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11:39:56 PM Obamas take their daughters to an art museum
Motors ...

By Maria Puente, USA TODAY There's at least one good thing about raising kids in the White House: You're within walking distance of a dozen first-class museums. On Sunday, President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha ... [more]

11:39:56 PM New pirate museum in Galveston will get you hooked
KABC - Los Angeles,CA,USA

GALVESTON, TX (KTRK) -- If you've ever been interested in the history of pirates, Galveston locals say this new museum, Pirates Legends of the Gulf Coast, is the new treasure to check out. It's only been open for three days. A singing skeleton is fir [more]

9:55:26 PM London museum displays textiles made from golden silk of millions of spiders
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

London's Victoria and Albert Museum put on display a remarkable cape woven from silk extracted from about 1.2 million female spiders in the highlands of Madagascar, an island off Africa's southeastern coast. The project was the work of English textil [more]

9:55:26 PM New Museum to Present Focused Survey of Work by Klara Lidén 5/9-7/1
Broadway World - New York,NY,USA

This May, the New Museum will present the first large-scale, American museum exhibition of the artist Klara Lidén, featuring a selection of works in the Museum's second floor gallery. Lidén's exhibition at the New Museum is part of a series of focus  [more]

9:55:26 PM Outrage as September 11 museum execs pay themselves $6.5million - and
Daily Mail - UK - UK

Daily Mail By Daniel Bates Bosses at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum have been branded 'totally obscene' after paying themselves $6.5million in salaries including a $300000 golden parachute for one executive. Boardroom pay shot up nearl [more]

9:41:17 PM New Museum Lowers Entry Fee
American ...

By RANDY KENNEDY Museums often make news by raising their admission prices. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art's recommended admission went to $25 from $20 last year; the Museum of Modern Art, whose fee is not recommended but mandatory, also went to $25 [more]

9:41:17 PM Looking in on The Hajj at The British Museum
The Platform

Last week the British Museum opened the doors of its new exhibition “Hajj Journey to the Heart of Islam” to the public. Of course, some glaring questions came to mind prior to visiting the exhibition. How could anyone curate an exhibition focusing on [more]

7:51:35 PM Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Announces Eastern Field
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) today announced the opening of a new field office for historic preservation services at Graeme Park, 859 County Line Road, Horsha [more]

7:43:15 PM Railroad Museum Celebrates Black History Month By Exploring the Role of ...
The Sacramento Press

by Traci Rockefeller Cusack, published on January 30, 2012 at 11:04 AM In celebration of Black History Month, the California State Railroad Museum is proud to present two special guest presentations and book signing opportunities with Professor ... [more]

6:20:31 PM Eclectic Fla. museum to be emptied by auction
The Associated Press

Two brothers, Bob and Paul Milhous, are liquidating their one-of-a-kind private museum after spending decades scouring the world to find its gems. The Milhous Collection, as the items in their 39000-square-foot building have become known, ... [more]

6:20:31 PM Unleash the Power of Technology: How Museums Can Create Engaging Experiences
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

How is technology changing the way we experience a museum? And what technologies are likely to create engaging experiences for a museum's audience? I've been thinking about museum audiences and engagement for some time now and had these questions in  [more]

5:10:55 PM National Football Museum to win European Museum of the Year Award 2013?
M&H Online

The boss of the National Football Museum in Manchester, due to open this year, has spoken of his desire to turn the museum into a world beater. In an interview with the Manchester Evening News, museum director Kevin Moore said that his team are very  [more]

4:46:16 PM Eclectic US Museum to Be Emptied by Auction
ABC News - United States

A one-of-a-kind private museum assembled by two wealthy Florida brothers is going on the auction block. The Milhous Collection is expected to fetch around $40 million next month. Highlights are collector cars and rare musical instruments, ... [more]

4:46:16 PM Hager House, railroad museum schedules on hold
Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown,MD,USA

The recreation department is planning to have six adult sports leagues this spring, but the operating details of other attractions, such as the historic Jonathan Hager House and Railroad Museum at City Park are still being ironed out, ... [more]

4:46:16 PM Savannah museums let public in free Feb. 8 for Super Museum Sunday
Savannah Morning News

By Jason Kendall Super Museum Sunday unlocks the vault Feb. 8 on more than 40 cultural institutions across Coastal Georgia, giving the public a free glimpse of the treasures hidden inside. For the Andrew Low House Museum, where “100 visitors is a ... [more]

3:32:08 PM Custer Battlefield Museum Files Lawsuit Against the United States In US ...
MarketWatch - USA

30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- After years of harassment, false allegations, and wrongful persecution, Christopher Kortlander, founding director of the Custer Battlefield Museum, and the businesses he operates at Garryowen, Montana, ... [more]

3:32:08 PM Henry Ford Museum opens new 'Driving America' exhibit
Motors ...

The suburban Detroit museum founded by car pioneer Henry Ford opened its revamped automotive displays over the weekend, the Associated Press reports. "Driving America" opened at Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn following a Saturday night preview event. [more]

3:32:08 PM Bank of America Launches the 15th Season of Museums on Us(R)
MarketWatch - USA

CHARLOTTE, NC, Jan 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Bank of America today announces the 2012 Museums on Us(R) roster featuring many of the most renowned arts, culture and educational institutions across the United States, from Miami, Fla., to Anchorage, . [more]

3:32:08 PM Obamas Spend a Night at the Museum
NBC Washington - Washington,DC,USA

By Brandon Benavides WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: (AFP OUT) US President Barack Obama (2nd R), First Lady Michelle Obama (C) and daughters Sasha (L) and Malia (R) visit the Corcoran Gallery of Art on January 29, 20123 in Washington, DC The museum is  [more]

2:56:01 PM Brontë museum faces closure because of council budget cuts
Guardian - UK

The director of the Brontë Parsonage at Haworth, Andrew McCarthy, said the proposal had come as a shock, along with other suggested cuts including reduced hours at Oakwell Hall, another Kirklees museum that plays an important part in Shirley. [more]

2:56:01 PM "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": A collection of beloved collections
The 4G speed means that you hit your cap even faster than you would on the

By Maggie Koerth-Baker at 6:00 am Monday, Jan 30 Last week, I asked BoingBoing readers to send me images and stories about your favorite museum exhibits—beloved displays and collections squirreled away in museums that might not have a big profile ... [more]

2:56:01 PM £20 for an exhibition – are museums fooling the public, or themselves?
Guardian - UK

It's lovely to stroll around our museums for free. Not so nice to find that, once you have been sucked in with no admission charge, the exhibition you want to see costs a tenner or more to enter. It's irritating for the visitor, and perplexing. [more]

2:56:01 PM Leibovitz opens show at Smithsonian
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

By BRETT ZONGKER AP WASHINGTON — Photographer Annie Leibovitz says she has come back from some dark days and revived her creativity with a new project now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum that marks a departure from her popular celebrit [more]

1:48:39 PM 12 Best Children's Museums In The US
Forbes - USA

For these reasons, a good museum can be a real lifesaver, and in some cases, the very best can even be the cornerstone of an entire vacation. Many adult museums have exhibits that also appeal to children, like the dinosaur skeletons at New York's ... [more]

1:48:39 PM Photographic Liberation: DePaul Art Museum's 'Studio Malick' exhibit
The Depaulia

The Depaulia By Clarissa Fidler One of the pieces that will be on display in the DePaul Art Museum by Malick Sidibé, "Baptism," 1967. Gelatin silver prints mounted to paper. Artist Malick Sidibé used photography to capture the cultural and social tra [more]

1:48:39 PM Touring museum highlights African-American inventors
The Athens News - Athens,OH,USA

The African American Inventors and Inventions Traveling Museum will be at Ohio University on Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Baker University Theatre Lounge from noon to 6 pm as part of the Black History Month celebrations. This museum is part of "Reflections  [more]

1:48:39 PM From Lancaster to Philadelphia, all for the Love of the Tour
Lancaster Newspapers

Both are among Weismer's favorite subjects at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where the Lititz-area resident serves as a guide. Weismer, 59, apparently is the first Lancaster County resident to join the museum's docent program in its 50-year history. [more]

1:17:32 PM New museums in Libya reflect war experience
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Crammed between bomb-blasted apartment blocks is a makeshift museum of last year's war and its spoils, its contents filling a former computer center, and spilling out of the building to the sidewalk and the street. Captured tanks are crowded near an  [more]

1:17:32 PM Museum Launches Exhibit on Holland and Lincoln Tunnels
Patch.com

By Alan Skontra After a six week recess the Hoboken Historical Museum reopened Sunday afternoon with a reception welcoming its signature exhibit for 2012, Driving Under the Hudson: The History of the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels. [more]

1:17:32 PM Knoxville museum fetches rare painting for $107K
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA

A painting by Impressionist artist Anna Catherine Wiley brought the most during the 800 lot sale, purchased for $93000 by the Knoxville Museum of Art. (Paul Efird/News Sentinel) Paul Efird/News Sentinel Taylor Thistlethwaite of Case Antiques ... [more]

1:17:32 PM Finger Lakes Museum hits first fundraising goal
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA

The Finger Lakes Museum has surpassed its goal of raising $1 million to fund operations and various planning costs, keeping the proposed $40 million project for Keuka Lake State Park in Yates County on course. Museum board President John Adamski of . [more]

1:17:32 PM Sheldon Museum display features 50 items reflecting the role of railroads
The Republic

The Republic The role of railroads in creating modern America is the subject of a new exhibit at the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The display, called Railroads and the Making of Modern America, runs through May 20. [more]

10:18:56 AM National Geographic to place giant, interactive map at Miss. museum
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA

JACKSON — Mississippi students will be exploring Asia in a big way in February - when a giant map of the continent goes on display at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. The map measures 26 feet by 35 feet and is designed as a giant game board [more]

10:18:56 AM Pemberton Twp. mayor, historic trust agree to terms on train museum
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA

The mayor and a nonprofit group have reached a tentative contract to end a feud over the operation of a historic train station as a public museum. The North Pemberton Station museum has been closed for eight months since Mayor David Patriarca objecte [more]

7:34:14 AM Football Museum boss: Our goal is to be the greatest
Manchester Evening News

With City and United fighting it out for the Premier League title, Manchester seems the natural home for the National Football Museum. David Henry gets a preview of what we can expect when it opens in Urbis this summer ... IN the temporary offices of [more]

7:34:14 AM BDS roundup: Scholars' delegation to Palestine, UK museum slammed for links
Electronic Intifada

The Electronic Intifada (blog) Nearly two dozen prominent UK scientists, academics and artists signed an open letter demanding that the National History Museum drop its links with Ahava/Dead Sea Laboratories, which is located inside an illegal settle [more]

6:17:42 AM New Orleans Museum of Art: The Times-Picayune covers 175 years of New
NOLA / Associated Press

NOLA.com By Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune To be considered a great American city, Gilded Age New Orleans needed a great art museum like those in New York and Philadelphia. That was the opinion of aging sugar industry magnate Isaac Delgado, ... [more]

5:30:28 AM Phoenix-area museums reach out to Hispanic visitors
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

29, 2012 09:38 PM Valley museums realize they have to do more to attract Hispanic visitors and are launching efforts to reach out to an untapped market. The Musical Instrument Museum this month received a $50000 grant from the Virginia G. Piper ... [more]

4:46:30 AM Garryowen dealer seeks return of seized Custer museum artifacts
Billings Gazette

MATTHEW BROWN/AP Custer Battlefield Museum director Christopher Kortlander examines an item from his collection of Elizabeth Custer manuscripts in Garryowen last year. Kortlander is seeking the return of Indian artifacts seized by the government duri [more]

4:46:30 AM Museum's art keeps leaving, but it always returns
9NEWS.com

DENVER - An exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver allows people to leave with a piece of living artwork and invites them to set it free to return to the museum on its own. The exhibit, Thinking About Flying by Pittsburgh-based artist Jo [more]

2:58:03 AM Influential Abstract Expressionists shown at Berkeley Art Museum
Daily Californian - Berkeley,CA,USA

By Anna Carey Although museums can only show a tiny percentage of their collection at any given time, to hide away your de Kooning, Rothko and Pollock somehow seems criminal. In the Berkeley Art Museum's exhibit, “Abstract Expressionisms: Paintings a [more]

2:19:41 AM Museum planned in Louisville Water Co. pump station
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

Part of the project will be a “Water Works Museum” designed to showcase the utility and its 150-year history. It will be the first interior restoration of the site since 1978, with plans calling for Pumping Station No. 1 to be restored as closely as  [more]

2:19:41 AM Pulse: Bob Sirott visits Joliet Area Historical Museum
Chicago Sun-Times

Bob Sirott of Fox TV made a good impression on the folks at the Joliet Area Historical Museum last week. Sirott stopped in at the museum gift shop after an interview with Glen Campbell, who was performing at the Rialto Square Theatre. [more]

12:21:30 AM Children's Museum kicks off the Year of the Dragon
Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City,IA,USA

The Chinese New Year festivities at the Iowa Children's Museum on Sunday held special meaning for Pam and Jeff Johnson. The Cedar Falls couple came to help their 6-year-old daughter, Maya — who they adopted from China five years ago — learn about her [more]

12:21:30 AM Obamas wrap up weekend with visit to museum
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

The Corcoran's current exhibits include "30 Americans," which the museum describes as a showcase of "many of the most important African-American artists of the last three decades." Earlier Sunday, Obama played basketball with his daughters at the ... [more]

12:21:30 AM Crowds gather at Hoboken Historical Museum for "Under the Hudson"
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

The Jersey Journal - NJ.com By Kate Kowsh/The Jersey Journal Dozens tour the Hoboken Historical Museum's new exhibit on the Holland and Lincoln tunnels on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Kate Kowsh/Jersey Journal Dozens took to the Hoboken Historical Museum,  [more]



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