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...That something is an appreciation of beautiful objects and the history they embody, two things curators will go to great lengths to protect. After U.S. troops invaded Iraq in March 2003, looters besieged the country's national museum, stealing 8,000 objects that had come from ancient Mesopotamia. Donny George, the Iraqi museum's former director, phoned from Baghdad and described the situation to a curatorial colleague in London. That curator spoke to MacGregor, who phoned then Prime Minister Tony Blair's culture secretary. A few hours later, U.S. tanks were moving into position to guard Iraq's finest museum...
...Iran should have access to nuclear arms. But in chronicling the nation's former glory, it may help explain why many Iranians feel entitled to them. Curator Canby says there's also a bigger point. "I don't think of it in terms of redressing public opinion," she says. "Museum relationships are based on something other than politics...
...pictures of 250 years of the British Museum...
...buried their godlike Pharaohs in pyramids, the Greeks debated democracy among Corinthian arcades, and rarely, at least in school textbooks, did the twain meet. But the historical reality, as recent archaeological researches have proven, is all the more complicated and fluid. An exhibition at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art shows with incredible detail how intertwined ancient peoples really were. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...museum exhibits...