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News From Monday, January 19, 2009
10:43:22 PM Museum honors King with film showing
New Britain Herald - New Britain,CT,USA

By SCOTT WHIPPLE NEW BRITAIN — The New Britain Museum of American Art will hold a special Community Day with free public admission from 11 am to 5 pm Monday ... [more]

10:43:09 PM Arts, Briefly Philadelphia Museum Gets Really Big Piano
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The museum has been given the 16-foot piano keyboard on which Robert Loggia (above left) and Tom Hanks (above right) danced in a memorable sequence in the ... [more]

9:06:00 PM Annual BBQ In Blue Jeans event funds museum
New Bern Sun Journal - New Bern,NC,USA

The sixth annual fund-raiser for the New Bern Fireman's Museum has an added goal this year - finding artifacts of the city fire department's 164-year .... [more]

8:58:44 PM The Scene on the Mall
Virginia Adds 49K New Voters in August

While the endearingly excited tourists are enough of a reason for me to visit the DC museums, there are other draws. For one, the Museum of the American ... [more]

8:09:10 PM Kimbell Art Museum Names E. McCauley Lee Its New Director
Design Taxi - NYC,USA

The Kimbell Art Museum has appointed Eric McCauley Lee director of the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati. Dr. Lee will become only the fourth director in the ... [more]

8:06:51 PM Visitors flock to museum to view Wyeth works
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA

By AP wire report January 19, 2009 02:24 PM ROCKLAND -- Visitors have been flocking to the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland following the death of painter ... [more]

5:24:23 PM EMC helps Poe Museum preserve, display artifacts
Boston Herald - United States

By Greg Turner / Herald Highlight “Nevermore” will the Edgar Allan Poe Museum lack sufficient space to display its documents and artifacts. ... [more]

3:23:04 PM Honoring African-American history at the Buffalo Soldiers Museum
KHOU - Houston,TX,USA

But at the Buffalo Soldiers Museum in Houston, honoring the role African-Americans have played in US history is a year-round job. The museum opened in 2000, ... [more]

2:31:01 PM Learn history with student's Wax Museum
Fremont News Messenger - Fremont,OH,USA

These were the people who my daughters chose to "become" for a short time in second grade during Woodmore's Wax Museum. Each year, second-graders at the ... [more]

1:34:06 PM Museum opens Obama-inspired exhibit
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

Exhibition curator Dianne Swann-Wright said the idea for the show came the day after the election, when artists associated with the museum were invited to ... [more]

12:44:59 PM Big piano for Philadelphia museum
BBC News - E,UK

The 16ft (4.9m) piano Tom Hanks walked on in his 1988 hit film Big has been given to a US children's museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... [more]

11:56:00 AM Museum realigns goals for fund drive
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA

By Jeffrey Sheban The economic downturn has slowed an ambitious fundraising campaign for the Columbus Museum of Art, but renovations and the construction of ... [more]

11:49:51 AM American fights for art seized by Nazis
The Associated Press

Today, some 4000 of the posters, worth at least euro4.5 million ($5.9 million), are in the possession of the German Historical Museum in Berlin, .... [more]

11:04:59 AM New Curator Starts Work at the Speed Art Museum
WFPL - Louisville,KY,USA

The Speed Art Museum now has a new curator of contemporary art. WFPL’s Elizabeth Kramer has more. Suzanne Weaver started in the position last week, ... [more]

9:12:58 AM Editorial: Andrew Wyeth, 1917-2009
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Wyeth, who died Friday at age 91, became synonymous in the art world with the Brandywine River Museum, which has a permanent exhibit of his works. .... [more]

6:51:25 AM Students check out museums
Hickory Daily Record - Hickory,NC,USA

Senior Rachel Stevens opted for the Holocaust Museum. "I thought it would be more interesting. It's a very peculiar event," she said. ... [more]

5:47:52 AM EMC helps Poe Museum Museum preserve, display artifacts
Boston Herald - United States

By Greg Turner “Nevermore” will the Edgar Allan Poe Museum lack sufficient space to display its documents and artifacts. Thanks in large part to funding ... [more]

4:55:09 AM Acquisition of Buten Wedgwood Collection Makes Birmingham Museum ...
Art Daily - USA

The Birmingham Museum of Art announced today the acquisition of the Buten Wedgwood Collection of more than 8000 objects made by the Wedgwood factory in ... [more]

3:59:09 AM In Memoriam: Recalling Lives of Note
ABC News - USA

Andrew Wyeth's painting 'Trodden Weed', 1951, is displayed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Wyeth has died at the age of 91 at his home outside ... [more]

2:58:41 AM Architectural Scavenger Finds Treasures in a City’s Disappearing Past
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The most historically significant items are displayed in his private museum, where every Sunday he can be found leading tours and exhorting people to ... [more]

2:13:25 AM LI museum director aims for good viewing spot in D.C.
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

"I do have a strategy for getting as close as I possibly can," said Byer-Tyre, the director of the African American Museum of Nassau County in Hempstead. ... [more]

1:17:35 AM Experts perform magic with 17th-century screens
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

Conservators — people trained in the care of art — are unsung heroes in the museum world. They have to think like — and function as — artists, ... [more]



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