Quiet Axis/Rapa Nui

Carnegie Museum Presents 40-Year Visionary Paintings
HULIQ, NC - Oct 11, 2007
... aspect of Quiet Axis, which in 1978 was released into the bottom of the Pacific Ocean near Easter Island, exactly opposite the globe from Afghanistan. ...

Rapa Nui items at Oslo's Kon-Tiki Museum

Sweden, Norway part III: Closed for Easter
Juneau Empire (subscription), AK - September 28, 2007
Moai relic: Postcard showing the excavation of ancient stone statue on Easter Island. Oslo has many fine museums. I wanted to see the Henrik Ibsen Museum. ...

Ithaca museum displays Rapa Nui photography

Ithaca museum displays photos of world's spiritual landmarks
Elmira Star-Gazette, NY - Sep 13, 2007
He later photographed holy sites in Syria, Jordan, England, Scotland, Mexico and Easter Island. A practicing Buddhist, Izu has more recently focused his energies on Buddhist and Hindu sites in India, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam and Indonesia.

Moai at Museo Fonck in Viña del Mar

Don't scrimp on this savings advice
By Richard P. Carpenter, Globe Correspondent
Boston.com
July 15, 2007

It is one of only six true moas [sic] outside Easter Island, and there is no charge to view or pose for pictures with it. Museo Fonck is an archeological museum containing 1,400 items.

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Moai at the Museum of Natural History in New York

Scientist's legacy a thought-provoking afterthought
Smithsonian museums house the collective memory of America in the `nation's attic'

Cleo Paskal SPECIAL TO THE STAR
TheStar.com
Jun 09, 2007 04:30 AM

A 27-metre-long dinosaur and an actual statue from Easter Island are at the Museum of Natural History.

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Cemetary/Museum in California has "actual" moai

Gregs Getaway
Forest Lawn Glendale
By Greg Aragon
Pasadena Independent
Apr 19, 2007

In another room I found an extensive collection of old-west bronze sculptures by artists such as Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. In the same area I examined rare jewelry from India and England; ivory art from Africa; a 15th century suit of armor; and an actual “moai” head from Easter Island, made from volcanic stone.

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Free to see moai at British Museum

Free museums soften London cost
Wichita Eagle
Posted on Sun, Apr. 01, 2007

Every American visitor should be aware that several top attractions in London -- the British Museum (sculptures from Athens' Parthenon, the Rosetta Stone, monumental totems from Easter Island), the National Gallery, the Tate and the Victoria & Albert -- offer free admission, a major act of British magnanimity. It is possible to fill a rich week of touring without spending a cent.

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Free to see moai in London

Budget Travel by Arthur Frommer : See London for free (at museums ...
Arizona Daily Star, AZ - March 4, 2007
... monumental totems from Easter Island), the National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum — offer free admission, a major act of British magnanimity. ...

London can be expensive, but some great museums are free
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO - March 4, 2007
... the Rosetta Stone, monumental totems from Easter Island), the National Gallery, the Tate and the Victoria & Albert — offer free admission, ...

Free Admission to London Museums
The Ledger, FL - March 4, 2007
... the Rosetta Stone, monumental totems from Easter Island), the National Gallery, the Tate and the Victoria & Albert - offer free admission, ...

Night at the American Museum of Natural History

Night of the Iguanas (and Dinosaurs and Whales) in the Museum Wilds
By LAUREL GRAEBER
New York Times
Published: January 19, 2007

In a nod to the film, which features exterior shots of the museum but none of its interiors, the goodie bag for campers has a sheet describing which objects seen in the movie can actually be found in the galleries (an Easter Island head and a cross-section of a giant sequoia, for example) and which cannot (Sacagawea and Attila the Hun, for starters).

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Auckland Museum's Vaka Moana exhibition includes Rapa Nui information

Vaka Moana Exhibition At Auckland Museum
By www.aucklandmuseum.com
Submitted by ruzik_tuzik
Huliq
Thu, 2007-01-04 07:45

Hawaii, Rapanui (Easter Island) and Aotearoa/New Zealand were the last places to be discovered because getting to them involved overcoming enormous physical and technological challenges.

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Santa Fe's El Museo Cultural to host Rapa Nui film and exhibition

In brief, 12/06/2006
Staff and wire reports
Santa Fe New Mexican
December 6, 2006

... "Petroglyphs of Rapanui" is scheduled for 5 to 8 p.m. today at the Gran Salon in El Museo Cultural, 1615B Paseo de Peralta ... running parallel to the Santa Fe Film Festival, which is showing the film Being RapaNui, funded partly by a grant from National Geographic All Roads Film Project.

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Auckland Museum tells of Polynesian navigation

Following the stars into the unknown
by Angela Gregory
NZ Herald
Saturday December 2, 2006

The exhibition tells how Hawaii, Rapanui (Easter Island) and New Zealand were the last places to be discovered because getting to them involved overcoming enormous physical and technological challenges.

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Taipei Museum sheds light on roots of Rapanui's language

Peinan archeological site gives prehistoric insight
TaiwanHeadlines
Source:Taiwan Journal(2006/11/10 16:32:00)

... the NMP [National Museum of Prehistory] also takes every opportunity to present links to today's population, and offer a window on the Austronesian-speaking peoples that cover a large part of the earth's surface from Madagascar off the coast of Africa to Easter Island in the eastern Pacific, and from New Zealand in the south to Hawaii and Taiwan in the north.

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