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10:56:45 PM Free museum entry is a treasure too precious to lose
Guardian - UK

Ten years ago on Thursday, the last of Britain's national museums finally scrapped entrance charges. The abolition of paid entrance had been "a personal crusade" for Labour's culture secretary Chris Smith – and will be remembered as his chief legacy. [more]

9:19:16 PM University of Michigan Museum of Art receives Mellon grant
AnnArbor.com - Ann Arbor's top digital news Web site and

The University of Michigan Museum of Art last night hosted one of its "After Hours" events, and the museum has posted a set of photos from the event to its Flickr account. The event showcased ... The University of Michigan Museum of Art has received  [more]

9:04:43 PM Time To Tweet The Art: Museum-Analytics.org Keeps Tabs On Curatorial Social
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TechCrunch Learn More To paraphrase Cracker, I suspect what the world needs now is another method to assess the social metrics of various museums around the world like I need a hole in the head, but presumably this information is important to someone [more]

9:04:43 PM Taking inventory at the museum
StarNewsOnline.com - Wilmington,NC,USA

Barbara Rowe, curator of the Cape Fear Museum, points out some of the many items that are part of the museum's collection that are in storage. The museum regularly adds inventory, which must be approved by the New Hanover County commissioners. ... [more]

9:04:43 PM State museum may have close for up to 2 years
Alaskajournal.com - Anchorage,AK,USA

Dennis Chester shows his son, Kellen, 5, the Eagle Tree at the Alaska State Museum on Tuesday Nov. 22, 2011 in Juneau, Alaska. The museum will need to find an alternative space during the 20 months it would take to tear down the existing building and [more]

9:04:43 PM Stop by the museum for some holiday fun
Albert Lea Tribune - Albert Lea,MN,USA

Hopefully you were able to make it out to the museum Friday or Saturday night to enjoy the holiday lights in the village as we kicked off the holiday season at the museum. If not, drive by any evening and enjoy the lights from the outside and plan to [more]

9:04:43 PM Museum to host Smithsonian exhibit
Topeka Capital Journal - Topeka,KS,USA

By The Capital-Journal The Blue Rapids Museum has received a $1410 grant from the Kansas Humanities Council to enable the museum to be a partner site for the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition “The Way We Worked,” according to a news ... [more]

9:04:43 PM Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Financial Times

By Ariella Budick After 80 years of separation, five Diego Rivera murals have got back together at the Museum of Modern Art in a celebratory reunion that recalls the institution's early days. With their Renaissance poise and glowing stillness, ... [more]

5:57:37 PM Gilmore Car Museum to be open year round; new center opens 2012
MLive.com - MI,USA

By Holly Deal HICKORY CORNERS — For the first time in its 45-year history, the Gilmore Car Museum can stay open all year round. As of Nov. 1, parts of the museum are open all year round. Previously, the museum stayed open May 1 to Nov. 1. ... [more]

5:51:07 PM Human Zoos: Quai Branly Museum Puts Humans On Display
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

The demeaning tradition shaped racist attitudes that linger today. Curator Lilian Thuram, a former soccer star and now anti-racism advocate, hopes the exhibit at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris makes people question deep-held beliefs about the "other [more]

5:51:07 PM Museum plans Dec. 16 Tuskegee Airmen gala
The Warner Robins Patriot

by Gene Rector Although the museum has included a display honoring the World War II, all-black flying unit since 1997, an expanded and enhanced version has been moved to the Scott Exhibit hangar, linking it with other World War II attractions. The De [more]

5:51:07 PM Museum benefactor Margie Petersen dies
AutoWeek - USA

After Robert Petersen sold the company, the couple concentrated on philanthropic interests, which included the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, to which Margie recently gave $100 million. Mr. Petersen passed away in 2007. ... [more]

5:51:07 PM State Museum of Pennsylvania Announces December Highlights
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

10, 11 am–12:30 pm This concert will feature Chinese, Bosnian and Liberian master traditional artists associated with "Making it Better: Folk Arts in Pennsylvania Today," an exhibition on view at The State Museum. The concert is presented in ... [more]

2:59:07 PM Tuskegee Airmen exhibit gets new home at GA museum
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

The Tuskegee Airmen exhibit has a new and upgraded home in a museum at a central Georgia Air Force base. The Telegraph of Macon reports (http://bit.ly/KYnzY) that the museum recently completed the move of the Tuskegee exhibit from Hangar One to the . [more]

2:27:18 PM Historic house museums ready to celebrate the holiday season
The JHU Gazette

By Heather Egan Stalfort, Homewood The Johns Hopkins University's historic house museums, Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library, will showcase the sights and sounds of the season with lavishly decorated period rooms, artfully trimmed trees,  [more]

2:27:18 PM The hidden gem museums of Paris
Gadling - Santa Monice,CA,USA

The City of Museums? Why not. With the Louvre's 30000 paintings and the Musée d'Orsay's thousands-strong art collection, it's easy to forget that there are other museums in the City of Light. In fact, almost 200 museums-both plus-sized and petite, .. [more]

12:19:31 PM Putting humans on display _ Paris museum asks why
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

And he hopes it does the same for visitors to the Quai Branly Museum. The exhibit, which opens Tuesday, is at times a queasy experience. It includes the projected silhouette of the buttocks of the so-called Hottentot Venus, and film of chained, ... [more]

10:57:09 AM The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology Launches Anesthesia History into
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA

PR Web (press release) The Wood Library-Museum Of Anesthesiology (WLM) Has Embarked On A Digitization Project That Will Bring Its Extensive Collection Of Rare Books, Multimedia Materials, And Artifacts To People Around The World; Providing The Most C [more]

10:32:39 AM Contract signing for museum disheartening
Calgary Herald - Calgary,AB,Canada

A royal museum is so much more than bricks and mortar, slapped together to house staid artifacts that have often spent decades buried in a box. It's about celebrating one's history by uncovering its rich past. Museums everywhere face the challenge of [more]

8:39:38 AM New Kern museum director's previous tenure was controversial
Bakersfield Californian - Bakersfield,CA,USA

BY STEVEN MAYER Californian staff writer ALAMOGORDO, NM -- When veteran museum director Randall Hayes was plucked from this stark desert community of 35000 in September to head up the Kern County Museum, it seemed like a new chance at success for the [more]

8:39:38 AM Tuskegee Airmen exhibit gets new home at aviation museum
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA

By WAYNE CRENSHAW - wcrenshaw@macon.com WARNER ROBINS -- The Museum of Aviation's Tuskegee Airmen exhibit has a new and improved home, and as a result the Vietnam War now has its own hangar. The museum recently completed the move of the Tuskegee ... [more]

8:09:17 AM Kids' museum closer to Mendel move
Star Phoenix - Saskatoon,SK,Canada

By Jeremy Warren, The StarPhoenix November 27, 2011 11:00 PM In April 2009, Erica Bird watched volunteers put together exhibits at Saskatoon's new Children's Discovery Museum, an experiment about to open in a cramped Market Mall retail space. ... [more]

7:24:20 AM Edwards: Telfair Museums: True to mission
Savannah Morning News

By CINDY EDWARDS Telfair Museums has just finished celebrating 125 years of bringing education, inspiration and beauty to our community. As we reflect on this milestone, it is only fitting to consider the museum's future. ... [more]

7:24:20 AM Ribbon-cutting celebrates reopening of veterans museum
Katy Times

Katy mayor pro-tem Hank Schmidt cuts a ribbon to reopen the Katy Veterans Memorial Museum for its 15th year. See 1C-2C for more on the museum. Posted: Monday, November 28, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 9:51 am, Wed Nov 23, 2011. ... [more]

6:44:48 AM Abstract Painter Gets Concrete Bunker in Still Museum: Review
BusinessWeek - USA

It is a landmark painting by the enigmatic Clyfford Still (1904-1980), whose work is celebrated in a new museum in Denver. Single-artist museums can embalm. This one astonishes. Rising to fame in the 1950s with such lions of abstract expressionism as [more]

5:32:10 AM Museum crowded for Family Day
Bennington Banner - Bennington,VT,USA

Festive fellow -- Santa stopped at the Bennington Museum on Saturday during the Festival of the Trees and Family Day opening -- to the joy of a line of children. Posing with Santa are Jazef Segura, 2, and his brother Nickolas, 5. ... [more]

5:32:10 AM New Mission for Museum
Wall Street Journal - USA

By MELANIE GRAYCE WEST Alfred H. Moses is leading an effort to expand the Beit Hatfutsot to become more than just a museum, but a place that will serve as a global institution where Jews from every community can come to discover and explore their ... [more]

5:32:10 AM Airborne & Special Operations Museum mines military treasure for displays
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville NC,USA

By Paul Woolverton The staff at the Army's Airborne & Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville opens new presents nearly every day. The packages delivered to their doorstep could hold a retired general's beret, a captured German helmet from World Wa [more]

5:32:10 AM Museum News & Views: Giving thanks for history
Huntsville Item - Huntsville,TX,USA

Join us at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum this Saturday, December 3, as we give thanks and celebrate Sam Houston's Family Christmas Festival from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm. Starting with the CWA Angel Show at the Walker Education Center, ... [more]

4:54:09 AM Cincinnati Art Museum to display more than two thousand pieces from its
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily In ten thousand square feet of space, the Cincinnati Art Museum will display more than two thousand pieces drawn from its collection of over sixty thousand objects. With snarling Greek lions, fine furniture, tea pots, and fine silver all ar [more]

3:18:10 AM End of the road as Maybach becomes museum piece
The National - Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates

It now sits in a museum - a fate likely to befall a few more of the luxury cars in the years to come, after its manufacturer decided to discontinue the brand. Daimler, the owner of Maybach, has announced it will phase out the ultra-luxury saloon cars [more]

2:03:41 AM Deutsche Bank Art Loan Forces Frankfurt's Staedel Underground
Bloomberg

“This is unprecedented in Germany, to fund a museum extension not only through big private donors but lots of small ones too,” Hollein, 42, said. “We are showing a possible way for museums in Germany to develop and grow instead of just keeping going. [more]

12:35:23 AM Rugby museum hopes for Cup
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

The New Zealand Rugby Museum in Palmerston North hopes to have the Webb Ellis Cup among its collections this summer. The cup has been touring the country since the All Blacks defeated France in the Rugby World Cup final on October 23. ... [more]



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