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News From Tuesday, October 07, 2008
7:16:31 PM State Fair educates with demonstrations, tours, museums
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA

Museums can be the perfect chance to take a break from the heat and learn something at the same time. Some of the museums do charge a reduced admission fee, ... [more]

4:39:19 PM From £200 wine jug to £3m masterpiece
Guardian - UK

Leading Islamic art collections, including the Aga Khan Museum in Canada and the Museum of Islamic art in Doha, Qatar, were believed to have placed bids, ... [more]

11:41:26 AM Museum buys rare historic photos
BBC News - E,UK

A museum in Cromer has paid £42000 to buy a collection of Edwardian photographs including rare colour plates of Norfolk fishermen. The works are by renowned ... [more]

10:50:51 AM Battle over use of Lizzie Borden name settled
The Associated Press -

The owner of a new museum and gift shop in Salem has agreed to change its name so it won't be confused with the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast 80 miles ... [more]

9:18:53 AM Top Museums: Dan Dare Hadrian
Times Online - UK

The Design Museum, Shad Thames, SE1 (www.designmuseum.org 0870 8339955), until Jan 4, £8.50, concs available Exploring the life and legacy of the Roman ... [more]

9:13:18 AM Museum of American Finance Walking Tour Commemorates Anniversaries ...
MarketWatch - USA

The three-hour tour, which starts at the Museum, located at the historic 48 Wall Street (northeast corner of William Street), tells the story of such .... [more]

8:33:54 AM NY's Cooper-Hewitt museum to expand
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

NEW YORK - The renovation and expansion of Manhattan's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum will begin in January. The museum's director, Paul W. Thompson, ... [more]

7:21:50 AM Field Museum expert: One in four mammals threatened with extinction
Chicago Sun-Times - United States

Heaney is one of more than 1700 scientists — seven from the Field Museum — who have worked on assembling an unprecedented “Who’s Who” of mammals, ... [more]

6:37:41 AM Brevard Art Museum head steps down
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

BY PAM HARBAUGH • FLORIDA TODAY • October 7, 2008 After 13 months as president and CEO of the Brevard Art Museum, Karl Hollander resigned Monday. ... [more]

3:25:43 AM Santa Cruz museum hit for $1000 in cash and goods
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

Burglars took $1000 in cash and jewelry from the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. The Saturday break-in and theft was the third time in two years that ... [more]

2:43:29 AM Museums May Also Feel Private Donor Pinch
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

The Boston Globe has this gloomy report that museums' financial woes don't just stop at the big corporate donor, but will trickle down and affect their ... [more]

1:46:58 AM An unlikely trove of Russian icons
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

This month, the museum will host its first traveling exhibition. ''Two Museums/One Culture'' will feature 16 master icons from Moscow's State Tretyakov ... [more]



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