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11:51:21 PM Verde Valley museums offer holiday gift variety
Verde Independent - Cottonwood,AZ,USA

The Verde Valley is home to a treasure trove of cultural heritage sites and museums. Many of these have Museum Gift Shops offering gifts for the coming holiday season - gifts that you may not find anywhere else. By shopping at these non-profit ... [more]

9:52:32 PM The Queen meets Yoko Ono as she opens the Museum of Liverpool
The Mirror - UK

By Mirror.co.uk 1/12/2011 The Queen travelled to Liverpool today where she was greeted by Yoko Ono as she officially opened a new museum about life in the city. The Museum of Liverpool boasts many exhibits dedicated to The Beatles and John Lennon's . [more]

9:52:32 PM Met Veteran Named Director of Houston Art Museum
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By CAROL VOGEL AFTER months of rumor and speculation the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has named a 28-year veteran of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to be its next director. Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, ... [more]

9:52:32 PM The Macaroons Perform Hanukkah Concerts for Families at The Jewish Museum
Broadway World - New York,NY,USA

The Macaroons will perform three Hanukkah concerts for families at The Jewish Museum on Sunday, December 25 at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm. Families can enjoy a guitar-based sound that recalls everything from the Kinks to Queen to the Shins. ... [more]

9:52:32 PM Monster Mash: Grammy nominations; museum eyes Occupy Wall Street
criticism

(Culture Monster) Capturing the moment: The National Museum of American History is collecting memorabilia from the Occupy Wall Street protest. (Washington Times) Speaking up: Stephen Adly Guirgis is upset over the casting of non-Latinos in certain .. [more]

9:52:32 PM Cassidy: San Mateo museum's NeXT computer shares a story with Silicon Valley
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

But the old courthouse is the San Mateo County History Museum now, and it's the job of a history museum to help hold those memories and to spark conversation about how the past is prologue. The exhibit was quickly installed after Jobs' death in Octob [more]

9:52:32 PM Morse Museum's priceless Tiffany windows travel to park with extreme care
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

By Joseph Freeman, Orlando Sentinel WINTER PARK — The whole year, they sit in a corner of the unmarked, temperature-controlled Morse Museum warehouse, among an eclectic hodgepodge of artwork destined for long-term storage, restoration or transport. . [more]

9:52:32 PM Warner collection moves to Tuscaloosa museum
Canadian Business - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

(AP) — Some resolution will come to the saga of the massive art collection assembled by Jack Warner as the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art holds its grand opening celebration. Having relocated much of the work from its former home at NorthRiver, ... [more]

9:32:59 PM Museum director to help convert church
Quad City Times

(Suzanne Curry / City of Rock Island / Contributed photo) To give an idea of what Quad-Citians can expect to see at a new museum in an old Rock Island church, the description of the historic document collection is described as: "everything from ... [more]

9:32:59 PM Art Meets Leisure in Arkansas
New York Times - United States

Bentonville may seem an unlikely spot for one of the largest museums of American art in the world, but thanks to the Wal-Mart connection, that is exactly what it has become. The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (600 Museum Way; 479-418-5700; .. [more]

7:42:19 PM National museums double visitor numbers in decade of free entry
Guardian - UK

Visitor numbers to national museums, most of which were charging entrance fees 10 years ago, have more than doubled in a decade, from 7.2 million to nearly 18 million. The figures were released to mark the 10th anniversary of free admission to Englis [more]

7:42:19 PM Museums: William Tanner House
Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery: Luminous Ground: Artists with Histories, Meet the Curator, Judith Lloyd Klauba, 2 to 3 pm Dec. 4. On the first floor of the Norton Building, 201 W. 10th St., Lockport. Hours are from 9 am to 5 pm Monday through [more]

7:42:19 PM Museum hosts summit to kick off biology collection digitization project
University of Florida - Gainesville,Florida,USA

“There's this wealth of information that's out there but only 10 percent of it has currently been digitized and less than 1 percent is even visible in publicly accessible museums,” Grabon said. “The data is out there but it's not accessible, ... [more]

5:59:02 PM No political divide here: Lincoln's museum is tops
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA

The museum was designed to confront visitors with the epic weight of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. It promised to use 21st-century technology to bring life to a 19th-century story. Since it opened in 2005, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and [more]

5:59:02 PM The Museum of Motherhood!
LifeGoesStrong

Visit the art museum, the science museum, the natural history museum -- and the mom museum. The Museum of Motherhood recently hosted a creativity and motherhood conference with Forty Weeks pregnancy consultant Julia Beck, Pundit Mom blogger Joanne .. [more]

5:59:02 PM SFMOMA Expansion Aims to Redefine Role of Museum in the City
SF Weekly Blogs - San Francisco,CA,USA

So Benezra is particularly excited about the expansion to the museum, which was unveiled Wednesday, that he believes will go a long way to bringing art to the masses. The project will break ground in summer of 2013 and is due to open in early 2016. . [more]

1:08:10 PM Museums enjoy 10 years of freedom
BBC Sport - UK

By Ian Youngs Arts reporter, BBC News Exactly 10 years ago, museums and galleries - including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum - scrapped entrance fees as part of a government plan to widen access to the nation's culture  [more]

10:43:04 AM Museum director to help convert old RI church
Quad City Times

The interior of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Rock Island is to be transformed into museum space for Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums. The photo was taken by the late Suzanne Curry in 1993 as she was preparing a landmark nomination for the [more]

10:43:04 AM Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visit Museum of Liverpool
BBC Sport - UK

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are to visit the Museum of Liverpool later ahead of the opening of a new set of galleries on Friday. The Queen will unveil a plaque and sign the visitors' book to commemorate the visit to the waterfront museum whic [more]

8:01:35 AM Free museums: visits more than double
BBC Sport - UK

Government-sponsored museums that went free in 2001 have seen their combined visitor numbers more than double in the past decade, new figures suggest. Seven million people visited the attractions in 2000/01 compared to almost 18 million in 2010/11 -  [more]

8:01:35 AM Occupy Museums Goes to the Lincoln Center
Beacon Equity Research

Previously, Occupy Museums and other OWS groups came to Lincoln Center to protest the "generous philanthropy" of David H. Koch, the funder of the Tea Party and of anti-global warming research, who uses philanthropic contributions to the former New Yo [more]

7:46:56 AM Museum campaign to buy Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

The National Maritime Museum has launched a fundraising appeal to buy Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, the installation currently occupying the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. By Anita Singh The Museum wants to provide a permanent home for the Yinka ... [more]

7:46:56 AM Corning Museum of Glass offers holiday open house
The Daily News Online

CORNING – The Corning Museum of Glass hosts its annual Holiday Open Housefrom 9 am to 5 pm Saturday and Sunday. During this weekend, admission is free to all visitors. In addition to the daily offerings of exhibitions and live glassmaking demos, ... [more]

5:32:21 AM Maine State Museum director says he's retiring next year
Morning Sentinel

By Susan McMillan smcmillan@mainetoday.com AUGUSTA --The Maine State Museum's director is stepping down after two decades at the helm. Joseph R. Phillips, who previously worked in the maritime industry, announced Wednesday he plans to retire next yea [more]

3:50:16 AM Button museum opens in Gurnee
Chicago Sun-Times

The new museum just opened and features the collection of life-long Gurnee resident, Elizabeth (Peg) Hewitt. Hewett passed away last year. Wednesday's "Soft Opening" of the new museum was also a celebration of what would have been her 96th birthday.  [more]

3:50:16 AM Pontiac students present audio tour project at war museum
Bloomington Pantagraph - Bloomington,IL,USA

Pontiac freshman Katie Dixon, far right, points to a uniform once worn by her great-uncle, Clarence Tammen, of Flanagan, and discusses her research for an audio cellphone tour at the Livingston County War Museum on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, in Pontia [more]

2:18:13 AM The El Paso Museum of Art Announces Artist on Art with David Quintanilla
Dallas Art News - Dallas,Texas,USA

The El Paso Museum of Art presents Artists on Art with David Quintanilla on Thursday, December 15, 2011, at 5:30 pm This event is free to the public. Artists on Art – located at the El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) provides local artists an opportunity t [more]

1:11:54 AM An Imposing Museum Turns Warm and Fuzzy
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By ROBIN POGREBIN In some ways the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's expansion is like the many other recent building efforts by cultural institutions around the country. It is costly ($325 million), time consuming (due to be completed in 2016) an [more]

1:11:54 AM A Museum's Encyclopedic Closet
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By ERIC WILSON “THE GREAT DESIGNERS,” a two-part survey from the permanent collection of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, approaches its subject alphabetically. Part 1 opens this week with a fitted black suit and a chenille ... [more]

1:11:54 AM Museum buys 'Back to Black' dress for $67120
CNN (blog)

A fashion museum in South America has shelled out big bucks for one of Winehouse's dresses, reports the New York Daily News. On Tuesday, the Museo de la Moda in Santiago, Chile, reportedly paid $67120 for the dress Amy wore on the cover of her 2006 . [more]

1:11:54 AM Traveling museum to share sights and sounds of World War I
Your Houston News

The Waddell and Reed Traveling World War I Museum rolls into La Porte to honor veterans on Dec. 3 from 9 am to 5 pm Carried in on the back of an 18-wheel big rig truck, artifacts on loan from the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, ... [more]



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