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New Italian museum offers 3D virtual tour of ancient city

Visitors look at a virtual reproduction of an ancient Roman house at the Virtual Archeologic Museum (MAV) in Ercolano near Naple. The MAV is a new virtual interactive museum that opened in front of the ruins of Herculaneum a small city destroyed with ...

New Italian museum offers 3D virtual tour of ancient city

Visitors to Herculaneum, destroyed along with Pompeii in the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius, can now take a 3D virtual tour recreating life in the ancient Roman town.

New museum offers 3D virtual tour of Pompeii

The virtual walk, inaugurated Wednesday, seems to take the visitor through the town, stopping at the noisy market or going into luxurious villas as residents dressed in togas go about their business.

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New Museum Launches Triennial

NEW YORK—Does the art world need yet another festival? The New Museum of Contemporary Art thinks so and announced today that it is launching a new triennial next year. The first edition of the triennial, which bears the provocative title “Younger Than Jesus,� will be curated by the museum's director of special exhibitions, Massimiliano Gioni, and senior curator, Laura Hoptman, along with Lauren Cornell, director of Rhizome and an adjunct curator at the museum. It will open in spring 2009.

Tourist Tracks launches MP3 Walking Tour of Ely

Visitors to Ely can now enjoy a walking tour of the city and its cathedral using their very own iPod or MP3 player. Tourist Tracks has added Ely to its growing portfolio of destinations in the UK featuring a downloadable MP3 walking tour. The Ely tour pack contains two tours - one of the city and one of the interior of the cathedral (a separate entrance fee is payable). The city tour is a 60-minute stroll giving visitors the opportunity to discover the history behind the city's name, its origins as an island and walk along the banks of the River Ouse.

Mystery insect bugging experts at London museum

In this undated image made available by Natural History Museum, showing the tiny red-and-black bug which is thought to be a new species of insect, and that has appeared inside London's Natural History Museum gardens, according to information made available Monday July 14, 2008. The almond-shaped insect, about the size of a grain of rice seems to thrive on plane trees at the grounds of the 19th-century museum, but this insect is not the same as any of the 28 million insects currently classified by the museum, 'I don't expect to find a new species in the gardens of a museum,' said Max Barclay, Collections Manager at the Natural History Museum.

Utah Museum of Natural History Breaks Ground on New Location

The Utah Museum of Natural History will break ground for the new museum at 301 Wakara Way. They are celebrating by holding a groundbreaking celebration on July 29th at the site of the new museum from 8 a.m. - 10 p.m. Museum members are invited to park on Colorow Drive between Wakara Way and Tabby Lane and shuttles will take them to the site.

Wuhan to build new 1911 Revolution Museum

The city of Wuhan in Hubei Province has decided to invest 300 million yuan to build the 1911 Revolution Museum (New Museum), creating a commemorative 1911 Revolution national landmark to welcome the 100th anniversary grand ceremony of the Revolution of 1911. The total construction area of the 1911 Revolution Museum is approximately 30,000 square meters. The Museum will shoulder four main functions: storage of 1911 Revolution relics (relics of historical figures, historical events information); an exhibition of the Revolution's history; Wuhan modern history research and academic exchanges; and integrated services.

Online survey reveals Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour info (Guitar Hero World Tour)

A new survey sent to users of the invitation-only survey site u.talk.back asks the question: which would you rather get, Guitar Hero World Tour, or Rock Band 2? Along with the question, each game is described with various new features. Things such as Rock Band DLC working in RB2, new online modes, and more are described for Rock Band 2, while World Tour is given some new instrument information, as well as a peak at the names and bands involved.

Museum of Islamic Art - an international centre for dialogue and cultural exchange

The Museum of Islamic Art, which will be opening on November 22, in Doha, Qatar, under the patronage of Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, had its reception at the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum on May 27. It will be a new international centre for learning and creativity. While welcoming the guests, Lord Jacob Rothschild, Trustee of the Museum of Islamic Art, said, “Beyond the Museum it is also the place of learning and the platform of dialogue. [The] museum will develop a fruitful relationship with world class institution like the British Museum.”

Education Central to Museum of Plants

The New York Botanical Garden is often described as a “museum of plants.� With 250 acres; 50 different gardens and plant collections; a preeminent Victorian-era conservatory that is a New York City Landmark; the largest herbarium in the Western Hemisphere, containing over 7 million specimens; and the most important botanical and horticultural library in the world, that might seem self-evident. However, a museum is more than its collections—it is a place where collections are creatively displayed and interpreted in ways that allow visitors to appreciate and learn. As such, education is fundamental to a museum’s mission. Recent exhibitions at the Botanical Garden have brought education to the fore with new and compelling programming, exhibitry, and interpretation.

Picasso Features Spanish Wine Region Tour

Picasso Tours is offering a seven-day escorted motorcoach tour of the Spanish wine route. The trip departs from Barcelona on Aug. 17 and Oct. 14 and May 24 and Nov. 11. The tour allows wine aficionados to visit the Torres, Bodegas Juan Alcorta, Marquès De Riscal, Bodegas Ysios's new La Rioja20Alavesa, Comenge and Legario wineries, the Dinastia Vivanco Wine Museum and other sites such as the Pilar Cathedral, Guggenheim Museum, Yuso and Suso Monasteries, Burgos Cathedral and Peñafiel Castle. The trip begins in Barcelona and traverses the country visiting Vilafranca Del Penedés, Zaragoza, Logroñ, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, San Millan de la Cogolla, Haro, Bilbao, Elciego, La Guardia, Burgos, Peñafiel, Segovia and Madrid. The tour has guaranteed departures and includes seven nights at four star accommodations, a bilingual tour escort, a

New Acropolis Museum to Recreate the Parthenon Frieze

ATHENS—After a series of delays, the New Acropolis Museum in Athens will open in September, finally displaying the Parthenon, or Elgin, Marbles, reports the Art Newspaper. Since the British Museum retains various pieces of the marbles, the new Athens museum will show the patina-coated originals alongside lighter-colored plaster casts of the pieces removed from Greece.

Far Out! New Museum at Bethel Woods Celebrates the 60s

The Museum at Bethel Woods, designed by museum designer Gallagher & Associates and museum architect Westlake Reed Leskosky and making up the newest part of the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, N.Y., opened last month at the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The museum, designed to offer a multimedia understanding of the turbulent decade that reshaped America, offers 10,000 square feet of permanent display space, 6,000 square feet of changing exhibit gallery, a research and archive library, a 1,000-seat performance amphitheater, and a 4,500-square-foot events gallery. To understand the iconic significance of Woodstock, the architects say that the project will help younger visitors grasp the vital context of what was happening at the time “politically, militarily, and socially,� while enabling boomers to look bac

Chanel Mobile Museum brings art to your city via alien spacecraft

Zaha Hadid has a reputation from some far out designs, but her latest work for Chanel pushes the envelope into outer space. The Chanel Contemporary Art Container was designed to move from city to city displaying various works of art, appropriately, the component structure looks exactly like an alien spacecraft. Featuring exhibits by the likes of Yoko Ono (displaying an interactive Wish Tree), Michael Li, Loris Cecchini, and photographers Stephen Shore and Nobuyoshi Araki, the museum debuted in Hong Kong, immediately sold out in Tokyo (it's still running until Friday, July 4th) and is scheduled to hit New York in October, London and Moscow in 2009 and Paris in 2010. You can enter the museum's seriously trippy multimedia website here.

SHAW LIVING AND FURNITURE VENDORSPARTNER WITH MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOR STYLE PRESENTATION AT LV MARKET DALTON, GA ?€" Shaw Living and several furniture vendors have partnered with the Museum of New Mexico for a special style presentation at the

DALTON, GA – Shaw Living and several furniture vendors have partnered with the Museum of New Mexico for a special style presentation at the Las Vegas Market on Tuesday, July 29.

NY nuclear plant likely a quake risk: study

The Statue of Liberty and the New York City Skyline are seen in this photograph taken from a tour boat in New York Harbor, June 30, 2008. The Statue of Liberty and the New York City Skyline are seen in this photograph taken from a tour boat in New York Harbor, June 30, 2008. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

Bread Museum in Odesa

Original Museum of Bread opened in Odesa. Its exposition tells the history of bread-making, depicting the way the bread was baked in the times when Russian Tsars ruled Ukraine, the pre-revolutionary period and during the Great World War, as well as today. Among the unique documents presented are the orders of Katherine the Great and Odesa city officials in 18th century, ancient recipes and bread making technologies, and photographs. The materials for the museum were taken from the city archive, and from private family archives of citizens and the employees of Odesskiy Karavay company, which initiated the establishment of the museum.

Air Force Museum Gets $14M for New Building That Would House Shuttle ; Space Shuttle Would Be Placed on Exhibit If NASA Gives Them One, Museum Says.

Air Force Museum Gets $14M for New Building That Would House Shuttle ; Space Shuttle Would Be Placed on Exhibit If NASA Gives Them One, Museum Says.

Behold New Zealand: Here comes iPhone 3G

iPhone 3G’s launch is just 3 days away and due New Zealanders will be first people to get hold of new iPhone. Due to New Zealand’s graphical location Vodafone will become first company to sell iPhone 3Gs at 12:01 a.m. (New Zealand’s local time). Vodafone will kick off iPhone 3G’s sales at three local stores in New Zealand, Auckland City, Wellington, and Christchurch. Vodafone has announced three 24-month plans for iPhone. Plans vary from $60 ($80 NZD) to $189 ($250 NZD) per month.

Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans

Pickens writes "City officials ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning Sunday morning — the first mandatory evacuation since Hurricane Katrina flooded the city three years ago — as Hurricane Gustav grew into what the city's mayor called 'the storm of the century' and moved toward the Louisiana coast. 'This is the real deal. This is not a test. For everyone thinking they can ride this storm out, I have news for you: that will be one of the biggest mistakes you can make in your life,' said New Orleans mayor, C. Ray Nagin. Already, hundreds of thousands of residents had begun streaming north from New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas stretching from the Florida Panhandle to Houston. Bush administration officials took pains not to be caught as flatfooted as they were in Hurricane Katrina, announcing that President Bush had called

ROCK BAND CONTINUES TO DEBUT NEW SINGLES IN DOWNLOAD CATALOG WITH NEW RELEASES FROM STAIND, SCARS ON BROADWAY AND THE NEW NO2

ROCK BANDâ„¢ CONTINUES TO DEBUT NEW SINGLES IN DOWNLOAD CATALOG WITH NEW RELEASES FROM STAIND, SCARS ON BROADWAY AND THE NEW NO2

New York hopes Rock'n'Roll museum annex will boost tourism

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City is hoping an annex of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opening this year will boost tourism, as well as commemorate the artists and music venues that formed the city's rock history.

New York hopes Rock'n'Roll museum annex will boost tourism

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City is hoping an annex of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opening this year will boost tourism, as well as commemorate the artists and music venues that formed the city's rock history.

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