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News From Sunday, January 22, 2012
10:31:33 PM A Jewish Museum Shifts Identity
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The story of how the Judah L. Magnes Museum — whose collection of Judaica is the third largest in the country — became the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, might not seem ... [more]

10:31:33 PM Special Motorsports Event - State Farm Named Presenting Sponsor Of
Autochannel - USA

Autochannel (press release) ACM's $60 million campus is one of the largest auto museums in the world and projects to pump some $34 million into the local economy each year. It features a 3.5-acre show field, rotating galleries, meeting space, car sto [more]

9:16:46 PM Classic collection: Book provides detail, context to Fairbanks' automobile
Purchase refinery to ease energy costs

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner by Libbie Martin / Book Review A 1930s scene from the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum. The book “Alaska's Fountainhead Collection: Vintage Treads and Thread,” by Nancy DeWitt, was published last year. Ronn Murray photo Pho [more]

9:16:46 PM Hoboken Historical Museum closed for installation of new exhibits
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

By Kate Kowsh/The Jersey Journal The Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., will remain closed through the end of this week for the installation of the it two new exhibits. Featuring a look back at the tunnels that flank the Mile Square City, .. [more]

7:54:45 PM Classic collection: Book provides detail, fora to Fairbanks' automobile
Purchase refinery to ease energy costs

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner I'm talking, of course, about the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum at the Wedgewood Resort. This nationally acclaimed showcase features more than 75 antique classic cars dating from the pre-1900s Hay Motor Vehicle to the 19 [more]

6:44:26 PM Feb 9 is Oscar night at Weston's Spellman Museum
Milford Daily News - Milford,MA,USA

Come to the Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History at Regis College in Weston on Feb. 9 at 7:30 pm to share your thoughts with Bob Tremblay, film critic for the MetroWest Daily News and a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, ... [more]

4:09:49 PM Museum expansion 'bringing us up to this century'
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign/Urbana,IL,USA

Cheryl Kennedy, director of the Museum of the Grand Prairie, looks out at the expansion site of the museum with construction superintendent Dan Gassaway of Johnston Contractors Inc. MAHOMET — If you've driven past the Museum of the Grand Prairie on . [more]

4:09:49 PM Island's scattered sites make a museum mecca
MENAFN - Middle East

Traces of the tragedies, achievements and aspirations of the people of Hawaii County dot its landscape, and those stories are preserved in large and small museums scattered across the island. At Keahole in Kona is the space museum named for Ellison . [more]

2:48:04 PM 15 Taiwanese artists to exhibit Chinese New Year prints at BenCab Museum
Malaya - Manila,Philippines

Such Chinese New Year culture will make an unprecedented big splash at the Print Gallery of the BenCab Museum in Baguio City when 15 prominent and award-winning Taiwanese artists lend their contemporary works inspired by the 12 Chinese zodiac signs . [more]

1:29:48 PM At the Morris Museum, weave gets a reprieve
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

Through mid-April, the Morris Museum is showing a tight little exhibition (just 16 pieces, though some are as big as a barn door) of modernist tapestries and carpets, anchored by the five jute tapestries Alexander Calder designed for Guatemalan weave [more]

1:29:48 PM Arab American National Museum to Host Podcast Series
Patch.com

The Arab American National Museum will host a bi-weekly podcast on iTunes starting Jan. 24. Why do some Muslim American women cover their heads, while others do not? In what ways did the events of Sept. 11, 2001 affect the Arab American community? .. [more]

1:29:48 PM 'Chief Fossil' brings museum back to life
U-T San Diego

Michael W. Hager, executive director of the San Diego Natural History Museum, in Sefton Grand Atrium with a model of an megalodon behind him. — John R. McCutchen When Michael “Mick” Hager took over the San Diego Natural History Museum in 1991, ... [more]

12:24:38 PM The jewelry museum in Malaga was opened with empty halls
Andalusia Travel

Malaga is one of the richest in museums cities of Andalusia. In addition to the iconic Picasso Museum, there is a huge variety of exhibitions. Among them are Automobile Museum, Wine Museum, Puppet Museum and the Museum of Glass. ... [more]

10:08:35 AM Q&A With Matthias Waschek Of The Worcester Art Museum
Worcester Business Journal

By Rick Saia Two months ago, Matthias Waschek took the helm as director of the 116-year-old Worcester Art Museum, replacing James Welu, who is director emeritus after being a fixture at the museum for nearly 40 years, the last 25 as director. ... [more]

10:08:35 AM Weddings, public funds help the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame stay open
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA

Without $150000 in public funds from the KTSC in 2009-10, the museum would have operated at a loss. The museum's annual induction ceremony and a basketball tipoff event brought more than $200000 in 2009-10. Funding for museums overall has expanded to [more]

8:58:44 AM Museum offers warm day at the track for horse lovers
Poughkeepsie Journal - Poughkeepsie,NY,USA

Marcia Roosa of Kingston takes the lines at the Harness Racing Museum. / Mary Keating/Courtesy Now that the real winter weather is finally here, I confess that I do not want to ride quite so much. Yes, I am a fair-weather rider, but I don't want to . [more]

8:58:44 AM BV African American Museum ready to host fundraiser
Bryan College Station Eagle - Bryan-College Station,TX,USA

By ROSALEE GETTERMAN By ROSALEE GETTERMAN Since opening in 2006, the Brazos Valley African American Museum has been a unique chronicle of both national and local black history. From politicians in Texas to family recipes, the museum shares details of [more]

8:58:44 AM Museum exhibit to feature 2012 NASCAR inductee
Mount Airy News - Mount Airy,NC,USA

by Mondee Tilley Saturday marks the return of the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History's annual program White Liquor and Dirt Tracks. The day-long program is the launch event for the annual racing exhibit of the same name and includes a full day of  [more]

8:58:44 AM Mid-Hudson Children's Museum seeks new chief, new focus
Poughkeepsie Journal - Poughkeepsie,NY,USA

The Mid-Hudson Children's Museum is looking for a new leader as it strategizes its future as one of the region's family-centered institutions. The nonprofit group based in the City of Poughkeepsie said last week its executive director, Ed Glisson, .. [more]

6:40:10 AM Bob Keyes: Winter wonderscape of new shows
Press Herald

Mills curated this exhibition, which is stopping at three other museums across the country. For eight years at Bucknell, Mills had a studio next to Xie. He saw much of the work in the Bates show when it consisted of blank canvases. ... [more]

6:26:43 AM Museum stall
The Free Lance-Star

L ATER THIS WEEK, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington opens a nine-month exhibit, "Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty." Meanwhile, the US National Slavery Museum in Fredericksburg will be ... [more]

6:26:43 AM Putnam Museum prepares for prehistoric invasion
Quad City Times

A velociraptor will be part of the an exhibit opening March 3 at the Putnam Museum. (Contributed photo) How much: Separate from admission to the museum, the cost is $9 for adult Putnam members, $8 for senior citizens (60 years and older), students an [more]

6:26:43 AM Art museum at site 100 years
Toledo Blade

BY TAHREE LANE Children line up outside of the Toledo Museum of Art with their parents on registration day for Saturday classes in 1955. TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART Enlarge Beginning in 1901 in two rented rooms in the Gardener Building downtown and ... [more]

6:26:43 AM FREE MUSEUM DAY IN THE SACRAMENTO AREA
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

February 4th 2012 is free Museum admission day in the Sacramento area. This is the day to see those places not usually available to everyone who has to pay for each and every admission place. The places offer special events as well on this day, ... [more]

3:59:34 AM Remembering the past
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA

Mobile WWI museum brings artifacts and history, providing a closer look at 'The War To End All Wars.' Visitors walking through the Honoring Our History World War I traveling gallery see a variety of artifacts including a US cold weather flight suit a [more]

3:59:34 AM PETA Wants OJ Simpson House for 'Meat Museum'
Eurweb.com

PETA spokespeople announced they would like to turn the Simpson home into a “Meat is Murder” museum. Simpson was infamously accused of murdering wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994. According to PETA, the museum would ... [more]

3:31:27 AM Museum's Tuskegee Airmen exhibit wins state-wide award
The Warner Robins Patriot

by Gene Rector The Museum of Aviation's "Tuskegee Airmen: A Proud Heritage" exhibit has won recognition from the Georgia Association of Museums and Gallaries. The local display honoring the heralded black fighter unit of World War II took the top spo [more]

3:31:27 AM Getting fit with art
Deseret News

This month the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art is lacing up its shoes for Art Fitness Training, a new program offered to those wishing to refine their art appreciation skills and feel more comfortable in a museum setting. “Museums have for too long . [more]

1:53:53 AM Museum Meets: After Hours
BBC Sport - UK

Encounter The Manchester Museum's assortment of treasures from the natural world and the many cultures it is home to. Show more… Visitor favourites include dinosaurs, mummies and live amphibians and reptiles. Handle objects from the collection, ... [more]

1:53:53 AM The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, announces MOCA TV
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

The Museum of Contemporary Art announced that it will launch MOCA TV, a new global video channel for original contemporary art and culture programming, in July 2012. MOCA TV will be part of YouTube's new original channels initiative, announced in ... [more]

1:13:54 AM Telefónica renews commitment to the Prado, coinciding with the start of
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily According to data published in www.museum-analytics.org, in 2011 the Museo del Prado's website was the 9th worldwide in terms of number of visits among all the museums monitored by Museum Analytics (more than 3000). Museum Analytics is a pa [more]

12:06:11 AM Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum: Heart of the Museum
Coast Weekend

The Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum presents an exhibition made up of recent gifts to the collection. Collections Manager Barbara Minard selected more than 150 objects, artifacts and archival materials to illustrate the range and quality of items th [more]

12:06:11 AM Natural History Museum Hosting 200 Person Live Video Game
Gothamist

If you find yourself in need of something to reignite the sparks between you and your console, then you should check out a one-night-only group video game at The Museum of Natural History this Thursday. And it's starring none other than The Magnetic  [more]



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