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News From Thursday, December 15, 2011
11:14:07 PM MUSEUM CALENDAR
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Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery: Closed Dec. 25 to 30 and Jan. 2. Luminous Ground: Artists with Histories, April 13. On the first floor of the Norton Building, 201 W. 10th St., Lockport. Hours are from 9 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday. Free. [more]

11:14:07 PM The Jewish Museum To Present Kids Flix Mix 12/26-27
Broadway World - New York,NY,USA

The Jewish Museum will present Kids Flix Mix, twelve animated short films for kids, on Monday and Tuesday, December 26 and 27 at 11:30 am. Showcasing a spectacular array of traditional, CGI and collage animation styles in films from around the world, [more]

11:14:07 PM Speed Museum To Close During Expansion
WLKY - Louisville,KY,USA

The Speed Art Museum announced on Thursday that it will close during a three-year, $50 million expansion project. The new 60000-square-foot North Building will double the overall square footage and nearly triple the gallery space from the existing wi [more]

11:14:07 PM National Museum Announces Location in Central Texas
KCEN-TV - Eddy,TX,USA

KILLEEN– The National Mounted Warfare Foundation announced today that a site for the location of the National Museum of Mounted Warfare and Soldier Center has been selected on Fort Hood. The Museum and Soldier Center will be located just outside the  [more]

11:14:07 PM 2do: Museums, parks, family events and more for Dec. 16-22, 2011
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA

Children's Museum of Cleveland. 10730 Euclid Ave. 216-791-7114 or clevelandchildrensmuseum.org. 10 am-5 pm Daily. $7, adults and children; free for 11 months and younger. Family Cooking Workshop "Holiday Cookies." Participate in this workshop, ... [more]

11:14:07 PM Massachusetts museum installing biomass boiler
Biomass Magazine

By Luke Geiver | December 15, 2011 The retrofit of a retired coal ash silo has helped the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) finally become a wood pellet boiler user. Starting in February, the former electronics supply facility that [more]

9:25:55 PM Snibston museum fears after funding bid shelved
BBC Sport - UK

The future of one of Leicestershire's main museums has been questioned after an application for funding was shelved. Snibston Discovery Museum, which is based at a former colliery, showcases the area's industrial heritage. But the withdrawal of a £4m [more]

6:47:23 PM Paris museum snaps up Bronte manuscript for $1.1 million
Reuters - NY,USA

By Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters) - A French museum paid 691000 pounds ($1.1 million) on Thursday for a miniature manuscript written by Charlotte Bronte, ending hopes it would return to the British author's former home that is now a museum. ... [more]

6:47:23 PM Fort Collins Museum of Art reopens with Chihuly exhibition
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA

Regan O'Reilly, left, and Dennis Palin, both of Denny Park Fine Arts, set up the glass works of Dale Chihuly at the Fort Collins Museum of Art. / V. Richard Haro/The Coloradoan 'CHIHULY VENETIANS: FROM THE GEORGE R. STROEMPLE COLLECTION' Where: Fort  [more]

6:47:23 PM Quick Takes: Stanford plans museum
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Having been given a prized collection of contemporary American art earlier this year, Stanford University on Wednesday announced plans for a new $30.5-million museum to house it. New York-based Ennead Architects will design a 30000-square-foot buildi [more]

6:47:23 PM Speed Art Museum to close for three years during renovations
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

The artist's rendering above shows where the three-story North Building, left, is planned, adjacent to the main Speed Art Museum building. Louisville's Speed Art Museum will close its doors in October of next year and remain closed for about three .. [more]

6:47:23 PM An afternoon at the museum
Santa Ynez Valley Journal - santa ynez,ca,USA

“We are a community museum,” said executor director Chris Bashforth. “Trying to cover the history of the entire Valley relying solely on donations is not an easy thing to do.” She is hoping people remember to be generous this season to local ... [more]

6:04:43 PM Museums Fought the Fashion Elite for Liz Taylor's Clothes as Christie's
ARTINFO

ARTINFO Bids instantly jumped over the $4000-6000 estimate, and eventually the dress was purchased over the phone by an unnamed American museum for $362500. One of the only successful bidders sitting in front of the auctioneer was a determined woman  [more]

6:04:43 PM Gallows museum opened at C-Max
BuaNews Online (press release) - Cape Town,South Africa

Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has described the Gallows Museum at Pretoria Central Correctional Centre as a place where the political prisoners who were hanged there can be honoured and the past can be buried. At least 4000 prisoners were hanged at [more]

6:04:43 PM Upgrades planned at Marietta museums; public input sought
Marietta Times - Marietta,OH,USA

By Brad Bauer (bbauer@mariettatimes.com) , The Marietta Times The group that's been managing the Campus Martius and Ohio River museums the past few years says attendance is up 70 percent and they're planning extensive upgrades at the two sites. ... [more]

6:04:43 PM Peterborough Museum may start to charge for admission
Peterborough Evening Telegraph - Peterborough,England,UK

By MATTHEW REVILLE HERITAGE bosses are considering introducing an entry fee when Peterborough Museum re-opens in Easter 2012. Vivacity, Peterborough's culture and leisure trust, is looking at the proposal to start charging visitors when the museum in [more]

6:04:43 PM Grapevine plans museum district
Community Impact Newspaper

“The vision for that is a museum district connecting Nash to the train depot.” Plans for such a district have been in the works since the '90s, McCallum said, when city leaders made the decision to restore both the Cotton Belt Depot and the station . [more]

6:04:43 PM Holiday shopping at your favorite museum
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA

Local museums offer plenty of holiday gift options. Hulga of San Diego earrings are among the many treasures you'll find at the Lux Art Institute in Encinitas. There's a way to avoid traffic jams, long lines and nonstop renditions of “Jingle Bells” . [more]

6:04:43 PM The Incestuous World of American Art Museums
Forbes - USA

Yet when a person of wealth launches his own museum, he often gets a hostile reaction. Wal-Mart heir Alice Walton is a current target, for establishing Crystal Bridges, a museum of American art, in her home state of Arkansas. ... [more]

4:07:27 PM Andrew Bird takes over the Museum of Contemporary Art this month
Chicago Journal - Oak Park,IL,USA

BY BEN MEYERSON Oak Park resident Ian Schneller (above) poses at the exhibit he's sharing with musician Andrew Bird (below) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Few musicians in the world can match Chicago-based troubadour Andrew Bird's skil [more]

12:44:04 PM Museum doesn't appreciate Mulcahy's art
Aspen Times - Aspen,CO,USA

ASPEN — Already banned from skiing the local mountains, community activist Lee Mulcahy is now forbidden from setting foot on the future site of the Aspen Art Museum. The architect of the Occupy Aspen movement agreed with police Dec. ... [more]

10:53:24 AM Enjoy New Jersey's outdoors and museums
Scarlet Scuttlebutt - East Brunswick,NJ,USA

The Garden State has much to offer this winter season — from the shore to the mountains, trails, parks and hikes to carriage rides, museums and historic homes. Gateway Sandy Hook National Park offers four seasons of discovery and fun for the entire . [more]

8:16:29 AM National Media Museum director to leave as Bradford post is downgraded
Guardian - UK

The role of director of Bradford's excellent National Media Museum is being downgraded and the last holder of the post, first held by the tireless Colin Ford in 1983, is stepping down. He is Colin Philpott, formerly head of the BBC in Yorkshire, ... [more]

8:16:29 AM Meadowlands Museum still waiting on historic grant funding
NorthJersey.com

BY BRIAN ANDERSON Grant funding slated to go toward historical preservation has been delayed in being approved by the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the delay means a local museum will go into the winter with a roof that is badly ... [more]

8:16:29 AM South Africa gallows site becomes museum, memorial
The Associated Press

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Relatives of anti-apartheid militants hanged at South Africa's main gallows are gathering in Pretoria for a ceremony at which President Jacob Zuma will inaugurate the site as a national memorial and museum. ... [more]

8:16:29 AM Artist brings work to aircraft museum
Sunderland Echo - England,UK

AN ARTIST commissioned by the CIA will have his work displayed at a Wearside museum. Keith Woodcock paints motorcycles and planes and his talent earned him the attention of the US Government's Central Intelligence Agency, where his pictures hang at i [more]

8:14:14 AM Museums may bear brunt of £16m cuts
Leicester Mercury - Leicester,England,UK

A council is facing additional spending cuts totalling £16 million and museums and libraries could bear the brunt. Leicestershire County Council is likely to lose out on millions of pounds of Government funding if, as predicted, eight schools become  [more]

8:14:14 AM New museum launches with a bang
Sacramento News and Review - Sacramento,CA,USA

By Robert Speer I dig art museums. I've spent days in some and weeks in one, the Prado, when I lived in Madrid for a year. The entry fee was five pesetas. That was eight cents American to see Goya's caprichos and Velásquez's Las Meninas, among so man [more]

7:14:04 AM National Media Museum director set to leave top post
Bradford Telegraph Argus - Bradford,England,UK

By Dolores Cowburn » The National Media Museum will be without a director from next April after current postholder Colin Philpott announced he is leaving. Mr Philpott was offered a new role of head of the facility, reporting to the deputy director of [more]

5:40:20 AM Latest British Museum treasure report details an astonishing range of ...
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

A Viking coin, dated between AD 900 and 910, of a previously unrecorded type believed to be carrying the name of an otherwise unknown Viking ruler in northern England, is displayed with other coins at the British Museum in London, Wednesday, Dec. ... [more]

5:40:20 AM Little League Museum to undergo redesign in time for 75th anniversary
Sun-Gazette - Williamsport,PA,USA

By KRISTEN NUSS knuss@sungazette.com , Williamsport Sun-Gazette As Little League approaches its diamond anniversary, the Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum will get a $4 million facelift. The exterior will remain the same, but the interior and .. [more]

2:35:50 AM Weekend Plans: Art museum holiday fun, Hanukkah concert, and more
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA

The NC Museum of Art will hold a Holiday Family Fun event from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm, Friday. The free evening includes art, music and more. Create seasonal art in the studios, learn about holiday celebrations across the globe, take a story tour and enj [more]

2:33:06 AM 'The Listening Room' At Seattle Art Museum
KUOW News and Information - Seattle,WA,USA

Art museums are dignified repositories for cultural artifacts, right? A new show at the Seattle Art Museum questions that assumption, and slips in a little R&B at the same time. KUOW's Marcie Sillman reports. It's a chilly Sunday morning. ... [more]

12:29:51 AM Museum on wheels: WWI traveling gallery rolls in to Camp Mabry
CultureMap Austin

The traveling gallery will be parked outside the Texas Military Forces Museum (TMFM) on the Camp Mabry military base, welcoming guests who are interested in exploring more detail about "The War to End All Wars." The gallery is a collaborative project [more]

12:29:51 AM Feedback for Dec. 15: Museums and puzzles, facts & grammar
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA

Anthony, Yorktown: Jon Cawley's front page article on local museums stops, but it does not end. What would have prompted him to omit any coverage whatever of the Virginia War Museum and the several historic houses that the museum operates? ... [more]

12:28:59 AM Getty Museum's Acting Director is Leaving
American ...

By CAROL VOGEL David Bomford, who has been acting director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles since 2010, will be returning to his home in London where he plans to pursue research, scholarship and writing, the institution announced on Tuesday [more]

12:28:59 AM Lauder Shows Up Miami Developer Museum Deal: Lance Esplund
BusinessWeek - USA

For a mere $35 million gift in cash and art he got the Miami Art Museum to change its name to the Jorge M. Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County. Perez, a museum trustee, shifted the focus away from art -- from what matters -- to himself, ... [more]

12:28:59 AM Museum hopes to add its history to 1927 Boynton school space
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA

At Tuesday's monthly meeting, the CRA board heard from the 7-year-old, nonprofit Palm Beach Museum of Natural History. Actually based in Fort Lauderdale, it's a collection of 9000 square feet worth of traveling history exhibits, focusing on but not . [more]



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