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News From Monday, February 26, 2007
11:23:40 PM Teijin, sponsor and main founder of new extension Stedelijk Museum
E-Composites - Grandville,MI,USA

With a substantial donation Teijin Ltd. becomes the first international sponsor of the new extension to Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. ... [more]

11:23:40 PM Undersea Museum Hosts Discover E-Day
Military.com - USA

Dozens of Sailors from throughout Naval Region Northwest volunteered at the Naval Undersea Museum for Discover E-Day on Feb. 24, an annual event to show ... [more]

11:23:39 PM Museum project gets funding
Thunder Bay's Source - Thunder Bay,Ontario,Canada

It was announced Monday that the Paipoonage Museum will receive $165000, in the form of a grant from the provincial government. ... [more]

11:23:39 PM Museum Plaza to call for support of bill
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

Developers of the proposed Museum Plaza skyscraper at Seventh and Main streets will hold a press conference and call the Greater Louisville Hotel and ... [more]

11:23:39 PM TAIWAN: Museum's exhibition shows valuable documents, records of ...
Asia Pacific Media Network - Los Angeles,CA,USA

Taipei --- In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the 228 Incident, the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum is holding an exhibition through April 25 on .... [more]

11:23:39 PM Museum celebrates Yreka’s 150th
Siskiyou Daily News - Yreka,CA,USA

YREKA – In celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the City of Yreka’s incorporation, the Siskiyou County Museum will feature a special photo exhibit on the ... [more]

11:23:39 PM City officials hear update on Center/NB Museum
The Marshall Democrat-News - Marshall,MO,USA

Gabe Ramsey, Ward II, asked about the price of renting and touring the museum. The price of touring the museum will probably be $5 or $6, Riggins said. ... [more]

11:23:39 PM TOP STORY: Pier plan shapes up for city's museum
MyTown Bay of Plenty - Bay of Plenty,New Zealand

Tauranga's councillors have voted to build the city's controversial $23.5 million museum on the waterfront - despite claims it has become a pawn in a battle ... [more]

6:35:56 PM Netherlands And Belgium Adopt SPECTRUM Standard
Managing Information - UK

The adoption of SPECTRUM will help Dutch and Belgian museums manage their knowledge and information more effectively, as well as supporting greater mobility ... [more]

6:35:56 PM Campaign for Museums Conference – Thursday 8 March 2007
Managing Information - UK

Pure And Applied - Challenges In Research is a Campaign for Museums’ Conference taking place at the Wallace Collection in London on Thursday 8 March 2007. ... [more]

6:35:56 PM Museums, Arts And Media Join The Copyright Debate
Managing Information - UK

The Museums Copyright Group, a leading UK lobbying organisation for museums, has brought together key industry figures from the arts, industry and media at ... [more]

5:38:40 PM Past time to help museum
Scotsman - United Kingdom

A MUSEUM has appealed for community help as it collects material for its annual exhibit. Musselburgh Museum's Fun and Games - Pastimes in Musselburgh is on ... [more]

5:38:40 PM Hands-On Museum hatches new theme
MLive.com - MI,USA

If you've ever wondered which came first, the chicken or the egg, both will be on display at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum's "Egg-citing Science,'' the .... [more]

5:38:40 PM Museum of West Louisiana transforms to art gallery
Leesville Daily Leader - Leesville,LA,USA

The gallery talk may be over but there is still time to view the Stella Jones Gallery at the Museum of West Louisiana, located on South Third St. in ... [more]

5:38:40 PM Doyle's budget helps state Veterans Museum
Wisconsin Radio Network - Madison,WI,USA

Wisconsin's Veterans Museum is touted as one of the best in the nation, and the governor wants to increase funding for it. ... [more]

5:38:40 PM Museum honoring WWII hero re-opens in Fredericksburg
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA

"This museum is going to educate young people, older people, more mature people on what Admiral Nimitz did and how he persevered through adversity," Gen. ... [more]

5:38:40 PM Berlin Arts Patron, Museum Founder Heinz Berggruen Dies at 93
Bloomberg - USA

26 (Bloomberg) -- Heinz Berggruen, a German art collector who filled his Berlin museum with works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Paul Klee decades ... [more]

2:00:57 PM British Museum Curator Speaks About Arabic Calligraphy Art
Dubai City Guide - Dubai,United Arab Emirates

The Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) organized an informative lecture by a curator of the British Museum on the sidelines of the ... [more]

2:00:56 PM Cleburne museum looks for funding to preserve history
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA

The Layland Museum in Cleburne stores part of its collection in the Lowell R. Smith History Center, which has no climate controls. The museum is raising ... [more]

2:00:54 PM 8: National WWII Museum
New Orleans CityBusiness - New Orleans,LA,USA

The museum has a national consulting firm reviewing pre-Katrina attendance projections, he said. The original estimated economic impact of the expansion was ... [more]

2:00:53 PM Museum honors filmmaker for modern Western
Daily Review Online - CA,USA

Matt Marconi, 34, of Linden will not be handed a gold statuette but a figurine of a cowboy on a horse from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum for ... [more]

2:00:51 PM Geneva museum reforms Calvinist image
swissinfo - Switzerland

But it is difficult to come away from Geneva's award-winning International Museum of the Reformation without thinking that there was more to this man of God ... [more]

11:23:39 AM MPs' special viewing of Crompton watch
Bolton News - Bolton,UK

The watch is among nine treasures from North-west museums being put on display at a special House of Commons event on Wednesday. ... [more]

11:23:39 AM Houghton Endows Contemporary Art Curatorship
Harvard Crimson - Cambridge,MA,USA

The Harvard University Art Museums announced Friday that Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation James R. Houghton ’58 and wife Maisie K. Houghton ’62 have ... [more]

10:23:40 AM Heinz Berggruen, 93, collected art by Picasso
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA

PARIS -- Heinz Berggruen, an influential collector of Picasso's artworks and longtime friend of the artist, has died in France, the Picasso Museum in Paris ... [more]

10:23:40 AM Lombardo museum may broaden its scope
London Free Press - Canada

Guy Lombardo would share the spotlight with other musicians at the museum that bears his name as part of a proposed redevelopment of Wonderland Gardens. ... [more]

10:23:39 AM Farming museum harvests £45k grant
York Press - York,UK

The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced a cash award of £44700 to the Yorkshire Museum of Farming, based in Murton, just outside York. ... [more]

10:23:39 AM Titanic exhibit helps museum stay afloat
Kansas.com - KS,USA

Museum officials say attendance, revenue and memberships are way up compared with last year. And beginning this week, Exploration Place will extend its ... [more]

10:23:39 AM Museum gets a boost
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana

SEROWE - Khama III Memorial Museum, which has been under dire financial straits has received a boost of P33 000 from the Department of National Museum, ... [more]

10:23:39 AM Museum limited by small site
Fairview Observer - Fairview,TN,USA

Near that, a Nazi soldier's uniform is carefully laid out — it's a new donation to the Tennessee State Museum. Deep in the bowels of the James K. Polk ... [more]

6:46:01 AM FIT Museum to Showcase History of Luxury Goods
Women's Wear Daily - USA

NEW YORK — The Museum at FIT is organizing an exhibition on luxury, which will be held in the Fashion and Textile History Gallery. ... [more]

6:46:01 AM World War II Museum Reopens
WOAI - San Antonio,TX,USA

A World War II museum that has been closed for a couple years for renovations reopened in Fredericksburg Sunday, officials said. The Admiral Nimitz Museum ... [more]

6:46:00 AM Former Attleboro artist honored with museum in Midwest
Attleboro Sun Chronicle - Attleboro,MA,USA

The Christian Petersen Art Museum will open next month in honor of the university's former resident artist, Christian Petersen (1885-1961). ... [more]

6:46:00 AM Dinosaur makers want to open museum in Collinsville
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA

They want to build in Collinsville the world's largest museum devoted to dinosaurs. The team is working on designs for a $2.5 million complex that would ... [more]

6:45:59 AM Museum's exhibition shows valuable documents, records of 228 Incident
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan

In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the 228 Incident, the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum is holding an exhibition through April 25 on valuable .... [more]

6:45:59 AM Museum integrity vs. designer flash
International Herald Tribune - Paris,France

Thomas Krens, the museum's director at the time, was accused of selling out to crass commerce. Some of these exhibitions are historic, rather than laudatory ... [more]

6:45:58 AM KC may get a new children’s museum
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA

But backers of a proposed children’s museum based on literature say the market can bear one more and that the proposed museum’s focus would make it a ... [more]

6:45:58 AM LOTHAR-GUENTHER BUCHHEIM
The State - Columbia,SC,USA

Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the German author and art collector best known for his autobiographical novel “Das Boot,” has died at the age of 89, his museum ... [more]

2:38:40 AM Literature-based children’s museum proposed
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA

Shawnee — The Kansas City area already has museums targeted to children. But backers of a proposed children’s museum based on literature say the market can ... [more]

2:38:39 AM Freedom! sculpture tours UK to mark 200th anniversary of abolition ...
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK

The Freedom! sculpture, commissioned by Christian Aid and National Museums Liverpool, was created by Haitian artists Mario Benajamin, Celeur, Eugene, .... [more]

12:05:55 AM Picasso Collector Berggruen Dies at 93
Forbes - USA

Heinz Berggruen, an influential collector of Picasso's artworks and longtime friend of the artist, has died in France, the Picasso Museum in Paris said ... [more]

12:05:55 AM Night In The Museum - for real
YourHub.com - Denver,CO,USA

After seeing the movie, "Night In The Museum" every kid dreams of spending a night in a museum. For Cub Scout Pack 260 of Castle Rock that dream came true. ... [more]

12:05:54 AM Islamic art museum to open by year end
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates

Doha: Qatar's Museum of Islamic Art will open its doors by the year end, the Qatar Museum Authority said on Saturday, announcing a decision to build new ... [more]



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