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	German museum admits China terracotta warriors are fakes \| World news \| guardian.co.uk
		Wulf Köpke, director of the Museum of Ethnology, said he had agreed to the exhibition on the firm understanding that the exhibits were genuine and the company had assured him that was the case.
		The museum has not managed to free itself from suspicion of involvement, particularly as the figures for exhibition were delivered after dark.
		German art critics have called it the "art crime of the decade", saying that exhibition-goers have been conned in what could be one of the biggest copyright infringement cases Germany has ever known.
	www.guardian.co.uk /world/2007/dec/12/china.germany (715 words)

	Kyocera \| Museums / Kyocera Exhibits: The German Ceramics Museum
		This was presented to the museum on the occasion of the opening of the new section in 1994 by Ikunosuke Kawamura, European director of KYOCERA.
		Hakenjos, director of the German Ceramics Museum, is very happy about the new addition to the museum as Hetjens is the first and only museum of art and cultural history in Europe to offer such an overview of high-tech ceramics.
		His museum is thus proving to be very modern by showing the highly innovative aspects of ceramics, too.
	en.kyocera.de /kyocera_n/english/culture/museum_dusseldorf.html (766 words)

	Deutsches Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was founded on June 28, 1903, at a meeting of the German Association of Engineers as an initiative of Oskar von Miller.
		Today it is one of the world's largest museums of technology and science with two branches in and near Munich and one in Bonn.
		However it did take until 1925 when the main museum building on an island in the Isar river was opened - the island formerly known as Kohleinsel (coal island) was then renamed to Museumsinsel (museum island).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_Museum (189 words)

	Agapit ╧3
		The Weimar Republic, proceeding from a peculiar significance and uniqueness of the German Museum of Hygiene, had put a special task: it had to serve as an educational establishment and to play the role of the media means as a part of the system of public education.
		The GDR being formed, the Museum was placed under the authority of the Ministry of Public Health and undertook the functions of higiene education and propaganda.
		The German Museum of Hygiene is of exclusive significance in the general German cultural landscape.
	www.histomed.kiev.ua /agapit/ag3/ag03-65e.html (2146 words)

	Kyocera \| Museums / Kyocera Exhibits: The German Ceramics Museum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This was presented to the museum on the occasion of the opening of the new section in 1994 by Ikunosuke Kawamura, European director of KYOCERA.
		Hakenjos, director of the German Ceramics Museum, is very happy about the new addition to the museum as Hetjens is the first and only museum of art and cultural history in Europe to offer such an overview of high-tech ceramics.
		His museum is thus proving to be very modern by showing the highly innovative aspects of ceramics, too.
	www.kyocera.de /kyocera_n/english/culture/museum_dusseldorf.html (766 words)

	dhmd - architecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whilst most classical museums presented cultural objects and rarities from far-away countries and times gone by, this museum concentrated on educating the masses - its main theme was health education.
		Kreis was already well-known in the German Empire - towers dedicated to Bismarck all around the country were a result of his early work; he renovated the Albert Bridge and built various villas in Dresden and designed the main train station in Meißen.
		Later on, the German Hygiene Museum was once again to become the focus of Kreis´ achievements: five years after completion of the museum, Kreis won the contract to build the Dresdner "Gau" Forum.
	www.dhmd.de /englisch/Pages/e_a6.htm (1807 words)

	Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections : Provenance : Degenerate Art
		Museum directors and curators who refused to cooperate with the new anti-modernist collecting policies were dismissed.
		In 1937, in order to purge German museums of their holdings of "degenerate" art, Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, charged a commission headed by Adolf Ziegler, one of Hitler's favorite artists, with the seizure of works of German "degenerate" art created since 1910 owned by German state, provincial and municipal museums.
		German public museums have not requested the return of artworks that were confiscated and sold off under the Nazi regime, because such seizures of art from state-owned museums by an elected government were legal.
	www.philamuseum.org /collections/98-296-110.html (961 words)

	German Museum of Technology (Berlin) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Deutsche Technik Museum Berlin ("German Museum of Technology") was founded in 1982 and has a large collection of historical technical artefacts.
		The museum's main emphasis is on rail transport but it also features exhibits of various sorts of industrial technology and has recently opened maritime and aviation exhibition halls.
		On May 15, 2002, a special exhibition opened featuring the inventions of computer pioneer Konrad Zuse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_Museum_of_Technology_(Berlin) (144 words)

	ABC News: German Museum Unveils Rebuilt Berlin Wall (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The section of the Berlin Wall and the crosses, commemorating the victims of the Wall, belong to a museum at the former Checkpoint Charlie.
		BERLIN Oct 31, 2004 — Fifteen years after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, a museum in the German capital unveiled a rebuilt segment of the Cold War barrier Sunday, defying criticism that the structure uses a painful piece of German history to create a tourist trap.
		She said the museum planed to keep the reconstructed portion of the wall in place at least through the rest of the year on land it has leased.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=214397 (576 words)

	Museum of WWII -Virtual Tour- The German Military
		A sense of the traditions and symbolisms created by the Nazis and the German military is stressed in the opening part of this exhibit with an extensive display of medals and awards, many signed by Hitler, photo albums, Field Marshal's batons, and other symbols of rank and power, including a collection of daggers and swords.
		Although deemed totally secure by the Nazis, the German codes were being deciphered by the British early in the war, giving the Allies a major tactical victory in the area of military intelligence.
		Artifacts from Admiral Karl Doenitz, head of the German U-Boats and later the head of the German state after the death of Hitler, including a museum copy of his field marshal baton, submariner medals and a U-Boat torpedo timer.
	www.museumofworldwarii.com /TourText/Area03_GermanMilitary.htm (1083 words)

	German museum's Chinese warriors under investigation - Boston.com
		German police were investigating on Tuesday whether ancient Chinese terracotta warriors that form a museum's newly-opened exhibition are fake.
		German media reported on Sunday that officials from Xi'an, home of the 2,000-year-old clay funerary army, said the museum's figures had to be copies.
		Lifschitz said Hamburg museum authorities believed the figures were real because they had asked their partner in the exhibition to provide artifacts reconstructed from pieces found at the Xi'an site.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2007/12/11/german_museums_chinese_warriors_under_investigation (473 words)

	Museums of Cologne
		museenkoeln.de … Museums of Cologne … Römisch-Germanisches Museum
		The Römisch-Germanisches Museum in Cologne emerged from the Roman and Germanic department of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in 1946.
		The museum houses the department of archaeological excavations and monuments of Cologne city council and fulfils three different functions as a centre of research, the archaeological archives of the City of Cologne and the public collection.
	www.museenkoeln.de /english/roemisch-germanisches-museum (349 words)

	Destination Germany: Top travel destinations in Germany
		The establishment of the Goethe National Museums in 1885 originated from a request in the will of the last of Goethe's grandchildren transferring ownership of his estate – Goethe's house and garden and the writer's collections – to the grand ducal family.
		The museum presents the history of Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present.
		Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt am Main is considered the largest natural history museum in Germany, with a number of remarkable exhibits from the worlds of biology and geology.
	visit-germany.info /web/en/start/index.htm?tl=MUSEUM (647 words)

	German museum highlights Frederick of Sicily : Europe World
		The show in the German city of Oldenburg examines his ruthless rule, intellectual brilliance and tolerance of Islam, and picks up from the 800th anniversary of his birth, which was marked in Italy in 1994.
		The Museum of Nature and Man has obtained a wide range of exhibits illustrating Mediterranean culture for the show until June 15, saying it was the first exhibition in Germany devoted exclusively to the monarch.
		The museum's Syrian-born director, Mamoun Fansa, said Friday he hoped the show would establish the formerly drab museum, best known for its 7,000 stuffed birds, as a new national presence.
	www.earthtimes.org /articles/show/184503,german-museum-highlights-frederick-of-sicily.html (325 words)

	Landis Valley Museum - Pennsylvania German Heritage - Lancaster County Tourism, PA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George and Henry Landis were proud of their Pennsylvania German heritage and culture and did not want to see it disappear.
		In 1953, their financial resources dwindling, George and Henry arranged for their museum to be administered and supported by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), an agency of state government.
		The museum constructed a firehouse, a 19th century Swiss bank barn, an 18th century log home with a bake house and smokehouse, a pig sty and spring house to add to the general interpretation of the museum.
	www.landisvalleymuseum.org /info_history_why.htm (316 words)

	Reading Public Museum: Discovery Through Art, Science and Civilization, a museum, planetarium and park located in Berks ...
		However, this is not to say that their art was "primitive." True, they were "starting over" in a new land and had a new religious freedom but this served to release their imaginations and promote new approaches to old motifs.
		Not to be overlooked are those objects primarily used in their churches and schools such as bibles (Bible Boxes were kept in the home), personal song books, printed hymnals, scholastic awards and "vorschriften" (manuscript examples of handwritten by schoolmasters that children copied to learn the letters and numerals of fraktur writing).
		Almost from the very beginning of the Museum, Pennsylvania German objects were displayed to reflect the strong artistic traditions of those German speaking immigrants who for the most part settled in Pennsylvania by the middle of the 19th century.
	www.readingpublicmuseum.org /galleries/second/pa_german.html (836 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Hermitage News
		The German guests had an excursion of St. Petersburg and then in the Council Hall at the State Hermitage Museum participated in a round table dedicated to this extremely pressing problem which as relevant to Russia as it is for Germany.
		The Hermitage and Museum Island are joined by a long history, which began as early as in the 1950s with the transfer of a series of exhibition items from St. Petersburg to the warehouse of the German Museum.
		With the development of the Museum Island and Great Hermitage projects this collaboration is gaining a new meaning, since both museums are running programmes for their development which are rightly considered to be among the largest in Europe and the world.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/11/2007/hm11_1_192.html (1214 words)

	LIEBIG-MUSEUM GIESSEN (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the rooms of his former institute a museum was opened in 1920.
		It is one of the six most important chemistry museums in the world) and a historical of highest value, because it is here where the most important german* chemist laid the experimental foundations for his influential innovations.
		These museums were all visited and evaluated by the science historian John Wotiz, Professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill., U.S.A., and his associates.
	www.liebig-museum.de /home1.html (802 words)

	German Inland Waterways Museum
		It not only boasts of having the largest inland harbour in the world, but also a special museum - the German Inland Waterways Museum, opened in 1998 and housed in a wonderfully restored old Jugendstil indoor bath in the suburb of Ruhrort.
		The exhibition presents a lively and comprehensive review of the world of inland navigation from the beginnings, of work in the harbours and on the wharfs, family life on board and on land, and the effects of the industrial revolution.
		The museum caters for families, with a water engineering playground and a children's play corner.
	www.route-industriekultur.de /primaer/m06/m06_e.htm (171 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Find museums
		Salzburger Arbeitskreis Heimatsammlungen Museums in the province Salzburg (In German)
		Museum und Schule - austrianmuseums.net Museums in Austria (in German)
		Museen in Vorarlberg Museums in the province Vorarlberg (In German)
	vlmp.museophile.com /cgi/htgrep/file=/vlmp/vlmp-db.html&style=ol?German (2992 words)

	j. - Plans for German museum focus on Nazi perpetrators
		A "central museum is needed to depict not just the sufferings of the victims but the profiles of the perpetrators," said Rolf Wernstedt, a German Social Democratic Party politician and the president of the Foundation for a German Holocaust Museum.
		Unlike the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., which focus on the sufferings of Holocaust victims, Wernstedt said the German museum could focus on the issues raised by German participation in the Holocaust.
		Until the museum is built, the foundation plans to sponsor exhibitions, lectures, conferences and educational programs relating to the Holocaust.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/9371/format/html/displaystory.html (497 words)

	German-Canadian Heritage Museum
		The HSMUC, the Hansa-Haus, the parent organization of the carnevalists, and many volunteers finally succeeded, with a government subsidy, to renovate and furnish the upper floor of the old Hansa club house at 6650 Hurontario Street in Mississauga.
		One of the high points of the Museum was the state visit by the German Federal president Richard von Weizsäcker.
		A tremendous success was enjoyed by the most recent touring exhibit of the Museum on the occasion of the First German Pioneers Day [Oct. 10, 2000].
	www.german-canadian.ca /heritage/museum.htm (408 words)

	Occ Museum
		Situated at Les Houards in the Forest parish, Guernsey, the German Occupation Museum opened in 1966 by Richard Heaume a founder member of the Occupation Society, has undoubtedly the finest collection of WWII relics in the Channel Islands.
		German harness and saddlery with a field kitchen and limber on which the cook or driver would ride.
		There are two examples displayed at the museum, this one was removed from a tunnel under St. Saviour's Parish Church in the 1960's.
	www.occupied.guernsey.net /occ_museum.htm (261 words)

	Museums of Cologne
		museenkoeln.de … Museums of Cologne … Museum Ludwig
		Thus German art from the 70s and 80s, international trends and installations by the younger avantgarde also found their way into the collection of the Museum Ludwig.
		It housed the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, the Museum Ludwig and the Philharmonie.
	www.museenkoeln.de /english/museum-ludwig (517 words)

	The German Technical Museum in Berlin and its Railway Collection
		Therefore, many transport museums opened in Germany after the turn of the century and their main task was to demonstrate the progress of railway technology and to educate young railwaymen.
		Two other museum buildings were opened in 1925: The German Museum for Masterpieces of Science and Technology (Deutsches Museum today) in Munich, displaying only a few pieces of rolling stock, and the National Railway Museum (DB Museum today) in Nuremberg, the town where the first train ran in Germany.
		It is a technical museum rather than railway museum, so there are departments for aviation and navigation and automobile history, as well as for telecommunications, film and photography, energy generation, textile manufacturing and industry, and urban transportation.
	www.jrtr.net /jrtr43_44/f24_got.html (2574 words)

	Historic Hermann, Inc, German School Museum in Hermann, Missouri
		Historic Hermann is committed to preserving and interpreting the collective heritage of Hermann, Missouri and its environs.
		The German School, located at Fourth St and Schiller, was built in 1871, and was used as the elementary school building by the children of Hermann until 1955.
		As visitors approach the German School, they can see the clock tower, that has been a recognizable symbol of Hermann since the school was built in 1871.
	www.historichermann.com (550 words)

	German Museum Drops Plan to Sell Monet for Roof Repairs \| Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle \| 03.11.2006 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The western German town of Krefeld has scrapped plans to sell a painting by Monet, the most precious canvas in its local museum, to raise money to repair its leaking roof, a spokesman said on Friday.
		The painting was donated to Krefeld's Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in 1907 and never attracted much publicity until earlier this summer, when the cash-strapped town council considered selling the work after its culture department warned that the museum urgently needed repairs that would cost roughly 6 million euros.
		The museum has not been renovated since the 1960s, and it has a leaking roof and the air conditioning is reportedly in such poor shape that some paintings had to be put into storage during the summer to protect them.
	www.alemania-online.com /dw/article/0,2144,2224726,00.html (680 words)

	German Maritime Museum
		The museum harbour with the last big wooden sailing trader of Germany (and the last all over the world), the barque SEUTE DEERN, which lies here since 1966, was part of the nucleus opened in 1975 by the DSM.
		With the ten vehicles in the museum harbour, four ships on land and many other original large exhibits which stand as exemplary for German maritime history, the open-air museum together with the sea water route Unterweser, the Geeste estuary, the active shipping arrangements as well as the available maritime monuments in immediate proximity, like the
		The E-boat KRANICH of the national, federal navy, the whaling steamer RAU IX of 1939 and the hydrofoil assembled on land, an experimental vehicle, are all part of the machine-powered vehicles.
	www.dsm.de /e2frem.htm (572 words)

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