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11:41:53 PM Vegas gunning for tourists with mob-like museum
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

AP The city is opening The (redacted) Museum: The Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, which will showcase southern Nevada's colorful ... [more]

10:53:05 PM In Mississippi, a museum fit for BBKing
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

The BB King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center opened in the musician's hometown. (Matthew s. gunby/associated press) By Shelia Byrd Associated Press ... [more]

9:27:50 PM Is the price right for Museum of Art name?
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville NC,USA

By Andrew Barksdale If Fayetteville Museum of Art officials want to raise millions of dollars by selling the name of their new building, they should look to ... [more]

8:37:03 PM Finding art in unexpected places
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

The Nelson-Atkins, Kemper and Nerman museums are right around the corner. Galleries in the Crossroads and across the metropolitan area, as well as regional ... [more]

7:42:49 PM Sailboat Market May Have Cooled, But It's Not Sunk
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The Manitou has been at the Calvert Marine Museum since May for final restoration work. Doug Alves, director of the museum, said that the aft compartment of ... [more]

5:23:03 PM Bonn museums bring life to its most famous son
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA

The house is now a museum. (Photos courtesy Ruth Taber / Special to the Times) original viola hangs in a case at the museum. He played in the Bonn Court ... [more]

5:12:32 PM Idaho museum unveils 16000-year-old tools
Fox 12 Boise - Nampa,ID,USA

AP - October 11, 2008 7:34 PM ET POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) - The Idaho Museum of Natural History is displaying some of the nation's oldest archaeological .... [more]

4:33:26 PM What price the rise of private art?
Guardian - UK

Why would such eminent Americans give up the intellectual and moral freedoms of museums to abide by the laws of the market? To industry insiders, impatient ... [more]

4:20:12 PM No buyer for Elvis museum
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA

By Jessica Bock Wright City’s former Elvis museum once again failed to sell in an eBay auction that ended Friday. Owner Andy Key, 39, announced last month ... [more]

2:46:09 PM How to do New York for free
The Times - London,England,UK

TheNational Museum of the American Indian (www.nmai.si.edu ) offers free entry every day. The £12 admission for the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org ... [more]

1:18:25 PM Lux Tip: Free Museums
Luxist - Santa Monica,CA,USA

Whether you're a prince or a pauper, there's probably a day (or night) you can get into the best museums in your area for free. For example, The Walker Art ... [more]

12:21:46 PM A Heaping Helping Of History, From Mayflower To Museum
Hartford Courant - United States

Any itinerary should include Plymouth Rock (carted ashore in 1774), Pilgrim Hall Museum (open since 1824, renovated this year), the National Monument to the ... [more]

3:34:08 AM Politicians need to help country's struggling museums
Timmins Daily Press - Timmins,Ontario,Canada

As a little background, museums are not dusty homages to the past filled with a lot of boring stuff that we insist our kids visit (but would never do so on ... [more]

2:44:29 AM Museum unveils Passchendaele exhibit
Canada.com - Canada

History - A temporary exhibit on the historic First World War battle of Passchendaele is now open at Calgary's The Military Museums. The exhibit, on display ... [more]

2:44:08 AM Jewelry show to open first part of Cleveland Museum of Art expansion
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

The Cleveland Museum of Art's resurgence as a force in the region's cultural life took a major leap in June when it reopened its 1916 galleries as the first ... [more]

1:52:34 AM Museum turns page in civil rights history
Albany Herald On-line - Albany,GA,USA

“When you go to the national museum in Memphis, they talk about Albany. When you go to the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, they talk about Albany. ... [more]

1:03:44 AM Discovering Graaff-Reinet beyond museums, shops
Weekend Post - Port Elizabeth,South Africa

Once you‘ve prowled the streets, taken in the museums, art galleries and shops, where do you go? For an eye-opening tour of what can only be described as ... [more]



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