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11:54:26 PM Nature Museum offers free hikes this weekend
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA

CORNWALL — To introduce the public to the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum's Discovery Quest trails, complimentary quests will be offered from 10 am-4 pm ... [more]

11:39:15 PM Bring overcoats for tours of Hingham’s Old Ordinary House Museums
The Patriot Ledger - Quincy,MA,USA

5, 6 and 7, the Hingham Historical Society will offer Candlelight Overcoat Tours of the historic Old Ordinary House Museum at 21 Lincoln St. Bring your ... [more]

8:21:45 PM New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge
Cape May County Herald - NJ, United States

Thetwo museums are the Barnegat Light Historical Society Museum on Long Beach Island, and the Cape May County Historical Museum in Cape May. ... [more]

7:57:45 PM Rachels Whiteread's Dramatic Installation, Place (Village) at The ...
Art Daily - USA

On view through January 25, 2009, it is Whiteread’s first solo museum show in the United States since the presentation of two sculptures in 2002 at the ... [more]

5:12:39 PM Address: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, 50 ...
Art Newspaper - UK

American architect and artist Maya Lin was an undergraduate student at Yale University when she won the national competition for the Vietnam Veterans .... [more]

4:49:35 PM Difficult restorations challenge museum
Canada.com - Canada

While some repair panels are readily available, Wiberg and museum staff had to make others from scratch. Compared to the rest of the car, the front fenders ... [more]

4:25:27 PM Top Five Museums: Ian Fleming and James Bond
The Times - London,England,UK

Horniman Museum and Gardens, London Road, SE23 (www.horniman.ac.uk 020-8699 1872), ongoing, free Including artefacts from the space race, architecture, .... [more]

4:02:56 PM Jewish museum tackles stereotypes
United Press International - USA

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Officials with a Jewish museum in New York said they expect their latest exhibit, which includes 49 sculptures of oversized noses ... [more]

3:20:40 PM Museum Unveils World's Longest Insect
Wired Blogs - USA

The specimen is now on display at Britain's Natural History Museum, courtesy of its discoverer Datuk Chan Chew Lun, a Malaysian naturalist. ... [more]

2:46:55 PM Climate change exhibit opens at NYC museum
The Associated Press -

Starting with that opening image, a new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History is trying to help viewers understand what people have done to ... [more]

1:56:56 PM Selling culture
Canada.com - Canada

A contingent of experts working in museums around the world converged on the Montreal Science Centre this month to discuss trends and strategies that might ... [more]

1:45:19 PM Terra cotta warriors set Bowers Museum attendance record
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

The public evidently agreed: Officals at the Bowers Museum report today that "Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor" had 209797 visitors ... [more]

1:01:34 PM Patrons losing confidence in Nehru Museum
Indian Express - New Delhi,India

New Delhi, October 17 : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in Delhi, considered to be among the most renowned research centers in the country, .... [more]

12:13:02 PM Liverpool Museums Exhibits Unfolding
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA

An exciting exhibition of paper sculptures at Sudley House is inspired by the original use of the rooms in which the artworks are displayed. ... [more]

12:04:01 PM Self-taught artist James Castle exhibit in Philly
The Associated Press -

Castle, subject of a new exhibit organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, was born profoundly deaf and never learned to read, write, sign or speak. ... [more]

10:24:47 AM PA Historical and Museum Commission Reaching Out to Help Local ...
MarketWatch - USA

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission will launch a new initiative to help the state's 25 Preserve America communities with historical ... [more]

8:54:58 AM Pulitzer gives big gift to Harvard Art Museum
Wicked Local - MA,USA

Harvard University announced Friday that the Harvard Art Museum has received a gift of 31 major works of modern and contemporary art and $45 million from ... [more]

7:59:20 AM Harvard Art Museum Gets $45 Million, Most Ever, From Pulitzer
Bloomberg - USA

By Julie Ziegler Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- The Harvard Art Museum received a $45 million gift, its largest ever, from Emily Rauh Pulitzer, a former assistant ... [more]

4:05:24 AM American Association of Museums, MSA and USCHT Marketing Council ...
Free press releases (press release) - Oxford,UK

The American Association of Museums (AAM), the Museum Store Association (MSA) and the US Cultural and Heritage Tourism Marketing Council (USCHT) are ... [more]

3:49:51 AM Museum and Gallery Listings
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

This show about the tintype, an early form of photograph made by exposing a lacquered iron plate to light, includes some 200 examples from the museum’s ... [more]

2:53:05 AM Field Museum joins Oriental Institute to save Iraq antiquities
Chicago Sun-Times - United States

BY ANDREW HERRMANN Staff Reporter aherrmann@suntimes.com The Field Museum and the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute will teach dozens of Iraqi ... [more]

2:22:30 AM Recycled advertising finds homes as artwork
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

But, thanks to Denver-based BetterWall.com, those banners, along with hundreds of others from some 30 North American art museums, have become ... [more]

1:58:19 AM New naval museum to receive archives
Canada.com - Canada

The relocated Naval Museum of Alberta is finally set to open this weekend as the Military Museums expansion project moves toward completion next spring. ... [more]

1:36:59 AM Art Openings, Events and Museums
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA

Portrait Artistry Demonstration: Watercolorist Linda Holland will give a demonstration on portrait artistry. This event is part of the Hillsboro Community ... [more]

1:10:03 AM Hall of Fame museum gets less from NY fundraiser
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA

By Peter Cooper • THE TENNESSEAN • October 17, 2008 NEW YORK — When a museum sends its treasures on the road, there's normally a traveling exhibit that ... [more]

12:49:12 AM Scottish museums suffer one theft in three years
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK

SCOTTISH museum bosses have revealed that they have only suffered one theft in three years...of a pair of stuffed squirrels. The rest of the four million ... [more]



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