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News From Thursday, October 19, 2006
10:26:26 PM Art Breathes Free in Two Baltimore Museums
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

.... Foundation Inc. -- our northern neighbor's two largest art museums join the ranks of Washington's free cultural institutions. But ... [more]

10:26:26 PM Ottawa museums offer spine-tingling stories to make you shiver
Ottawa Start (press release) - Ottawa,ON,Canada

Just in time for Halloween, haunted ghost walk tours will be held at the Billings Estate National Historic Site and Pinhey's Point Historic Site this October. ... [more]

7:01:26 PM Kids' TV show tied to museum exhibit
MLive.com - MI,USA

By Tricia Woolfenden. GRAND RAPIDS -- Kids of all ages are invited to "Come On Over!" and have a ball at the Grand Rapids Children's Museum's latest exhibit. ... [more]

7:01:25 PM OTTAWA Scouting Museum gets memorabilia from North Carolina
MyWebTimes.com - Ottawa,IL,USA

The Ottawa Scouting Museum is expanding its collection of Scouting memorabilia thanks to a significant donation by a now-closed North Carolina museum. ... [more]

7:01:25 PM Museum handed a lifeline
Blackpool Citizen - UK

By Jane Willis. Fleetwood Museum, currently under threat of closure, has been thrown a lifeline by one of the biggest employers in the Fylde. ... [more]

7:01:24 PM New director for farm and ranch museum in Las Cruces
KOB-TV - Albuquerque,NM,USA

By: AP. LAS CRUCES, NM (AP) - Mark Santiago has been appointed director of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. ... [more]

5:46:24 PM MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE - BOURNEMOUTH 2006
24 Hour Museum - UK

.... The first of these themes will be Dynamic Collection, discussing how museums can loan out and tour their objects to a wider audience. ... [more]

5:46:24 PM Ankeny history, aviation museums set open houses
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA

The Ankeny Area Historical Society and Iowa Aviation Heritage museums will be open Oct. 26 as part of the Lights On for Iowa Museums statewide event. .... [more]

3:36:27 PM Promotors of WWI museum asking city for more subsidy
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA

AP. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Promoters of a new, $26 million World War I museum scheduled to ... The Liberty Memorial will open the National World War I Museum on Dec. ... [more]

3:36:27 PM Van Gogh Exhibit Opens at Dallas Museum of Art
MyFox Dallas - Dallas,TX,USA

.... Jan. 7 at the Dallas Museum of Art, is a celebration of Van Gogh's "Sheaves of Wheat," one of the museum's most prized paintings. ... [more]

3:36:27 PM Wonder honored by rights museum
Bryan College Station Eagle - Bryan-College Station,TX,USA

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

3:36:27 PM Museum architect to speak
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA

Wolf Prix, the architect whose Viennese firm designed the new addition to the Akron Art Museum, will talk about the new building at 6:30 pm Wednesday at the ... [more]

2:31:30 PM First Cultural Tour visits War Museums and Shelters
di-ve.com - Malta

by di-ve.com. The first of the eight Cultural Tours will focus on the Second World War visiting war museums and shelters. Organised ... [more]

2:31:27 PM MP responds to criticism
Durham region news - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

.... Antoine Plamondon's work. Canada's new government has allocated over $245 million for the development of Canada's museums. The grossly ... [more]

12:16:24 PM Art museum on track with attendance
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA

More than 13,000 people paid to visit the Denver Art Museum during its first week of regular operations following the opening of the new Frederic C. Hamilton ... [more]

12:16:24 PM New image planned for science museum
This is Swindon - Swindon,Wiltshire,UK

By Lyndsay Scanlan. SCIENCE Museum Swindon is the new name for the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI) Wroughton. The ... [more]

12:16:24 PM Philadelphia Art Museum selects Gehry to design gallery space
International Herald Tribune - Paris,France

.... One of the world's boldest architects, Frank O. Gehry, has been selected to design a large underground gallery space for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. ... [more]

12:16:24 PM Where’s the support for a rail museum?
Reading Eagle - Reading,PA,USA

The Issue: A group of former Reading Railroad employees nears its dream of opening a museum dedicated to the company that took its name from this city. ... [more]

12:16:24 PM Museum highlights hot poetry with series
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA

A movieland poet, a beat legend and a punk rocker with a pen are a few of the poets featured this year in the Palm Springs Art Museum's Poetry Series. ... [more]

12:16:24 PM Museum commission decides to keep new facility downtown
Benton County Daily Record - Bentonville,AR,USA

ROGERS — The Rogers Historic Museum Commission changed its course Wednesday, opting to keep the museum’s new facility in the downtown historic district. ... [more]

11:11:24 AM One of Bristol's best-loved museums to close
24dash.com (press release) - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK

Until then, local people and visitors to Bristol will be able to a final look around before bidding a farewell to one of Bristol's best-loved museums. ... [more]

8:56:28 AM Holocaust museum a reality because of activist, friend says
Norwich Bulletin - Norwich,CT,USA

.... The museum, which attracts 1.6 million people a year, is, in some ways, the result of Strochlitz' vision. "If I had not had Sigmund ... [more]

8:56:28 AM Berlin's historic Bode Museum to reopen
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan

Germany's historic Bode Museum is set to reopen this week after more than five years of renovation, displaying its original collection of paintings, furniture ... [more]

8:56:28 AM Museum hosts lively debate on immigration
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

.... Much of the audience had just toured the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art to view "The Border Film Project: El Proyecto Fronterizo Fotografico," which ... [more]

8:56:28 AM Farm and ranch museum hires a new director
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA

LAS CRUCES — After a nationwide search, veteran museum manager and historian Mark Santiago, 47, was named director of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage ... [more]

8:56:28 AM Museum tackles weighty matters
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA

.... In a first-of-its-kind show at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 31 rare and beautiful bronze mat weights shed light on the routines and rituals of life in ... [more]

7:56:30 AM Museums team up to share benefits of fundraiser
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA

.... fundraiser. It's the first time the two museums, both in downtown St. .... auctions. The museums will split the proceeds equally, she said. ... [more]

5:41:28 AM DeBakey makes appearance to boost his library, museum
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

.... public appearance in Houston since being hospitalized in January, headlining a fundraising event celebrating the construction start of his library and museum. ... [more]

5:41:26 AM Berlin - After expensive facelift, Berlin reopens Kaiser-Era ...
Europa Concorsi - Italy

By Kyle James. The latest addition to Berlin's cultural landscape, the Bode Museum, is to reopen its doors after a six-year makeover. ... [more]

5:41:24 AM US Marshal Museum
WHSV - Harrisonburg,VA,USA

Now Staunton could be in line for another historic landmark, the new US Marshals Museum. Stanely E. Morris is the former director ... [more]

4:36:24 AM Austria launches internet database for artwork looted during Nazi ...
European Jewish Press - Brussels,Belgium

.... Austria has launched an online database to find the owners of art items that may have been looted under Nazi regime and are in some of the country's museums. ... [more]

4:36:24 AM Chong's spin on government cutbacks
Halton Herald - Ontario, Canada

.... Another example is our decision to reduce the Museums Assistance Program - only one of many museums programs - by $2.3 million a year, from $14.1 to $11.8 ... [more]

4:36:24 AM Hamilton Civic Museums Wins Provincial Tourism Award
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada

18 /CNW/ - The Ontario government presented the award for Best Printed Collateral Material to Hamilton Civic Museums for its outstanding "Learning Adventures ... [more]

4:36:24 AM EMSAH Public Lecture: Transformations of Museums in the Twenty ...
UQ News - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia

Dr Engelsman, Director of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, the Netherlands, will be giving a lecture on “Transformations of Museums in the Twenty ... [more]



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