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10:07:23 PM A New Director for Dallas Museum of Art
American ...

By CAROL VOGEL Maxwell L. Anderson, who has been director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art since 2006, has been named director of the Dallas Museum of Art. He succeeds Bonnie Pitman, who retired from the job in June. Mr. Anderson is well known in th [more]

10:07:23 PM Concord Museum celebrates 125 years with new exhibition
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

By Nancy Shohet West, Globe Correspondent The Concord Museum is celebrating its 125th anniversary with an unusual exhibition, "Crowdsourcing a Collection," curated by 25 selected individuals drawn from literary, arts, or political circles. ... [more]

9:25:35 PM When the Mob Meets 'Star Wars' in Bankruptcy Court
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA

(There soon may be TWO mob museums in Las Vegas. Will there be a mob war over mob museums?) But now, this odd bankruptcy case has an “Star Wars” twist. Louis Ventre, who may or may not own an investment in the Las Vegas Mob Experience, said real esta [more]

7:50:34 PM 'Occupy Museums,' Inspired By Occupy Wall Street, Launches In New York
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

New York-based artist Noah Fischer has officially launched the "Occupy Museums!" movement as an offshoot to Occupy Wall Street. The movement was approved by OWS's Arts and Culture group. The Art Info blog published the news on Wednesday, after Fische [more]

7:39:04 PM Museum tells tales of forgotten war horses
Toronto Sun - Ontario, Canada

A view of the "War Horse: Fact and Fiction" exhibition at the National Army Museum. (REUTERS/James McCauley/Courtesy National Army Museum) Joey the horse, Jimson the mule and other forgotten four-legged war heroes are to be remembered in the first .. [more]

7:39:04 PM Museum ceremony marks employee's 60 years of service to Robins and the Air
The Warner Robins Patriot

The Warner Robins Patriot Bob McMahon, commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center at Robins, offered keynote remarks at the Museum of Aviation event as close to 100 co-workers, former co-workers, supervisors, former supervisors, family and f [more]

7:39:04 PM South Florida Science Museum celebrates 50 years
Palm Beach Post

By Post Staff | Events, Museums | October 20, 2011 The South Florida Science Museum celebrates its 50th anniversary from 10 am to 6 pm Saturday . A celebration with cake, scien-terriffic crafts and activities and special giveaways. ... [more]

5:48:19 PM Buffalo museum builds long-lost Frank Lloyd Wright gas station
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

But his plans to create a network of standardized filling stations never got off the ground, said James Sandoro, founder of the Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum. The museum is building the filling station, with above-ground tanks and a ... [more]

5:48:19 PM Outstanding in the Field: Lakefront museum has country's best bathroom
Chicago Sun-Times

BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter/kspak@suntimes.com October 20, 2011 9:04AM The Field Museum voted the Nation's Best Restroom in a contest sponsored by Cintas Corporation. October 19, 2011 I Brian Jackson~Sun-Times Among the Field Museum's many treasures  [more]

5:48:19 PM Museum of Discovery and Science's Newest Otter Can't Swim!
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Visitors will soon meet Joey, a North American River Otter who can't swim and is the star of the Museum of Discovery and Science's new "Otters at Play" exhibit opening on November 11, .. [more]

5:48:19 PM Occupy Wall Street moves to occupy museums
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

On the 33rd day of protests, the Occupy Wall Street movement has decided to call the troops to arms (so to speak) by now protesting museums, considering these cultural institutions as pandering to the elite 1% of the nation. Protests, according to ar [more]

5:48:19 PM Kentucky Museum to display traveling exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution
Bowling Green Daily News - Bowling Green,KY,USA

Amplifier “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War,” a traveling exhibition opening at the Kentucky Museum on Nov. 3, examines how President Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the Civil War — the secession of So [more]

4:13:07 PM Carnegie Museums, Boy Scouts each get $5 million from Dietrich
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA

By Marylynne Pitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and the Laurel Highlands Council of the Boy Scouts of America each are the recipients of a $5 million gift from the Dietrich Charitable Trusts. "Bill Dietrich was an explorer a [more]

4:13:07 PM Cintas Corporation : 2011 America's Best Restroom Winner Announced in
Reuters - NY,USA

Reuters (press release) The 2011 contest attracted nominations from a wide range of businesses, including restaurants, hotels and museums. Ten finalists were selected based on exceptional hygiene, style, public accessibility and usability. "The Field [more]

4:13:07 PM Strike at Revamped Musée d'Orsay Blocks Grand Reopening
American ...

By ELVIRE CAMUS AND RACHEL RAMSAY PARIS — A strike by workers at the Musée d'Orsay postponed the long-awaited reopening of the museum's newly renovated galleries on Thursday. Some 34 employees, mostly security guards, staged the walkout to protest th [more]

3:25:42 PM Jack Kevorkian Art: Armenian Library And Museum Of America Sues Estate
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Huffington Post A Massachusetts museum balked at handing over 17 paintings by the figurehead of the right-to-die movement that are scheduled to be auctioned on Oct. 28 to raise money for a children's cancer charity. The Armenian Library and Museum of [more]

3:25:42 PM Occupy Museums to protest at art exhibits in New York
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By Maura Judkis Two weeks after a Washington protest group affiliated with Occupy DC shut down the Air and Space Museum, some protesters are heading to New York's cultural institutions for a demonstration. Occupy Museums will demonstrate at the Museu [more]

3:25:42 PM We're No. 1: Field Museum restrooms judged best in country
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

If you're heading to the Field Museum to check out its world-class exhibits, you may want to consider stopping at its latest award-winning spot -- the restroom. This year's 10th annual America's Best Restroom contest, sponsored by Cintas Corp., ... [more]

1:48:09 PM Rare Moss Collection Donated to Canadian Museum of Nature
Market Wire (press release) - USA

The Canadian Museum of Nature has received a donation of more than 1500 plant specimens that includes rare and endangered species of mosses. Most represent species that were found in southern Ontario. The additions to Canada's national plant collecti [more]

1:31:21 PM Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum marks 80 years
Coshocton Tribune - Coshocton,OH,USA

The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum located in Roscoe Village is celebrating its 80th Anniversary. / Julie Ames/Tribune » The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum is located at 300 N. Whitewoman St. in Coshocton. » Hours through October are noon to 5 pm daily. .. [more]

1:31:21 PM Aspen Art Museum: I hear America painting
Aspen Times - Aspen,CO,USA

The Aspen Art Museum's Roaring Fork Open features Shelly Safir Marolt's “The 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Riders,” oil on canvas, and Khaila Derrington's “Khaila's Thinker," acrylic. The exhibition, created in collaboration with artist Eric Fischl [more]

10:43:14 AM The Horse exhibition to open at the International Museum of the Horse
HorseChannel.com

The traveling exhibition will be on display at the Kentucky Horse Park's museum through April 2012. In 2008, The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York opened a new exhibition called The Horse, tracing the origins of the horse/human .. [more]

8:38:54 AM 'Pan Am' gets a lift from SFO museum
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Museum curator John Hill displays vintage Pan Am items in a storage facility at the San Francisco airport. San Francisco -- At 30000 feet, the Champagne is popping. The passengers are sporting pearls and pinstripes. And here come the stewardesses, .. [more]

7:09:31 AM Valley Children's Museum closer to finding a permanent home
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By Robert Jordan DUBLIN -- After living a vagabond lifestyle for the past decade, the Valley Children's Museum is a step closer to a permanent home, complete with its own foundation. Bolstered by a successful run for its mobile children's museum at . [more]

5:50:31 AM Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art to debut new wing Saturday
Oklahoma Daily - Norman,OK,USA

By Coco Courtois, The Oklahoma Daily The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is preparing for the opening of a $13 million, four-year project that will provide an 18000-square-foot expansion on Saturday. The new Stuart Wing of the museum will include a new  [more]

4:09:42 AM Museum's new direction
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

The Petaluma Museum is a local treasure — a beautiful stone building that opened in 1904 as a library with funds from the Carnegie Foundation and served Petaluma for three-quarters of a century until the city outgrew it and opened a new, larger ... [more]

3:57:51 AM Poll: Most like museum's new direction
Petaluma Argus Courier (blog)

Some 78.8 percent said they have visited the museum in the last year. “As a second-generation Petaluman who remembers when the museum was the Petaluma Library, I am pleased with the direction Joe Noriel has taken in improving the museum. ... [more]

1:46:19 AM Kevorkian's estate, Mass. museum feud over artwork
The Associated Press

BOSTON (AP) — The Armenian Library and Museum of America is refusing to surrender 17 paintings and other artwork by assisted-suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian, saying he donated them to it and his estate has no right to claim them nearly 12 years . [more]

1:46:19 AM World Museum of Mining Awarded Grant To Makeover Orphan Girl Headframe
NBC Montana

The World Museum of Mining received 44, 500 dollars from the Montana Department of Commerce's Tourism Infrastructure Investment Program, TIIP for stabilization, preservation, and interpretation of the Orphan Girl headframe. The headframe was built in [more]

12:09:42 AM Jack Kevorkian's Estate, Mass. Museum Feud Over Artwork
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

BOSTON — The Massachusetts-based Armenian Library and Museum of America is refusing to surrender 17 paintings by assisted-suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian. The paintings were among 140 of Kevorkian's personal effects set for auction by his estate  [more]

12:09:42 AM SB County Museum Hosts Largest Drill Ever for Shakeout
Patch.com

By Gina Tenorio San Bernardino County Museum will host a day of special events as part of the Great California Shakeout, featuring the largest earthquake drill ever, organized to inspire Californians to get ready for big earthquakes and to prevent .. [more]



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