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11:45:37 PM Discover cultural fabric at museum
Winnipeg Sun - Canada

By SIMON FULLER, SUN MEDIA And the curator of the Costume Museum of Canada wants more Winnipeggers to try the museum at 109 Pacific Ave. out for size. .... [more]

10:27:05 PM Role of Public Galleries and Museums Comes under Scrutiny
Art Daily - USA

The future role and function of public galleries and museums will come under the spotlight in Museum21, a major symposium at the Irish Museum of Modern Art ... [more]

10:14:13 PM The Couch Slouch: Get away from it all at US sports museum
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA

Just around the corner from the New York Stock Exchange, I find the recently opened Sports Museum of America, pay the $16 admission charge and take an ... [more]

9:29:48 PM Aborigines seek quick returns of remains
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia

More than 1000 indigenous remains have been returned to Australia over the past decade, mainly from museums in Europe and the United States. ... [more]

4:13:08 PM Cutting-edge Museum to Open in Southern Seoul Suburb
Donga - Seoul,South Korea

The Gwacheon National Science Museum will open Friday afternoon in the southern Seoul suburb, with construction taking two and a half years at a cost of 450 ... [more]

2:33:57 PM Oregon Military Museum closes temporarily
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA

by AP The Oregon Military Museum is closing temporarily to begin its transition to a new facility at the Oregon National Guard's Camp Withycombe. ... [more]

2:12:01 PM BMW drops Concept CS
The Australian - Australia

THE newly formed Australasian Motor Museum Association is compiling a directory of the region's motor museums for inclusion on its website. ... [more]

1:36:26 PM Babylon: Myth and Reality at the British Museum
Times Online - UK

This week the British Museum opens Babylon: Reality and Myth. It is the last in a sequence of three shows on the subject that have taken place this year, ... [more]

12:45:38 PM Babylon at the British Museum: When Nebuchadnezzar's ziggurat was ...
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

Babylon, subject of a new exhibition at the British Museum, was then capital of an empire that stretched from Gaza in the west to the Persian Gulf in the ... [more]

10:58:58 AM WWI exhibit examines role of Asian, African troops
The Associated Press -

"Man, Culture and War," an exhibit at Brussels' BELvue Museum, seeks to set the record straight about the contribution of colonial troops during the .... [more]

9:14:58 AM Night at the Museums kicks off Denver Arts Week
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA

DENVER - Unlike the movie by a similar name, the exhibits in Denver's museums probably don't come to life after dark, but there's certainly still plenty ... [more]

7:29:36 AM Shadowlands: a hole in the heart of the quay
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

For example, no additional overshadowing is allowed over First Government House Place, in front of the Museum of Sydney, between noon and 2pm and over ... [more]

6:39:47 AM Babe Ruth Museum
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

That was certainly the mood inside the Sports Legends Museum, where a couple hundred folks gathered for a VIP reception benefiting the Babe Ruth Birthplace ... [more]

4:00:26 AM Abu Dhabi to review tourism projects due to crunch
Reuters - NY,USA

The new museum is being built in Saadiyat Island (Island of Happiness), a $27-$29 billion luxury resort project with marinas, shops and art centres .... [more]

12:46:09 AM At Smithsonian annex museum, it's all aircraft, and no "froufrou"
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

The first thing visitors encounter in the main display area of the Udvar-Hazy Center, the National Air and Space Museum annex near Dulles. ... [more]

12:31:56 AM Reinvented DIA draws crowds, praise
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

But the large majority has taken to the new DIA like catnip, and some other museums see the approach as the wave of the future. Steven Litt, Cleveland Plain ... [more]



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