Word: museum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from John Paul listing complaints about treatment of Catholics. Gorbachev responded directly to several of the Pope's requests. Last year Lithuania's two leading bishops were returned to head dioceses after a combined 53 years of internal exile, and the cathedral in Vilnius, previously used as an art museum, was restored for worship. This year the Belorussian republic got its first bishop in 63 years. That paved the way for Archbishop Angelo Sodano, who oversees the Vatican's foreign relations, to make the arrangements for Gorbachev's historic visit to the Holy...
...Museum and center officials said that VisualAids of New England, a group coordinating AIDScommemorations in the art community, encouragedthe Harvard centers to set up their tributes...
...renovations, which began in August 1987 and cost $3 million, were intended to create space for library stacks and for the Byzantine art collection, according to Susan Boyd, the curator of Dumbarton Oaks' museum collections...
...project's architect, Rob Shutler, said hisfirm, Hartman-Cox Architects, was satisfied withthe project's outcome, despite the museum'simpatience with the construction delays...
...beauty of the room is more in how it helpsthe rest of the museum function," he said."Before, all the galleries were apart and this oneroom allows people to circulate among them withoutbacktracking...