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Revamp for kids Museum
The museum will explore the history of British jews
London’s Jewish Museum reopens
A London museum dedicated to Jewish culture, heritage and identity in the UK reo- pened to the public on March 17 following
the completion of a major £10m (US$15m, 11m) redevelopment. The Jewish Museum London in Camden
Town has been expanded and revamped as part of the scheme, which has involved architects Long and Kentish and exhibition designers Event Communications. New displays and exhibitions across
four permanent galleries aim to provide visitors with the chance to explore Jewish life and culture as part of the wider history of Britain. Features include the recreation of an East End street and tai- lor’s workshop, a map illustrating where Jews have come from across the world
and a number of historic artefacts. The Welcome Gallery introduces visitors to a range of Jewish people; History: A British Story examines how and why Jewish people settled in the UK; and Judaism: A Living Faith explores the religion. The fi nal gallery – the Holocaust Gallery
– explores the impact of the Nazis through the fi rst-hand experience and personal items of Leon Greenman, a London-born survivor of Auschwitz, as well as other sur- vivors who lived in the UK. Rickie Burman, director of the Jewish Museum, said; “What it means to be British and the issue of cultural identity has never been more hotly debated. This museum will explore these issues in the context of one of Britain’s oldest immigrant communities.”
Smithsonian opens new evolution hall
A new exhibition hall dedicated to the discovery and understanding of human evolution has opened at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, US. The opening of the US$20.7m (£13.5m,
15.1m) David H.Koch Hall of Human Origins coincides with the 100-year anni- versary of the museum’s offi cial opening on the city’s National Mall. The 15,000sq ft (1,400sq m) exhibition highlights the major milestones in the origin of human beings and the periods that have characterised the ancient past of the human race.
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On entering from the museum’s Sant Ocean Hall, visitors travel through a time tunnel depicting life and environments over the past six million years. They will also be able to interact with the forensically reconstructed faces of prehistoric human relatives, a feature the museum says is designed to provide visitors with a sense of personal involvement. Other key features in the exhibition include interactive snapshots in time based on the actual fi eld sites where research is being conducted and a display of more than 75 exact replica skulls.
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Manitoba Children’s Museum in Winnipeg, Canada, is to undergo a CA$10m (US$10m, £6.2m, 7m) redevelopment. Work on the attrac- tion will include doubling the number of galleries from six to 12, the con- struction of a new Welcome Centre and the renovation of the existing Arts & Exhibition Centre. There will also be an exclusive tod- dler gallery, called Tot Spot, to meet the needs of the museum’s youngest adventurers. The multi-functional Arts & Exhibition Centre will cater for travelling exhibits and special events.
Exploratorium’s plans get boost
The San Francisco Exploratorium’s plans to relocate recently received a US$90m (£58m, 66m) boost. The anonymous donations, the largest in the museum’s history, came from two benefactors – but on the condition that Exploratorium can raise a further US$40m (29m, £26m) for the project. The cash will be used to renovate a pier on the city’s waterfront – which will be then used as the attraction’s new home, as opposed to its current site at the Palace of Fine Arts. Work on the museum is expected to be completed in 2013.
The museum’s new ‘skull gallery’
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