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    AIIS Organizes All India Museum Summit
    • Jun 18, 2019

    AIIS Organizes All India Museum Summit

    All India Museum Summit July 22 – 24, 2019, India International Centre, New Delhi The All India Museum Summit 2019, with financial support from the Embassy of the United States of America, New Delhi, will convene a nationwide gathering of museum professionals, including curators, administrators and conservationists, as well as supporters and educators, to consider ways to enrich the roles that museums play in the lives of India’s people and means for building institutional ca
    The Search for the Apollo 17 Moon Rock: a CKS Detective Thriller
    • Sep 12, 2018

    The Search for the Apollo 17 Moon Rock: a CKS Detective Thriller

    Encased in lucite, this 1.142-gram moon rock was returned to Earth by Apollo 17 in 1972 and presented to Cambodia. (US Embassy in Cambodia) In 1973, one month before the US stopped bombing Cambodia as a part of the Vietnam War, President Nixon presented to Cambodia a fragment of the moon rock brought back to earth by Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, as a symbol of peace and harmony among countries throughout the world. It was received by then Cambodian p
    "Living in the Shadow of Angkor" - An Exhibition at the National Museum of Cambodia
    • Oct 1, 2015

    "Living in the Shadow of Angkor" - An Exhibition at the National Museum of Cambodia

    Reconstructed wooden coffins and burial jars on a mountain ledge Dr. Nancy Beavan, ECA/ CAORC 2012-13 Senior Fellow, presented her work after a decade of archaeological research on the Jar and Coffin burial sites from the Cardamom Mountains in Southern Cambodia. Dr. Nancy Beavan at the inauguration of the exhibition The exhibition presented the results of the research project from 2003 to 2015, and gave insight into the people who lived apart from Angkor, the ethnic minoritie

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