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		<title>Italy returns 2,000 year-old statue to Libya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Associate Press Italy has returned to Libyathe head of a 2,000 year-old statue that was smuggled out of the country in the 1960s. Prime Minister Mario Monti gave the sculpted head of Domitilla Minor, the daughter of Roman emperor Vespasian, to Libyan authorities during his trip to Tripoli on Saturday. The sculpture was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picasso Works Stolen From Greece’s Largest Art Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carlos Boettcher from ABC News Thieves executed a brazen early-morning burglary of Greece’s largest art museum Monday, making off with three works, including one by the 20th-century master Pablo Picasso. The burglars were able to take advantage of the National Art Gallery’s soft security, which was short-staffed because of striking workers, officials said. Greece, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Titanic Auction Not Popular at Maritime Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kelly Shiers from The Herald News The sale of more than 5,000 artifacts salvaged from the world’s most famous shipwreck is causing concerns for a local museum official. Concerns serious enough the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic will never consider hosting the Titanic relics — even as a temporary exhibit. &#8220;No maritime museum in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Museums in Spanish Capital Post Record Attendance Numbers Last Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The China Post Madrid&#8217;s top three museums — the Prado, the Reina Sofia and the Thyssen-Bornemisza — received a record number of visitors last year as blockbuster exhibits drew crowds despite a weak economy. The private Thyssen-Bornemisza, which displays works by artists ranging from El Greco to Picasso, posted the biggest rise in visitor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joanneum Museum Extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and Eep Architekten</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From dezeen magazine Cavernous holes in the courtyard of three museum buildings in Graz, Austria, lead underground into a new, shared entrance by Spanish architects Nieto Sobejano and local firm eep architekten The extension adds a conference hall, reading areas and an archive to the Joanneum Museum complex, which comprises a regional library, an art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Tomb Raiders Laying Waste to Thousands of Years of History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tania Branigan from theguardian China&#8217;s extraordinary historical treasures are under threat from increasingly aggressive and sophisticated tomb raiders, who destroy precious archaeological evidence as they swipe irreplaceable relics. The thieves use dynamite and even bulldozers to break into the deepest chambers – and night vision goggles and oxygen canisters to search them. The artefacts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer History Museum Launches New Online Steve Jobs Exhibit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From MarketWatch The Computer History Museum (CHM), the world&#8217;s leading institution exploring the history of computing and its ongoing impact on society, today announced the launch of a new online exhibit on legendary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Called &#8220;Steve Jobs&#8230; First, Last, One more thing&#8230;&#8221; the exhibit traces Jobs&#8217;s life from his youth building &#8216;Blue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentino Virtual Fashion Museum Opens Its Doors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Suzy Menkes from The New York Times “To be called pioneers for what we have done — and at our age!” says Giancarlo Giammetti, referring to the opening this week of the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum. A legion of models in the designer’s signature “Valentino red” act as an online teaser for a downloadable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://onmuseums.com/2011/12/26/valentino-virtual-fashion-museum-opens-its-doors/</link>
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		<title>Seized Roman Treasures Revealed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Times of Malta Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s forces tried to flee Tripoli with ancient Roman artefacts in hopes of selling them abroad to help fund their doomed fight, Libya&#8217;s new leaders said today, as they displayed the recovered objects for the first time. The director of the state antiquities department, Saleh Algabe, hailed the find of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Museums Atone for a Colonial History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Edward Rothstein from The New York Times You walk through a garden lush with overgrowth, a cultivated wilderness with exotic grasses gone deliberately to seed. Inside the effect is the same: You enter the eerily atmospheric hall where you meander past artifacts from Oceania, Africa and other realms beyond Europe’s borders, as speckled daylight [...]]]></description>
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