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11:05:48 PM Museum Finds a Home for the Enterprise
New York Times (blog)

By PATRICK MCGEEHAN now owns a space shuttle, and museum officials say they have figured out where to put it – at least for a while. On Tuesday, NASA signed over title to Enterprise, a full-size prototype for the shuttles that flew into space, ... [more]

11:05:48 PM Final Month Approaches for National Sprint Car Museum's 'Salute to
WhoWon.com - Lincoln,NE,USA

WhoWon.com by Bob Baker KNOXVILLE, Iowa --- As Homestead, Florida, begins to return to normal following this past weekend's NASCAR point title fight, won by three-time NASCAR Cup champion Tony Stewart, the non-profit National Sprint Car Hall of Fame  [more]

11:05:48 PM Owensboro Museum Hosts HOLIDAZE FESTIVAL 2011
SurfKY News

The Gala, one of the museum's major fundraising events, will include entertainment by the Steve Crews Jazz Trio, Louisville, and a gallery talk by internationally known Native American painter, Kevin Red Star. Admission to the Gala is $50 per person. [more]

10:24:07 PM Hockney ranks LACMA near top of list for future donations
criticism

Although the British painter David Hockney's love affair with California seems mutual, museums here are relatively thin on examples of the artist's strongest work. That just might change, according to an article this month in the Times of London by t [more]

7:20:27 PM Donna Gregor, Mark Twain House Employee, Jailed For Embezzling $1 Million
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Huffington Post A woman has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for embezzling more than $1 million from the Mark Twain House and Museum, a crime that added to the financial woes of the Hartford landmark that had been struggling to pay its bills. [more]

7:20:27 PM Methodist Church Museum Christmas tree ornaments for sale
Bluff Country Reader - MN,USA

By Gretchen Mensink Lovejoy The Spring Valley Historical Society is pleased to offer Christmas tree ornaments featuring the hand-painted image of the Spring Valley Methodist Church Museum, which was built in 1876 when James Wilder (whose ... [more]

7:20:27 PM Museums on Us caps year
Waldo Village Soup - ME,USA

Bank of America's Museums on Us program, which offers Bank of America cardholders free access to some of the nation's finest cultural, recreational and educational institutions on the first full weekend of every month, continues Saturday and Sunday,  [more]

7:20:27 PM UW Art Museum Seeks Decorators for Annual Festival of Trees
University of Wyoming News - Laramie,WY,USA

November 22, 2011 — The University of Wyoming Art Museum asks businesses, community organizations, campus groups and individuals to create their own unique trees for the 19th annual Festival of Trees and silent auction. Each year, the Festival of ... [more]

7:20:27 PM National Infantry museum volunteer honored
WLTZ - NBC 38 (blog)

Columbus, Georgia – November 22, 2011: Just days after the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center opened in June 2009, Joe Anzano began volunteering. Since then, he has taken hundreds of pictures of graduating soldiers and their families, ... [more]

5:30:54 PM Chichester Roman remains at heart of The Novium museum
BBC Sport - UK

By Tanya Gupta BBC News, Chichester The remains of a Roman bath house that lay under a car park in Chichester for decades have been uncovered and now form the centrepiece of a £6m museum. Building work on The Novium has been completed in the West ... [more]

5:30:54 PM Museums meet to discuss possible partnership
Black Hills Pioneer

Deadwood museum officials met Friday to discuss what a possible partnership of the Days of '76 Museum and the Adams Museum, House and Homestake, Adams Research and Cultural Center (HARCC) could look like in the future. Deadwood Historic Preservation  [more]

5:30:54 PM Libraries, Museums Receive $1.2 Million in IMLS Grants to Build Teen
School Library Journal - USA

School Library Journal The 12 winners-four museums and eight libraries-selected from a pool of 98 applicants from 32 states, will receive a total of $1.2 million in grants. They include the New York Hall of Science and the San Francisco Public Librar [more]

5:30:54 PM Kenosha Public Museum to host exhibit by Reginald Baylor
Journal Times Online - Racine,WI,USA

26-March 11 at the Kenosha Public Museum's Paula Freck Touhey Gallery, 5500 First Ave. An opening reception will be held from 1 to 4 pm Sunday, Dec. 4. Acrylic on canvas is Baylor's usual medium of choice, working with large-scale figures and ... [more]



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