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11:57:22 PM Medieval alabaster sculptures on view at Princeton museum
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

By Gloucester County Times View full sizePhotos courtesy of the Victoira and Albert Museum"The Annunciation," British, 15th century. Alabaster. By Kristen Stenerson Medieval Europe's lost and forgotten alabaster sculpture will be arriving from London [more]

10:41:26 PM Auburn museum invites residents to 'Best Friends' exhibit
Enumclaw Courier-Herald

Auburn's White River Valley Museum invites Plateau area residents to enter the sentimental world of animals and their people during the Victorian era with the photographic exhibit "Best Friends: Antique Images of Animals and Their People" on display  [more]

10:41:26 PM Denver Art Museum gets $3 million give from Avenir Foundation to expand
Denver Post

Denver Post By Claire Martin A $3 million gift from Lakewood's Avenir Foundation means that more than 7000 square feet at the Denver Art Museum can be reclaimed to showcase its textile art gallery. Currently, that space is used for storage. ... [more]

7:13:18 PM Guggenheim Foundation proposes Helsinki as site for new art museum
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

HELSINKI — The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on Tuesday proposed building a museum in the Finnish capital after a yearlong feasibility study. The organization said that the board of trustees approved the study last month. ... [more]

7:13:18 PM Hunter Museum: Organizations gather to create 10-day art and technology
Festival

Chattanooga Times Free Press by Barry Courter Local art community leaders announced a new arts festival called Hatch History Arts Technology Culture Happenings on Tuesday at the Hunter Museum of American Art. The festival run from April 13-22. A fami [more]

7:13:18 PM Jillian Sackler gives $5 million to Smithsonian for Asian art museum named
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post WASHINGTON — New York philanthropist Dame Jillian Sackler is donating $5 million to the Smithsonian's Asian art museum that bears her late husband's name. The gift announced Tuesday to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery creates an endowmen [more]

6:27:14 PM Dali Museum Turns 1 on Wednesday
Patch.com

11, the new Dali Museum will celebrate its first birthday with a special announcement of new exhibits for 2012. By William Mansell On 1/1/11 St. Petersburg celebrated the surreal opening of the new Dali Museum in downtown St. Petersburg. ... [more]

4:26:25 PM Picasso Works Stolen From Greece's Largest Art Museum
ABC News - United States

Thieves executed a brazen early-morning burglary of Greece's largest art museum Monday, making off with three works, including one by the 20th-century master Pablo Picasso. The burglars were able to take advantage of the National Art Gallery's soft . [more]

1:14:57 PM Guggenheim Foundation proposes museum in Helsinki
The Associated Press

HELSINKI (AP) — The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on Tuesday proposed building a museum in the Finnish capital after a yearlong feasibility study. The organization said that the board of trustees approved the study last month. ... [more]

1:10:06 PM Guggenheim proposes $178 million museum in Helsinki
Reuters - NY,USA

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The Guggenheim wants to build a 140 million euro ($178 mln) museum on the Helsinki waterfront as it expands its satellite of contemporary art galleries to new locations such as Bilbao in Spain and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab ... [more]

1:10:06 PM Tank Museum acquires replica Mark IV World War I Tank from Steven
discovery

Culture24 By Richard Moss | 10 January 2012 The Tank Museum at Bovington in Dorset has acquired the working replica World War I tank used in the hit Stephen Spielberg movie War Horse. Fully operational, the meticulous copy of a British Mk IV is set t [more]

1:10:06 PM British Museum experts show off 2000-year-old silver Roman Hallaton Helmet
discovery

By Culture24 Reporter | 10 January 2012 Conservation experts have spoken of their joy after a 2000-year-old silver Roman helmet, believed to be the first of its kind ever to be found in Britain, went on display at the British Museum. ... [more]

1:10:06 PM Gingrich draws crowd at museum
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA

I recognized the Wright Museum of World War II history from a visit last year with my eighth grade class. But now it was almost the New Hampshire primary and we heard that Newt Gingrich would be there, only an hour away from our home. ... [more]

11:36:35 AM Tattoos, Through Time: A New Museum for Amsterdam
New York Times (blog)

By IVAN QUINTANILLA In Amsterdam, which claims to have the greatest number of museums per square mile in the world, few topics are left unexplored. There is a museum that delves into sex, another on war (or at least the Dutch resistance), and a museu [more]

9:23:46 AM Guggenheim Foundation May Build Helsinki Museum at Harbor Site
BusinessWeek - USA

10 (Bloomberg) -- The Guggenheim Foundation proposed establishing a fourth European museum in the Helsinki harbor to help the Nordic city increase tourism and strengthen its image as a design and technology hub. The museum on the site of a former shi [more]

9:23:46 AM Museums sharing (with) a passion
Guardian - UK

Whatever the reason, the museum sector has always been good at sharing. We're pretty strong on self-help, too. Almost every region in the UK has a museums federation of some shape or form varying in shape and size. Whether these are large registered  [more]

9:23:46 AM Museum Talk: Yuba-Feather Ridge
Mercury-Register - Oroville,CA,USA

By KEN MANIES - Museum Docent It is easy to only see the ground in Butte County, or just Yuba County. A man drew a line and the land parted. At one point the Yuba River is roughly 5 miles from the south fork of the Feather River; and I do mean rough! [more]

9:23:46 AM Carmarthenshire museums get reprieve after cuts meeting
LLanelli Star - Wales,UK

TWO Carmarthenshire museums look set to be saved from closure — for the next year at least. The proposal to close the county museum at Abergwili, Carmarthen, and Parc Howard museum in Llanelli was one of several controversial possible cuts that had . [more]

7:42:39 AM Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, detained last year, bring work to Smithsonian ...
The Republic

The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum also plans to open a companion exhibit, "Ai Weiwei: According to What?" It is slated to open later this year. Another exhibit of his work recently opened in New York. Under terms of Ai's bail, he is prohibited from  [more]

7:05:35 AM Museum serves a spoonful of artistry
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USA

The Associated Press via Courtesy Baranov Museum A hand-carved spoon is seen in this undated photo in Kodiak. The brightly painted wooden spoons of Russia are a folk art going back more than 1000 years. By WES HANNA; Kodiak Daily Mirror KODIAK -- The [more]

5:33:25 AM Museum proud owner of 'most expensive book'
Henderson Gleaner - Henderson,KY,USA

By Judy Jenkins Audubon Museum curator Alan Gehret with one of their four huge Birds of America folios in the museum Monday afternoon, January 9, 2012. The paiting on the open page is titled Rough Legged Falcon. John James Audubon's famed "The Birds  [more]

5:33:25 AM A UNM museum searches for it's shooting star
AssociatedPress -

A very expensive meteorite was stolen before the University of New Mexico's Winter break and the international hunt to find it, worked. [more]

5:33:25 AM Architect Ricardo Legorreta's work on the Fort Worth Museum of Science and
Fort Worth Star Telegram

Fort Worth Star Telegram Our city's Museum of Science and History stands as a monument to his forethought and practical artistic vision. The structure represents one of Legorreta's final landmark projects. He rallied the design-and-construction resou [more]

4:32:37 AM Children's Museum Gets Dinosaurs Alive-Jurassic Treehouse'
Hartford Courant - United States

But Peter Claffey, of Plainville, director of facilities and exhibits at the Children's Museum in West Hartford, and the rest of the crew pushed dinosaurs and background art into position Monday after the dinosaurs arrived for the new exhibit, ... [more]

4:32:37 AM Peoria Riverfront Museum update: 40 weeks to go
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL,USA

The artwork will be transferred to a 6-inch-by-6-inch glass tile that will be installed in the classroom corridor in the new museum. Anyone who wishes to participate can call Nikki Cole at 686-7000 for more information. Museum staff has been working  [more]

2:11:49 AM Museum set for soft launch with pilot tours
Guelph Mercury

GUELPH — The official opening of the new Guelph Civic Museum isn't until the end of February, but museum staff is preparing for a soft launch next week. Students at Central Public School will be the first to see the new space as museum staff offer a  [more]

2:11:49 AM New Museum Comes To Rock Island
KWQC-TV - Davenport,IA,USA

"The Karpeles Museums are the world's largest collection of manuscripts," Museum Director Christopher Kelly says, "We have a little over a million pieces in our collection and soon to be 12 museums around the country with Rock Island being number 12. [more]

1:33:50 AM Museum open for MLK Jr. activities
Everett Herald - Everett,WA,USA

School may be out for Martin Luther King Jr. Day but Imagine Children's Museum will be open for business. Imagine Children's Museum, usually closed Mondays, will be open from 10 am to 5 pm Jan. 16. Activities for the day include carpet skating, ... [more]

12:01:18 AM Where Outlandish Meets Landish
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

This museum is certainly about the past. Or how we use objects to make sense of it. This is actually a museum about museums. It takes the forms of one — the lighting, the labels, the scholarly references — and uses them to inspire wonder not just at  [more]



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