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News From Tuesday, October 30, 2007
10:14:12 PM Singaporeans to "Discover More" about heritage and museums
Channel News Asia - Singapore

2007 with the tagline "Discover More", will feature 86 activities at 20 museums island-wide. Set to run from November 10 to December 31, the aim of Explore ... [more]

10:14:12 PM Downgrading of cultural centers sparks opposition
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan

"Recently, two foreign museums decided to postpone becoming our sister museums because they heard we will be downgraded. Their reaction may just be the tip ... [more]

10:14:12 PM 24 Chasa: Bulgarians visit movie theatres, museums least of all EU ...
Focus News - Sofia,Bulgaria

Annually Bulgarians go 0.3 times to the movie theatre. Surprisingly, the country is last in terms of visits to museums, historic monuments and galleries. [more]

10:14:12 PM McFaddin-Ward to host historic home conference at MCM Elegante
Beaumont Journal - Texas, USA

He has directed some of the foremost historic house museums in America and rightly holds his position as Vice President, Stewardship of Historic Properties ... [more]

10:14:12 PM Dinosaur hall under wraps for final touches
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA

1, the museum will return to its regular hours, 10 am to 5 pm weekdays and noon to 5 pm Sundays -- except Thursdays, when the museums will be open until 8 ... [more]

7:11:53 PM Woodstock Museum Ensnared in Presidential Race
NPR - Washington,D.C.,USA

A museum being built on the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival is now a topic in the presidential race. Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain is blasting New ... [more]

7:11:53 PM Photo in the News: Pre-Dino Amphibian Body Casts Found
National Geographic

October 30, 2007--An undergraduate student digging through a collection of fossils in a Pennsylvania museum recently found beautifully preserved full-body ... [more]

10:56:10 AM Princeton Museum, Rome sign repatriation deal over looted artifacts
CBC News - Canada

Cultural officials in Rome and representatives of the Princeton University Art Museum have signed a deal to return artifacts Italy claims were looted from ... [more]

10:56:10 AM Chicago Art Museum Gets New Director
The Associated Press -

CHICAGO (AP) -- Madeleine Grynsztejn, a senior curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, will become the new head of ... [more]

10:56:10 AM Bucks for mule museum causes brays
CNN/SI - USA

McKeon has requested a $50000 earmark to explore the possibility of building a museum in the town that every Memorial Day weekend holds the biggest mule ... [more]

6:33:18 AM Museum shows 116-year-old orange
BBC News - E,UK

A dried-up orange from the lunchbox of a miner fatally injured on the day he was due to eat it has gone on display in a Staffordshire museum. ... [more]

6:33:18 AM Italy, Princeton Sign Antiquities Deal
The Associated Press -

ROME (AP) -- The Italian Culture Ministry and the Princeton University Art Museum signed a deal Tuesday for the return of eight disputed antiquities to Italy ... [more]

4:47:29 AM Arts get more than expected in spending review
Art Newspaper - UK

Money for the national museums will increase from £302m to £332m, which represents inflation, plus additional funds for four museum projects. ... [more]

2:10:41 AM Lewis architect chosen for national museum job
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

By Edward Gunts | Sun architecture critic October 30, 2007 Philip Freelon, one of the lead architects of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African ... [more]

2:10:41 AM Museum of Contemporary Art names next leader
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

The Museum of Contemporary Art on Monday named as its next director Madeleine Grynsztejn, a scholar with working knowledge of the area art scene from her ... [more]

2:10:41 AM Hopes fading of preserving historic press as a museum
ic Wales - Wales,UK

A charity aiming to turn it into a museum about Welsh printing, Thomas Gee and the Victorian explorer Henry Morton Stanley has had supportive responses from ... [more]



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