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News From Sunday, February 06, 2011
10:13:49 PM Official: Restoration work begins on damaged Egyptian artifacts
CNN - Atlanta,GA,USA

The work, on artifacts from King Tutankhamun's tomb, includes restoring a statue -- broken by looters in the Egyptian Museum -- of King Tut on a panther, ... [more]

6:21:27 PM Philly museum makes replicas for China mummies
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA

A Philadelphia museum barred from displaying mummies and other historic artifacts from China has come up with a solution to salvage a long-awaited exhibit _ ... [more]

2:53:39 PM Egypt's chief archaeologist says mummies are safe
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa

LONDON Feb 6 (Reuters) - None of the mummies in Cairo's main archaeological museum were damaged during a break-in last week but 70 other exhibits will need ... [more]

11:41:48 AM Dali museum centerpiece of arts-filled Tampa Bay
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

Spectators walk outside the new Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla., the latest in a string of splashy arts venues on the west coast of Florida. ... [more]

9:49:11 AM 'The Silk Road' not taken
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA

Instead, after months spent at museums in California and Texas, the items must now be returned to their homeland. "We're opening without them," said Pam ... [more]

8:08:01 AM 'Prime' sauropod specimen graces museum
Billings Gazette

MARTIN KIDSTON/Gazette Staff Leah Stabenow and Bob Stottler of the Washakie Museum and Cultural Center in Worland sit beside Apollo, a diplodocus sauropod ... [more]

7:10:26 AM Museum show opens, minus mummies
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

By Susan Snyder What do you do when the museum show you've been planning for 18 months loses out on the very Chinese artifacts it was supposed to showcase, ... [more]

6:45:36 AM Westmont Museum of Art to Organize Symposium to Attract Art Collectors
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

After a distinguished museum career at The Frick Collection, New York, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, ... [more]

5:32:04 AM Beatles spark museum mania
Chicago Sun-Times

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Feb 5, 2011 09:36PM A man takes pictures of figures depicting the Beatles at the new Beatles Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. .... [more]

4:15:29 AM Mardi Gras at the Carousel Museum
Bristol Press - Bristol,CT,USA

By Jackie Majerus BRISTOL — Beads, Spanish coins, feathered masks and alluring costumes are all in store for the New England Carousel Museum's 20th ... [more]

3:30:54 AM 17 of the world's greatest museums, brought to you by Google
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

Google launched the Google Art Project Tuesday, which takes viewers through 17 museums, including New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Rijksmuseum in ... [more]

3:04:22 AM Snapshots of Spring Festival entertainment, museum exhibition and sports
China View, Beijing, China

On February 4, official statistics showed that 40000 tourists swarmed into the Palace Museum, repeating the number from last year' s national holiday, .... [more]

2:33:25 AM The Battle Over Poe House, Baltimore's Connection To Its Literary Son
Luxist - Santa Monica,CA,USA

But the city's budget deficit may end up impacting the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum. The city has cut funding for the museum saying that the Poe House ... [more]

1:16:02 AM Google takes art lovers on a virtual grand tour
Guardian - UK

Working with 17 of the world's leading galleries and museums – from MoMA in New York to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, from the Hermitage in St Petersburg to ... [more]



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