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11:09:34 PM Wooly mammoth's remains help bring Field Museum exhibit to life
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

By William Mullen Tribune staff reporter Museum exhibits displaying remains of long-extinct creatures don't usually carry much of an emotional wallop, .... [more]

10:15:17 PM Smithsonian says it doesn't want OJ Simpson's suit
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

The Smithsonian Museum says it doesn't want the suit OJ Simpson wore when he was acquitted of murder charges -- scuttling a compromised reached Monday in ... [more]

7:37:48 PM Hate group meets 300-400 at Va. Holocaust Museum
Richmond Times Dispatch

By Reed Williams Between 300 and 400 counter-protesters turned out at the Virginia Holocaust Museum today to respond to a visit to Richmond by an anti-gay, ... [more]

6:37:00 PM Our Contest Winner Claims Her Prize
New York Times (blog)

By HILARY JOHNSON Ángel Franco/The New York Times Some young visitors to the Morgan Library and Museum study the heavily marked-up manuscript for “A ... [more]

6:28:05 PM Icons and opposition mark Medvedev visit to Paris
The Associated Press

The vast collection was pieced together from monasteries and museums around Russia. Not far from the official Russian splendors on display at the Louvre, ... [more]

4:40:35 PM The most modern biographical museum in Europe
Polish Market - Warszawa,Poland

Following a complete modernisation, a new Frederic Chopin Museum was inaugurated in Warsaw on March 1. Based at the Ostrogski Palace it was described by ... [more]

3:22:33 PM Smithsonian to OJ: Thanks, But No Thanks
TMZ.com - Glendale,CA,USA

The curator then sends the item to one of the various museums -- eg, the National Museum of American History. A review is then conducted. ... [more]

12:58:06 PM Curtain up on Chopin museum
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

A Chopin museum has opened in Warsaw, to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth. By Bernard Osser, in Warsaw for AFP A museum dedicated to Frederic Chopin ... [more]

11:16:36 AM Museum attendance surged in 2009 as travelers stayed closer to home
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

By Denny Gainer, USA TODAY By Brett Zongker, AP Writer WASHINGTON — Many museums across the country saw a spike in visitors during the economic slump last ... [more]

10:39:42 AM Veterans museum proponets will ask Redding for land deal
Record-Searchlight - Redding,CA,USA

By Jim Schultz The Boondocker Ball - a 1940s-style USO dinner and dance to raise funds for a proposed Northern California Veterans Museum and Heritage .... [more]

8:56:03 AM Museum to open at Austin home of Alamo survivor Susanna Dickinson
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA

"Besides Susanna's story, this museum will really speak to the other women who were inside the Alamo," Bennett said. "We don't know a lot about many of them ... [more]

5:52:55 AM Richard Wyatt's reunion with his youthful art at UCLA Fowler Museum
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

An image of the work, part of the school's archive, would eventually grace university publications, including an edition of the museum's newsletter Fowler ... [more]

4:09:40 AM Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission plans to have more than
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA

Patriot-News One museum's trash could be another collector's treasure. That's why the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission is putting more than 1600 items up ... [more]

2:49:40 AM OJ Simpson's acquittal suit could end up at Smithsonian -- if the museum
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Los Angeles Times (blog) It's not entirely clear whether the museum wants the suit. “This is a mandatory settlement to attempt to resolve who owns the suit and who has the right to ... [more]

1:32:06 AM O'Brien: Downturn raises questions about future of The Tech Museum
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By Chris O'Brien As much as I'm rooting for the Tech Museum of Innovation to become the dynamic institution downtown San Jose so badly needs, ... [more]



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