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11:10:22 PM British, US crystal skulls fake, scientists say
ABC Online - Australia

Skull-duggery ... scientists have revealed crystal skulls held by US and British museums are fakes (AFP: British Museum) How about this for the next .... [more]

8:46:53 PM Senate Panel Close to Deal on Donations of Artwork
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By STEPHANIE STROM Responding to pleas from museums, members of the Senate Finance Committee have agreed in principle to loosen stringent limits on “partial ... [more]

7:47:40 PM Museum hours
Bangkok Post - Klong Toey,Bangkok,Thailand

UDON THANI: The Ban Chiang Archaeological Museum has cut back its open hours from daily to five days a week. Museum curator Mano Kleepthong said a shortage ... [more]

7:00:01 PM Confusion over museum restructure
TVNZ - New Zealand

The Public Service Association says it is perplexed by the staffing restructure at the Auckland Museum that has left 46 workers without a job. ... [more]

5:20:28 PM LA County Museum of Art gets Oceanic collection
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By JACOB ADELMAN AP Writer LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles County Museum of Art branched into the South Pacific with the acquisition of an encyclopedic ... [more]

4:45:45 PM Outback Qld windmill to join National Museum display
ABC Online - Australia

A windmill from a remote sheep and cattle station in western Queensland has been acquired for a new display in the National Museum in Canberra. ... [more]

3:46:55 PM 6 Ways to Save at a Museum
Smartmoney.com - USA

By Erin Geismar |Erin Geismar Archive |Published: July 9, 2008 PREVIOUSLY ABANDONED FOR trips to the beach and other venues further afield, museums are ... [more]

3:46:55 PM Art Restorer Tips Off Public: What The Museums Don’t Want You To See!
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) - USA

If you are an avid museum goer, then you will be enraptured by the art. But there is much more to see. Let me tell you another story. I was in Venice, ... [more]

3:43:54 PM Birth and Death of a Myth
Washington Post - United States

Even though the crystal skull at the Museum of Natural History turned out to be a fake, some mysteries remain. (Jim DiLoreto, Smithsonian Institution) The ... [more]

3:43:54 PM Union queries museum job losses
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand

By Angela Gregory Auckland Museum says its staffing numbers are "relatively unchanged" following a major restructuring, but a union has asked why nearly one ... [more]

2:03:51 PM LOVE THE “UNIVERSAL MUSEUM” AND DESPISE THE OTHERS: COMMENT ON ...
Modern Ghana - Ghana

Some of his panegyric statements about the British Museum and its Director shocked me whilst I thought others must have been, as it were, said with tongue ... [more]

1:43:13 PM Harley museum set to rev into action Saturday
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA

The Harley-Davidson mystique will reach new heights starting Saturday when the Milwaukee motorcycle manufacturer opens the Harley-Davidson museum in the ... [more]

1:03:05 PM Mystery of crystal skulls may be no mystery at all
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

It was mailed to the museum anonymously, accompanied by a note claiming it was of Aztec origin. The skulls were carved from blocks of quartz — sometimes ... [more]

9:49:02 AM Representatives say Louisiana is Ready for Tourists with Food, Fun ...
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - World

by Bea Broda/www.travelvideo.tv Representatives from areas of Southern Louisiana were on hand in Toronto to give the local media a taste of their state and ... [more]

8:55:54 AM Silvertails not only ones with whole lot of art
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

THE art galleries and museums of NSW are luring diverse crowds, particularly low-income earners, a study by Museums and Galleries NSW has found. ... [more]

7:15:50 AM US leaves Concorde gift from UK to rot in airfield
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

By Laura Clout A Concorde on loan to a US museum is lying rotting and vandalised in a New York airfield. AP The BA Concorde arrives in NYC in 2003. ... [more]

3:54:17 AM Galleries & Museums
Velocity - Louisville,KY,USA

Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, 715 W. Main St. -- 589-0155. Artists Series No. 5 featuring works by Mike and Kelly Laster. Through Aug. 9. ... [more]

2:20:28 AM Museums in South Iceland brought together
IceNews - Reykjavik,Iceland

A complete interactive listing of all the museums, galleries and multimedia exhibitions in South Iceland has been launched on the new travel website, .... [more]



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