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11:18:28 PM Victoria and Albert Museum opens doors on a world of ravishing luxury
Guardian - UK

When the Victoria and Albert Museum asked its visitors what "medieval" meant to them, the result was depressing: plague, war, religion, darkness, .... [more]

10:05:00 PM San Jose museum wins MetLife grant Silicon Valley / San Jose Business
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

Bizjournals.com MetLife Foundation on Monday announced the grant winners of its 2009 Museum and Community Connections program, including San Jose Museum of Art. The New ... [more]

8:01:24 PM Holocaust Museum shooting suspect's health could complicate court
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

Baltimore Sun AP The lawyer for the 89-year-old white supremacist accused of fatally shooting a guard at Washington's Holocaust museum says his client's medical condition ... [more]

7:00:21 PM metlife Foundation Announces $1000000 in Grants for Third Installment of
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) The grants, ranging from $45000 to $100000 and totaling $1000000, were awarded to 15 museums for exhibitions, artist residencies, and other programs that ... [more]

6:53:35 PM The Hartford, Hartford Stage and The Mark Twain House & Museum Kick Off
WELT ONLINE - Germany

WELT ONLINE This unforgettable, one-night-only event is a collaboration of Hartford Stage, The Mark Twain House & Museum and The Hartford Financial Services Group, ... [more]

5:38:04 PM Grand Rapids museum presents exhibit about Amway
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

A new Grand Rapids Public Museum exhibit recounts how Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel peppered the marketplace with a wide range of products and services ... [more]

5:01:22 PM French Museum Unions Warn of Strikes
ARTINFO - New York,NY,USA

PARIS—Tourists visiting France's capital this week may have to skip plans to explore the city's famed museums if the unions representing workers at those ... [more]

3:49:10 PM UK Heir, Berlin Museum Reach Accord on Nazi-Seized Relief
Bloomberg

30 (Bloomberg) -- Berlin's museum authorities settled a claim for a medieval alabaster relief confiscated by the Nazis from a Jewish telephone maker in an ... [more]

1:58:08 PM Climategate: Science Museum's green propaganda backfires
Telegraph.co.uk

By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: November 30th, 2009 London's Science Museum has been holding a special exhibition on 'global warming'. .... [more]

11:16:10 AM Frans Hal Museum To Show Exhibition Of First Woman To Become Masterpainter
Design Taxi - NYC,USA

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of Judith Leyster, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, .... [more]

10:30:08 AM The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum ends successful season with an
Connecticut Plus - Hartford,CT,USA

Connecticut Plus By Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum presents "Grassroots Invitational," opening reception Tues., December 15, 6-9 pm, ... [more]

9:27:58 AM New on DVD: 'Night at the Museum: Battle of the
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

New York Daily News Pop in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" (PG, $29.98), in which Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Amy Adams head to Washington to create some ... [more]

9:24:37 AM museum planners focus on funding
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA

By Michael Cass • THE TENNESSEAN • November 30, 2009 Organizers of a planned African-American museum are pressing ahead with an ambitious fundraising ... [more]

8:17:12 AM The 'new' Ashmolean
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

The process of choosing a new design led to trips to Shanghai, Thessaloniki in Greece, and other cities to scope out other museums for ideas. ... [more]

8:10:19 AM Big mail delivery
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The National Postal Museum has a new favorite philatelist. The Associated Press reported that California investor William H. Gross auctioned off two of his ... [more]

6:56:41 AM Civil War museum on Spotsy wish list
The Free Lance-Star

By DAN TELVOCK Spotsylvania County could end up celebrating the Civil War's 150th anniversary without a museum that tells the stories of the bloody battles. ... [more]

6:00:45 AM Mini Microbe Portraits From the Micropolitan Museum
Wired News - USA

By Hadley Leggett Tired of the portraits, landscapes and abstract art that peppers the walls of most art museums? According to Dutch photographer Wim von ... [more]

5:51:22 AM Nautical treasure sailboat goes to Biloxi museum
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi,MS,USA

By LESLIE WILLIAMS - The Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS -- A Biloxi museum is getting a sailboat that was left to Tulane University - along with nearly $390000 ... [more]

1:27:09 AM Arles Journal A Museum Hails Caesar, Even if Some Antiquarians Don't Agree
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

A Roman bust, center, on display at a museum at Arles, France, is thought to be the only surviving statue of Julius Caesar that was carved during his .... [more]

12:38:41 AM Arts, Briefly Bilbao Museum Official Sentenced
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The former financial director of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum was found guilty of embezzlement and falsifying documents last week and was sentenced to 32 ... [more]



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