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11:59:45 PM Boston's Gardner museum unveils major expansion
Reuters - NY,USA

By Toni Clarke | BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston's venerable Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum unveiled a major new wing Wednesday designed to honor the magic of the original building, modeled on a 15th century Venetian palazzo, while making room for growth. [more]

11:59:45 PM Jolie moved by Holocaust Museum's genocide exhibit
Washington Examiner (blog)

But having just come from one of the Holocaust Museum's haunting exhibits, she confessed to Yeas & Nays that it was a little hard to keep it together. She and partner Brad Pitt has just visited "From Memory to Action," the museum's exhibition on ... [more]

11:59:45 PM Dali Museum celebrates one year anniversary
MyFox Tampa Bay - Tampa Bay,FL,USA

The Dali Museum was designed by internationally-acclaimed architect Yann Weymouth, who worked with IM Pei on the renovation of the Louvre in Paris. ST. PETERSBURG - Wednesday marked the one year anniversary of the grand opening of the Dali Museum in  [more]

9:43:19 PM Dalí Museum turns 1, looks forward to neo-pop artist Jeff Koons, Picasso
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA

Tampabay.com PETERSBURG — It wasn't much of a day for a birthday party, but despite gloomy skies and showers, the Salvador Dalí Museum celebrated its first anniversary Wednesday with hopes that year two attracts as many — and perhaps more — visitors. [more]

9:43:19 PM Lincoln museum offers free Feb. school trips
Rockford Register Star - Rockford,IL,USA

AP This Oct. 1, 1858, photo taken by Calvin Jackson, in Pittsfield, and provided by The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows Abraham Lincoln during the time of the debates with Stephen A. Douglas 150 years ago. ... [more]

9:43:19 PM History Museum Presents Interurban Exhibit
Bartlesville Radio

On Wednesday January 18, 2012, the Bartlesville Area History Museum and staff will present Steel Rails: The History of Bartlesville's Interurban, featuring an exhibit in photos and documentation of the fascinating subject of Bartlesville's ... [more]

7:33:11 PM Charles Dickens Museum to shut for 200th anniversary year
BBC Sport - UK

The Charles Dickens Museum in central London has defended its decision to close for a revamp during the 200th anniversary year of the author's birth. The author's former home will shut on 10 April, also ahead of the Olympic Games when many tourist .. [more]

7:33:11 PM High Museum presenting Kahlo-Rivera exhibit in 2013
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA

By Howard Pousner In the decade since the hit film biography 'Frida” was released, the High Museum of Art has received many requests for an exhibit of Frida Kahlo and her partner in brilliance and tumult, Diego Rivera. That wish will be realized in . [more]

7:33:11 PM The Mob Museum Announces Special Event Rental and Group Ticket Sales Program
DigitalJournal.com - Canada

An exciting cultural destination and new focal point for downtown Las Vegas, The Mob Museum, opening on Valentine's Day 2012, is now accepting reservations for special event rentals and group ticket sales in the 41000-square-foot historic venue. ... [more]

7:33:11 PM Discovery Museum presents 'Get Moving: Playing with Food' exhibit
Rockford Register Star - Rockford,IL,USA

By Austin Prickett Discovery Center Museum, 711 N. Main St., Rockford, is hosting the "Get Moving: Playing With Food" exhibit at 3 pm Jan. 21. At the event, which will feature tips on how to stay healthy, the Winnebago County Health Department and th [more]

6:03:28 PM Honoring MLK: Music, Museums, Movies
Hartford Courant - United States

By ARIEL BRAND, calendar@courant.com The Hartford Courant This year marks the 83rd anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Churches, schools and museums offer family-friendly events in honor of the civil rights leader on Monday, Jan. . [more]

6:03:28 PM Grand Egyptian Museum to open August 2015, says minister
Daily News Egypt

By Reem Abdellatif/Daily News Egypt CAIRO: Expected to be a “monument” in itself, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) entered its third and final phase of construction this week and will open in August 2015, the minister of antiquities said on Tuesday. . [more]

6:03:28 PM Number of Vatican Museums' visitors tops 5 million
Catholic News Service - USA

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In 2011, for the first time, the number of visitors to the Vatican Museums topped 5 million. Antonio Paolucci, director of the museums, said breaking the 5-million threshold poses serious problems as well as ... [more]

3:44:38 PM Springstep, deCordova Museum collaborate on gallery exhibit
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

Springstep's first gallery exhibit of 2012, New Media I Fresh Paint, features the colorful and diverse work of fine artists from the Boston area who participate in the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park's Corporate Art Loan Program. ... [more]

3:44:38 PM Oldest Natural History Museum Has Big Plans for Bicentennial
MarketWatch - USA

11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The nation's oldest natural history museum will turn 200 years old in March and will mark the milestone with a yearlong celebration befitting its extraordinary history of research, exploration and discovery which . [more]

3:44:38 PM Police say student vandalized museum
FOX Toledo Online

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A geology museum at Ohio State University has sustained at least $5000 damage that campus police say was done by a drunken student. The Columbus Dispatch reports the Orton Geological Museum was broken into early Sunday. ... [more]

3:44:38 PM Lincoln museum offers free February school trips
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield is offering free field trip opportunities for school children in honor of the 16th president's 203rd birthday. Lincoln's birthday is in February. Museum officials say pre-arranged school field .. [more]

3:44:38 PM Celebrate Alabama's BCS Win by 'Roll Tide(ing)' to Their Official Museum
Jaunted - USA

Just head down to Alabama to celebrate the Crimson Tide's past, as you roll into the Paul W. Bryant Museum in Tuscaloosa. Things will likely be busy this week as fans pay tribute to past teams and traditions as they continue to celebrate the school's [more]

3:28:34 PM Sheena Wagstaff To Head Metropolitan Museum's New Modern And Contemporary
Hamptons.com - Southampton,NY,USA

Hamptons.com New York City - Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced the appointment of Sheena Wagstaff to the newly created position of Chairman of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. Currently Ch [more]

3:28:34 PM 'Museums Free 4 All' coming soon to cultural institutions in downtown Grand
MLive.com - MI,USA

The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk | The GR Press File PhotoDean Valog, age 1, from St. Louis, plays with a large lighted peg board at the Grand Rapids Children's Museum in December. GRAND RAPIDS – Visit four museums on four Su [more]

1:02:23 PM Working group favours construction of Guggenheim museum in Helsinki
Helsingin Sanomat - Finland

A working group examining the initiative to build a Guggenheim art museum in Helsinki has come out in favour of the project. In a proposal issued on Tuesday, the group says that the museum could be built on the island of Katajanokka in the centre of  [more]

1:02:23 PM Art museum to be showcased
St. George Daily Spectrum - St. George,UT,USA

CEDAR CITY - The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery was busy Tuesday preparing for an exhibit designed to give residents a taste of the planned Southern Utah Museum of Art. Entitled SUMA Đ The Preview, the exhibit features architectural renderings, ... [more]

1:02:23 PM Work by Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Coming to Washington
Voice of America - USA

January 11, 2012 Work by Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Coming to Washington VOA News A work by provocative Chinese sculptor Ai Weiwei will go on display at a museum in Washington. The Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery said on Tuesday that it will display Ai's [more]

1:02:23 PM Police say student vandalized museum at Ohio State
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati,OH,USA

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTW) — A geology museum at Ohio State University has sustained at least $5000 damage that campus police say was done by a drunken student. The Columbus Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/xZtLPe ) the Orton Geological Museum was broken .. [more]

9:38:19 AM Gardner offers frst look at expansion
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

This is life at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as dozens of workers make the final preparations for what is sure to be a busy week. Today, the Gardner unveils its $118 million expansion and renovation project to the media. ... [more]

8:24:40 AM Grandson Waters speaks at museum
Monroe News Star - Monroe,LA,USA

George Patton Waters speaks at the Friends of Chennault Aviation and Military Museum's monthly meeting at the museum on Tuesday. / Arely D. Castillo/The News-Star During World War II, they called him "Old Blood and Guts." George Patton Waters called  [more]

8:24:40 AM Nuremberg: Museum chronicles the history of toys
Stars and Stripes - Washington,DC,USA

By Steven Beardsley Modern teddy bears sit in the gift shop at Nuremberg's Toy Museum. Founded in 1971, the museum chronicles the rise and fall of Germany's toy industry through displays ranging from clay figurines of the 14th century to the tin and  [more]

7:04:40 AM As longtime director leaves, trails museum looks again to upgrade
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

By BRIAN BURNES There were no covered wagons at the National Frontier Trails Museum in Independence when John Mark Lambertson became director in 1993. Nor is that the only upgrade made under Lambertson, who retired from his post last month after almo [more]

4:08:40 AM Museum of Winter Haven History Reopens
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA

THIS PHOTO, of Fifth Street Southwest circa 1908, is an example of the historic images that can be found at the Museum of Winter Haven History. (PROVIDED BY MUSEUM OF WINTER HAVEN HISTORY) By Phil Attinger WINTER HAVEN | The Museum of Winter Haven .. [more]

1:31:40 AM Met Gears Up to Be a Major Player in Contemporary Art
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Sending a signal that it intends to become a serious competitor in the field of contemporary art for the first time in half a century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has recruited a prominent London curator to oversee a new department devoted to art  [more]

1:31:40 AM Peabody Museums celebrates MLK with two days of song, storytelling and dance
Ct Post

African Arawak Connection will perform at the Yale Peabody Museum's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy of Environmental and Social Justice 2012 celebration on Sunday, Jan. 15. Photo: Contributed Photo / CT When Edwin Cedeno looks back on the civil  [more]

1:31:40 AM Grand DC museum does not bear donor's name
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA

In the current debate over naming our art museum after a local donor, another museum gift should be recalled. Seventy-five years ago, on Dec. 22, 1936, Andrew W. Mellon, the Pittsburgh banker, statesman and art collector, wrote a letter to President  [more]

1:31:40 AM Seattle's Child | A parent's review: new Children's Museum of Tacoma
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

That's what has happened at the Children's Museum of Tacoma. Its metamorphosis began fifteen years ago with a dream, continued over the past three years with a concentrated search for the perfect space, and came to life at a ground-breaking last Apri [more]



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