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News From Wednesday, October 18, 2006
11:11:25 PM Cutting-edge art museum to be dedicated Oct. 25
Washington University Record - Washington,USA

.... The southern facades of the Kemper Art Museum and Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall. Also pictured is the Dula Foundation Central Courtyard. ... [more]

11:11:25 PM Civil Rights Museum awards honor Stevie Wonder
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

AP. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Stevie Wonder received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Civil Rights Museum, then segued from his acceptance speech into a ... [more]

11:11:25 PM Brooks Museum spices up Brushmark with addition of Wally Joe
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

Wally Joe will become executive chef of the Brushmark Restaurant at the Brooks Museum of Art. Joe, owner of Wally Joe restaurant ... [more]

11:11:25 PM Museum highlights 'forgotten' industry
Watton and Swaffham Times - Watton / Swaffham,Norfolk,UK

One of Norfolk's forgotten industries is being celebrated at the newly renovated Ancient House Museum. Adam Gretton reports on the ... [more]

11:11:25 PM Museum to acquire Oswald autopsy files
United Press International - USA

18 (UPI) -- Recently discovered documents from the 1981 exhumation and autopsy on Lee Harvey Oswald appear headed for Dallas' Sixth Floor Museum archives. ... [more]

8:41:28 PM Foreign Curators Visit South Korea
Korea Times - South Korea

.... All participants work at famous museums such as the Oriental Museum in England, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the US, Peter the Great Museum of ... [more]

8:41:27 PM Manufacturer to create more than 60 jobs in Winston-Salem
WHNS - USA

WINSTON-SALEM, NC A company that makes displays for trade shows, museums and businesses will open a manufacturing plant in Winston-Salem. ... [more]

8:41:26 PM 'Berlin's Louvre' opens to public
BBC News - E,UK

.... again," he said. The building sits on Museum Island, a Unesco world heritage site that houses Berlin's five major museums. The island ... [more]

6:06:25 PM Sheffield museum reopens
BBC News - UK

Sheffield's Weston Park Museum was due to reopen in autumn 2005, but work was delayed because of major structural problems. Finally ... [more]

6:06:25 PM Temporary museum home on table
Jacksonville Daily News - Jacksonville,NC,USA

They’re calling it a “mini-museum” that could improve Jacksonville’s downtown image as well as drum up tourism if it becomes a reality. ... [more]

6:06:24 PM Museum awards honor singer Stevie Wonder, activists Lowery ...
International Herald Tribune - Paris,France

AP. MEMPHIS, Tennessee Stevie Wonder received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Civil Rights Museum, then segued from his acceptance speech into a ... [more]

5:06:24 PM Chinese museum curators to be offered training residencies in US
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China

.... The three-month program would enable Chinese curators to undertake "residencies" in US museums, where they could learn how "American museums are structured and ... [more]

2:56:25 PM Film Museum of Iran curator dies
MehrNews.com - Tehran,Iran

TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) -- Film Museum of Iran curator Mehdi Salimi died of heart failure in Tehran on Tuesday night. He had also ... [more]

11:31:33 AM Plans set forth for women's museum
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

.... as the first hall of fame dedicated to women's sports, and plans for the center were unveiled Tuesday at the future site of the National Sports Museum in lower ... [more]

11:31:30 AM Records of Oswald exhumation going to Kennedy museum
Team 4 News - Harlingen,TX,USA

DALLAS Dallas County officials say records documenting the exhumation of Lee Harvey Oswald's body will be turned over to The Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. ... [more]

10:31:30 AM Berlin's Bode Museum Opens in Next Step Toward `German Louvre'
Bloomberg - USA

.... When the reconstruction of the entire Museum Island is completed, this extraordinary ensemble will have a unique appeal and rank among the best museums of the ... [more]

10:31:30 AM Cultural tour to war museums and shelters
Malta Independent - St. Julians,Malta

.... Malta Council for Culture and the Arts, the Malta Tourism Authority and Heritage Malta, will focus on the Second World War, visiting war museums and shelters. ... [more]

8:11:29 AM Confederacy museum to leave site in Richmond
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA

The Museum of the Confederacy will move from its location near Virginia Commonwealth University in downtown Richmond, where it is shrouded by construction, new ... [more]

8:11:29 AM Museum hopes shellacking won't stick
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA

What they're saying: Critics far and wide weigh in on the Denver Art Museum's unconventional $110 million addition designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. ... [more]

7:11:31 AM Arts Council to visit Dallas museums
Mid County Chronicle - Nederland,TX,USA

The activities scheduled for the trip range from dining and enjoying the exhibits at Dallas' Meadows Museum to experiencing the works of Van Gogh at the Dallas ... [more]

7:11:31 AM Public lecture focuses on future role for museums
UQ News - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia

Transformations of Museums in the 21st Century will be the focus of a free public lecture and discussion roundtable in the Queensland Museum Theatre, Southbank ... [more]

4:51:34 AM Museum hopes new home with help business
WDBJ7.com - Roanoke,VA,USA

The Museum of the Confederacy is hoping a new home will help restore some of its luster. A new report suggests moving the struggling ... [more]

4:51:34 AM Heritage museum says city has abandoned it
Sunshine Coast Daily - Queensland,Australia

LANDSBOROUGH Museum staff feel Caloundra Council has abandoned them and fear the museum’s 30,000 piece heritage collection could be lost to a neighbouring ... [more]

4:51:33 AM Seattle museum operators sue body show
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK

SEATTLE, WA, United States (UPI) -- Two Seattle museum operators have sued a body show, claiming that 'Bodies: The Exhibition' uses cadavers from people who ... [more]

4:51:33 AM Reed scraps museum plans
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA

.... Reed said he is abandoning his concept for a National Museum of the Old West in Harrisburg, a facility he said would have chronicled the country's westward ... [more]

4:51:33 AM State Museum program to feature Iwo Jima vets
The State - Columbia,SC,USA

Two veterans of Iwo Jima will be featured Friday during a program about the World War II battle at the State Museum. Former Marines ... [more]

4:51:26 AM Museum offers fear and nausea in the name of science
Independent - London,England,UK

.... A week after the German artist Carsten Holler's installation of five slides was unveiled in the turbine hall of Tate Modern, the Science Museum began a mission ... [more]

3:06:25 AM Austria launches looted art database
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA

.... database Tuesday to find the owners of art and other cultural items that may have been looted under Nazi rule and are now in some of the country's museums. ... [more]

3:06:25 AM Berlin's answer to Louvre opens up its Byzantine treasure trove
Independent - London,England,UK

.... lavish restoration is part of Berlin's plans to re-establish the city as one of Europe's most significant cultural centres with a choice of museums to rival ... [more]



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