From themoneytimes.com:

Holland, Mich. — Boxes full of educational films recently arrived at Michigans Holland Museum, but unfortunately the packages were originally expected 34 years ago.

Officials at the museum in Holland, Mich., said they were confused why last weeks postal delivery took more than three decades to reach its final destination, the Grand Rapids Mich. Press said Friday.

“We were just so curious,” museum archivist Deborah Postema-George said.

The films initially had been lent out in 1973 by the citys Netherlands Information Service, which the museum replaced, and apparently were lost in transit on their way back to the museum.

While the exact reason for the boxes sudden appearance remains a mystery, Holland Postmaster John Masuga postulated their re-emergence was thanks to a spring-cleaning effort.

Masuga told the Press someone likely had stored the boxes decades ago and only unearthed them while cleaning, prompting them to send the films to their rightful owners.

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From go.com:

photo Ken Ham – founder of Creation Museum

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Adam is running into trouble in the Garden of Eden. In this case Adam is actor Eric Linden, who is shown in a brief video at the new Creation Museum in Columbus, Ohio.

It turns out Linden founded a sexually graphic Web site called Bedroom Acrobat. On finding that out, Museum officials have pulled the Garden of Eden clip that features Linden. They say theyre investigating reports that Linden participated in projects that arent in line with the museums, quote, “biblical standards and moral code.”

Linden tells the A-P hes no longer affiliated with Bedroom Acrobat and works as a professional model and actor. And he says he was proud to be Adam.

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From thedailygreen.com:

Natural history museums are usually in the business of showing off the species lost or endangered by the modern world, but they themselves are showing some strains from the modern economy.

The not-for-profit institutions are running deep into the red — $300,000 on average.

At a time when multimedia displays like the Planet Earth series (not to mention Ben Stiller’s recent “Night at the Museum” flick, in which some of those creatures come to life) are garnering huge audiences, and the need for education about the loss of the world species and the state of the world’s environment at an all-time high, museums are struggling to maintain their niche.

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jta.org

The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw will break ground June 26.

The $58 million museum is set to open between 2009 and 2010. It will showcase the 1,000-year history of Polish Jews, who comprised 10 percent of the country’s population before the Holocaust — more than in any other European nation.

The museum, which has a board of international experts, will focus on how Jews lived together with Poles for centuries, but will also confront head-on the subject of anti-Semitism.

The groundbreaking will include the signing of a construction act to be sealed in a glass-topped space below the ground, which will also hold fragments of the buildings and streets that were destroyed by the Nazis during the1943 Ghetto Uprising.

From news.com.au:

Ken Ham has gone from teaching science in Queensland to becoming a modern-day religious missionary determined to build a rallying point for the world’s Christians.

Mr Ham is the founder of the world’s first Creation Museum.

It challenges evolutionary theory by arguing the world is only 6000 years old, created in six days by God, and dinosaurs walked the planet alongside humans.

The Biblical tourist attraction, located in Petersburg, Kentucky, attracted 4000 visitors when it opened on Monday.

It has a Garden of Eden, dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark and preaches the message of salvation.

“So far it has exceeded our expectations,” Mr Ham, 55, said.

He predicts the museum could generate about 250,000 visitors a year.

The thrust of the museum can be summed up by one of its most popular exhibits – two animatronic children frolicking near a waterfall with two animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex.

“It makes a big, bold statement that people and dinosaurs lived at the same time and we don’t believe in evolution or millions of years,” Mr Ham said.

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