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10:24:16 PM Chase gives SAM $10-million silver lining for its dark cloud
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA

Museums across the country have been hard hit by the deepening recession, and SAM is no exception. Spokesperson Cara Egan said that the endowment is down 27 ... [more]

8:58:44 PM Guantanamo, the museum?
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom

Transforming what will become an important site of memory into a museum could be an opportunity to present the facts from multiple points of view and give ... [more]

7:52:17 PM WaMu breaks lease; Seattle Art Museum faces revenue shortfall
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

JP Morgan Chase is pulling out of Washington Mutual’s leased space at the Seattle Art Museum but is leaving the museum with a $10 million grant. ... [more]

7:32:51 PM Police museum finally able to sink its roots
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA

By Jennifer Vigil (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer Richard Carlson of the San Diego Police Historical Association said he hopes the museum reaches the ... [more]

6:55:08 PM Crowd fills Templars museum to see historic Obama inaugural
Sherwood Voice - Sherwood,AR,USA

The audience, estimated by museum officials at 400 strong, was there to watch the inauguration of President Barack Obama. When Sen. Dianne Feinstein said on ... [more]

5:50:41 PM Steward named director of Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton University - Princeton,NJ,USA

Steward, director of the Museum of Art and a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 1998, will begin his work at Princeton in late April. ... [more]

5:38:23 PM Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh set annual admissions record
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh set a new annual admissions record in 2008 as more than 1.185 million people visited its four museums, snapping the prior ... [more]

4:29:10 PM Taipei and Beijing Museums Inch Toward Collaboration
ARTINFO - New York,NY,USA

BEIJING—Taipei's National Palace Museum and Beijing's Palace Museum — two institutions that have been at loggerheads for decades, just like their home ... [more]

3:40:25 PM Tacoma's more obscure museums focus on history's other chapters
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA

By AUBREY COHEN TACOMA -- There was no one around when I walked into the Foss Waterway Seaport's Working Waterfront Maritime Museum. The office manager soon ... [more]

2:42:07 PM Famed Louvre museum embraces comics for first time
The Associated Press

Now the visual world of comics is being embraced for the first time by Paris' Louvre museum. In the hazy lighting and hollow stone walls of the Louvre's ... [more]

2:01:19 PM Despite economy, Mass. whaling museum thrives
Boston Herald - United States

By AP NEW BEDFORD — The New Bedford Whaling Museum surpassed its fundraising goal and took in a record in attendance fees last year despite the sour economy ... [more]

1:15:59 PM De Young Museum
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA

The Oceanic collections were charter collections of the de Young Museum, their nucleus being formed in 1894 at the California. ... [more]

9:08:35 AM A Closer Look At... Chicago Museums
The Daily Northwestern - USA

Whether or not you’ve recently hopped the southbound El or Metra, leaving Northwestern’s campus in favor of Lake Shore Drive’s Museum Campus, ... [more]

8:43:46 AM Lincoln memorabilia on display at Plymouth museum
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

"You can't imagine how excited we are," said Elizabeth Kerstens, executive director of the Plymouth Historical Museum as she described the potential impact ... [more]

7:54:15 AM Harvard Business School Professor Richard S. Tedlow Joins the ...
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - The Computer History Museum (CHM) today announced that Dr. Richard S. Tedlow of Harvard Business School has joined the Museum as its ... [more]

7:24:46 AM Museums exhibit high attendance
News-Herald.com - Willoughby,OH,USA

By Tracey Read And the prospect for further turbulence in the financial markets has led art museum officials to expect a continued reduction in these assets ... [more]

6:37:19 AM Despite economy, whaling museum 'delighted' with '08
SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford,MA,USA

By Joe Cohen NEW BEDFORD — The New Bedford Whaling Museum sailed through stormy seas and past the rocky shoals of economic and other potential troubles to ... [more]

5:45:27 AM Festival Park controversy: New museum under a cloud
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville NC,USA

By John Ramsey Plans for a new nine-story, $12.5 million art museum in a popular downtown park have all but collapsed under the weight of public scrutiny. ... [more]

2:38:09 AM Crab Krack will benefit museum
Newport News Times - Newport,OR,USA

Tickets for the Crab Krack are available at the Lincoln County Historical Society Burrows House and Log Cabin Museums; Bayscapes Gallery & Coffee House, ... [more]

2:14:59 AM Museum of Contemporary Craft finds financial lifeline
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA

by DK Row, The Oregonian The ailing Museum of Contemporary Craft found a financial lifeline in the Pacific Northwest College of Art. On Wednesday, .... [more]

1:28:15 AM Puma Designer Chalayan Dresses Women in Lasers at London Museum
Bloomberg - USA

22 (Bloomberg) -- Hussein Chalayan, a London-based fashion designer, opened the biggest UK exhibition of his work at London’s Design Museum yesterday. ... [more]

12:59:49 AM 'Touch my HeART' planned to benefit Los Gatos art museum
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

This year's event, which benefits the Museums of Los Gatos, will be held on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, at the Art Museum of Los Gatos. As in years past, ... [more]

12:41:02 AM The Holocaust, Viewed Not From Then but From the Here and Now
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

A memorial near the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, which is now the location of a museum. By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN BERGEN-BELSEN, ... [more]



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