Museum makeover

Article Abstract:

The Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago is refreshing old fashioned, packing of thousand artifacts and 6,000 years of history into three new galleries. The galleries cover the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Levant a region famously called the 'fertile crescent' by James Henry breasted the museum's founder.

Illinois, University of Chicago. Oriental Institute

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A brilliant past in Berlin

Article Abstract:

Two years of extensive renovations of the museum in Berlin, made possible to reunite the collections in it, which was earlier housed in two museums, separated by the Berlin Wall. It also revealed, bronze bowls and ornaments dating to 1000 B.C.

Germany, Protection and preservation, Berlin, Germany

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Exhibitions

Article Abstract:

The effort of the American Museum of Natural History to using latest technology in revamping the Hall of Human Origins is discussed.

United States, American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York)

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