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News From Tuesday, October 21, 2008
10:24:49 PM Museum offers NY trip
Scarlet Scuttlebutt - East Brunswick,NJ,USA

NEW BRUNSWICK —The Zimmerli Art Museum will visit Olana, the home of Frederic Church, one of the most important American landscape painters of the 19th ... [more]

9:37:16 PM New narrow gauge railway museum coming up in Wales
Hindu - Chennai,India

London (PTI): The romance of the steam engine and narrow gauge railway lines is being captured in a new museum in the Welsh town of Porthmadog, .... [more]

7:35:46 PM Park earns five year museum designation
Brooks Bulletin - Alberta, Canada

On Tuesday the Park received a five-year Recognized Museum designation from the Alberta Museums Association. “The EID Historical Park worked very hard to ... [more]

7:08:42 PM Vanderbilt Museum needs county funds to stay open
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

BY BILL BLEYER | bill.bleyer@newsday.com The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum will be forced to close its doors to the public by early next year unless the ... [more]

6:17:54 PM Director returns to local scene with play at Jewish museum
News Transcript - Farmingdale - Farmingdale,NJ,USA

The new space is inside the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County in the Mount's Corner shopping center at Route 537 and Wemrock Road, Freehold Township ... [more]

6:05:40 PM Sam Maloof's work known for its practicality
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Both are recognized as master craftsmen of particular skill; their cabinetry and furniture are included in museums and private collections all over the ... [more]

4:41:42 PM Wadsworth Atheneum Plans Renovations, Roof Repairs
Hartford Courant - United States

(BOB MACDONNELL / HARTFORD COURANT / June 20, 2002) Plagued by chronic leakage problems, the venerable Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art expects to begin $15 ... [more]

3:47:34 PM A MIRACLE FOR MUSEUMS by Thomas Hoving
Artnet - New York,NY,USA

by Thomas Hoving Something amazing, indelible, long-lasting and profound just happened to all art museums in the United States. Something that will change ... [more]

11:46:39 AM Versace at the Museum
Women's Wear Daily - USA

by WWD Staff Museum parties can be rather stuffy affairs, considering they are usually hosted by venerable society institutions inside a venerable ... [more]

10:59:40 AM Italy museum says da Vinci writings gather no mold
The Associated Press -

MILAN, Italy (AP) — Curators of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus said Tuesday that fears the collection of drawings and writings had been infiltrated by ... [more]

10:17:37 AM Mesa museum hosting haunted downtown tour
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

The Mesa Historical Museum will answer all of these questions and more on their 2nd Annual Walking Tour of Downtown Mesa Historical Sites and Ghost Tour. ... [more]

9:22:25 AM "Wonder Woman" Lynda Carter receives lifetime achievement honor ...
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando,FL,USA

She will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC She collects the honor at a Nov. ... [more]

8:27:09 AM Dr. McDeamy's Night at the Museum!
Entertainment Tonight - USA

New York City's rich, famous and elite came out to celebrate the arts for the Whitney Museum of American Arts Gala Monday night. ... [more]

8:13:12 AM Top Museums: Dan Dare, Hadrian, Jack the Ripper
Times Online - UK

Science Museum, Exhibition Road, SW7 (www.sciencemuseum.org.uk 0870 8704868), ongoing, free Exploring the life and legacy of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, ... [more]

6:25:59 AM Yale School of Art Dean Discusses How Museums Address their ...
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA

Robert Storr, dean of the Yale School of Art, will present the lecture "Dumbing Down or Smartening Up: How Museums Address Their Publics" on Thursday, ... [more]

5:34:43 AM Houston : Museums for Weather and Czechs
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA

Ironically, a huge tree blew down during Hurricane Ike in front of The John C. Freeman Weather Museum. Exhibits include the Hurricane Room, where you can ... [more]

1:23:34 AM DISSATISFACTION WITH LACK OF PROGRESS IN RESTITUTION OF BENIN
Modern Ghana - Ghana

It will be recalled that the museums in Chicago offered to return the Benin artefacts if such demands were made. We understand that such written demands ... [more]

1:03:48 AM Major Iraq museum still closed
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Iraq's National Museum, which was looted after the US captured Baghdad in 2003, will remain closed to the public for up to two more years until security in ... [more]



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