Sunday, December 6, 2009
MEDIA ALERT
US Ambassador to visit National Museum
The recently appointed US Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich will visit the National Museum of
Australia’s latest exhibition; Water:H2O = Life, on Monday, 7 December at 10am.
The exhibition is a timely, in-depth look at the world’s most precious natural resource – water.
The exhibition at the National Museum comes from the American Museum of Natural History,
New York, in collaboration with four other major US museums and science centres in Brazil,
Canada and Singapore to present a global view of the way water shapes life on Earth.
Ambassador Bleich will meet school children at the National Museum and experience the
Water:H2O = Life exhibit with them. He will then be available for a brief media doorstop.
WHAT: US Ambassador visits National Museum
WHEN: 10 -11 am, Monday 7 December, 2009
WHERE: Meet in the Museum Hall at 9.55 am
Water:H20 = Life is on display at the National Museum of Australia until May 16, 2010. For
Contact:
National Museum of Australia: Dennis Grant on 02 6208 5351, 0409 916 481;
Caroline Vero on 02 6208 5338, 0438 620 710 or media@nma.gov.au
Embassy of the Unites States of America: Penina Reid on 02 6214 5765, 0423 292 623 or
ReidPD@state.gov
The National Museum of Australia is an Australian Government Agency
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