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News From Tuesday, January 30, 2007
11:45:29 PM Abu Dhabi vies for spot on tourism map
Times of Oman - Ruwi,Muscat,Oman

Centrepiece of the quiet emirate’s mega project to lure tourists is the construction of four museums, including a Guggenheim and, perhaps, a local version ... [more]

11:45:28 PM Owner of disputed Pollock paintings rejects Harvard analysis
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA

Researchers at the Harvard University Art Museums tested paint pigments and binding media in the three works. They found that pigments used in all three ... [more]

9:25:29 PM Churchill Downs' Derby Museum Wants to Be Barbaro's Burial Site
Bloomberg - USA

30 (Bloomberg) -- The Kentucky Derby Museum wants Churchill Downs to be the burial site for Barbaro, who was euthanized eighth months after winning the .... [more]

9:25:29 PM Aberdeen museum returns nine Maori heads
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

The Marischal Museum at the University of Aberdeen today handed over nine tattooed heads from its huge collection of Maori exhibits to a New Zealand .... [more]

9:25:29 PM Roberts: ‘Night at the Museum’ is mediocre
WSU Winonan - Winona,Minnesota,USA

“Night at the Museum” stars Ben Stiller as Larry Daley, a job jumper and divorced dad. He recently lost another decent job, and might be forced to move ... [more]

9:25:28 PM Artist donates works to Danish museum
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

His wife, Sidsel Ramson, formally handed over the works Tuesday to the Statens Museum for Kunst in downtown Copenhagen. The 93-year-old artist was not able ... [more]

6:00:29 PM Abu Dhabi targets niche market in tourism sector
Middle East Online - UK

Centrepiece of the quiet emirate's mega project to lure tourists is the construction of four museums, including a Guggenheim and, perhaps, a local version ... [more]

5:03:20 PM The Stage opens Theatre Museum appeal with £10000 pledge
Stage - London,London,UK

Stage managing director Catherine Comerford has donated £10000 in an attempt to kick-start a new bid to retain Covent Garden’s Theatre Museum at its current ... [more]

5:03:20 PM Barbaro May Be Buried At Kentucky Derby Museum
WBBM780 - Chicago,USA

Officials at the Kentucky Derby Museum, located on the grounds of Churchill Downs, said Tuesday they'd be ``honored'' if Barbaro were buried in a garden ... [more]

2:25:29 PM Pollock, or not? Age of pigments offer a clue
International Herald Tribune - Paris,France

A yearlong scientific analysis by the Harvard University Art Museums of three paintings discovered in 2003 and considered to be possible works by Jackson ... [more]

2:25:28 PM Museums cast web to increase catch
The Australian - Australia

IT sounds like a contradiction, but Australia's museums - the custodians of old and dead artefacts - are among the country's hottest and liveliest cultural ... [more]

1:30:33 PM Naval Museum director to bring new artifacts back from Virginia
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA

National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus Executive Director Bruce Smith is traveling to Virginia today to bring back a new group of papers to be ... [more]

1:30:32 PM State museum closed until fire alarm is repaired
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA

Officials said the State Museum of Pennsylvania would remain closed Tuesday as work continued on fire alarm problems that closed the showcase of state .... [more]

1:30:31 PM Founder of lighthouse museum dies
Press Herald - Portland,ME,USA

ROCKPORT - Kenneth Black, the founder of the Maine Lighthouse Museum who was known as "Mr. Lighthouse" to lighthouse enthusiasts, died Sunday. He was 82. ... [more]

1:30:29 PM Broadcast museum needs own new deal
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

In about five months, the Museum of Broadcast Communications will host a public celebration of Franklin D. Roosevelt's historic "New Deal" speech at .... [more]

1:30:29 PM Mining museum can't dig up funds
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA

CADIZ, Ohio - A group that hoped to turn a giant shovel into the centerpiece of a museum dedicated to eastern Ohio's mining industry failed to raise enough ... [more]

10:53:22 AM Shorthanded state museum could lose accreditation
The Spokesman Review - Spokane,WA,USA

That's a month before American Association of Museums reviewers come to Boise to scrutinize Idaho's museum operation. ... [more]

10:53:22 AM SOCIAL SCIENCE, CULTURAL HERITAGE European SME project opens art ...
EUROPA - Brussels,Belgium

The answer, for several Baltic museums, was to digitise their artefacts and put them online. This is a growing trend in the 21st century, which has been ... [more]

9:55:30 AM Museum to keep Bronze Age hoard
BBC News - E,UK

The Bronze Age hoard, unearthed by a metal detector enthusiast on land near Poulton in 2004, will be collected from the British Museum early in February. ... [more]

9:55:30 AM Museum mavens: Sashaying and more in service of Snooty's home
Bradenton Herald - Bradenton,FL,USA

BRADENTON - Service League of the South Florida Museum president Jackie Walker and historian Shirley Sullivan are senior citizens who have sashayed down the ... [more]

9:55:30 AM Effort to save giant mining shovel for museum fails
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA

Harrison County officials hoped to use the Silver Spade as the centerpiece of an outdoor coal mining museum that would also include large drag lines and ... [more]

9:55:29 AM County history museum closes
Everett Herald - Everett,WA,USA

A week after its part-time executive director announced his resignation, the struggling nonprofit organization's board of trustees voted to close the museum ... [more]

9:55:29 AM Sarasota cultural events
Bradenton Herald - Bradenton,FL,USA

3: The exhibition, "Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art," will open at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art ... [more]

9:55:29 AM Museum wants group to change its name
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA

Muncie -- The Minnetrista museum is asking a neighborhood association to stop using that name, even though the group adopted it five years before the museum ... [more]

9:55:28 AM TATTOOED MAORI HEADS RETURN TO NEW ZEALAND FROM ABERDEEN MUSEUM
24 Hour Museum - UK

A museum’s collection of tattooed Maori heads is returning to its ancestral home, more than 180 years after being taken from New Zealand. ... [more]

7:20:28 AM Peering Into Pollock
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA

A technical analysis released yesterday by the Harvard University Art Museums pours cold water on a filmmaker's claim to have discovered a trove of ... [more]

6:23:19 AM City budget would preserve library, museum services
Fort Dodge Messenger - Fort Dodge,IA,USA

Fort Dodge residents will see basically the same level of service at their public library and the Blanden Memorial Art Museum when the city government .... [more]

6:23:19 AM The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
E-Flux - New York,NY,USA

The Contemporary Museum presents the first solo museum exhibition of the drawings of New York artist Geoffrey Chadsey. Organized by Associate Director/Chief ... [more]

6:23:19 AM Science museum fighting to stay afloat
News 14 Carolina - Raleigh,NC,USA

WILSON, NC -- A children's science museum in Wilson needs your help to keep its doors open. Imagination Station needs to raise more than $1 million to pay ... [more]

6:23:19 AM MARITIME MUSEUM: Looking for a home
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA

But its 5000 square feet can only hold one-third of the documents, books and marine artifacts collected by the nonprofit Jacksonville Maritime Museum ... [more]

6:23:19 AM Upgrades to alarm system keep State Museum closed
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA

Work continues on the malfunctioning fire alarm system at The State Museum that prevents the showcase of Pennsylvania treasures from being open to the .... [more]

6:23:19 AM Boston College McMullen Museum of Art Exhibition Explores ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA

29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College will present a groundbreaking exhibition, Pollock Matters, on view September 1 ... [more]



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