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Recent Posts Tagged With 'museums'

• Nam Dinh Museum receives assistance to preserve artefacts

  Posted on Monday August 4th, 2008 at 02:16 in museums, nam dinh museum, restoration, us ambassador’s fund for cultural preservation, vietnam

  With the help of a US$30,000 grant from the US, the Nam Dinh museum will be able to restore a set of religious artefacts from the 17th - 19th centuries. US helps Nam Dinh museum preserve religious ant...

• National Angkor Museum not really “national” or “Angkor”?

  Posted on Monday July 7th, 2008 at 02:18 in angkor, cambodia, museums, national angkor museum, thailand

  The International Herald Tribune writes about the newly-opened National Angkor Museum that has drawn criticism for not being really “national” (as it is Thai-owned) or “Angkor”...

• Philippine’s archaeological heritage on show

  Posted on Friday May 16th, 2008 at 02:47 in ayala museum, exhibitions, museums, philippine archaeology, philippines

  The Ayala Museum in Makati, Philippines is showcasing over a thousand years of Philippine material culture and history of contact with other cultures in a special permanent exhibition showcasing gold,...

• Wednesday Rojak #29

  Posted on Wednesday May 7th, 2008 at 03:16 in borobudur, homo floreisiensis, indonesia, museums, national museum bangkok, obendorf, thailand, wednesday rojak

  We visit Indonesia and Thailand in this week’s edition of rojak, for more hobbits, temples and museums. photo credit: jameswebbe LB weighs in on The Impact of Information Sharing, specifical...

• Wednesday Rojak #28

  Posted on Wednesday April 30th, 2008 at 02:29 in archaeological ethics, archaeologists, darwin papers, general archaeology, hobbit dental work, indiana jones, indonesia, john hawks, majapahit heritage trail, museum of siam, museums, peranakan museum

  New museums, Hobbit commentaries and views of some of Southeast Asia’s archaeological sites - all this for today’s edition of rojak! photo credit: kurvenalbn After last week’s c...

• Getting a feel for museums - literally!

  Posted on Thursday April 17th, 2008 at 02:52 in blind access project, handicap access, museums, national museum of bangkok, thailand

  This is a great story about how museums can facilitate better access to the public - the National Museum of Bangkok is working with other volunteer groups to facilitate tours where blind visitors can ...

• Vietnamese masterpieces on museum website

  Posted on Sunday April 13th, 2008 at 19:52 in asemus, museums, national museum of vietnamese history, vietnam, vietnam museum of ethnology, vietnam museum of fine arts, virtual collection of masterpieces, websites

  Three Vietnamese museums have been chosen to display their collections on a virtual museum - a collection of masterpieces from around the world. Vietnamese artifacts displayed online Vietnam Net Brid...

• Addendum: Introduction to Singapore lectures

  Posted on Thursday April 3rd, 2008 at 01:37 in museums, national museum of singapore, Singapore, singapore archaeology, singapore history, talks presentations, understanding temasek - myth and history of 14th centur

  If you’re still interesting in attending the Introduction to Singapore lectures starting this Saturday, senior curator Cheryl-Ann Low sent me some extra info for the first session that she’...

• Public lecture: The Cargo of the East Indiaman Götheborg Shipwreck

  Posted on Tuesday March 25th, 2008 at 20:09 in asian civilisations museum, borje forssell, east indiaman götheborg, museums, oriental ceramic society of sweden, Singapore, southeast asian ceramic society, talks presentations, underwater archaeology

• Introduction to Singapore lecture at the NAMOS

  Posted on Tuesday March 25th, 2008 at 01:57 in museums, national museum of singapore, Singapore, singapore archaeology, singapore history, talks presentations, understanding temasek - myth and history of 14th centur

• Malacca Museum break-in: Security firm sacked

  Posted on Monday March 24th, 2008 at 20:15 in kris, malacca history and ethnography museum, malacca sultanate, malaysia, museum theft, museums

• Museum Break: Antique weapons stolen from Melaka museum

  Posted on Monday March 17th, 2008 at 02:13 in malacca, malay keris, malaysia, malaysian historic and ethnography museum, museum theft, museums, portuguese pistols

• Orang Asli museum gets $4 million boost

  Posted on Thursday February 21st, 2008 at 18:32 in malaysia, museums, orang asli, orang asli museum

• Smuggled Ban Chiang loot raises questions on the ethics of art

  Posted on Tuesday February 19th, 2008 at 00:17 in antiquities trade, ban chiang, ebay, looting, mingei musuem, museums, smuggling, thailand, thailand archaeology

• Ban Chiang case unsettles museums in US

  Posted on Thursday February 14th, 2008 at 01:24 in ban chiang, looting, museums, smuggling, thailand, thailand archaeology

• Vietnamese bronzes on tour in China

  Posted on Monday February 4th, 2008 at 00:11 in beijing museum, bronze, exhibitions, museums, vietnam, vietnam archaeology

• UC Berkeley Art Museum’s stolen Ban Chiang artefacts

  Posted on Tuesday January 29th, 2008 at 19:56 in ban chiang, looting, museums, thailand, uc berkeley art museum

• Ancient lamps on show

  Posted on Monday January 28th, 2008 at 19:19 in dong son, exhibitions, fine arts museum, ho chi minh city, lamps, museums, vietnam, vietnam archaeology

• Southeast Asian artefacts turn up in Californian museum raid

  Posted on Sunday January 27th, 2008 at 23:01 in ban chiang archaeological site, bowers museum, burma (myanmar), illegal looting, los angeles county museum of art, mingei international museum, museums, pacific asia museum, thailand

• Wednesday Rojak #18

  Posted on Wednesday January 16th, 2008 at 01:30 in angkor, angkor wat, ayutthaya, bas-reliefs, bayon, cambodia, homo floresiensis, indonesia, museums, national museum indonesia, thailand, thailand archaeology

• Museums expose treasures of the past

  Posted on Monday January 14th, 2008 at 19:34 in indonesia, indonesia archaeology, museums, national museum, the jakarta history museum, the wayang museum and the arts and ceramic museum

• Jakarta’s Maritime Museum reopens after flooding

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 00:57 in indonesia, jakarta, maritime museum, museums, underwater archaeology

• Conference on Buddhism in Asia at the Asian Civilisations Museum

  Posted on Monday December 17th, 2007 at 19:48 in asian civilisations museum, buddhism in india, china and southeast asia — interaction and practice, conferences, museums, nalanda trail, southeast asia

• Museum theft ring busted in Indonesia

  Posted on Thursday November 22nd, 2007 at 20:09 in agastya, andrea amborowatiningsih, anggit nugroho, antiquities theft, bodhisatva avalokitesvara, ciwa mahadewa, dhyani buddha, durga mahesasuramardhini i and ii, indonesia, indonesia museum, java, mahakala

  22 November 2007 (Jakarta Post, BBC) - A museum theft ring was uncovered in Surakarta, in Java, Indonesia, involving several staff members of a museum who have been selling the museum’s collecti...