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11:42:11 PM Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture breaks
ground

USA TODAY President Obama speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for National Museum of African American History and Culture. An artist's rendering of the $500 million National Museum of African American History and Culture. When it is completed in 20 [more]

11:42:11 PM 'Oz' ruby slippers to Academy Museum
Variety - USA

By Christy Grosz 'The Wizard of Oz' Ruby Red Slippers worn by Judy Garland in 1939 have been donated to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has acquired a pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz [more]

11:42:11 PM Museum displays unique copy of the 'Mona Lisa' painting
AssociatedPress -

Curators at the Prado Museum in Madrid have unveiled a copy of the Mona Lisa which was apparently painted at exactly the same time by a student, just feet away from da Vinci. http://ibnlive.com/livetv. [more]

11:42:11 PM Idea of black history museum impresses
San Angelo Standard Times - san angelo,tx,USA

By Brett Zongker AP FILE — In this Friday, March 27, 2009 file photo, the design concept for the National Museum of African American History and Culture submitted by Freelon Adjaye Bond/ SmithGroup is seen in Washington. President Obama helped in the [more]

10:15:00 PM National Museum Of Civil War Medicine Explores Wartime Food, Shares Recipe
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Huffington Post Period food and dining don't deserve the bad rap they often get, according to George Wunderlich, executive director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Md. In an effort to better understand life during the Civil [more]

10:15:00 PM New black history museum rising on National Mall
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA

John Lewis, D-Ga., left, after Lewis spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony at the construction site of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) President .. [more]

9:35:40 PM President Obama Attends a Groundbreaking for the National Museum of
Washingtonian.com - Washington,DC,USA

Washingtonian.com (blog) By Sophie Gilbert President Obama speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Smithsonian's National Museum for African American History and Culture. Photograph courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution website. Dr. Lonnie  [more]

9:35:40 PM Obama attends groundbreaking for national African American museum
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

On Wednesday in a ceremony on the National Mall with President Barack Obama in attendance, ground was broken for the building of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The NMAAHC will be located between the Washingto [more]

8:11:25 PM Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorsese's 'Hugo'
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

14, 2012 photo, the hand and pen of an approximately 210-year-old automaton is shown at The Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia. The mechanized doll, animated by a complex system of spring-driven motors and brass cams, can write three . [more]

8:11:25 PM US National Slavery Museum loses its tax-exempt status
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The national slavery museum former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder had hoped to create is no longer listed as a tax-exempt organization by the IRS. On Wednesday, the IRS added the US National Slavery Museum to the list of organizations that have  [more]

8:11:25 PM Obama speaks at ground breaking of Black History Museum (2:04)
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

22, 2012 - President Barack Obama said Wednesday that a new national black history museum will help future generations remember the sometimes difficult, often inspirational role, that African Americans have played in the nation's history. (Feb. [more]

7:03:00 PM Museum just can't catch a break from the county
The Beacon Herald - Stratford,Ontario,Canada

By JOHN KASTNER Institutions like museums struggle to keep the doors open and few if any can do it without government support. But when a museum, for example, goes to a government hat in hand, the first thing demanded of the people who are trying to  [more]

7:03:00 PM Ground broken for National Museum of African American History and Culture
United Press International

President Barack Obama speaks at the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC on February 22, 2012. The museum is scheduled to open in 2015 and will be the only national museum devote [more]

6:08:34 PM Obama helps break ground on black history museum
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

By Brett Zongker AP / February 22, 2012 WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama heralded a new national black history museum as "not just a record of tragedy, but a celebration of life" as he marked Wednesday's groundbreaking of the long-sought-after museu [more]

6:08:34 PM Städel Museum Celebrates Bold New Extension
Spiegel Online - Berlin,Germany

By Ulrike Knöfel One of Germany's most important museums, the Städel in Frankfurt, opens its new underground wing on Wednesday. Frankfurt's financial world played a major role in financing the expansion, and the museum's director used tricks learned  [more]

6:08:34 PM Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' to be sold in New York
Palm Beach Post

By AP | Arts and Culture, Museums | February 22, 2012 One of four versions of Edvard Munch's masterpiece “The Scream” will be sold this spring in New York, Sotheby's auction house announced Tuesday. Sotheby's estimates that the work, which has become [more]

4:31:19 PM Munch's 'The Scream' to sell in NY; may fetch $80M
Boston.com

“Now, however, I feel the moment has come to offer the rest of the world a chance to own and appreciate this remarkable work, which is the only version of `The Scream' not in the collection of a Norwegian museum.'' The work will lead Sotheby's ... [more]

4:31:19 PM National Museum of African-American history groundbreaking through the eyes
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post (blog) By Chris L. Jenkins As he waited to take the stage for the African American history museum's groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday morning, Rep. John Lewis (D) thought about another historic moment on the National Mall that he had  [more]

4:31:19 PM Cindy Sherman / Courtesy Museum of Modern Art
msnbc.com (blog)

Now, for the first time in 15 years, work that spans the master of disguise's entire career, from the mid-'70s to the present, will be on display in one place: New York's Museum of Modern Art. “I think Cindy Sherman is more contemporary than she's ev [more]

4:31:19 PM NC Museum Of Art Receives $2 Million Donation
The Raleigh Telegram

By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The North Carolina Museum of Art has received a $2 million donation to help with educational efforts throughout North Carolina. The money is being donated by the NC GlaxoSmithKline Foundation and the museum says it i [more]

3:57:59 PM Bronze sculpture stolen from museum
The Associated Press

Staff at the museum last saw the bronze head at 3.45pm. The alarm was raised 45 minutes later when a worker noticed the 12.8kg piece was missing from the first-floor display. Strathclyde Police are reviewing CCTV footage from a number of areas within [more]

3:57:59 PM Black history museum breaking ground
Omaha World Herald - Omaha,NE,USA

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new national museum telling the history of black life, art and culture will soon begin taking shape as the 19th museum in the Smithsonian Institution to explore stories that have sometimes been left out on the National Mall. [more]

3:57:59 PM Sliding sports museum planned for Mt. Van Hoevenberg
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise - Saranac Lake,NY,USA

LAKE PLACID - The state Olympic Regional Development Authority plans to open the world's first museum dedicated to winter sliding sports. The International Sliding Sports Museum will be installed at the Olympic Sports Complex at Mount Van Hoevenberg, [more]

3:57:59 PM State Museum Puts Rare Spotlight on Abstract SC Art
Free Times - Columbia,SC,USA

So it is fitting that the South Carolina State Museum opens an exhibition of abstract art on this 100th anniversary. Abstract Art in South Carolina: 1949–2012 examines how abstraction played out in a state that has often been seen as a cultural ... [more]

3:57:59 PM GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Awards $2 Million Grant to NC Museum of Art for
SBWire (press release) - Green Bay,WI,USA

SBWire (press release) This multiyear commitment, one of the largest grants ever awarded to the museum, will help support North Carolina teachers in the integration of art across the disciplines, through professional development programs and Web reso [more]

12:31:46 PM Black history museum to break ground with Obama
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

By Brett Zongker AP / February 22, 2012 WASHINGTON—A new national museum telling the history of black life, art, and culture will soon begin taking shape as the 19th museum in the Smithsonian Institution to explore stories that have sometimes been .. [more]

12:31:46 PM Why do they call it that? MOSI Tampa - The museum that's not a museum
10 Connects

The Museum of Science and Industry -- MOSI -- in Tampa is a perfect place for a weekend trip with the kids. But, get this, technically the museum isn't a "museum" at all! Rain, planes, brains, electricity explained, even fake hurricanes! [more]

11:33:33 AM US Slavery Museum files reorganization plan in federal bankruptcy court
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post The US Slavery Museum has filed a reorganization plan that assumes it can raise at least $900000 a year and would repay the city of Fredericksburg, Va., $15000 a quarter for back taxes over four years. The Fredericksburg museum envisi [more]

11:33:33 AM Frenchtown Museum Highlights Prominent African-Americans From St. Charles
Patch.com

St. Charles Patch spoke with exhibit creator and Frenchtown Heritage Museum director, Dorothy Boshears to get the details on the Black History Month exhibit. By Angela Atkinson Dred Scott, in an image that appeared on the first page of Frank Leslie's [more]

11:33:33 AM Our view: Museum, college go above and beyond
SalemNews.com - Salem,MA,USA

There are many intangible benefits to be had from the existence of nonprofit institutions like the Peabody Essex Museum and Endicott College in our midst. Indeed, the recent growth of both — the former in downtown Salem and the latter along Beverly's [more]

10:19:52 AM National Museum of African American History and Culture groundbreaking
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The 10 am ceremony will take place inside a tent on the five acre site at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW Turning the soil will be Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough; Lonnie G. Bunch, the museum's founding director, and members of the ... [more]

10:19:52 AM Civil rights museums booming
Raleigh News - Raleigh,NC,USA

BY KIM SEVERSON - New York Times ATLANTA -- Drive through any state in the Deep South and you will find a monument or a museum dedicated to civil rights. A visitor can peer into the motel room in Memphis where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was staying . [more]

9:15:03 AM Connect10 will bring museums and the arts together like never before
Guardian - UK

Connect10 is a new national competition for cultural venues to win one of ten artist-led events during Museums at Night. It might not be 'Britain's Got Cultural Treasures and Very Interesting Artists' but people all over the country are voting in the [more]

9:15:03 AM Museum in running for top award
New Post Leader - UK

ASHINGTON'S Woodhorn Museum is one of the most family-friendly in the country, according to a national competition's judges. It was chosen from more than 100 nominees to be included in a longlist of 20 contenders for the Telegraph Family Friendly ... [more]

7:05:47 AM Berkshire Museum builds trust with community
Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA

By Clarence Fanto, Berkshire Eagle Staff, PITTSFIELD -- "It's an accepted notion in our world that there is some evidence, statistically, that museums are the most trusted source of information in society," the Berkshire Museum's Executive Director V [more]

5:34:01 AM Grammy Museum teaches about Blues nationwide
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

The GRAMMY Museum, in cooperation with the “In Performance at the White House” concert series presents today “At The Crossroads: A History of Blues in America.” The program invites pre-selected high-school students from across the country to the Whit [more]

5:34:01 AM Director of The Grace Museum in Abilene resigns amid few details
Abilene Reporter-News - Abilene,TX,USA

By Jeremy Goldmeier Carraro said, "I loved my 3½ years at The Grace Museum. ... I've appreciated the opportunity." After more than three years at the helm, Dr. Francine Carraro has resigned as the executive director of The Grace Museum. [more]

3:56:04 AM Leading Greek museum cries out for funds as austerity bites
Daily Star - Beirut,Lebanon

ATHENS: The Benaki Museum in Athens, one of Greece's foremost cultural institutions, has publicly appealed for funds to counter spending cuts from the country's near-bankrupt state. “The museum needs support more than ever,” Emilia Geroulanou, ... [more]

3:08:45 AM New museum to carry the weight of black history
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

By Marisol Bello, USA TODAY The National Museum of African American History and Culture, to be built on the National Mall, will focus on three areas — history, culture and community — through the stories of individual people and families. [more]

3:08:45 AM Field Museum exhibit puts Genghis Khan's modern-day progeny in the millions
Chicago Sun-Times

BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter/kspak@suntimes.com February 21, 2012 7:28PM A media preview for Genghis Khan, a new exhibit at the Field Museum, was held February 21st, 2012. The new exhibit will be open to the public from February 24 through Sept. 3rd. [more]

3:08:45 AM Hayward museum on track for October opening
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By Eric Kurhi Myron Freedman, director of the Hayward Area Historical Society Museum, poses for a photograph with a model of the new museum during a tour of the site along Foothill Boulevard in Hayward, Calif., on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. [more]

3:08:45 AM Museum proponent undeterred by BCPS decision
Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek,MI,USA

William Stein said today said his group's efforts to open a local history museum will not be deterred by Battle Creek Public Schools' Monday decision to keep its vacant Southwestern Middle School, where the group had hoped to open the museum. [more]

12:55:03 AM Maryland will feature prominently in Smithsonian's latest museum
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

By Edward Gunts, The Baltimore Sun When the country's largest museum devoted to African American history and culture opens in Washington, DC, Maryland people and places will get a healthy share of the limelight. A two-story-high log house built by .. [more]

12:55:03 AM Field Museum exhibit: Did Genghis Khan get a bad rap?
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

As he said this, Badruugan was standing in the central hallway of the Field Museum, a building festooned with giant images of the 13th-century Mongol emperor. Steve Johnson Bio | E-mail | Recent columns Related Otgongerel Khunbish The director had ju [more]

12:55:03 AM Discovering Agnes Martin's artistic roots
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13, 2012 photo shows American abstract painter Agnes Martin's works hanging in a special octagonal gallery at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, NM The exhibition "Agnes Martin: Before the Grid" opens at the museum Feb. 25, 2012. [more]

12:55:03 AM African-American museum in North Brentwood hopes to build identity,
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA

Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online July 1996: “Footsteps from North Brentwood” opens at the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture. 1998: The Friends of North Brentwood is formed to develop a town museum to perm [more]

12:55:03 AM Discovery Museum showcases Libertyville bluesman's memorabilia
Libertyville Review

By JT MORAND jtmorand@pioneerlocal.com February 21, 2012 5:58PM Steve Peterkort, of Hawthorn Woods, looks over blue's memorabilia Saturday at the Discovery Museum in Wauconda. | Joe Shuman~For Sun-Times Media in Gainesville, Fla., he learned that blu [more]



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