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Luxuries from China's Forbidden City to travel US
The Associated Press
This flows like walking up a mountain flows," said Nancy Berliner, curator of Chinese art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, ...
Luxuries from China's Forbidden City to travel USWLNE-TV (ABC6)

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Oak Lawn children's museum proves popular at new location
Chicago Tribune
One year after the Children's Museum of Oak Lawn moved to a new facility amid funding woes and doubts about its ...
Kids Museum Marks One YearSouthwest News-Herald

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Yorkshire Museum gets a makeover
The Guardian
In order to celebrate the big event, York's inimitable Yorkshire Museum has reopened after a major refurbishment ? much of the work done through DIY ...
Yorkshire Museum refurbishment photographsBBC News
Yorkshire Museum to reopen after £2 million makeoverThe Press, York
DIY skills on show as Yorkshire's museum gets £2m new look (Video)Yorkshire Post

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The World's Richest Man's New Mansion
Forbes
If you stand on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and look across the street, you'll have a small chance of glimpsing the world's ...
Mexican billionaire Slim buys townhouse in ManhattanReuters
World's richest man buys last private Fifth Avenue mansionExaminer.com
Billionaire Carlos Slim Buys Fifth Avenue Mansion for $44 MillionDNAinfo
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Museum of Natural History launches iPhone nav app
Paper museum maps are so B.C. The Museum of Natural History today launched a "pioneering" navigation app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that makes getting lost a thing of the past. The free Explorer app guides visitors through the Upper West Side museum?s expansive halls using "indoor...

Museum rates cover photo
Cassidy Park?s Indian Museum has gone glam. The museum is featured on the cover of the recently distributed AT&T Real Yellow Pages that serve Washington Parish. The cover features a stunning photograph of the museum, which was been renovated under the watchful supervision of volunteer director Millicent ?Jimmie? Canter.

Museum Of The Month: The Seti I Sarcophagus At Sir John Soane's Museum
Image courtesy of Sir John Soane's Museum. A closer look at one of the key exhibits at our Museum of the Month . One of the more arrestingly eccentric additions to the Soane collection - which is saying something, being nestled as it is below a gallery of funerary busts and Roman marbles and alongside the real residence of an imaginary monk - is the gigantic sarcophagus of former Egyptian King ...

Museum names executive director
Museum names executive director By Ben Fulton The Salt Lake Tribune Updated Jul 29, 2010 06:07PM MDT Gretchen Dietrich has been named the new executive director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Dietrich has been interim director of the museum since April 2009. The University of Utah?s search committee was unanimous in recommending her for the permanent position, according to a statement released ...

Museum honors namesake with permanent exhibit
The Tubman African American Museum has added a permanent exhibit to its halls. Jeffrey Bruce, curator, has been with the museum for eight years and is excited about the new addition.

Museum exhibits class
AN Alnwick museum has been named as one of the top attractions in the country for youngsters to visit ? alongside the likes of the Eden Project and the Tate Liverpool.

Museum collects stories, objects for new racetrack exhibit
The Laurel Museum is collecting artifacts and stories for its upcoming exhibit on the Laurel Racetrack, "And They're Off!: 100 Years at Laurel Park." The exhibit will debut at the museum in February 2011.

Museum, Bel-Wood bonds may top $90M
By the end of the year, Peoria County could issue more than $90 million in debt to cover expenses for building the Peoria Riverfront Museum and a new Bel-Wood Nursing Home.   Resolutions signifying the county's intent to issue a ceiling of $51 million for Bel-Wood and $41.6 million for the museum both were approved Thursday in a finance committee meeting. Though the actual amounts issued likely ...

American Museum of Natural History's Explorer App Makes Paper Museum Maps Ancient Artifacts [Apps]
# apps The American Museum of Natural History is dedicated to preserving our planet's past. But its new app, which offers turn by turn directions to exhibits, customizable museum tours, and exhibit information, is nothing less than state of the art. More »

Navigate the American Museum of Natural History with New iPhone App
The American Museum of Natural History today unveiled the American Museum of Natural History Explorer app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, designed to help users better navigate through the Museum's various exhibitions.