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News From Wednesday, December 08, 2010
11:24:14 PM $8 million in new donations brings museum to within $25M of fundraising goal
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada

An image of the future Garden of Contemplation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, which will named in honour of former Winnipeg Stuart Clark , who has ... [more]

9:37:16 PM Negro Leagues Museum Tries Hard to Reinvent Itself
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Before leaving Atlanta, James "Red" Moore (no relation) told me to look for his old first baseman's glove when I got to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. ... [more]

7:36:40 PM Horned dinosaur unearthed in South Korea
CBC News - Canada

(Cleveland Museum of Natural History) A Canadian paleontologist has helped discover evidence of a horned dinosaur that roamed around the Korean Peninsula ... [more]

6:52:57 PM Lancaster's North Museum earns international award
York Daily Record

York, PA - Lancaster's North Museum of Natural History and Science's Portal to the Public project, funded by the National Science Foundation, ... [more]

4:20:27 PM Green Hornet's Black Beauty looks down from museum
Motors ...

14, Black Beauty has been hoisted up the side of the Petersen Automotive Museum on LA's Miracle Mile, a section of Wilshire Boulevard in the mid city that ... [more]

3:06:46 PM SANTA ROSA - 9%2F11 jet fighter given to museum
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

11, 2001, has been given to the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa, where it will be the centerpiece of the West Coast's first major exhibition about ... [more]

2:47:52 PM ScienceWorks exhibit wows museum-goers
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA

By Hannah Guzik Seven-year-old Kareen Ali cranks a softball up a toy tower at ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum in Ashland and prepares to learn about Newton's ... [more]

11:25:35 AM Chagall's 'Magic' Spell Cast on Seoul
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA

A similar retrospective in 2004 drew nearly 700000 visitors, a record at that time and a watershed moment for exhibits at Korean museums. ... [more]

11:01:47 AM Pirate museum to open in St. Augustine
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA

The Pirate & Treasure Museum is back open to the public in Florida. After months of construction and preparation, the museum is scheduled to open Wednesday ... [more]

8:08:48 AM MFA shelving of award draws artists' ire
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

Cook announced later that he has added “the Maud Morgan Prize for Local Museums That Overlook Local Women Artists'' prize for the upcoming New England Art ... [more]

7:42:43 AM Frisco City Council gives Museum of the American Railroad more time ...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA

By VALERIE WIGGLESWORTH / The Dallas Morning News Plans for a Dallas railroad museum's move north are taking longer and costing more than expected. ... [more]

4:07:00 AM The New Museum Shows Disputed Video
American ...

The New Museum gave Mr. Wojnarowicz, above in another film, his first United States retrospective in 1999, seven years after he died of AIDS. ... [more]

3:24:47 AM Steve Wozniak leads a Computer History Museum tour
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

It floods the best memories of my life," Wozniak said during a far-ranging, 30-minute interview at the eye-popping museum. Version 2.0 of the 8-year-old ... [more]

12:37:48 AM Andrew Wyeth Portrait Nets $2.4M for Maine Museum
ABC News - United States

AP By CLARKE CANFIELD AP A Jamie Wyeth portrait of his late father has sold for $2.4 million at an auction to benefit a museum that is devoted to the ... [more]



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