors of leading American galleries have bemoaned a "political" decision by the Russian government which will strip several upcoming exhibitions of paintings by masters such as Paul Cézanne

 

**  September 11 museum launches interactive timeline of attacks
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum have launched a web-based interactive timeline that features images, audio, video and first-hand accounts of people who witnessed the 2001 terrorist attackm 

 

**  In Qatar, Arab modern art gets its first museum
Paintings acquired by shadowy anonymous buyers paying record prices now hang in the light of day in Qatar in the world's first museum devoted to modern Arab art
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**  Deep Into the Big Pit and Beyond
Archaeological excavation is a series of decisions: where to dig, how to dig, whether to dig large in a few places or dig small in many places. Large areal excavations are time-consuming, but they have a definite advantage

 

**  Canterbury Earthquake - Museum Update
The latest from Christchurch is very grim, however, Museums Aotearoa have not heard of anyone being hurt in museums or galleries there

 

**  DC wax museum makes room for all the US presidents
George W. Bush is surrounded by 9/11 images, Jimmy Carter stands beside a gasoline pump, and George Washington rows across the Delaware River in a new gallery showing life-size figures of all the U.S. presidents

 

**  Finances Could Sink Seaport Museum
The museum - at 12 Fulton Street and formerly named the South Street Seaport Museum - explores the city’s maritime history through artifacts and a fleet of 11 vessels, including historic ships and service boats
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**  Anthropologists Trace Human Origins Back To One Large Goat
Funded by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution, the 17-year inquiry into the origins of the human race brought together 12 top anthropologists from around the world to pursue the single-large-goat theory, which participants in Monday's presentation assured audience members "felt more plausible when we came up with it, really it did."

 

**  J. Edgar Hoover's Name on Museum Draws Fire
The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus says a plan to name a national museum research center for J. Edgar Hoover is inappropriate if it does not recognize the former FBI director's history of racial intolerance

 

**  30-foot tipi takes centre stage at Brooklyn Museum
The majestic structure is part of a new exhibition that focuses on the central role of the tipi in the lives of more than 30 nomadic tribes who once populated a large swath of the North American Plains from Canada to Texas

 

**  Touring history’s dark side
The horrors of Nazi concentration camps in Poland or the Khmer Rouge’s Killing Fields in Cambodia can be taught in history books, but nothing comes close to the feeling of standing in the very place millions of people fell victim to evil
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**  Protesters target Egypt's antiquities chief
"Get out," a crowd of 150 archaeology graduates chanted outside the office of Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass, who threw in his lot with the old order when he accepted a Cabinet post in the last weeks of Hosni Mubarak's rule

 

**  Focus on Collections Care Workshop Series
Balboa Art Conservation Center. Hosted by the Arizona State University Art Museum

 

**  On the Surface: The Heritage of Mines and Mining
International conference. 14-16 April 2011, Innsbruck, Austria

 

**  Private Domains/Public Displays: The Modern House Interpreted
A Symposium in Celebration of Fallingwater’s 75th Anniversary. April 5, 2011

 

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