"Museum guides tell visitors that before Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise all of the dinosaurs were peaceful plant-eaters."
Well-known artist Julian Schnabel on Thursday provided heavy ammunition for the many critics of Rome's new home for the Roman Empire's most famous peace symbol.Schnabel called the Ara Pacis museum, designed amid fierce polemics by his eminent countryman Richard Meier, "an air-conditioning unit".
Britain's leading space scientists are hoping that a new exhibition on the final frontier will encourage young people to become astronauts or follow a career in science.
The Smithsonian Institution's eight art museums are "drastically underfunded" and have "seldom lived up to their names," according to an external review released Wednesday. The voluntary review by a panel of seven prominent museum directors gives recommendations to strengthen each museum.
More than 1,400 artifacts - protected from looters and the Taliban since 1999 at a museum-in-exile in Switzerland - were returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan on Saturday.
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed Thursday that it built a special chip used in a disputed demonstration of quantum computing in February.
What's it like to be rich in Silicon Valley? Visitors to a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibit can find out by watching candid videos of seven dot-com boom-and-bust survivors who share what money means to them.
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Our ancestors have arrived at the American Museum of Natural History. They are very old, and we are only beginning to recognize them and ourselves in them. They remind us of our origins long ago and how we have emerged as modern humans in the fullness of time.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Museum crowds are strong at movie theaters. Ben Stiller's "Night at the Museum" took in $24 million to stay on top at the box office for a third-straight weekend, fending off a soft crop of newcomers during the post-holiday lull.
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The San Diego Museum of Art has returned a painting to the Mexican government after discovering it was stolen from a rural Mexican church.
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A religious icon on the list of more than 220 items stolen from Russia's State Hermitage Museum has been discovered in a trash bin. The police received a tip from an anonymous caller after the list of artifacts stolen was made public.





