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10:44:54 PM The Jewish Museum Presents See the Light(s): Hanukkah 2011
Broadway World - New York,NY,USA

The Jewish Museum is presenting See the Light(s): Hanukkah 2011. This annual celebration features exhibitions of Hanukkah menorahs from the Museum's extensive collection, eclectic music, family festivities, and more. Highlights include an installatio [more]

10:44:54 PM Tennessee State Museum to display Emancipation Proclamation
Murfreesboro Post - Murfreesboro,TN,USA

Bill Haslam today announced the Tennessee State Museum will be the only stop in the Southeast of an unprecedented tour and display of the Emancipation Proclamation, the document that altered the course of US history and dramatically changed the lives [more]

10:44:54 PM Two New Museum Visitors Claim Carsten Höller Floating Tank Gave Them Ear ...
The L Magazine

After some early hurdles it seemed that, excruciatingly long lines and increased admission notwithstanding, everything was A-OK at the New Museum's Carsten Höller show, Experience (through January 15). But on Friday a pair of displeased visitors ... [more]

10:44:54 PM Crystal Bridges to partner with The Louvre, High Museum of Art, Terra ...
Fayetteville Flyer

Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. As if it weren't enough that there is an enormous collection of American Art available at Crystal Bridges, last week we learned that more world class art will soon be on display  [more]

10:15:00 PM New London museum hires program coordinator
Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA

NEW LONDON — The New London Public Museum has hired Carol Couillard as its program coordinator. She will be working part time at the museum, creating and implementing new programs for all ages. Couillard has a degree in history from the University of [more]

10:15:00 PM Creationist says science led him to beliefs
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA

Exactly how creationist museums move those numbers is uncertain. Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education, Inc., in Oakland, Calif., identifies four museums in Florida — Parker's in Arcadia, as well as others in Key West, Pensacola . [more]

10:15:00 PM Magazine ads to promote Ark. as cultural locale
Ventura ...

Rice said he hopes other museums in Northwest Arkansas will benefit from the ads and that some Crystal Bridges visitors will drive the 216 miles to Little Rock to see the William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum and Arkansas Arts Center. ... [more]

8:23:39 PM Museum sells grenade-shaped ornaments
United Press International

12 (UPI) -- Visitors to the Swedish Army museum are questioning whether its hand grenade-shaped Christmas tree ornaments are in bad taste. The Stockholm museum is selling the ornaments to raise money for Christian Aid, a charity that combats poverty  [more]

8:23:39 PM Integrating the Museum into the City, the new SFMOMA expansion
Core77.com - New York,NY,USA

Earlier this year I was asked to join the accessions committee for the Architecture and Design Department of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It seems it was an opportune time, as the museum is making some exciting changes, most notable of whi [more]

8:23:39 PM 'Museum Manger' offers display of Christmas spirit
Le Mars Daily Sentinel - Le Mars,IA,USA

By Beverly Van Buskirk (Sentinel photo by Amy Erickson) This wooden nativity is part of the "Museum Manger" display at the Plymouth County Historical Museum through Jan. 8. This nativity set came from the museum's 2010 garage sale and was painted by  [more]

6:43:06 PM Museum director eagerly awaits the day she can welcome visitors
Houma Courier - Houma,Louisiana,USA

Christy Naquin, executive director of the Bayou Country Children's Museum in Thibodaux, shows off a shovel from the museum's ground-breaking. By Teddy Renois Christy Naquin is executive director of a museum that doesn't exist, but that will soon chan [more]

6:43:06 PM Childhood memory alive in photograph at Academy museum
The Star Democrat

Kem Sawyer of Washington, DC, stands next to a 1962 photograph by André Kertész of her at age 9 that is part of an exhibition at the Academy Art Museum. Sawyer is holding a copy of the Nancy Drew mystery she was reading in the photograph. ... [more]

6:43:06 PM Two Visitors to the New Museum Claim They Got Ear Infections from
Carsten ...

GalleristNY By Michael H. Miller 9:00am That sensory deprivation tank at Carsten Höller's Experience exhibition at the New Museum–the one that really awakens the latent mysophobia that we often deeply repress while living in New York and having to ta [more]

6:33:52 PM UNI Museum in Cedar Falls Faces Uncertain Future
Patch.com

The UNI Museum has served the community for over a century, though budget and location problems mean the institution might have to struggle not to become history. By James Frazier The "Talking Textiles" exhibit currently at the University Museum unti [more]

4:41:47 PM NASA Transfers Enterprise Title to Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

RedOrbit NASA transferred title and ownership of space shuttle Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum during a ceremony on Sunday, Dec. 11, at the museum in New York City. The transfer is the first step toward Intrepid receiving Enterpris [more]

4:41:47 PM An art history mystery at Worcester Art Museum
Milford Daily News - Milford,MA,USA

An intriguing exhibit, “In Search of Julien Hudson,'' at the Worcester Art Museum, offers the first retrospective about the man and the artist whose enigmatic career casts light on the lives of free blacks and mixed race people in Louisiana before th [more]

3:24:50 PM Coney Island Museum Hosts Creepy Homage To Victorian Horror Theater (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

That's all fine and well with the Coney Island Museum, which on Saturday night hosted the Grand Guignol Variety Show, an homage to the eponymous Parisian production that specialized in theatrical gore, sex and violence from 1897 to 1962. ... [more]

3:24:50 PM Dallas Museum of Art Announces 21st Season of Arts & Letters Live
Dallas Art News - Dallas,Texas,USA

Today the Dallas Museum of Art announced the 21st anniversary season of Arts & Letters Live, the Museum's literary and performing arts series. With approximately thirty scheduled events featuring over forty authors and twenty actors and musicians, .. [more]

3:24:50 PM New costume and doll museum opens to receptive crowds of doll enthusiasts
Amherstburg Echo - Ontario, Canada

Jessica Lori Riley, curator of the Shaanti International Doll Museum, holds a doll that is circa 1850 and part of the museum's vast collection. The museum held a "soft opening" at the Malden Community & Cultural Centre Sunday, December 11. ... [more]

3:24:50 PM Former Wash U Student Files Suit Against School Alleging Sexual Harassment
Museum

Patch.com Professor Tom Huck is an internationally renowned artist whose work is on display at museums and collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Saint Louis Art Museum and the New York Public Library. ... [more]

2:05:37 PM New York City's Intrepid museum celebrates ownership of space shuttle
Collectspace.com - USA

collectSPACE.com December 12, 2011 — NASA's space shuttle prototype, Enterprise, now belongs to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. Space agency leaders and local elected officials marked the shuttle's transfer of ownership, which  [more]

12:37:21 PM Museum's Mission Remembers and Prevents
Patch.com

Local crowd sees rare footage of survivors from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Film curator explains purpose of work is to remember horrors and prevent future occurrences. By Steve Sadin Am Shalom Rabbi Steven Lowenstein, Marlene Iglitzen,  [more]

12:37:21 PM Coloring for the kids: Central Wisconsin Children's Museum adds murals to
Wausau Daily Herald - Wausau,WI,USA

Wausau Daily Herald Charlie Matthai and Rosalee Hornung play Wednesday, in the Good to Grow Grocery exhibit at the Central Wisconsin Children's Museum which features one of the new murals that was unveiled at a reception with the artists. / DOUG WOJC [more]

12:37:21 PM Santa 'Rescue' Thrills Kids at NYC Fire Museum
DNAinfo

By Jesse D. Leon and Colin Weatherby SOHO — Sleigh bells, not sirens, signaled high drama for firefighters at the New York City Fire Museum Sunday. In an annual Christmas tradition, volunteers and firefighters from Ladder 1 on Duane Street acted out  [more]

10:19:01 AM Remington Museum's holiday gala weekend winds up with open house
Watertown Daily Times - Watertown,NY,USA

By BRIAN KIDWELL OGDENSBURG — On the day after the 28th annual holiday gala at his namesake art museum here, the 150th anniversary of Frederic S. Remington's birth continued to be celebrated Sunday at an open house with music, games and other ... [more]

10:19:01 AM Cape Town Diamond Museum opens at Waterfront
Bizcommunity.com - Cape Town,South Africa

The Cape Town Diamond Museum has opened its doors to the public in the newly upgraded Clock Tower precinct at the Waterfront. It is the only museum of its kind in Cape Town and the first to pay homage to the extraordinary story of the South African . [more]

10:19:01 AM Broken Arrow planning for downtown military museum
Tulsa World - Tulsa,OK,USA

By SUSAN HYLTON World Staff Writer BROKEN ARROW - The City of Broken Arrow's vision for downtown revitalization includes a military history museum on Main Street, and officials plan to make a significant investment to make that happen. ... [more]

10:19:01 AM Edmonton firm helps buy jet for museum
The Province - Vancouver,BC,Canada

By Jodie Sinnema, Postmedia News December 11, 2011 9:00 PM The Alberta Aviation Museum will be get-ting its own F-104 Starfighter aircraft after a local forest firefighting aircraft company stepped in with a donation. Air Spray Ltd., whose founder Do [more]

10:13:37 AM Museums put on their holiday best
Auburn Citizen

At the Ward W. O'Hara Agricultural Museum in Owasco, Santa Claus sat among the farm equipment and heard requests for grain flails, feed mills, cider presses and whatever else kids are asking for these days. The blacksmith was working gleaming steel a [more]

10:13:37 AM History buffs bid to run museum
Harborough Mail - Market Harborough,England,UK

BOLD moves are being made by a community group to wrest complete control of Harborough Museum away from the local authorities. The town's museum was under a black cloud earlier this year due to cuts but managed to stay largely intact when Harborough  [more]

8:05:38 AM Muskegon entertainment calendar, Dec. 12-14, 2011
MLive.com - MI,USA

More info: 231-739-9500, museumsusa.org/museums/info/2315522. Mona Shores High School Chamber Choir, 6:30 pm, Norton Shores Branch of the Muskegon Area District Library, 705 Seminole, free, registration appreciated. More info (to register): ... [more]

7:17:17 AM Upstate History Museum plans Revolutionary holiday
Greenville News

Dulcimer music will be a highlight of A Revolutionary Holiday Family Night at Upcountry History Museum. By Donna Isbell Walker | Staff writer How much: $5 for adults, $4 for college students and seniors 55 and older, $3 for ages 4 to 18. ... [more]

7:17:17 AM Wichita Art Museum showcases Supremes' dresses
Kansas.com - KS,USA

By Bonnie Bing The Mary Wilson Supremes Collection will be on display at the Wichita Art Museum through Jan. 12. If you love fashion, if you loved the Supremes, and maybe you still do, stop in the name of love! Stop in at the Wichita Art Museum, ... [more]

7:17:17 AM The Carroll County Farm Museum Holds "An Old World Country Christmas"
Patch.com

By George Welty The theme for this year's holiday tour at the Carroll County Farm Museum was "An Old World Country Christmas." Each room was decorated in period holiday decorations. The front porch and hallway was Victorian traditional Christmas, ... [more]

5:43:37 AM Museum celebrates heritage
Parkersburg News - Parkersburg,WV,USA

By BRETT DUNLAP (bdunlap@newsandsentinel.com) , Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG - People got to experience the sights and sounds of the Blennerhassett family Sunday at the Blennerhassett Museum's annual Holiday Open House. ... [more]

5:43:37 AM D'Amour Museum in Springfield opens exhibit of 50 French artists
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA

Old Masters to Monet Introduction to the Exhibit 12/11/11 gallery (10 photos) SPRINGFIELD – A traveling exhibit of 50 French master painters opened Sunday at the Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, celebrating the first time the nearby .. [more]

5:43:37 AM Visitors from near and far attend Holiday Open House at museum
Mount Airy News - Mount Airy,NC,USA

by Mondee Tilley Visitors to the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History study the exhibits on the first floor on Sunday during the Holiday Open House. Almost Irish plays for visitors at the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History on Sunday during the .. [more]

5:43:37 AM Santa's gift to Saratoga Automobile Museum: Holiday event and others like
The Saratogian

The Saratogian By MICHAEL CIGNOLI SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Saratoga Automobile Museum, with its vast collection of classic cars and artifacts, attracts automobile enthusiasts from around the world, but the museum had never had a visitor from the North  [more]

5:43:37 AM Flying Santa makes everyone 'kids again' during Hull Lifesaving Museum visit
The Patriot Ledger

Flying Santa gets ready to take off from the Hull Lifesaving Museum in his helicopter after visiting with children and adults on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. By Sue Scheible Everyone seemed to feel like they were kids again. That's the effect Flying Sant [more]

3:09:18 AM Ancient brass weighing stones in museum
Times of India - India

CHENNAI: Ancient weighing stones , widely used in the southern part of the country , willbethisweek'sexhibit atthe Government Museum in Egmore .They willbeon showfor a weekfrom Monday . These weighing stones were in use before the Christian era to .. [more]

2:21:19 AM Gift Idea: Museum memberships offer free admission, more for families
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA

Today, we're talking museum memberships. My family has memberships to Marbles Kids Museum. the NC Museum of Art and, my kids will find out Christmas morning thanks to Grandpa, the Museum of Life and Science in Durham. I like museum memberships becaus [more]

12:57:08 AM Schuyler-Seneca Town Talk: Finger Lakes Museum nears fund campaign goal
Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA

The Finger Lakes Museum is closing in on its $1 million Founder's Campaign. The deadline is the end of this month and officials report they are in need of less than $100000. Grants amounting to more than $120000 came from the Daisy Marquis Jones ... [more]

12:57:08 AM VIDEO: Flying Santa visits Hull Lifesaving Museum
The Patriot Ledger

Flying Santa gets ready to take off in his helicopter from the Hull Lifesaving Museum, where more than 100 children and parents cheered his arrival. By Sue Scheible More than 100 children and parents cheered as Flying Santa made a stop Saturday at th [more]



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