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News From Tuesday, August 01, 2006
7:42:12 PM Hackers Hit Children's Museum Website
WCSH-TV - Portland,ME,USA

The website for the Children's Museum of Maine is back to normal after an anti-isreali hacker took it over Monday. The hackers call ... [more]

7:42:11 PM Boston Museum of Fine Arts Agrees to Return Antiquities to Italy
PNN - Richmond,VA,USA

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has agreed to return an unspecified number of allegedly looted antiquities to the Italian government, the Boston Globe reports. ... [more]

7:42:09 PM Artworks vanish from Russia museum, theft possible
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

.... Police said the museum collection was so big that the pieces could have disappeared at any time in the last 30 years, but Director Mikhail Piotrovsky suspected ... [more]

4:42:13 PM Creation Museum Receives Heavenly Donation
WCPO - Cincinnati,OH,USA

A walk-through Biblical history museum in Northern Kentucky is almost complete, and was built nearly debt-free. A family from Colorado ... [more]

4:42:08 PM Racing Museum To Debut Unique Horse Racing Simulator
BloodHorse - USA

.... The National Racing Museum and Hall of Fame is expected to unveil its one-of-a-kind equine simulator during a press conference Friday, museum communications ... [more]

1:42:11 PM Eyes down for museum trail
West Sussex Observer - Chichester,England,UK

THE DARKEST secrets of Horsham Museum will be revealed when young sleuths are invited to tackle four... AN X-RAY and diagnostics ... [more]

1:42:09 PM Stolen Russian museum items not insured
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

.... Russia - More than 220 pieces - including jewelry and enameled objects worth about $5 million - stolen from Russia's famed State Hermitage Museum were not ... [more]

12:52:07 PM Cultural road trip: Experience Latin American art
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

If you're traveling, check out these museums around the United States to immerse yourself in the work of Jesus Soto, Lorenzo Homar, Carlos Cruz-Diez or dozens ... [more]

10:42:14 AM Fort Plain Museum event to commemorate battles
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA

FORT PLAIN -- The Fort Plain Museum will hold its annual Holding Down the Fort/Trouble on the New York Frontier event Saturday and Sunday. ... [more]

10:42:11 AM Russian museum looted of $5.6 million in artwork
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

MOSCOW—Russia's famed State Hermitage Museum yesterday reported the theft of more than 220 works, including jewellery and enamelled objects, worth around ... [more]

10:42:09 AM Zimbabwean govt develops mining museum
African News Dimension - Johannesburg,South Africa

THE Government has developed a multibillion dollar National Mining Museum in Kwekwe for keeping socioeconomic materials that made the development of Zimbabwe ... [more]

9:52:06 AM 'Freedom bombers' target Valpo Flying museums bring history Porter ...
nwitimes.com - Munster,IN,USA

BY CHRISTINE BRYANT. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP | It's difficult to imagine flying at 30,000 feet, with temperatures 50 degrees below zero ... [more]

7:37:06 AM Jewelry stolen from State Hermitage Museum
United Press International - USA

PETERSBURG, Russia, July 31 (UPI) -- More than 200 jewelry items have disappeared from Russia's State Hermitage Museum, one of the largest and oldest cultural .... [more]

4:37:06 AM Museum marking Edmonton History Week
Morinville Mirror - Alberta, Canada

Morinville Mirror — The Alberta Railway Museum will be celebrating Historic Edmonton Week with a train ride into history. The ... [more]

4:37:06 AM Hermitage Museum reports $6.5m in thefts
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

AP - Russia's famed Hermitage Museum has reported the theft of more than 220 exhibits, jewellery and enamelled objects, worth around $US5 million ($A6.5 million ... [more]

4:37:06 AM American Precision Museum get birthday gift of grant
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

WINDSOR, Vt. --A museum that has spent the past 40 years recording the history of the precision manufacturing industry in southeastern Vermont is getting some ... [more]

2:52:13 AM $5 Million in Goods Stolen From Hermitage
Forbes - USA

.... head of the federal agency in charge of preserving Russia's cultural heritage said the theft was another sign of the inadequate security at museums and other ... [more]



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