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11:48:10 PM Museum beats Watertown shopping
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada

By MICHAEL PRENTICE, The Ottawa Citizen December 9, 2011 4:16 PM Frederick Remington Art Museum tour guide Gary points out the fine detail of horse anatomy captured by the sculptor in this bronze. I took a trip across the St. Lawrence River in search [more]

11:48:10 PM Two People Claim They Got Ear Infections From The New Museum's Tank
Gothamist

Not too long ago the Department of Health paid of visit to the New Museum's Carsten Höller Experience exhibit, which features a sensory deprivation tank, called the "Psycho Tank." Upon their departure they told the museum the tank, which visitors flo [more]

11:48:10 PM Space Tourists' Spacecraft to Join Shuttle Exhibits on Both Coasts
Space.com - USA

by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor A self-funded space traveler loaned his Russian spacecraft to a museum Thursday (Dec. 8), where it will be exhibited near a full-size mockup of a US space shuttle. The Museum of Flight in Seattle hosted  [more]

11:48:10 PM Air Force Museum to display Cold War satellites
Dayton Daily News - Dayton,OH,USA

By John Nolan, Staff Writer 2:42 PM Friday, December 9, 2011 WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Newly declassified satellites that the United States used for Cold War photo-spying on adversaries are being prepared by the National Museum of the US Air  [more]

11:48:10 PM "Bodies Revealed" Extends Stay At Lexington Center Museum & Gallery
Lex 18 - Lexington,KY,USA

With thousands passing through its doors since opening in the Lexington Center Museum & Gallery, "Bodies Revealed" will continue to give the public an educational, captivating and fascinating experience through January 29. "The Bodies Revealed is an  [more]

10:17:50 PM New space, quirky ideas could turn around the Contemporary Museum
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

It reads: "Future home of the Contemporary Museum. Opening January, 2012." At least, that's the plan. In fact, the actual date for the grand reopening is something of a moving target. At the moment, Sue Spaid, the Contemporary's executive director, . [more]

8:25:10 PM Club Kids Are Storming Music Museums
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Though we criticize the big organizations for fostering a museum culture, we actually value the museums they have become. Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia and more. A sortable calendar of noteworthy  [more]

8:25:10 PM Paris museum exposes history of human zoos
Deutsche Welle - Bonn,Germany

The show at the Quai Branly anthropological museum in Paris is called 'Exhibitions: the Creation of the Savage.' Another fitting title would have been 'Human Zoos.' The paintings, postcards, films, posters on display chart the way non-Europeans were  [more]

8:25:10 PM tourist sites under review
Raleigh News - Raleigh,NC,USA

BY ROB CHRISTENSEN - rchristensen@newsobserver.com RALEIGH -- The North Carolina legislature is conducting a sweeping review of the state's attractions - from museums and parks to the state fair and the zoo - to determine whether they should be ... [more]

7:46:23 PM Ottawa museum workers laid off
CBC News - Canada

The organization that runs three Ottawa museums has laid off 17 people due to budget constraints, CBC News has learned. The vice-president of public affairs for the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation confirmed the layoffs Friday. ... [more]

7:46:23 PM National Hellenic Museum debuts with plenty of Greek heritage
Chicago Sun-Times

BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter/kspak@suntimes.com December 9, 2011 12:00PM Thomas Quaranta, of the Children's Museum of Manhattan, walks behind the Trojan Horse at the “Gods, Myths and Mortals” exhibit at the National Hellenic. ... [more]

7:46:23 PM Metropolitan Museum Announces Concerts For January 2012
Broadway World - New York,NY,USA

Tickets include admission to the Museum on day of performance. The final stage of the renovation of the Metropolitan Museum's New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts opens January 16, 2012. ... [more]

7:46:23 PM Simonyi gives $3M, space capsule to Seattle's Museum of Flight
TechFlash - Seattle,WA,USA

The cloth cover draped over the name was removed by Charles Simonyi, his wife, Lisa Persdotter Simonyi, museum president and CEO Doug King, and museum board chairman Mike Hallman, after the audience shouted a countdown. The day had been a long time . [more]

4:52:11 PM National Museum of American History closing galleries during major
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post (blog) And visitors will see this reflected in future exhibitions, the education center and in programs and national outreach,' said Marc Pachter, the museum's interim director in a statement. The education center will be a 22000 squa [more]

4:52:11 PM Coke's secret formula finds new home in museum
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand

Coca-Cola has made its secret formula the centrepiece of a new exhibit at its corporate museum, ditching the confines of the bank vault where the list of ingredients had been stored since 1925. The company said yesterday that a new vault containing t [more]

2:30:37 PM Veterans Museum welcomes new exhibit
State Gazette - Dyersburg,TN,USA

This CH-46 US Sea Knight Marine Corps helicopter is settling into its new home at the Veterans Museum on the site of the historic Dyersburg Army Air Base in Halls. A familiar sight to veterans who served from Vietnam to Afghanistan, the helicopter is [more]

1:03:06 PM Art museum director to retire
Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg,MA,USA

By Marisa Donelan, mdonelan@sentinelandenterprise.com FITCHBURG -- Minutes after publicly announcing his retirement on Thursday, Fitchburg Art Museum Director Peter Timms did something he's done many times over his four-decade career in Fitchburg: He [more]

1:03:06 PM 'A Christmas Carol in the Museum': A review
Lake County News - Lakeport,CA,USA

s production of “A Christmas Carol in the Museum.” Photo by Gary McAuley. I should start off by saying that I almost always enjoy attending the theater in the Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum, in spite of some limitations of the house that take skill to [more]

1:03:06 PM NC lawmakers look at cost of museums, fairs
Virginian Pilot - Hampton Roads,VA,USA

AP North Carolina legislators are sizing up how much money is being spent on state attractions from museums to the state fair. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported today that the General Assembly is looking into whether the staffing, ... [more]

12:59:18 PM Bronx Children's Museum's first mobile exhibit a 'huge hit' with local youth
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

The Bronx Children's Museum's first exhibit, “River on the Go”, has been making a splash throughout the borough. “It's really been a huge hit,” said the museum's Founding Executive Director Carla Precht. The “River on the Go” exhibit is housed in the [more]

12:59:18 PM Springfield Art Museum board tweaks director's job description
News-Leader.com

"Open up and reach out" could serve as a useful mantra for anyone hoping to land the director's job at the Springfield Art Museum. After failing to reach consensus on any of the candidates from its first attempt at finding a new director, the museum' [more]

12:59:18 PM Sneak Peek at Natural History Museum Rose Parade Float
Eat Drink Explore

LOS ANGELES (PRESS RELEASE) – At 8:00 am PST on Monday, January 2, 2012, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's (NHM) first-ever float will join the 123rd Rose Parade as it begins its world-famous descent down Colorado Boulevard in Pasade [more]

10:47:17 AM The Queen to open the Windsor and Royal Borough Museum
BBC Sport - UK

The Queen will officially open a new museum housed in the Berkshire town guildhall where Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005. The £300000 museum is housed in the Maidenhead room of the 17th Century Grade I listed Windsor Guildhall. . [more]

10:47:17 AM UI requests hearing with FEMA to talk about art museum
Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City,IA,USA

8:32 pm The University of Iowa has requested an open hearing with officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to discuss the status of funding for the UI Museum of Art. UI spokesman Tom Moore said Thursday that the request was made two weeks [more]

10:47:17 AM Eisenhower museum staffer honored by federal archivist for efforts to tell
The Republic

The Republic A clerk at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene is being recognized for her efforts to tell the story of the Eisenhower family. Linda Kuntz received the Archivist's Award for Outstanding Achievement during  [more]

10:28:14 AM Art museum director Timms announces retirement
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA

Peter R. Timms, director of the Fitchburg Art Museum, stands yesterday with one of the museum's newest pieces, the photograph “The Steerage” by Alfred Stieglitz. (T&G Staff/PAULA J. OWEN) By Paula J. Owen TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF I thought it was mor [more]

9:34:04 AM Access to museum's artifacts with click of the mouse
Daily Express - Kota Kinabalu,Sabah,Malaysia

Kota Kinabalu: Now everyone in the world can access the Sabah Museum Department's artifacts with a just a click of the mouse at a minimal charge. The department's Sabah Museum Repository Information Cultural Heritage System (Smriches), according to . [more]

9:34:04 AM Belding Children's Museum under construction; to open in fall of 2012, be
The Republic

The Republic Due to the Belrockton Museum Board's decision earlier this year, children throughout the Belding community and beyond will be able to enjoy their own place to learn, build and explore. The second floor of the museum is currently under co [more]

9:34:04 AM Bethel Museum celebrates renovations at open house
Laurel Star

By Lynn R. Parks Just in time for Christmas, the Bethel Museum has had a facelift. The Bethel Historical Society, which owns the small museum, will hold an open house on Sunday to celebrate completion of the renovation. Featured in the open house wil [more]

7:42:48 AM Maritime museum poised for launch
Toledo Blade

BY ERICA BLAKE Overhead plan for the proposed Great Lakes Maritime Museum Park in Toledo's Marina District. TOLEDO CITY ENGINEERING SERVICES Enlarge A dream announced in 2010 to create the National Great Lakes Maritime Museum on the banks of the Maum [more]

6:24:03 AM Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University appoints Alison Gass as
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University has appointed Alison Gass curator of contemporary art. Gass, who was named a young curator to watch by The New York Times in 2010, currently serves as assistant curator of pai [more]

4:13:08 AM Valentino's Modern Fashion Museum
Wall Street Journal - USA

Mr. Valentino, who has retired from the label bearing his name, was celebrating the launch of the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum, an online series of exhibitions featuring his collections downloadable to anyone for free. ... [more]

4:13:08 AM Museum of Flight to display Soyuz re-entry module
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

Charles Simonyi, Medina software innovator and two-time space tourist, will loan the Museum of Flight the Russian Soyuz re-entry module that he rode back from space in 2009. By Jack Broom A Soyuz re-entry module rests on the central Kazakhstan plain  [more]

4:13:08 AM Oklahoma City Museum of Art working to reinstall Chihuly exhibit
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

BY BRANDY McDONNELL bmcdonnell@opubco.com The northeast gallery on the third floor of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is beginning to resemble the final scenes of “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” with rows of large, nondescript boxes concealing beautiful . [more]

4:13:08 AM San Jose Museum of Art needs docents for art program in Santa Clara County
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

San Jose Mercury News A newspaper announcement about the San Jose Museum of Art seeking docents caught her eye and she called. "I love kids and I love art. It seemed like a good fit," she says. "It just gives you such a rewarding feeling. Their eyes  [more]

4:13:08 AM National Hellenic Museum in Chicago relocated
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Chicago: It's all Greek to visitors at the relocated National Hellenic Museum in the city's Greektown area. The greatly expanded facility features an interactive exhibit on ancient Greece, including a 12-foot-tall Trojan horse to climb, and a digital [more]

4:13:08 AM Beverly doctor, artist is Balzekas Museum's Man of the Year
SouthtownStar

By Donna Vickroy dvickroy@southtownstar.com December 8, 2011 8:18PM Andy Plioplys was recently named Man of the Year by the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, in part for his work on a yearlong exhibit about Siberian deportation. ... [more]

1:55:09 AM Viaduct replacement museum fulfills state's obligation to protect Pioneer
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

The Seattle Times TIMES columnist Danny Westneat on Wednesday asked, "Why is our state opening a viaduct museum, of all things, in Pioneer Square?" He suggested it might be just another example of government waste. Pork. There's a better answer, but  [more]

1:55:09 AM Gateway Museum announces holiday hours
Enterprise-Record - Chico,CA,USA

CHICO — With the semester coming to a close this month, Gateway Science Museum will be closing its most recent exhibits Dec. 30. Open until then are "The Hunt for Treasure!," "Past Tents: The Way We Camped," and "Earth as Art 3," at the museum, ... [more]

1:00:18 AM Homage to a Picture-Book Rebel
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Keats was not, which still surprises some who hear that the Jewish Museum in New York has mounted a retrospective of his work. Celebrating the book's 50th anniversary and traveling to three other museums, the show, “The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra  [more]

1:00:18 AM Why the Tunnel Museum is Not a “Boondoggle”
PubliCola

Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat added to the chorus of criticism of the state Department of Transportation earlier this week, questioning WSDOT's decision to spend $490000 on a museum dedicated to the history and future of the downtown Seattle [more]



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