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News From Thursday, February 01, 2007
5:00:45 PM Deuces Wild Exhibit Comes to Wally Parks Museum
WhoWon.com - Lincoln,NE,USA

The celebration continues at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, presented by the Automobile Club of Southern California, as the '32 Ford, .... [more]

5:00:43 PM Military museum to act against SANDF raid
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa

The South African National Museum of Military History is making a civil claim against the South African National Defence Force over a raid on the museum in ... [more]

5:00:41 PM Smithsonian’s National Museum Awarded
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA

The American Association of Museums Accreditation Commission recently awarded the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History accreditation after ... [more]

5:00:41 PM HOK Completes $43 Million Expansion of Florida's Official State ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

Renowned Architect Yann Weymouth to Unveil New Construction of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art SARASOTA, Fla., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The John and ... [more]

5:00:40 PM House approves civil rights museum
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi,MS,USA

JACKSON - The Mississippi House gave initial approval Wednesday to a proposed civil rights museum, and the debate was not about whether to build it, ... [more]

5:00:39 PM Fox titles rebound after exhib dispute settled
Hollywood Reporter - Los Angeles,CA,USA

COLOGNE, Germany -- 20th Century Fox titles "Night at the Museum" and "John Tucker Must Die" are set to bounce back in the German charts now that Fox has ... [more]

5:00:34 PM Pa. state museum reopens after fire-alarm repairs
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA

The State Museum of Pennsylvania reopened Thursday, five days after fire alarm problems shut down the showcase of state treasures. ... [more]

12:40:28 PM Museums need innovative programming and fundraising
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA

A central thesis of the article was that museums' stewards of important collections on behalf of their communities must be programmatically innovative to ... [more]

11:48:18 AM Museum gets plenty for new building
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA

The Akron Art Museum has been touting its new acquisitions lately, preparing us for the heretofore unseen treasures that will be on view at its July opening ... [more]

11:48:18 AM Museum struggles with disposal of remains
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA

GAINESVILLE -- Sixteen years after a federal law was instituted to allow for the reburial of human remains held in museums, the Florida Museum of Natural ... [more]

11:48:18 AM UNUSUAL PALESTINIAN MUSEUM OPENS IN UK
British Satellite News - London,UK

A very unusual Palestinian museum exhibition- promoting the deeply historical background to its lands with a single photograph- is attracting lots of ... [more]

11:48:18 AM Museum Plaza tax plan has detractors
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

A proposed $14.4 million tax rebate that developers say is vital to the Museum Plaza project is running into opposition. The city's Convention and Visitors ... [more]

11:48:18 AM History museum to tell 'African American Story'
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA

The Gloucester Museum of History is featuring a special exhibit through March 17 in observance of African American History Month in February. ... [more]

9:05:29 AM Benefits promised from museum merger
East Anglian Daily Times - Suffolk,England,UK

BRINGING the Romans to life and exploring an Egyptian tomb are just two of the projects which it is hoped will result in a combined museums services in East ... [more]

9:05:28 AM Good move for museums
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA

The new cultural complex at South Tryon and First streets, which will showcase American and contemporary art and craft collections, is destined to become a ... [more]

9:05:28 AM Abu Dhabi Lures Western Museums
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA

Mr. Gehry, also speaking by phone from Dubai, sees the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi as an opportunity to push the architecture of museums a step further than he did ... [more]

8:13:18 AM Fund gap may close Windber museum
The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA

The appropriation for the Southwest Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission was not approved, so the commission can’t issue the museum’s grant, ... [more]

8:13:18 AM Museum celebrates black history with photos
Seguin Gazette-Enterprise - Seguin,TX,USA

The exhibits of photos from the Leon Studio Collection will be displayed at The Heritage Museum and the Alumni Student Center at Texas Lutheran University. ... [more]

8:13:18 AM New print at IU Art Museum honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Indiana Daily Student - USA

The IU Art Museum will kick off Black History Month with the dedication of an etching of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tonight. The ceremony, "Celebrating the ... [more]

8:13:18 AM Natural History Museum happenings
Agoura Hills Acorn - Agoura Hills,CA,USA

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is presenting several programs in February. The museum is at 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles. .... [more]

8:13:18 AM Fight erupts, briefly, on location of proposed civil rights museum
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal - Tupelo,MS,USA

JACKSON - The Mississippi House voted 117-3 Wednesday to issue up to $50 million in bonds for construction of a civil rights museum and left to bureaucrats ... [more]

8:13:18 AM Museum gets Joe Louis' gloves
Supersport - Johannesburg,South Africa

Gloves worn by Joe Louis during his famous 1936 loss to Germany's Max Schmeling have been donated to the Smithsonian's Museum of American History in ... [more]

8:13:18 AM Elizabeth Tashjian, 94, Founded Nut Museum
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA

Elizabeth Tashjian, who died Sunday at 94, was proprietor of the Nut Museum, a quirky collection of nuts, nutcrackers, and nut art that she dared visitors ... [more]

8:13:18 AM China's closes national museum for major overhaul
India eNews.com - Gurgaon,Haryana,India

The National Museum of China here has been closed for a three-year overhaul that will make it the world's largest arts and history museum. ... [more]

5:33:40 AM Authenticity of artist's paintings questioned
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

However the question of their authenticity has now been raised by a Harvard University Art Museums team. Narayan Khandekar, the team's leader, ... [more]

5:33:36 AM Civil service strike hits courts, tax offices and museums
Guardian - UK

Hundreds of thousands of civil servants walked out on a one-day strike yesterday, disrupting work in tax offices, courts, museums and galleries, .... [more]

4:10:38 AM Ball to support museum scheduled
Jamestown Press - RI, USA

The Snow Ball is this year's theme for the Newport Art Museum's annual Artists' Ball scheduled for Friday, Feb. 16, from 8 pm to midnight at the museum. ... [more]

4:10:38 AM Proposed Jewish museum and community center
KTVA - Anchorage,AK,USA

That's one of the reasons Jewish leaders say there is a need for a Jewish museum and synagogue. But plans for that museum have some Anchorage residents ... [more]

4:10:37 AM Barbaro's Final Home Still Undecided
WTOP - Washington,D.C.,USA

It could be the Kentucky Derby Museum, just a few hundred yards from the scene of his greatest triumph in the 2006 Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, ... [more]

4:10:37 AM Church, museum to hear symphony
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

Mesa Symphony Orchestra, always on the lookout for venues to spread its cheer, is due to make music in a church in Apache Junction and a museum in Mesa. ... [more]

4:10:35 AM Proposed Miss. civil rights museum OK'd in House
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi,MS,USA

A proposed Mississippi civil rights museum cleared its first legislative hurdle Wednesday, but only after a squabble about where it should be built. .... [more]

4:10:34 AM Museum looks at Arizona's lost world
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

Mesa Southwest Museum's latest offering explores the lost world of Arizona's past 3 million years. It consists of the Pliocene Epoch (1.8 million to 5.3 ... [more]

4:10:33 AM Make museum's success a trend
parrysound.com - Parry Sound,Ontario,Canada

Hopefully news the West Parry Sound District Museum finished 2006 without calling on municipalities to bail them out will start a trend. ... [more]



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