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News From Tuesday, February 02, 2010
11:23:34 PM Museum offers nearby chance to see history
Lexington Dispatch - Lexington,NC,USA

So make some plans to head up Interstate 85 to Greensboro and spend some time at the new International Civil Rights Center & Museum. The museum held a ... [more]

9:25:22 PM Hard Rock Cafe vs. Seattle Art Museum: What would Kurt Cobain say?
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

The above image comes from local blog Ear Candy Beat, whose author Travis Hay pointed out Seattle's Hard Rock Café is hoisting Kurt/Kurdt Cobain's Fender ... [more]

8:57:17 PM Museum of Natural History seeks online votes for Pepsi Refresh Project grant
Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City,IA,USA

The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History is participating in the Pepsi Refresh Project, which is granting awards each month for projects that will ... [more]

5:50:20 PM Civil rights museum opens at site of NC sit-in
WECT - Wilmington,NC,USA

GREENSBORO, NC (WECT/AP) - A civil rights museum is now open at the site of a 1960 sit-in that sparked a movement. The International Civil Rights Center and ... [more]

5:09:53 PM Can the Negro Leagues Museum Survive the Recession?
Costume

By Aimee Levitt in Baseball Strike one: The recession, which is hurting museums all over the country, but the Negro League Museum, which runs largely on ... [more]

1:24:49 PM Free public H1N1 flu clinic at Children's Museum Wed.
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA

For those wishing to stay and play in the museum before or after their vaccination, regular museum admission fees apply. For more information about this ... [more]

1:06:42 PM Andy Warhol photos are donated to US colleges
BBC News - E,UK

Photos belonging to artist Andy Warhol - valued at $28m (£17m) - have been donated to colleges and university museums across the US. ... [more]

9:17:47 AM Museum celebrates black history
Abilene Reporter-News - Abilene,TX,USA

By Jared Fields Kiandra Sims and Shadayshia Harris look at items on display Monday night at the temporary Black History Month museum at the GV Daniels .... [more]

6:12:11 AM Obama's budget proposals for arts institutions largely hold flat
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

And given that "in recent months museums all across the country have stepped up to provide social and public services that local governments are no longer ... [more]

5:33:03 AM Wall at Tampa Museum of Art cracked by runaway crate
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA

A corner of the new Tampa Museum of Art was damaged by a runaway equipment crate Sunday after a concert in the adjacent Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park. .... [more]

1:41:19 AM Director of new Smithsonian African American museum to speak at ASU
Arizona State University

The founding director of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture — the Smithsonian's 19th museum — is tasked with building a special ... [more]

1:34:13 AM "Whites Only" Lunch Counter Becomes Museum
CBS News - USA

(AP Photo/Chuck Burton) The entrance to the former FW Woolworth store, now part of the new International Civil Rights Center and Museum. ... [more]



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