Word: museum
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...named Casaubon hides after closing time in a Paris museum called the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. Nearby, an enormous pendulum swings silently in the gathering darkness, mute testimony, as a 19th century French scientist named Foucault first demonstrated, to the rotation of the earth. Casaubon is here because he suspects something terrible will happen before dawn. If he is correct, then he and two friends, playful inventors of a plot to rule the world, do not have long to live. In their machinations, have he and his coconspirators accidentally stumbled across some dangerous truth? Or, % perhaps worse, have their...
...bright white human skulls, femurs and tibias, the grisly remains of some of the estimated 1 million victims of two decades of government atrocity, tribal conflict and civil war. Now the nearly four-year-old regime of President Yoweri Museveni is talking about preserving these bones, perhaps in a museum, as a memorial to a time that everyone in Uganda hopes is over...
President Derek C. Bok said in the statement that during his four years as director, Bowron has raised $6 million in endowments and $7.5 million to expand the facilities of the Harvard University Art Museum system, which includes the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum...
...said museum spokesperson Peter L. Walsh, Bowron has raised $900,000 for art publications...
Before coming to the University, Bowron served as director of the North Carolina Museum of Art and worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walters Art Gallery inBaltimore and the Nelson Atkins Museum in KansasCity...