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News From Tuesday, January 24, 2012
11:18:46 PM Seattle museum gets 'keys' to shuttle trainer from NASA
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

From left to right are NASA's Mission Operations Director Paul Hill, astronaut Gregory C. Johnson and the Museum of Flight's President Douglas King during a ceremony at the Johnson Space Center last Thursday. The Houston facility officially handed ov [more]

11:18:46 PM Sanguinetti Museum and Garden offers over 100 years of Yuma history
Yuma Sun

The Sanguinetti House Museum and Garden, located at 240 and 248 Madison Avenue in downtown Yuma, is part of Arizona's historic past. The house was constructed in the 1870s and is older than Arizona. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, [more]

10:39:52 PM Annie Leibovitz opens new art show at Smithsonian
CBS News - USA

The show is on view in Washington through May 20 and then will travel to US museums through 2014. The photographs on display will be donated to the Smithsonian American Art Museum for its permanent collection. Leibovitz said she pursued her new proje [more]

10:39:52 PM Science museum pressured by corporate sponsor over oilsands exhibit
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada

By Tom Spears, The Ottawa Citizen January 24, 2012 3:58 PM A screen grab of the online video supporting the Museum of Science and Technology's exhibit on energy. OTTAWA — The Canada Science and Technology Museum faced pressure from a corporate sponso [more]

10:39:52 PM Bolton Colburn moves from Laguna Art Museum to, yes, surfing?
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Bolton Colburn, who recently stepped down as the head of the Laguna Art Museum after 14 years, has been named the executive director of the Surfing Heritage Foundation. In his new role, Colburn will oversee an organization whose goal is to "preserve, [more]

10:39:52 PM National Pinball Museum Opens In Downtown Baltimore
WBAL - Baltimore,MD,USA

It's the National Pinball Museum. "Pinball is not just a game," said David Silverman, the executive director at the museum. "I've always believed that, since I looked at the artwork and realized, 'Wow this is really an interesting thing. [more]

8:49:38 PM Soon we will have museums without walls
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

Nearly 30 years ago, Terence Conran, Roy Strong and I hosted a press conference in London's V&A Museum. Our task was to explain the mysteries of “design” to an eager multitude. Two bottom-scratching journalists turned up. We bashed on regardless and  [more]

8:49:38 PM Abu Dhabi Greenlights Its Mega-Museum Project
American ...

While plans were first announced several years ago, ground has yet to be broken on either of those museums and last October, as Abu Dhabi's economy struggled, the city put the two projects on indefinite hold, a process the architect Frank Gehry, ... [more]

8:49:38 PM Museums hosts Murray family event on their passion for tennis
STV Local

Andy Murray will be joined by brother Jamie and mother Judy at the talk at the National Museum of Scotland. Scottish tennis player Andy Murray will be giving a talk about his passion for sport. The world number four will be joined by his brother Jami [more]

8:49:38 PM Mellon Foundation gives $8 million to Westmoreland Museum of Art
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA

By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg has received an $8 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation for its capital and endowment campaign. The gift is the largest ever for the museum [more]

8:19:11 PM Museum releases iPhone app for bird, butterfly and plant identification
University of Florida - Gainesville,Florida,USA

The Florida Museum of Natural History's new app, currently available through the iTunes store, “Nature Viewing Along the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Viewing Trail,” allows users to search for 200 birds, 106 butterflies and 247 flowering plants [more]

7:31:08 PM State Museum to Host National Geographic's Giant Traveling Map of North
CBS 21 - Harrisburg,PA,USA

CBS 21 The State Museum of Pennsylvania, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Alliance for Geographic Education, will exhibit National Geographic's Giant Map of North America for an exclusive Pennsylvania engagement, Feb. 18 – March 15. [more]

7:31:08 PM National Museum of Health + Medicine Chicago Features Famed Pianist at ...
MarketWatch - USA

"Having internationally recognized talent such as George Lepauw and Camerata Chicago under the direction of Maestro Drostan Hall join us for the National Museum of Health + Medicine's February benefit will assist our efforts to bring a national museu [more]

7:31:08 PM CR Smith Museum Sends Area Kids 'From Here To There' With Special ...
MarketWatch - USA

24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The American Airlines CR Smith Museum presents "From Here To There," a fun, hands-on experience with the science behind everyday transportation. Experience physics by doing it: Launch a hot air balloon and float on [more]

5:03:33 PM Sheffield museums face Arts Council funding blow
BBC Sport - UK

Sheffield's museums face "large-scale redundancies" after the Arts Council turned down a bid for £4.2m of funding, the city's council leader has warned. Museums Sheffield had applied for £1.4m per year for the next three years from the Arts Council . [more]

5:03:33 PM Whitney Museum in Talks With Frustrated Art Handlers to Avert Whitney
ARTINFO

ARTINFO The art handlers at the Whitney Museum are also in protracted contract negotiations with their employer, though the talks aren't quite as bitter. A look at the negotiations in progress shows that there is an alternative to Sotheby's aggressiv [more]

5:03:33 PM South Florida Museum Blows the Roof off with Offer for Advertisers
MarketWatch - USA

Projected to serve more than one million children and families during its first year, the new YAA is a groundbreaking model that bridges the gap between adult-oriented art museums and those specifically designed to appeal to children. [more]

5:03:33 PM Plans for £80m Design Museum unveiled
Kensington and Chelsea Chronicle

Plans for a new £80m Design Museum in the heart of Kensington were unveiled on Tuesday (24) morning. The museum is currently based in the City of London, but is planning to move to Kensington High Street in 2014 as part of the multi-million pound ... [more]

3:38:16 PM International Museum of Women Presents MAMA: Motherhood Around the Globe
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

The International Museum of Women (IMOW) today opened its 2012 global online exhibition MAMA: Motherhood Around the Globe, which explores emerging issues, unique challenges, and changing perspectives of motherhood throughout the world. [more]

3:38:16 PM NASA Hands Over Shuttle Trainer 'Keys' to Seattle Museum
Space.com - USA

by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor NASA handed over the "keys" for its only full-size space shuttle training vehicle to the Seattle Museum of Flight last week, clearing the wooden mockup to leave Houston for its new home in the northwest. [more]

3:38:16 PM City leaders hear first pitch on Custer monument, museum
Monroenews.com - Monroe,Michigan,USA

2012 8:27AM A proposed Custer National Monument and Museum appears to have the moral support but not yet the official backing of City of Monroe officials. William H. Braunlich, president of the Monroe County Historical Society, presented the grandios [more]

2:23:26 PM Museums hear fate after 29 bid for share of £60m Renaissance money
Guardian - UK

Arts Council England has named 16 organisations as winning bidders for a share of £60m Renaissance money which is given to the nation's museums. The winners, which will have the exact amounts finalised and published in April, include a partnership of [more]

1:04:48 PM Museums in Ghana-A Great Tourist Destination
Ghana

I always use the National Museum road when commuting to work each morning. I have always enjoyed the serene atmosphere of the area even though the aura of the surroundings has scared me often times. For someone who has spent most of her life living . [more]

1:04:48 PM PPG Aerospace Donates Coatings to Restore V-22 Osprey Aircraft for Museum
MarketWatch - USA

On loan to the American Helicopter Museum and Education Center from the US Marine Corps, the V-22 Osprey is full-scale development aircraft No. 3 and the only one on public display in the world, according to Amy Krize, the museum's marketing and publ [more]

1:04:48 PM Last week to see Herb Ritts exhibit at Huntsville Museum of Art
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

The image is one of 41 on display through Sunday at the Huntsville Museum of Art. HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - This is the last week to see the “Herb Ritts:Celebrity and Fashion” exhibit at the Huntsville Museum of Art, 300 Church St. The exhibition feature [more]

11:44:17 AM Newcastle museum awarded £250k grant for gallery
BBC Sport - UK

The Discovery Museum in Newcastle has been awarded a £250000 grant to develop an interactive gallery. The money, from the government and The Wolfson Foundation charity, will be used to tell the story of the making of modern Tyneside. [more]

11:42:08 AM Louvre, Guggenheim Museums Revived in Abu Dhabi After State Reviews Costs
Bloomberg

Abu Dhabi, the oil-rich sheikhdom that's transforming itself into a business and cultural hub, plans to resume suspended real-estate projects including branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums after reviewing their viability, the government said [more]

11:42:08 AM Space Shuttle Discovery headed to the Smithsonian
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is preparing to welcome the space shuttle Discovery into its collection. John Raoux, AP Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough says the shuttle will be flown to Washington Dulles ... [more]

9:09:48 AM Still turning: Museum inducts folk potters into permanent exhibit
Gainesville Times - Gainesville,GA,USA

By Brandee A. Thomas bthomas@gainesvilletimes.com Many museums pay homage to extinct entities, but the newest exhibit at the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia is doing just the opposite. "'Living Traditions' is actually the final section of ou [more]

9:07:17 AM JFK library to release last of his secret tapes
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

20, 1963 photo released by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, shows President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Mrs. Warren, and others descending the Grand Staircase during the ... [more]

9:07:17 AM Get married at the new Mob Museum in Las Vegas
Florence

By Kitty Bean Yancey, USA TODAY Here's the latest Vegas gamble: Enter to win the chance to wed or renew vows Valentine's Day at the city's new Mob Museum. Who'll officiate at the nuptials? Former mob defense lawyer and ex-Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman. [more]

7:20:47 AM LSU Museum of Art introduces interactive exhibit
LSU The Reveille - Baton Rouge,Louisiana,USA

18 at the unveiling of the “Tearing Granite: Jesús Moroles,” the newest and first interactive exhibit at the LSU Museum of Art. Most museums have a hands-off policy, but the LSU Museum of Art's newest exhibit breaks all the rules. [more]

6:52:27 AM Museum to honor Vietnam vets for Black History Month
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA

Program to honor Hattiesburg-area Vietnam War veterans, CE Roy Community Center, 300 E. 5th St. Reception to follow at the African American Military History Museum, 305 E. 6th St. The African American Military History Museum in Hattiesburg is honorin [more]

6:24:06 AM Museum dedicated to Civil War, civil rights proposed for Fayetteville
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville NC,USA

By Andrew Barksdale Supporters of Fayetteville's history museum say they want to develop North Carolina's first museum dedicated to the Civil War and the tumultuous decades that followed. A private foundation for the Museum of the Cape Fear Historica [more]

6:24:06 AM Museum of New Mexico earns reaccreditation
Santa Fe New Mexican.com - santa fe,new mexico,United States

The Museum of New Mexico announced Monday that it has been reaccredited by the American Association of Museums. The announcement was made at the Department of Cultural Affairs' annual Culture Day in the Capitol Rotunda. "It's like the Good Housekeepi [more]

4:19:23 AM France returns 20 mummified Maori heads to New Zealand
BBC Sport - UK

They have been held in various French museums as cultural curiosities. New Zealand first requested the return of the heads in the 1980s, but it was only in 2010 that the passing of a French law made the handover possible. "We close a terrible chapter [more]

4:19:23 AM Closed Lancaster city museums will sell off some artifacts
Lancaster Newspapers

By BERNARD HARRIS For nearly 40 years, Lancaster city's Heritage Center Museum, and in more recent years its companion Quilt & Textile Museum, have served as an attic for Lancaster County. More than 3700 items have been donated to those museums. [more]

4:19:23 AM Chance to be museum guide
The Daily Post

Since its inception 11 years ago, more than 200 volunteer guides, known as docents, have been trained and gone on to provide free tours for the museum's visitors. The band of 85 dedicated volunteers offer eight tours a day to the museum's national an [more]

2:41:40 AM New exhibit features quilts from Morris Museum's collection
Dailyrecord.com - Parsippany,NJ,USA

FILE PHOTOS ~ Come in out of the cold and warm up at the Morris Museum with its new art exhibition, “A Patchwork of Cozy Quilts and Coverlets from the Collection of the Morris Museum.” The exhibition runs through Feb. 26, and features exquisite bed . [more]

2:41:40 AM Provo man opens museum of cars he built himself
Deseret News

By Sam Penrod, Deseret News He loves them so much that he is opening his own museum. But what makes this one unique is that he built every one of the cars by himself. The museum is next to Woodward's auto-glass shop, just south of the Covey Center fo [more]

12:34:32 AM Bank Facade, Statues and a Baritone
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

In some ways it made perfect sense for the Metropolitan Museum to stage Thomas Hampson's recital on Sunday evening in the Charles Engelhard Court, rather than in its more staid Grace Rainey Rogers auditorium. Mr. Hampson's program, “Songs of America, [more]

12:34:32 AM Museum forced to reveal salary
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

Remuneration details of the director of cash-strapped, ratepayer-funded Otago Museum have finally been made public and show he is the highest-paid museum CEO in New Zealand. An investigation by The Southland Times Dunedin bureau has found the directo [more]

12:34:32 AM OUR VIEW: Children's Museum's home moving from dream to reality
Fall River Herald News - Fall River,MA,USA

By Anonymous In an exciting reuse of one of the city's landmark buildings, plans for the new permanent home of the Children's Museum of Greater Fall River took a giant leap forward last week, with the museum's architect illustrating plans to transfor [more]

12:34:32 AM Tukwila museum gets keys to shuttle trainer
Highline Times - Seattle,WA,USA

NASA Johnson Space Center Mission Operations Director Paul Hill, hands Museum of Flight President Doug King the 'keys' to the Full Fuselage Trainer as Seattle astronaut Greg C. Johnson looks on. Museum of Flight president Doug King was officially giv [more]



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