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9:46:23 PM Museum short $80000 for coming year
The Boundary Sentinel

by Mona Mattei on 26 Jan 2012 Society directors came to Grand Forks city council Monday night seeking a commitment of $80000 for the survival of the Boundary Museum. Christine Thompson, past city councillor and director with the museum, attended the  [more]

9:46:23 PM American Association of Museums re-accredits National Civil Rights Museum,
The Republic

The Republic Steve Cohen is praising four Memphis museums for being re-accredited by the American Association of Museums. Cohen played host to officials from the National Civil Rights Museum, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, The Pink Palace and the Bro [more]

9:38:57 PM Accused Pentagon shooter, former Marine Melaku pleads guilty
FOX News - USA

An ex-Marine from Virginia pleaded guilty Thursday and has agreed to serve a 25-year prison sentence on charges that he fired a series of overnight pot shots in 2010 at the Pentagon, the Marine Corps museum in Quantico and other military targets as . [more]

9:38:57 PM National Museum USAF displays formerly classified reconnaissance satellites
Air Force Link - Washington,D.C.,USA

26 to officially place three formerly classified reconnaissance satellites on public display in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the US Air Force here. The three satellites -- Gambit 1 KH-7, Gambit 3 KH-8 and Hexagon KH-9 -- were among  [more]

9:38:57 PM Museum gives back artifacts to Native Americans
Livingston Daily

(WTW) — In the basement and back rooms of Kingman Museum, the remains of people from long ago wait to return home. That's the goal of the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which became law in 1990. Since then, the museum [more]

9:38:57 PM Comcast, NBC donate $2.7M to broadcast museum
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

Comcast and NBC are getting behind the Museum of Broadcast Communications with donations of $2.7 million in airtime, artifacts and seed money for a new Chicago facility, expected to open this year. Under the partnership announced Thursday, Comcast wi [more]

9:38:57 PM GIA Museum Spotlights Rare Book Collection
Diamonds.net - New York,NY,USA

The Gemological Institute of America's (GIA) latest museum exhibit, "Tablet to Tablet: Treasured Pages from Past to Present," showcases more than 26000 pages from rare books on gems, minerals, and natural science dating back to the 15th century. [more]

8:09:31 PM Museum of Science lands $5M state grant for Hall of Human Life
Boston Herald

By Marie Szaniszlo The Museum of Science, Boston, will begin construction this summer on the Hall of Human Life, expected to be one of the museum's largest and most far-reaching exhibits. Opening in July 2013, the 10000-square-foot exhibit is designe [more]

8:09:31 PM High profile museums to open in Abu Dhabi
The Squeeze

Authorities in Abu Dhabi have announced the opening dates for a series of high-profile museums planned for the emirate. Ambitious plans to turn Abu Dhabi into a cultural hub by opening branches of famous museums such as Paris's Louvre and New York's  [more]

8:09:31 PM Q & A: Elizabeth Hutchison, Mattapoisett's new museum curator
Sippican Week

By Erik Fox | Jan 26, 2012 Photo by: Erik Fox New curator Elizabeth Hutchinson examines whaling logs at the Mattapoisett Museum. Mattapoisett — Mattapoisett resident Elizabeth Hutchison has stepped in as the new Mattapoisett Museum and Carriage House [more]

8:09:31 PM An Annie Leibovitz Exhibit With Shots of Niagara Falls, Not Demi Moore
Atlantic Online - USA

One of the reporters turned to another, remarking on the preview's high turnout—likely due to the artist's famed career as a celebrity photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue, and her shows in museums like Washington's National Portrait Gallery and th [more]

6:39:00 PM Artwork stolen from French museum in 1981, sold in San Antonio, returned to
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post WASHINGTON — Artwork stolen from a French museum in 1981 and sold in Texas has been returned to France. A ceremony was held Wednesday in Washington to return a monotype by impressionist Camille Pissarro, called “Le Marche aux Poissons [more]

6:39:00 PM Singapore Art Museum Spotlights Local Artists and Global Collectors (VIDEOS)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

The Singapore Art Museum currently presents two exhibitions that complement each other well. One shows contemporary Asian art from private collections around the world, the other has its focus on the young generation of artists living and working in  [more]

6:39:00 PM National Children's Museum Announces 'A Place for Being Me'
MarketWatch - USA

26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Innovative combination of indoor and outdoor spaces will meet demand in National Capital region 9 months earlier than expected The National Children's Museum (NCM) today announced that it will begin meeting the ... [more]

6:39:00 PM A museum is reborn
The Villager - New York,NY,USA

This week's reopening of the Seaport Museum is cause for celebration. The maritime museum, which for years was struggling to stay afloat with dwindling patronage and sparse exhibits, was seemingly on the verge of closing altogether until a deal was . [more]

6:39:00 PM Ex-Marine accused of shooting at Pentagon, Quantico museum pleads guilty in
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post An ex-Marine from Virginia has pleaded guilty to charges that he fired shots at the Pentagon, the Marine Corps museum in Quantico and other military-related targets. A plea-agreement hearing was held Thursday for 24-year-old Yonathan  [more]

4:44:09 PM London museum coin may be Roman "brothel token"
CBS News - USA

(AP Photo/Museum of London) LONDON - The Museum of London is displaying a coin found by the River Thames that may have been used nearly 2000 years ago as a "brothel token" in Roman London. The bronze coin, which is roughly the size of a nickel, ... [more]

4:44:09 PM Comcast, NBC News and NBC 5 Chicago Announce $2.7 Million Commitment to
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) CHICAGO, Jan 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Comcast Corporation, NBC News and NBC 5 Chicago today announced an enhanced commitment to the new 62000-square-foot Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, pledging more than [more]

4:44:09 PM Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Awards $5 Million Grant to Museum of ...
MarketWatch - USA

BOSTON, Jan 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- With a $5 million grant that was awarded yesterday by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC), the Museum of Science, Boston can begin construction of a timely new exhibit, the Hall of Human Life (HHL), . [more]

4:44:09 PM Museum could be consigned to history
Lurgan Mail - Lurgan,Northern Ireland,UK

Proposals are being considered by council which could see time called on Waterside House and its collection divided up amongst other local museums. Craigavon Historical Society have pleaded with council to show respect for the area's heritage. [more]

3:31:07 PM Museum: Rare coin may be Roman brothel token
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

26, 2012 by the Museum of London of a Roman brothel token found in London's river Thames.The object has been dated, by experts at the Museum of London, to the Roman period and approximately the 1st century AD. The token or spintria, depicts a man and [more]

3:31:07 PM Suspected Marine museum shooter expected to plead guilty
Inside NoVA

The man suspected of firing several shots at the Marine Corps museum in Triangle, the Pentagon and several other area military buildings in October 2010 is expected to plead guilty at a hearing in US District Court in Alexandria this morning. [more]

3:31:07 PM Metropolitan Museum's renovated wing tells story of America
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

By Dan Bischoff/For The Star-Ledger Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty ImagesEmanuel Gottlieb Leutze's 1851 painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware" during a press preview for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new American Wing Galleries for Paintings, ... [more]

3:31:07 PM History museum marks 75th year
Augusta Chronicle - Augusta,GA,USA

By Meg Mirshak The Augusta Museum of History will celebrate three-quarters of a century sharing stories from the past with those in the present. Exhibit technician Larry Graham and Amanda Klaus, the museum's registrar, hang pictures in the Blast from [more]

3:31:07 PM Liberty Hall Museum Celebrates Valentine's Day
NJ TODAY

UNION – Love and romance are the themes for Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University with special Valentine's events during February. Visitors can enjoy several opportunities to celebrate with their significant others and take in the museum's impressiv [more]

2:35:04 PM British Museum Hajj Exhibition: Mysteries of the Muslim pilgrimage to
Daily Mail - UK - UK

Daily Mail 'Hajj: journey at the heart of Islam' has arrived at the British Museum and curators hope an insight into the historical and spiritual journey will draw in both Muslims as well as non-Muslims. 'People who don't believe in the religion of I [more]

2:35:04 PM York museums to receive share of £20 million
York Press - York,UK

By Mark Stead » mark.stead@thepress.co.uk MUSEUMS in York are to receive a share of a £20 million funding pot to improve and develop the homes of the city's priceless artefacts. York Museums Trust has been confirmed as one of the successful bidders f [more]

2:35:04 PM Museums will receive £20m to boost business
ChronicleLive - Newcastle upon Tyne,England,UK

by Tony Henderson, Evening Chronicle MUSEUMS in Tyneside will get a share of a £20m package to pull in visitors and boost their public profiles. Arts Council England announced 16 major partner museums for the next three years as part of its Renaissan [more]

2:35:04 PM Studio art glass at Toledo Museum of Art
Suburbanite - Akron,OH,USA

By Anonymous This year there is no better place to see studio art glass than at the Toledo Museum of Art. The Museum is renowned for its extensive glass collection and for being the site of the historic 1962 Toledo Workshops. [more]

11:12:16 AM Mississippi Museum of Natural Science presents 'Animal Secrets'
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA

The gist: A new temporary exhibit at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science peeks into the hidden lives of forest wildlife. Animal Secrets opens Saturday at the museum. The touring exhibit, produced by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in  [more]

10:23:51 AM Ironbridge Gorge Museum wins share of £20m Arts Council England Major
Creative Boom (blog)

Creative Boom The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is celebrating the news that it has secured a share of a £20 million per annum Major Grants funding stream from Arts Council England, to cover the period 2012-15. It was announced by Arts Council Englan [more]

10:23:51 AM Museum remembers radio enthusiast who heard Titanic's call for help from
WalesOnline - United Kingdom

WalesOnline Caerphilly council's museum, The Winding House in New Tredegar, is to feature Artie's extraordinary story in an new exhibition focusing on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and its links to the region. Artie, from Gellig [more]

10:23:51 AM ACC to host Museums Association event in 2013
Event Magazine

The Museums Association's annual conference and exhibition will return to ACC Liverpool in 2013, on 11-12 November, four years after it was first held at the venue. The event rotates each year; it was held in Brighton in 2011 and this year takes plac [more]

9:50:57 AM UA museum shows off Arizona's best minerals
Arizona Daily Star (blog)

The McCarty collection, on loan to the University of Arizona Mineral Museum, shows the diversity and complexity of Arizona's minerals. It is supposed to be the best Arizona collection in the state, the museum curator said. "100 Years of Arizona's Bes [more]

8:51:04 AM Loveland Museum/Gallery to charge for exhibit visits
ReporterHerald.com - Loveland,CO,USA

By Shelley Widhalm Reporter-Herald Staff Writer Neal Cross of Frederick, right, talks with artist Richard Schilling, left, about the paintings in his exhibit "Portraits of the Prairie" Wednesday at the Loveland Museum Gallery. [more]

8:51:04 AM Discovery Museum in Newcastle plans new gallery
Journal Live - Newcastle upon Tyne,UK

Now, a new gallery is being planned at Discovery Museum in Newcastle to tell their stories. The project will go ahead after the award of a grant of £250000 from the DCMS Wolfson Foundation to develop the interactive gallery about the making of modern [more]

7:52:55 AM Museum breaks ground on new wing
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA

Members of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art's board break the ground on Wednesday at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art's groundbreaking ceremony for the new museum addition. / Photos by Bryant Hawkins | Hattiesburg American Lauren Rogers Museum of Art . [more]

6:29:47 AM A superhero's welcome at the museum
Bakersfield Californian - Bakersfield,CA,USA

BY STEFANI DIAS Californian assistant lifestyles editor We're still six months out from the world's biggest comic book convention, but the Bakersfield Museum of Art is turning its own pop culture page with two events tailored to comics fans and art . [more]

6:29:47 AM Stolen taxidermic dingo, leopard returned to museum
Bakersfield Californian - Bakersfield,CA,USA

BY JILL COWAN Californian staff writer To donate to the Buena Vista Museum of Natural History, call Executive Director Koral Hancharick at 324-6350. It was a journey there and back again for two taxidermic animals -- an Australian dingo and an Africa [more]

6:19:21 AM Museums search narrows
Rock Hill Herald - Rock Hill,SC,USA

By Jamie Self - jself@heraldonline.com The leaders of York County's museums are closing in on the next executive director of the Culture and Heritage Museums. The Culture and Heritage Commission, which oversees the museums, is considering four ... [more]

6:19:21 AM Off the clock:Dick Hackett: Ex-mayor stays busy as museum CEO, volunteer
DeSoto Appeal - Memphis,TN,USA

By Lindsay Melvin Dick Hackett, mayor of Memphis from 1982 to 1992, now serves as CEO of The Children's Museum of Memphis and lives on a farm in DeSoto County. Dick Hackett, CEO of The Children's Museum of Memphis, is about to get busier, ... [more]

2:58:03 AM Oak Ridge Playhouse to museum: Great things happened in city, Part II
Oak Ridger - Oak Ridge,TN,USA

Mary Ann Damos, Children's Museum of Oak Ridge executive director, reports on the positive accomplishments in 2011 such as the new parking lot, landscaping and Kids Go Green! -- The Environmental Learning Center and Garden. [more]

2:24:01 AM National Children's Museum takes a giant step with indoor and outdoor plans
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By Jacqueline Trescott The National Children's Museum, a local institution that hopes to have a permanent, full-fledged museum in the coming years, is taking a giant step to increase its interim spaces for children and to maintain its visibility. [more]

2:24:01 AM Museum Of Idaho Welcomes Back Prehistoric T-Rex Friend
KIFI - Idaho Falls,ID,USA

By Caleb James IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- She was the museum's first exhibit 10 years ago. Now the Museum of Idaho is welcoming back an old friend. Her spine and tail cast the shadows of a magnificent world long ago across white walls at the museum. [more]

2:24:01 AM Museum radiates with memorabilia
San Angelo Standard Times - san angelo,tx,USA

By Frank Munger Scripps Howard News Service Associated press photos Paul Frame is the founder and curator of an atomic memorabilia museum in Oak Ridge, Tenn. An identification badge and a slide rule for Manhattan Project scientist Glenn Seaborg is in [more]

2:24:01 AM Joe Surf: Surfing Museum marks 25 years
Coastline Pilot - Laguna Beach,CA,USA

By Joe Haakenson The International Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach has it all: a Hall of Fame, a Walk of Fame, all kinds of memorabilia and exhibits, and of course, a link to surfing history that is invaluable. But there is that one thing that the [more]



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