Museum

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. -- Replicas of two of Christopher Columbus’ ships, a gift from Spain, are deteriorating while city officials consider what to do with them.

A local group will not refurbish the two on exhibit at the city museum, and the company managing the museum doesn’t want them.

VERNAL — A dinosaur skeleton roughly the size of an 18-wheeler is whole again and hitting the road.

The replica of the lizard-like dinosaur nicknamed “Dippy” turned up with its thighbones missing after someone hauled them off from the Utah Field House of Natural History in Vernal.

OGDEN — It’s not every day that pirates bake cakes, have tea or make craft projects, but Thursday night was the exception at the Treehouse Children’s Museum as families from the Davis/Morgan Head Start program participated in a pirate diversity night.

RIVERDALE — Riverdale’s desire for a historic museum may just save Roy’s current museum from having to shut its doors.

Sitting on her flowered bedspread at home in Northwest Washington, 8-year-old Macie McGraw cradles a pristine white beaver skull in her hands. She found it while hiking in Great Falls, Md., two years ago. After her family had the skull cleaned by a professional, it went on display in the "bones" section of the natural history museum that Macie has created on her bookshelf.

"There is one tooth missing," the second-grader mentions as she examines the skull. "I took it out for the 'teeth' section of my museum."

Macie loves collecting and sorting natural things, and she sees herself as a naturalist and a curator. She started the museum when she was in kindergarten, displaying dead bees, cicadas, stink bugs and wasps. "Most people won't pick up a stink bug," Macie says. "But I've always liked how little bugs are so pretty and delicate. I like looking at different parts."

BOUNTIFUL — City officials will scrap plans to build a new regional museum as a wing on the existing Davis Arts Center, in favor of a plan to build a new city hall on Main Street and move the museum and arts center into the existing city hall.

Members of the city’s Redevelopment Agency voted 5-1 late Monday afternoon to initiate plans for a new city hall and a renovated city hall building, which will eventually be home to the museum and arts center. Councilman Fred Moss was the only RDA member to vote against the plan.

WASHINGTON -- It was an extraordinary sight, even for Washington -- a space shuttle flying over the nation's capital atop a modified 747 on the way to its permanent new home, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.