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Smuggled Dinosaur's Return May Boost Mongolian Paleontology

When Mongolia’s most famous dinosaur, a relative of T. rex, returns to the Asian country on May 18, it returns to a homeland rich in dinosaur fossils, but with scant resources to display and study them. Full story

SC slave cabin dismantled for Smithsonian display

As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured and numbered wooden planks from a dilapidated antebellum slave cabin. Full story

Museum offers time, place for 'What the heck is this?'

  Rachel Maddow reports on a regular event at the Museum of Natural History in New York City at which members of the public are invited to bring in mysterious objects they have collected for identification by the museum's scientists.

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Herman Melville's house gets makeover

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Okla. honors actress Mary Kay Place for donation

Mamma Mia!: ABBA The Museum opens in Stockholm

9/11 museum officials say admission fee needed

Unique German bomber to be lifted from English Channel

George W. Bush library opens to public

Van Gogh Museum reopens with display on his craft

Michigan House OKs bills to prevent tax capture

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  ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus: Fans sing to us

Bjorn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, two members of ABBA, talk about the new museum in Sweden celebrating the band and say fans can’t help but sing their own songs to them.

  Inside new museum celebrating ABBA

Fans of hit band ABBA can now make a pilgrimage to an interactive museum in Sweden dedicated to the clothes and catchy dance tunes of one of the world’s bestselling bands. NBC’s Keir Simmons reports.

  9/11 museum officials say admission fee is needed

Officials behind the upcoming 9/11 museum say mounting costs are forcing them to charge an admission fee. Retired FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches discusses.

  Sara gets a taste of military life in Charleston

Charleston is a city steeped in military history, from the beginning of the Civil War at Fort Sumter to the Medal of Honor museum on the USS Yorktown. TODAY’s Sara Haines gets to know some of the men and women serving in the military today at Joint Base Charleston.

  Bush makes his case for war at new library

Cameras roll on the “Iraq invasion” portion of the Decision Points Theater exhibit at the George W. Bush Library and Museum in which participants are meant to make their own decision on war based on the information considered by the former president.

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