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News From Sunday, October 17, 2010
9:16:48 PM Iran to boost collaboration with Dutch museums
Tehran Times - Tehran,Iran

Hermitage Amsterdam is a branch of the Russian Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg in Amsterdam. Having visited the museum, Gharibabadi said that several ... [more]

8:04:52 PM After a flood of problems, Rose Art Museum director mounts 'WaterWays'
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA

Weymouth News The director of museum operations, Dawes said the premise for an about artists' varied approaches to water came from two very different sources, ... [more]

7:38:26 PM Ruth Taber: Small-town Fredericksburg, Texas, is rich in museums
El Paso Times

by Ruth Taber / Special to the Times The George HW Bush Gallery, opened in 2009, is part of the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas. ... [more]

3:40:33 PM Director of art museum captivates with candor
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA

By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Carnegie Museum of Art director Lynn Zelevansky standing next to a sculpture by the Campana Brothers in the .... [more]

3:37:10 PM Holocaust museum opens in LA
JTA - New York,NY,USA

LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Los Angeles is the site of the United States' newest Holocaust Museum. The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust officially opened its ... [more]

2:13:45 PM Hitler's hold over Germans goes on display
The Australian

Hans-Ulrich Thamer, the co-curator, declared that Germany's right-wing radicals "never read books, never cross the threshold of museums". ... [more]

11:48:30 AM Local representatives for Miss America will appear at rail museum
TheReporter.com - Vacaville,CA,USA

Reigning Miss Solano 2010 Sarah Portugal and Outstanding Teen 2010 Yvette Hernandez will visit the Western Railway Museum today. Alongside museum volunteers ... [more]

10:01:51 AM Past, future
BBC Sport - UK

"The National Museums are here to serve the people of Wales and developing cultural partnerships is a way of delivering this vision successfully. ... [more]

7:41:01 AM How to keep the Sabbath holy - and the Jewish museum open?
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

But ancient practice created a very contemporary predicament for the National Museum of American Jewish History, which will open its new building off ... [more]

7:26:37 AM Silent-film shake-up, via Fremont
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By Matthew Artz Silent film historian David Kiehn in the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont Calif. on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, holds a photo of ... [more]

5:19:43 AM Tax rules encourage gifts of art from collectors, but not from artists
The Missoulian

The Missoulian Art collectors who donate artworks to museums may claim the full appraised value of that artwork as a charitable donation on their taxes. ... [more]

2:18:48 AM Las Vegas musicians pay tribute to Liberace as museum closes
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

As the Liberace Museum prepares to close tomorrow, dreams of reviving the pianist's glory have been realized. The closing has attracted international media ... [more]

1:54:18 AM Museum celebrates 50 years
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA

On Saturday evening, about 200 of the museum's members came together to celebrate that anniversary through the opening of an exhibit celebrating the ... [more]



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