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11:44:43 PM Los Angeles County Museum of Art is hard hit by recession
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

By Mike Boehm The Los Angeles County Museum of Art saw its investment portfolio lose nearly a quarter of its value during its 2008-09 fiscal year, ... [more]

10:09:42 PM LACMA loses 23% of its investments in meltdown year
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In the case of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which recently posted on its website the audited financial statement for the 2008-09 fiscal year ending ... [more]

9:27:32 PM Baltimore in Tricky Position With Proposed Negro League Museum
SportingNews.com - USA

A $4.1 million plan has been put in place to build a Negro League baseball museum in Baltimore. Even if one already exists in Kansas City, there's certainly ... [more]

9:13:07 PM Web site lists 'Great Airport Museums'
United Press International

20 (UPI) -- A California-based tourism Web site's list of "Five Great Airport Museums" includes destinations in San Francisco and the Netherlands. ... [more]

8:07:48 PM Museum finds astronomer Galileo's lost body parts
BBC News - E,UK

Two fingers and a tooth belonging to famed astronomer Galileo Galilei have been found more than 100 years after going missing, a museum in Italy says. .... [more]

7:17:49 PM Italy collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa

The remaining finger and the vertebrae have been conserved since 1737 in a mummified state in museums in Florence and Padua. "All the organic material .... [more]

6:57:05 PM Tim Burton at the Museum of Modern Art
Fast Company - USA

So it makes sense that at the ripe old age of 51, the Museum of Modern Art is giving him a blow-out, blockbuster retrospective, which opens this Sunday and ... [more]

4:16:36 PM MOCA renews museums' mission
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

The Los Angeles museum's escape from financial ruin is a reminder that the display of donated art is a key to survival. By Selma Holo The new anniversary ... [more]

2:27:04 PM Baltimore pushing for Negro League Baseball Museum
Kansas City Star

Negro LeagueHere's a warning call for supporters of Kansas City's Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to get their act together. The city fathers in Baltimore are ... [more]

1:55:16 PM 'CSI: The Experience,' at the new Fort Worth Museum of Science and
Fort Worth Star Telegram

Fort Worth Star Telegram Tell us By ALYSON WARD A good science museum exhibit gives you a lot to look at and read. A great one pulls you into the middle of the action and encourages ... [more]

1:25:10 PM Hubble instruments sent to museum
BBC News - E,UK

Washington DC's National Air and Space Museum is the new home for the WFPC-2 and Costar, which once served as the telescope's eyes and its spectacles. ... [more]

10:59:24 AM Our museum lantern towers over their presidential one
Fort Worth Star Telegram

Beginning today, our lantern lights the way to the Cultural District for the grand opening of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. ... [more]

7:45:26 AM Carrie Underwood's gift hits write note with museum
NewsOK.com

BY BRANDY mcdonnell Comments 0 The hall of fame unveiled the gift from the Checotah native Thursday evening at the hall of fame and museum, where officials ... [more]

7:14:47 AM An army for the afterlife
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

"Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor" opens Thursday at the National Geographic Museum in Washington. The exhibition offers the public ... [more]

6:29:27 AM Railroad museum lays off 9
Lancaster Newspapers

By LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff Writer Pennsylvania's budget crunch is starting to affect Lancaster County's three state-owned museums, which are being forced to ... [more]

6:13:09 AM 'Terra Cotta Warriors': If you go
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Musicians flank a headless strongman in "Terra Cotta Warriors," which is at the National Geographic Museum through March 31. (Bill O'leary - Twp) If you ... [more]

4:40:58 AM Gallery: Honoring Tim Burton
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington,WV,USA

Actress Rose Byrne attends The Museum of Modern Art's film benefit tribute to Tim Burton on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini) The ... [more]

3:22:57 AM Arts, Briefly University of California Drops New Museum Plan
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By RANDY KENNEDY; Compiled by Dave Itzkoff The University of California, Berkeley, has decided to scrap its ambitious designs for a new Berkeley Art Museum ... [more]

3:13:10 AM Inside Art Bronzino Is Given His Museum Moment
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By CAROL VOGEL Over the years, several European museums have tried to organize an exhibition devoted to the work of Bronzino, the poet who was also one of ... [more]

1:23:07 AM Art Review | 'Tim Burton'
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Given the tremendous visual appeal of Mr. Burton's movies, you would hope that “Tim Burton,” the Museum of Modern Art's expansive retrospective of his ... [more]

1:15:42 AM Socialeyes: Revamped Museum of Science and History talk of town
Fort Worth Star Telegram

It's been anything but quiet around here this week as the word museum is overheard in almost every conversation, from those at Starbucks on Seventh to those ... [more]



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