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- Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Detroit’s Belle Isle kicks off year of 50th anniversary events
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- Obama greenlights program to promote US as tourism destination for international travelers
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- Reunion of ancient scroll fragments illuminates missing link in Bible’s evolution
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- Boom amid bust: Museums seek more visitors in tough times while funding declines
- Discredited Dutch collector owned many fakes, but 1 genuine Van Gogh now authenticated
- Newly authenticated Van Gogh unveiled, once owned by oft-hoodwinked and discredited collector
- Sex and art and Gustav Klimt: Swingers in Vienna art hall highlight provocative painting
- Rome exhibit showcases Italian master Caravaggio with works gathered from across Europe, US
- Russian museum honors legendary WWII vet who fought with US and Soviet armies
- Rio samba group that fronted 7-year-old Carnival queen places last; underdog Tijuca wins
- Getty Museum, Sicilian culture ministry launch collaboration to conserve, share, protect art
- Rio samba group demoted after fronting 7-year-old Carnival queen; underdog Tijuca wins
- Carnival agrees to buy 2 ships for its Princess Cruises brand to begin service in 2013, 2014
- Report: Black Harvard professor arrested outside his home says he donated handcuffs to museum
- Can’t miss if you seek a kiss; Rio Carnival street parties dominated by smooching competition
- Cowgirl Museum’s new O’Keeffe exhibit shows how camping trips in West inspired her paintings
- Violence hits Rio ahead of Carnival; at least 8 killed in slum shootout
- Police aerial photos show World Trade Center collapse; 8 years later, the pictures still shock
- Peru launches program to attract tourists to Cuzco after flooding isolates nearby Machu Picchu
- Newly released 9/11 NYPD aerial photos show World Trade Center’s dramatic collapse, aftermath
- Newly released NYPD aerial photos show World Trade Center’s dramatic collapse, aftermath
- Samba group: Judge will let 7-year-old girl dance as Carnival queen in Rio’s celebration
- Seattle Art Museum lands major Picasso ehibit, with 75 paintings and sculptures
- Receiver takes over paralyzed luxury resort in Anguilla codeveloped by US media mogul
- Vice president: Iran to cut ties with British Museum in spat over Cyrus the Great artifact
- Masked merrymaking: Costumes, confetti and sweets mean ‘Carnevale’ is sweeping Italy
- Brazil gov’t handing out 55 million free condoms for Carnival parties
- German man lost on frozen North Sea is saved by spotter watching sunset on webcam
- Mardi Gras World offers visitors look at and behind scenes of Carnival
- Clumsy museum goer’s damage to painting taps into anxiety of the clumsy and parents who dare
- New ABBAWORLD theme park in London lets music fans unleash their inner dancing queen
- Picasso, accidentally damaged, to be repaired in time for April exhibition at New York’s Met
- Picasso, accidentally damaged, to be repaired in time for April exhibition at NY’s Met
- Berlin’s Jewish Museum gets new Libeskind extension
- For $65, tourists get peek at Los Angeles gangland amid cease-fire negotiated among rivals
- Report: Getty adviser was concerned that ancient Greek statue was looted from Italy
- Tests find no evidence that Conn. museum’s Egyptian mummy had gift for the gods in belly
- Campaign to conserve Indiana museum’s big Lincoln raises nearly $7 million in first 6 months
- North Korea says it will allow more American tourists this year, after heavy restrictions
- Tourism officials urge Caribbean to consider $10 plane ticket tax for marketing
- Congressman, many in baseball, wondered when _ not whether _ McGwire would come clean
- 104-year-old NYC amusement park strongman who bent coins with his fingers is killed by minivan
- Chile opens Museum of Memory to commemorate victims of Pinochet dictatorship
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- NY art dealer Jeffrey Deitch to head Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
- Yale seeks dismissal of lawsuit by Peru over Inca artifacts acquired nearly a century ago
- Louvre has 8.5 million visitors in 2009, holding steady from 2008
- US soldiers return to scene of their big battle and find an Iraqi town at peace
- Miss. hometown offers glimpse of young Elvis’ modest world, 75 years after icon’s birth
- Director who restored J. Paul Getty Museum’s credibility after art scandal is stepping down
- American mother, baby girl killed by charging elephant protecting its calf in Kenya
- Put on your blue suede shoes: Smithsonian marks Elvis’ 75th birthday Friday in DC, LA museums
- Historic home-turned-museum on DC’s Lafayette Square to house center on White House history
- Andre Dawson elected to Hall of Fame; Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar fall just short
- Despite recession, Yellowstone National Park has record year for tourism in 2009
- American mother, baby girl killed by charging elephant while walking on nature trail in Kenya
- Civil War battle flags at risk as preservation efforts are hindered by states’ budget woes
- 9/11 museum gets ‘Dear Hero’ collection of appreciation letters sent to NYC firefighters
- New Bechtler Museum of Modern Art opens in Charlotte, NC
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- Maine triples conserved lands to outdoors lovers’ delight: 3.3 million acres now protected
- California tourist drowns near Mexico’s southwestern Pacific resort town of Zihuatanejo
- Van carrying 6 rolls over edge of Grand Canyon National Park embankment; no serious injuries
- Elvis fanatic uses his north Mississippi home as funky shrine to King of Rock ‘n’ Roll
- Mexico City enacts first gay marriage law in Latin America, to take effect in March
- Rural Nevada communities receive state tourism grants totaling more than $365,000
- Sesame Street puppets created by Jim Henson on display at museum in his home state Mississippi
- Delays, but no travel chaos in Europe following attempted attack on Detroit-bound airliner
- Disney eyes relative unknowns to capture superhero dollars in $4.2 billion Marvel purchase
- Calif.’s Claremont Museum of Art closes doors after doing battle with economy for 2 years
- Lakers F Ron Artest to miss game with head, elbow injuries after tripping, falling at home
- Hawaii tourism industry hopes Obama will play Santa during his return to islands
- Northeast refinery struggles make high-paying blue-collar jobs harder to find
- Obama looks to a quiet Christmas holiday in Hawaii, out of the news and out of sight
- Obamas start their Hawaiian holiday, a low-key week away from Washington
- Storm makes holiday travel dangerous across Midwest; churches cancel Christmas Eve services
- Ruins of historic mission ranch among few remains of original cowboy culture that shaped Texas
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