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Saturday, February 05, 2011 Museums: Smithsonian’s attendance tops record year and Tate outgrow galleries    Last year was a great year for The Smithsonian Museums here in the US and the Tate’s four galleries in the UK. The attendances generated by The Smithsonian's 19 Museums and zoo, and the Tate’s four galleries were both listed in “BlooloopFacts” on our news page in January. Here is a recap....View more

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Take two rocks, twice a day after meals...    England’s Lyme Regis on the West Dorset coast is one of the world’s great fossil sites – it was on the town’s beach that 18th century paleontologist Mary Anning unearthed her plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs – and also a town steeped in history. Mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) and a great port some 700 years ago, the town played host to a dramatic 8 week siege during the English Civil war......View more

Tuesday, June 02, 2009 Museum Design: Blistering Barnacles, it's Tintin and Magritte!    There are famously not any famous Belgians. However, today sees the opening of a museum each for two of the Kingdom’s most celebrated sons: the acclaimed artist - and painter of floating pipes - Magritte and that intrepid boy reporter and comic strip character Tintin....View more