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Irish piggery becomes Museum, £1 Entry Fee Deal, Dust Danger at Tate Modern, World's oldest Mummy to be Thawed



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** Priceless treasures
This classy redesign makes a dramatic change from the British Museum's
disappointing earlier efforts. It is based on Compass, a new system that
makes for easy access to the museum's treasures

**  More mastodon bones found
Port Scientists excavating the remains of a mastodon said they now have more
reason to believe the entire skeleton of the prehistoric mammal may be lying
at the bottom of the backyard pond

**  When & How People First Colonised the Americas?
A BBC report on the archaeological work at Pedra Furada

**  Former Museum bookkeeper charged with embezzlement
A fired accountant with the booster club of the North Carolina Museum of
History was charged with embezzling $75,000

**  Positions eliminated; attendance has declined
The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is in the midst of a major
reshuffling of staff that has included the elimination of some positions

**  Scientists to thaw world's oldest mummy
Otzi, the prehistoric Ice Man who was chipped from a glacier and put in cold
storage for nine years is to be defrosted for a few hours so that scientists
can try to solve some of the mysteries which surround him

**  PictureAustralia at your Fingertips - hosted by the National Library of
Australia
The first service of its kind in the world, PictureAustralia features images
from the collections of leading Australian cultural institutions from the
late eighteenth century through to the present. Metadata Search facility
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**  Irish piggery transformed
Tom Hennigan obtained planning permission to convert his piggery, which
housed 250 pigs, into a museum and heritage centre, and then sought funding

**  Seattle Art Museum ordered to pay gallery's legal fees in Matisse case
The Seattle Art Museum must pay $143,000 to reimburse a New York art
gallery's legal fees during court proceedings in its lawsuit against the
gallery.

**  The Michelangelo of Lego
After experiencing his Lego renaissance last summer, Eric Harshbarger has
channeled his passion for childhood toys into a budding career as a Lego
sculptor

**  Art exhibition in Hyderabad
A VIDEO REVIEW of a major exhibition from 20 Asian countries in the southern
Indian city of Hyderabad.  This clip requires 56K modem and Realplayer

**  This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer: (June 22--July 22)     There's an old adage, "If there's a gun in
the story, it's got to go off." Well, your story now has a pair of breeding
mountain gorillas in it

**  Art & photos struggle to communicate
With the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, closed for renovations,
curators have been racking their brains for ways to keep the moths out of
the main collection

**  Museums offered £1 entry fee deal
Adult entry prices for adults to five major UK museums could be cut to £1
next year, Chris Smith, the Culture Secretary, said this week

**  Saatchi gives away art works
A shirt and eight bicycles are among a £200,000 gift of modern art given to
museums and art galleries across the United Kingdom by Charles Saatchi

**  18th century Calif. missions in desperate need of repairs
Descendants of the Salinan Indians, baptized and taught farming long ago by
Spanish padres, worship beside priceless frescoes and native graffiti amid
the sanctuary's tattered grandeur
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**  Dust danger at Tate Modern
Dangerously high dust levels at Tate Modern caused by the impact of huge
visitor numbers on the untreated wooden floors could be damaging the
exhibits

**  1000 years of the Olympic Games: treasures of ancient Greece
Featuring full screen panoramas of the virtual reconstruction of Olympia,
the archaeological site, and the 3D statues from the Temple of Zeus

**  French tycoon plans gallery for derelict car plant
The tycoon, François Pinault, owner of Gucci, Christie's and the Printemps
department store group, plans to build a gallery to house his own collection
and to promote the contemporary arts

**  SPACEHAB Receives $6 Million Contract To Build Major Museum exhibit in
China
SPACEHAB's Engineering Services unit has signed a contract with the
municipal government of Shanghai, China, to fabricate and install an Earth
Exploration exhibit for the city's new Shanghai ScienceLand science and
technology museum

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Those Who Sailed on the Lost Ship

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