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** Chinese Scientists Says Tibetan Yeti Does Exist, Sightings Reported
They believe it is the descendant of giant ape, or a creature between giant
ape and man
** New York Museum's Hall of Ocean Life to Undergo Renovation
Through current scientific research and cutting-edge exhibition technology,
it will be transformed into a fully immersive marine environment
** V&A to drop £5 entry fee
Mr Smith is anticipating that all charging museums should be able to
introduce free entry by next December
** Guggenheim's Latest Branch Is to Open in Cyberspace
In an attempt to combine art and e-commerce, the Guggenheim is planning to
open a Web site this fall that will offer a range of cultural content and
services
** Prince Andrew opens firepower exhibition
The Duke of York is opening a £3.5 million museum of naval firepower
** The Alqueva dam will destroy this area
A very important rock art area (Cheles, Badajoz de la Frontera, Spain) with
hundreds of engraved rocks and thousands of figures is put in danger
** Please do not sit on the artwork
I always feel perturbed by contemporary artists who chase new age-ish
notions about art's capacity to heal or change the world
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** What Every Museum Professional Should Know
With the goal of furthering loss prevention education, Galzerano and members
of the Fine Arts risk control staff recently created a list of the "Top Ten,
Plus One" loss prevention myths they most frequently encounter
** New whisky centre in line for top award
It will compete against the London Eye and the Tate Modern art gallery
** Who owns the killer gun?
Who owns the rifle left at the scene of the assassination of the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr.?
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** First Ever Manned Dives To The Wreck Of The World War II German
Battleship Bismarck
The expedition will conduct operations 15,000 feet (4,550 meters) below the
surface of the north Atlantic
** Peru Complex May Be Oldest City
An ancient urban center, built in Peru with towering pyramids and broad,
stone-paved plazas, may have been the first city in the Americas
** Making a Museum Where Thousands Did Their Time
A proposal to build an exhibition on the perimeter of the Sing Sing
Correctional Facility would make it the only museum in an active prison in
the country
** Smithsonian puts 'Star Wars' spacecraft on view
A mythical "Star Wars" spacecraft took the name of a real jet fighter
** Experts Fear Da Vinci Restoration
Despite the outcry, Florence's Uffizi Gallery, where the sepia-toned artwork
is displayed, intends to press on with the restoration
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** Stirring up the past
The right to exploit archaeological riches raises issues of nationality,
property, heritage
** Italian stallions are more of a tourist attraction than museums
Italian men attract more women to their nation than its museums, a new
survey claims
** Solution to MCA crisis not cheap
The proposal offers a significant concession to heritage concerns in that it
exposes and displays the historically significant docks.
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** Paleontologists Comb the San Juan Basin
Under her microscope is the tooth of an Essonodon, a chipmunk-sized mammal
that was part of one of the most successful mammal families of its day
** A night in a French chateau - with jam
After the 100 Years War between France and England ended, Philippe Davy's
ancestors felt they no longer needed the protection of the fortress they'd
built
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Preserving The Past And Then What?
Exhibiting Archives to the public at the Reykjavik Municipal Archives
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** The Southwest Oral History Association will be having a conference May
4-6, 2001 at the Fiesta Inn, 2100 S. Priest Drive, in Tempe, AZ.
** A Letter from East Timor - a project for International Museum's
** Winedale Museum Seminar On Administration & Interpretation November
4-14, 2001
** Cities in The World, 1500-2000
** Singaporean Gun Tunnels - information wanted
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