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11:24:52 PM U.S. museum resists Poland's demand that it return Auschwitz barrack
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By Vanessa Gera AP This undated photograph provided by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, shows a section of barracks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim, Poland . (AP Photo/Pawel Sawicki/Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum/ HO) WARSAW,  [more]

11:24:52 PM 'Rembrandt and Degas' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Here they are hanging like old pals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a small, lovely show focused on self-portraits and prints. Organized by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in ... [more]

9:44:23 PM Orchestrating Museum Row
Wall Street Journal - USA

By RHEA WESSEL On any given day, you can spot 42-year-old Max Hollein dressed in a dark suit, pedaling his bike between the three Frankfurt museums he directs: the Schirn Kunsthalle, which mounts contemporary exhibitions and large surveys, ... [more]

8:32:02 PM Museum dedicated to the porcelain throne
Today's THV - Little Rock,AR,USA

Meet the man who is the owner, operator and artist who created the "toilet seat museum." At 90-years-old, Barney Smith still gets up every morning to greet visitors. He says, "This thing is my door stop. Here's the way I have to do it like this. [more]

7:30:10 PM Greek museums to increase security after thefts
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Dimitris Papaioannou / AP Onlookers and police gather outside the antiquities museum in Ancient Olympia where two masked armed robbers tied up a guard and made off with dozens of artifacts, Olympia, southern Greece, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. [more]

7:30:10 PM Norwalk Museum faces uncertain future
Lower Hudson Journal news

(WTW) — While walking through SoNo on a recent afternoon, Allan Aitkens stopped at the corner of North Main and Marshall streets to gaze at the Norwalk Museum's towering white columns. Aitkens, who was visiting with family from Brooklyn, NY, ... [more]

6:26:45 PM New Smithsonian museum to reshape National Mall
Washington Examiner (blog)

President Barack Obama speaks at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture groundbreaking in Washington on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) "The time will come when few people remember drinking from a colored water [more]

6:26:45 PM Detroit museum gets backing for 'Inside|Out'
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

The museum announced Thursday that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is giving $250000 to sponsor the project for 2012 and 2013. The effort includes putting up reproductions of some of the museum's significant paintings on the streets of ... [more]

5:36:04 PM Chihuly exhibition to be installed at Virginia art museum
Auction Central News - New York,NY,USA

Internationally renowned artist Dale Chihuly will have a major, site-specific exhibition of his work at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts from Oct. 20, 2012 through Feb. 10, 2013. VMFA's award-winning and light-infused McGlothlin Wing designed by Rick [more]

3:48:10 PM IRS revokes US Slavery Museum's federal tax-exempt status; museum is in ...
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The US Slavery Museum has lost its federal tax-exempt status. The Washington Post reports (http://wapo.st/ztQGlq ) the museum was added Wednesday to a list of organizations that have had their federal tax-exempt status revoked by the Internal Revenue [more]

3:48:10 PM For John Lewis, museum groundbreaking felt like other sea-change US moments
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

stood away from the crowds and the noise of the hundreds assembled to celebrate breaking ground for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. But one by one, people — a television commentator, a social service administrator, ... [more]

3:48:10 PM Poland, museum tussle over fate of Auschwitz barracks on display in
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post WARSAW, Poland — Polish and US officials are engaged in talks to determine the fate of a sensitive object: barracks from the Auschwitz death camp on display at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Poland is demanding the return of the ar [more]

3:48:10 PM New Mob Museum Opens: Should You Pay Admission or Break In?
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

That was the message of the new Mob Museum in Las Vegas which had its grand opening on February 14th. Officially known as The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, the museum examines the mob's historic influence on Las Vegas and .. [more]

2:48:19 PM Les Cockrell: Museum talk explores news from century ago
Denton Record Chronicle - Denton,TX,USA

A free lecture at the Bayless-Selby House Museum at 11 am today will explore what residents read in the newspapers of the day. Denton residents were privy to news from Berlin, London and other foreign locales, but they also were offered local news, . [more]

2:48:19 PM Getty leaders' ancient issues
Bellingham Herald - Bellingham,WA,USA

By JASON FELCH - Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES - Over the last five years, the J. Paul Getty Museum has earned a reputation as a leading reformer on a topic that has embroiled American museums in scandal for the past decade: the acquisition of looted [more]

1:25:33 PM Kohl's and Milwaukee Art Museum Announce the Grand Opening of the New
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) MILWAUKEE, Feb 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Kohl's Department Stores (NYSE:KSS) and Milwaukee Art Museum are pleased to announce the grand opening of the new Kohl's Education Center inside the Museum. The Center is comprise [more]

1:25:33 PM Dinosaurs roar into Putnam Museum
Quad City Times

The new Putnam Museum exhibit ?Dinosaurs Unearthed? features 14 animatronics, two full-size skeletons and 22 fossils. (Photo by Kevin E. Schmidt/QUAD-CITY TIMES) WHEN: Saturday, March 3, through Sunday, July 8; exhibit hours are 10 am to 5 pm Mondays [more]

1:17:31 PM Grant helps Royal Cornwall Museum launch new exhibition
BBC Sport - UK

The Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro has been awarded £233000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to launch a new ancient world exhibition. Unwrapping the Past will showcase the museum's mummified remains of Egyptian priest Iset Tayf Nakht. [more]

12:18:26 PM Trout Museum kicks off search for new leader
Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA

A search committee plans to appoint a new leader at the Trout Museum of Art by the time executive director Timothy Riley steps down from his position in May. Riley, 42, who was at the helm of the arts organization when it transformed from the Appleto [more]

12:18:26 PM Gilmore Car Museum hosts beer tasting
Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek,MI,USA

Arcadia Ales will be featured at “A Pint With the Past,” a fundraiser for the Gilmore Car Museum. / Kevin Hare/The Enquirer • WHERE: Gilmore Car Museum, 6865 Hickory Road, Hickory Corners. • INFO: All proceeds will go to Gilmore operations; 671-5089; [more]

12:18:26 PM Toilet seat museum brings joy
WNEM - Saginaw,MI,USA

(Source: CNN/ WOAI) ALAMO HEIGHTS, TX (CNN/WOAI) – In Texas, Barney Smith is a modern day king of thrones as owner of the Toilet Seat Museum. At 90, Smith still gets up every morning to greet visitors with a cane in hand, and cones on the street, ... [more]

11:48:43 AM H. Lee White Marine Museum celebrates 30th birthday by getting better, not
Syracuse Post Standard - Syracuse,NY,USA

Syracuse.com By Kenneth Sturtz / The Post-Standard Gary Walts/The Post-StandardMercedes Niess,director of the H. Lee White Marine Museum in Oswego, has helped update the facility for its 30th anniversary. A handful of school buses turns down a pier a [more]

9:45:48 AM Museum plans auction of gold coins
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

The world's most spectaclar collection of gold coins — owned by a Washington Heights art museum for 63 years but rarely seen by the public — is about to go on the auction block at Sotheby's. The sale on March 8 will provide up to $35 million for the  [more]

9:45:48 AM Smithsonian To Open Black History Museum
KVIA - El Paso,TX,USA

By Becky Brittain CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Smithsonian Institution officially began construction Wednesday on a new museum dedicated to African-American culture and heritage -- a complex committed to the celebration and study of one of the central [more]

8:13:14 AM What's on display at museums and galleries
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA

Donald Moffett: The Extravagant Vein? at the Tang Museum of Skidmore College, starting Saturday. • "Exploring Elegance," Morningside Gallery, 588 Loudon Road, Latham Contact: 783-8763 Notes: Recent photographic works by Katherine Wardle highlighting  [more]

8:13:14 AM East Taunton man turns beer can collection into home museum
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA

East Taunton Beer Can Museum curator Kevin Logan shows off his favorite can -- a Schaefer he found in an old refrigerator while cleaning out a basement. By Marc Larocque To most people, beer cans are nothing but trash to be exchanged for 5 cents apie [more]

6:42:25 AM Children's museum gets boost
Star Phoenix - Saskatoon,SK,Canada

By David Hutton, The StarPhoeniX February 22, 2012 11:10 PM The transformation of the Mendel Art Gallery into the Children's Discovery Museum come 2015 received a symbolic boost with officials announcing a memorandum of understanding. [more]

6:42:25 AM The Field Museum offers expansive 'Genghis Khan' exhibit
SouthtownStar

By Kara Spak kspak@suntimes.com February 22, 2012 4:36PM A Mongolian armored horse and warriors are part of the "Genghis Khan" exhibit at the Field Museum. In 25 years, Khan's army conquered four times more land and people than the Romans during thei [more]

6:42:25 AM Man About Town: Something old, something new coming up at Savannah's
Savannah Morning News

Savannah Morning News By Bill Dawers When the Telfair Museums' Jepson Center for the Arts opened almost exactly six years ago, I don't think many of us could have predicted just how important the building would be for Savannah's public life. In recen [more]

6:34:45 AM Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese film 'Hugo'
Aiken Standard

He came to Philadelphia and repaired the automaton that museum officials feared was irreparable. "Charles was there as Andy was fixing the machine," Selznick said. "He must be very happy that it's the center of attention again. [more]

6:34:45 AM 'Oz' ruby slippers to Academy Museum: Leonardo DiCaprio led donors to
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

Chicago Tribune The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has acquired a pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz," its first major acquisition since announcing fund-raising chair Bob Iger in December. Leonardo DiCaprio led a group of "ange [more]

6:34:45 AM State Museum gives us a spring feeling
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA

By Kelly Diver David Michael Schmidt, owner of Renaissance Floral Design in Albany, NY, works on his display in the front lobby of the State Museum in Albany in February 2009 for the 18th Annual New York in Bloom show. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union . [more]

6:34:45 AM MUSEUM WATCH: Professional artists to present classes
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA

BY NITA HILTNER Art classes with professional artists will be offered at the Riverside Art Museum. Ron Pokrasso is a master printer and has previously led monotype workshops at Riverside Art Museum. He has a MFA in Printmaking from Pratt Institute of [more]

3:56:15 AM African American history museum breaks ground in Washington
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Former First Lady Laura Bush joins in the groundbreaking ceremony for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. President George W. Bush, her husband, signed the law to create the museum in 2003. [more]

3:56:15 AM Leonardo DiCaprio buys 'Wizard of Oz' ruby slippers for Academy museum
Entertainment Weekly

In an announcement on Wednesday, the Academy named DiCaprio as the primary benefactor in its acquisition of the shoes, which will eventually be displayed at the planned Academy Museum in Los Angeles. According to a press release, DiCaprio led a group [more]

3:56:15 AM Deltona museum hopes to return Iwo Jima artifacts to Japanese soldier's
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

Orlando Sentinel The artifacts are housed at the Deltona Veterans Memorial Museum. But John Masiarczyk, chief of the museum, hopes to return some of the keepsakes to the sailor's family. The gesture comes as Masiarczyk and others reflect today on the [more]

3:56:15 AM Prison Could Become Museum
Carson Now

everal Carson City residents are hoping to see the historic Nevada State Prison become a museum. The one-hundred-fifty-year-old prison was closed last month to save money. "If you can do it in Germany, Rome and Greece and save historical monuments ov [more]

3:47:34 AM Obama breaks ground on Mall for African-American museum
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

By McClatchy-Tribune News Service AP Photo/Susan WalshPresident Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama during the groundbreaking ceremony at the construction site of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in ... [more]

3:47:34 AM Private side of Degas draws big opening crowd at Portland Museum of Art
Press Herald

More than 200 members of the Portland Museum of Art turned out tonight for the opening reception of "Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist." The show, which officially opens to the public tomorrow and remains on view through May 28, serves up 112 .. [more]

12:55:54 AM Children's Museum of Houston and The Lorax celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday
Click 2 Houston.com - Houston,TX,USA

KPRC Houston The Children's Museum of Houston (CMH) invites you to celebrate the life and times of the literary genius who taught the world “the more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you'll go. [more]

12:26:34 AM Historic Lightner Museum In Need of Repair
WJXX - Jacksonville,FL,USA

"We have the largest accumulation of late 19th century, early 20th century decorative art in Florida," said Bob Harper, the museums executive director as he walked around the museum. There are paintings, sculpture, and glass, but there's more on ... [more]

12:26:34 AM Obama helps break ground for African-American museum
Modesto Bee - Modesto,CA,USA

And there will be art, music, fashion and posters from the 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama, the first African-American president, who helped break ground Wednesday for the nation's first national museum dedicated exclusively to ... [more]



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