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Ground Broken at Atlantis's Future KSC Exhibition Center

Yesterday, January 18, a number of NASA officials and astronauts attended a very important ground-breaking ceremony that took place at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida. On that site, a new exhibition hall that will showcase the space shuttle Atlantis will be opened in 2013. The American space agency has d...

19 January 2012
16:01 GMT

Exquisite Golden Spider Silk Garment Showcased in the UK

One of the most influent green trends gaining popularity every year is noticeable in the fashion industry. From fair trade, creative recycling strategies, sustainable materials to the oddest manufacturing processes, impressive results are recorded along this path, attracting people's attention and making them ...

19 January 2012
04:45 GMT

Online Steve Jobs Exhibit at the Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum has launched an online exhibit dedicated to Steve Jobs. Titled "From Garage to World's Most Valuable Company", the web-based public display tracks Jobs’ life from his youth to his triumphant return as CEO and finally his achievement of surpassing the market cap of Exxon Mobil.Vi...

6 December 2011
04:37 GMT

US Patent Office Museum Opens Free Steve Jobs Exhibit

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has opened a huge exhibit entirely dedicated to the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, who passed away last month after resigning from his CEO position with the Cupertino, California computer company.Hosted at the UPSTO’s Alexandria, Virginia museum in the atrium of the Madi...

24 November 2011
08:35 GMT

Apple Donates QuickDraw, MacPaint Source to Computer History Museum

Yesterday, Apple released the source code for MacPaint and QuickDraw to the Computer History Museum. As some of the most important pieces of software written in the early days of Apple, MacPaint version 1.3, and QuickDraw are directly downloadable from the Computer History Museum as source code. Both applications rem...

21 July 2010
06:27 GMT

Make a Virtual Visit in the Forbidden City

Due to the fact that the Forbidden City in Beijing is probably one of the most fascinating places on Earth, the Palace Museum and IBM have made a partnership in order to recreate the Chinese imperial palace in the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, in a 3D universe. The result of this project is that anyone...

9 March 2009
11:08 GMT

Confiscated Pottery Leads to 2,000-Year-Old Lost Tribe

Some smugglers from Philippine were trying to transport 22 bags of ancient pottery out of the country, in order to sell it abroad for a large sum of money. The local police captured them, together with the unearthed goods, but the antique pieces of pottery proved to be a big surprise for experts. The scientists at t...

27 October 2008
03:09 GMT

Smithsonian's Sant Ocean Hall Opens Doors

In an attempt to address the downfall of the planetary ocean, as well as in order to provide a live learning place for scholars or for curious people, the Smithsonian museum will house the Sant Ocean Hall, a place where both living and fossil specimens from the depths of the oceans are exposed.  The deepest leve...

25 September 2008
04:52 GMT

A Sunken Museum to Be Built in Egypt

The first underwater museum in the world will allow Egypt's visitors to glance at the remains of queen Cleopatra's Palace covered long ago by the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.  The area near the New Library of Alexandria, where Cleopatra and her Roman lover, Mark Antony stayed just before she commit...

18 September 2008
08:27 GMT

New Duckbill Fossil Found in Montana

During a tour of a region where nearly eight years ago a mummified duckbill was found, a public relations coordinator from the Texas museum discovered the fossil of a duckbilled dinosaur that roamed the Earth some 75 million years ago. Leonardo, as the mummified specimen found in Montana was named, is currently on di...

4 June 2008
05:45 GMT

Museum Retrieves Missing Meteorite Slab

It may seem rather strange, but meteorites - especially iron ones - with gem intrusions are extremely valuable items for collectors. Some of these space rocks may routinely exceed prices of one million US dollars on the market, while less valued items make their way to museums. Don't even think that thieves will...

19 March 2008
05:39 GMT

Biggest Space Rocket Ever Made Put on Display!

Saturn V, commonly known as the Moon Rocket, was the first rocket to carry a manned mission into space for a lunar landing. On 16th July 1969, it launched the Apollo 11 mission into the Earth's orbit and put the first man on the Moon. Now, after more than 35 years of laying outside the neighboring U.S. Space & R...

4 February 2008
03:09 GMT

The Whole PlayStation Titles and Hardware Collection up on eBay

What's going on there at the PlayStation Museum? Are they kicking the can? They must be if there are currently over 1500 games auctioned on eBay for 30K, including PSX hardware. What, does it sound expensive? In case you need a reminder, these are the PSX classics that practically made-up 70% of our childhood.OK...

22 May 2007
05:04 GMT


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