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Turf roofs are good sound and temperature insulators. In hot weather, the turf layer keeps the rooms cool. Turf roof is a main attraction at San Francisco’s new Academy of Sciences, arguably the greenest museum in the world. The museum consists of...
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It was a fortuitous circumstance: An aging medium-sized city was the right place at the right time for a bequest of coveted art that led to its new avant-garde museum.
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AP, Springfield
The head of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum was fired Tuesday after museum officials discovered he had been arrested twice for shoplifting items...
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AP, Washington
Tiny Greensburg, Kan., rebuilding from scratch after nearly being wiped away by a tornado last year, is quickly becoming a model for going green.
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AP, Cambridge
The Harvard Art Museum has received a gift of $45 million and 31 major works of art, including three paintings by Picasso.
made popular Oct 17 2008
Walking into Brazil’s new soccer museum is like entering a hall filled with busts of Greek gods. Suspended on glass screens some eight feet tall in the darkened...
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AP, Indianola
Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a...
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AP, Wright City
The Elvis is Alive Museum will not live, at least not for now.
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AP, Las Vegas
Las Vegas hopes its newest museum will be a hit.
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AP, Las Vegas
Say hello to your new little museum.
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AP, New York
Ellis Island is expanding its story of U.S. immigration history, including for the first time Native Americans and African slaves and adding modern arrivals.
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AP, St. Louis
The Elvis Is Alive Museum is once again for sale on eBay.
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AP, New Orleans
The National World War II Museum on Wednesday unveiled a Nazi fighter plane rarely exhibited in the U.S., and it will be displayed in a simulated dogfight with its...
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AP, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has named a new director.
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AP, Hamburg
For Peter Tamm, the passion that launched a thousand ships _ and Hamburg’s newest museum along the port city’s old docks _ began with a gift from his mother...
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The episode in Venice’s Ca’ Rezzonico museum, which houses 18th-century Venetian art including those of Giandomenico Tiepolo
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Fashion house Chanel dared to tread the unconventional path and came up with Mobile Art to exhibit work inspired by the quilted handbag, the “2.55,” for...
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Police in Brazil have recovered an engraving by Pablo Picasso that was stolen from a museum in Sao Paulo.
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Brian Dettmer is known for sieving through antique books, piles of obsolete map to uncover the perfect cure for his conceptual exploration and sculptural dissection.He...
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AP, Saratoga Springs
Peter Martins, ballet master in chief of the New York City Ballet, is the newest member of the National Museum of Dance Hall of Fame.The 51-year-old native of Denmark...
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AP, Dayton
Helicopter No. 357 has a long and daring history.The special-operations Sikorsky MH-53 was used in a rescue attempt of U.S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam in 1970...
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