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10:17:24 PM Visitors: New-look museum is a masterpiece
WFMZ Allentown

After close to a year of renovations, the Allentown Art Museum is ready to unveil its latest masterpiece. The public got its first glimpse at the redesigned building on Sunday. "I absolutely love it," said Linda Greene, an Allentown resident. ... [more]

10:17:24 PM Caravaggio exhibit opens in Texas
Inquirer.net

(AP Photo/Kimbell Art Museum) Fort Worth, Texas — Works by Italian artist Caravaggio will be displayed along with pieces by those influenced by him in an exhibit opening in Fort Worth, Texas. “Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome” opens Sunday at the [more]

9:02:28 PM Collaborative workshop to revamp museums
Times of India - India

KOLKATA: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London will collaborate with museums in India and handpick their curators, managers and officials for a 'skills development' programme. To be supported by the union ministry of culture, the innovative ... [more]

6:48:23 PM Fort Collins museum gets ready to move to new digs
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA

Staff of the Fort Collins Museum & Discovery Science Center plan to close the iconic sandstone building in Library Park at the end of October to start preparing for a move to a much larger, modern building. The museum's new home, which will be called [more]

6:48:23 PM Huntsville gives $250k to space museum
Ventura ...

(AP) - Huntsville officials are giving the US Space and Rocket Center museum $250000 in emergency funding as it attempts to get its finances back in the black, The Huntsville Times reported Sunday. The City Council voted Thursday to approve the ... [more]

6:19:56 PM MoMA's alliance with the High
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscripition) - Atlanta,GA,USA

Q: The High bills its exhibit programs with other museums as partnerships. How much of a partnership has this been? A: The way the program developed was very much along a collegial and collaborative trajectory, where Michael and I talked [starting in [more]

6:19:56 PM Kids get a chance to learn the ABCs of a museum
Beaver County Times - Beaver County,PA,USA

The Gardiner family from Hanover Township visited the new family-friendly exhibit "M is for Museum" at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Oakland. Katey Gardiner gets a closer look at a rare squirrel found at Sandy Lake in Mercer County. ... [more]

6:19:56 PM A gift at the end: Fort Collins Museum will offer a free day before closing
ReporterHerald.com - Loveland,CO,USA

By Pamela Dickman Reporter-Herald Staff Writer City of Fort Collins employees, left, enter the new Fort Collins Museum of Discovery Thursday for a tour. (Jenny Sparks) What: Closing ceremony and celebration for the Fort Collins Museum and Discovery . [more]

2:19:23 PM Founders' Champagne Brunch celebrates Ocean Springs' Walter Anderson Museum
Mississippi Press (blog)

Mississippi Press (blog) By Susan Ruddiman A toast is made during the WAMA Brunch at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, MS on Saturday, October 15, 2011. (Joshua Dahl, Correspondent) OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi -- The future of Walter [more]

2:19:23 PM Lake Hopatcong Museum Reopens
Patch.com

This fall the Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum is open on Sundays from noon to 4 pm through Dec. 18. Located in a rustic 19 th century building which served as a lock tender's house on the Morris Canal, the museum offers an entertaining and ... [more]

12:28:14 PM Chazen Museum of Art: Building bridges of inspiration
Wisconsin State Journal

A transparent walkway serves as an architects' “signature” as it bridges galleries in a mezzanine of the expanded Chazen Museum of Art. Open house: Saturday, Oct. 22 and Sunday, Oct. 23 from noon to 5 pm Regular hours: The museum will be closed to th [more]

9:32:32 AM Opelousas museum features JS Clark exhibit
Opelousas Daily World - Opelousas,LA,USA

Arabella Minick, Opelousas Museum and Interpretive Center employee, prepares a photo history of JS Clark High School that will be on display at the museum to coincide with the second annual JS Clark School Reunion to be held in Opelousas October 21-2 [more]

9:10:44 AM Fort Worth dazzles with a wide range of artistic offerings
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA

By Wayne Anderson Billed as the “Cultural Capital of the Southwest,” Fort Worth, Texas, is a premier destination for art fans because of its five world-class museums. We visited three: the Kimbell Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and t [more]

9:10:44 AM Rep. John Lewis helps memorialize African-American history
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

"It's important to leave these museums, these little pieces of history, to inspire, inform and educate unborn generations." Lewis, a civil rights icon who was badly beaten during marches and demonstrations in the 1960s, co-wrote the legislation that  [more]

7:40:45 AM Exhibit at the Nelson museum presents sculptor Rodin at his peak
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

By ALICE THORSON "Falling Man" is part of the Rodin exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. “Rodin: Sculptures From the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation” continues at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., through June 3. ... [more]

7:40:45 AM Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, stages groundbreaking Caravaggio
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

NewsOK.com Kimbell Art Museum Why Caravaggio? Nancy E. Edwards, curator of European art at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, says, “Soon after his arrival in Rome from northern Italy, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio created a dramatic new kind  [more]

7:40:45 AM Museum keeps 'Day of the Dead' alive
Enterprise-Record - Chico,CA,USA

By ROBIN EPLEY-Staff Writer Ava Kuykendall, 3, (left) has her face painted by Natalie Carder (right) as people take part in celebrations of the approaching Day of the Dead at the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology at Meriam Library on the Chico . [more]

6:46:54 AM The Family Friendly Museum Award
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

I can't think of a time in my life I haven't visited museums. I suppose that's because my parents were both great museum lovers and took my brother and me to anything that looked like one. I can remember standing in Kensington Palace staring at a gre [more]

6:46:54 AM What's your favourite family friendly museum?
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

Now it's your chance to say which museum welcomes families most. The Sunday Telegraph has teamed up with the charity Kids in Museums for the Family-Friendly Museum Award, to search out the best museum in Britain for all ages. And it's readers who mak [more]

5:22:55 AM Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman opens new Stuart wing
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

BY RICK ROGERS rrogers@opubco.com NORMAN — Forty years after it opened its doors to the public, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is preparing to celebrate a new milestone, the long-awaited opening of the Stuart Wing. Named for University of Oklahoma  [more]

4:59:24 AM Team to discuss spirits they say haunt museum
CharlotteObserver.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

The Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society museum's main building, completed in 1855, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is one of several buildings of the former campus of the North Carolina College and the Mt. Pleasant  [more]

4:59:24 AM Frequently asked questions about the Tubman Museum and the SPLOST
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA

Can SPLOST funds be used to support private museums? Many Georgia cities, including Albany, Augusta and Savannah, have used SPLOST funds (on multiple occasions) to support capital projects at their private, nonprofit museums. None of these museum ... [more]

4:05:26 AM High develops new smartphone application for "Picasso to Warhol" exhibition
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

“Museums are evolving, and we want to create additional ways for our visitors to experience art,” said Michael Shapiro, the High's Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., Director. “Visitors want to do more than just read our labels—they want to take photo [more]

2:48:22 AM The quiet side of Leavenworth
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

Leavenworth's Waterfront Park and Upper Valley Museum offer a quiet alternative to the town's faux-Bavarian tourist attractions. By Michael Upchurch The Upper Valley Museum enjoys a fine view of the Cascades. No comments have been posted to this ... [more]

1:20:06 AM Museum celebrates game-changing Kress collection
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA

By Steve Siegel, Special to The Morning Call Perhaps that most famous advice, "By their fruits, ye shall know them," also applies to museums. Many know the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute for its collection of Asian art, the Brooklyn Museu [more]



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