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10:01:47 PM Intrepid military museum to leave NYC for a two-year overhaul
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

.... and restoration." The ship's departure marks its first physical movement since being saved from the scrapyard and turned into a floating military museum in 1982 ... [more]

10:01:46 PM Director of American Indian Museum stepping down in 2007
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

AP. WASHINGTON - The founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian announced Thursday that he will resign next year. .... [more]

10:01:45 PM Scottsdale museum honoring Fiesta Bowl opens
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA

It’s remarkable how much the Fiesta Bowl has grown since its 1971 inception, and a museum celebrating the game’s history opens today. ... [more]

6:26:44 PM Ankeny Museums
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA

The Ankeny Area Historical Society and the Iowa Aviation Heritage Museum openend Thursday evening as part of 'Lights On for Iowa Museums,' a statewide event. ... [more]

6:26:44 PM A cool spot when the heat is on
The Australian - Australia

MUSEUMS and rainy days seem to go together. Something to do with intimacy. But museums are great places to seek refuge during heatwaves, too. ... [more]

6:26:44 PM English museums' early roots included Chesapeake flora
The Chesapeake Bay Journal - Seven Valleys,PA,USA

One of the highlights of my 2005 trip to England was a dinner party hosted by horticulturalist Colin Crosbie and his wife, Pamela, at their home located at ... [more]

5:36:52 PM Director of American Indian Museum to Step Down
WJLA - Washington,DC,USA

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rick West has guided the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian for 17 years, and he now says it's time for him to move on. ... [more]

5:36:52 PM Arkansas museum approves tow of WWII-era tugboat from Calif.
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

.... City council approved spending $395,000 to tow a World War II-era tugboat from California to its maritime museum on the Arkansas River. ... [more]

2:16:44 PM Stolen museum artifacts turn up in trash bag
CBC News - Canada

.... another man's treasure, and treasure is exactly what Ed Wilson found when he tore open a garbage bag left outside the North Lanark Regional Museum in Appleton ... [more]

11:46:44 AM Ain't it grand? Head west for museums, kids' activities and more
Hub - Lansing,MI,USA

.... Visitors Bureau. The lively downtown features public art, plenty of shopping and dining, as well as museums and more. » The new ... [more]

11:46:44 AM Question 3 would support county museums
Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA

The Douglas County Historical Society cannot afford to hire much-needed staff for Douglas County's two museums, said society president Grace Bower. .... [more]

10:56:44 AM You'll find lots of Halloween fun at the Museum of Arts and ...
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA

Parents who are looking to an alternative to the Ridge Avenue trick-or-treat gauntlet may find the Museum of Arts & Sciences up their alley this weekend. ... [more]

10:56:44 AM Museum exhibit examines science of 'CSI'
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

.... next year. Are you ready for CSI: the museum exhibition? An ... CBS and the show's producers authorized the museum show. The exhibit opens ... [more]

10:56:44 AM Pioneering Swedish museum director Pontus Hulten dies at 82
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA

Stockholm- Pontus Hulten, pioneering former head of the museum for modern art in the Swedish capital, has died aged 82, news reports said Friday. ... [more]

10:56:44 AM Fiesta opens museum in Scottsdale
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

Included in the task: Opening a museum, believed to be the first of its kind among its bowl brethren. It was worth the wait. The ... [more]

8:26:50 AM Getty toughens up its rules for acquisition
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

.... but some authorities see it as a potential turning point in a global confrontation between curators and archeologists over the way museums do business. ... [more]

8:26:49 AM Comic Art Gains New Appreciation in US
Men's News Daily - Guerneville,CA,USA

Comic and cartoon art is moving out of specialty shops and into galleries and museums as traditional art venues recognize its artistic and literary value. ... [more]

7:36:55 AM Watkins Museum features family fare
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA

T is for Toy encourages children to bring their favorite toys to the museum. Come hear stories dedicated to toys, then make some old-fashioned toys. ... [more]

5:06:45 AM New Group Set to Bring Students to Art Museums
Harvard Crimson - Cambridge,MA,USA

.... Together, the two contacted Lynne Stanton, the coordinator of public education at the Harvard University Art Museums. Stanton—who ... [more]

5:06:45 AM Founder Of Country's Most Renowned Holocaust Museums Dies At 88
NY1 - NY,USA

Benjamin Meed, the founder of two of the country's most renowned Holocaust museums, has died at the age of 88 in his Manhattan home. ... [more]

5:06:45 AM Fernando Botero
The Register-Guard - Eugene,Oregon,USA

.... After New York, the Boteros went on to Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, Beverly Hills and (in 1996) Washington, DC But US museums haven't exactly been clamoring for ... [more]

5:06:44 AM The disgrace is not that this Lowry is being sold but the reason ...
Guardian - UK

.... How could a masterpiece be at the mercy of these savages, cry the grandees of the Museums Association luxuriating at their Bournemouth conference. ... [more]

5:06:44 AM Getty tightens acquisitions policy
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

.... and storerooms -- but some authorities say it's a turning point in a global confrontation between curators and archeologists over the way museums do business. ... [more]

5:06:44 AM Shorts: The arts
J. - the Jewish News weekly of Northern California - San Francisco,CA,USA

.... To RSVP, call (925) 943-5238. The Judah L. Magnes Museum next month will join a national initiative promoting museums in American life. At 2 pm Sunday, Nov. ... [more]

3:56:46 AM Pulaski lists options, sets public meeting on museum-fine arts ...
New River Valley Current - Christiansburg,VA,United States

.... The next step in a long-discussed, but suddenly rapidly changing — or perhaps rapidly changing — plan for a combined town arts center and museum is a ... [more]

3:56:45 AM Getty Museum Says It Will Tighten Policy on Buying Antiquities
Bloomberg - USA

.... 26 (Bloomberg) -- The J. Paul Getty Museum, which is negotiating with Italian officials about returning disputed antiquities, said today that it will buy only ... [more]

3:56:45 AM New Exhibition Lizards & Snakes: Alive! leaps into Fernbank Museum ...
Duluth Weekly - Duluth,GA,USA

.... Lizards & Snakes: Alive!, an engaging exhibition that features more than 60 live lizards and snakes from five continents, leaps into Fernbank Museum of Natural ... [more]

3:56:45 AM VIDEO GAMING CELEBRATED IN GAME ON AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM
24 Hour Museum - UK

By Dave Standen. Dave Standen jumps, high-kicks and blasts his way through Game-On, currently showing at the Science Museum in London until February 26 2007. ... [more]



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