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News From Thursday, February 26, 2009
11:38:18 PM Museums roll out "CSI: History Mysteries"
USA Today - USA

Anyone tired of modern-day mayhem might relish this month's museum exhibit opening dedicated to historical forensic science. The Houston Museum of Natural ... [more]

11:22:18 PM Arts, Briefly Another Art Museum Announces Layoffs
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore has become the latest art institution to announce cost-reducing measures that include job cuts. On Thursday the museum ... [more]

10:47:39 PM American Association of Museums President/CEO Dr. Ford Bell ...
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Dr. Bell’s timely message, “Museums Matter — The Opportunities and Challenges of Cultural Institutions in the 21st Century,” was poignant in a time of ... [more]

10:28:05 PM Prehistoric Undersea Sex Was No Fluke
National Geographic

Yet John Long at Museum Victoria, Australia, and a team of researchers have found evidence for sex in the form of embryos inside fossils of ... [more]

9:25:00 PM Some Museums Could Be History With New Pa. Budget
WPXI.com - Pittsburgh,PA,USA

Rendell is proposing to eliminate grants that aid dozens of museums and county historical societies. A half-dozen of those state-run sites face closure, ... [more]

7:24:17 PM Clive Owen has museum built for new thriller
stv.tv - UK

English actor Clive Owen has told how a full-scale replica of the famous Guggenheim museum in New York was built for a scene in his new blockbuster 'The ... [more]

7:03:29 PM Free first Saturday at the Denver Art Museum
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

The museum boasts an impressive modern and contemporary art collection, and many others, with a plethora of mouth watering pieces from a variety of time ... [more]

5:18:54 PM No shorts in Notre Dame, free museums in Nice
CNN - Atlanta,GA,USA

At the Army Museum nearby, the section on 19th-century French military history ("Revolution to Napoleon III") should reopen in the spring. ... [more]

5:01:35 PM Reform rabbis: Relocate tolerance museum
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - New York,NY,USA

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A proposed tolerance museum should not be built on an ancient Muslim cemetery located on the planned site, a group of Reform rabbis said. ... [more]

3:54:54 PM Site of royal massacre opens as museum in Nepal
Reuters - NY,USA

The sprawling red-brick and pink pagoda-roofed Narayanhiti palace, in the heart of the Nepali capital, was turned into a museum after Nepal's last king ... [more]

2:41:29 PM Arts groups ready to fight Maryland budget cuts
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

And the region’s museums will lose by June 30 county and city grants worth $400000 apiece that have allowed the attractions to provide free admission since ... [more]

1:30:51 PM Ghost hunters claim chilling finds at Palmyra museum
MPNnow.com - Rochester,NY,USA

The Historical Museum just up Market Street, meanwhile, is on the site of a 1964 blaze that claimed seven people, six of whom were children. ... [more]

12:40:28 PM Nepal palace reopens as a museum
BBC News - E,UK

A former Nepalese royal palace is being reopened as a museum at a ceremony presided over by Maoist PM Prachanda. Narayanhiti Palace was turned into a museum ... [more]

11:14:54 AM Museum to ask council to OK new building plan
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

By JOHN PECK The Huntsville Museum of Art will ask the City Council tonight for the go-ahead on a scaled down expansion plan of its building in Big Spring ... [more]

10:40:06 AM Budget Cuts Bring Layoffs to Museums
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The layoffs would affect 56 full-time and 7 part-time employees from across the museum’s staff; the museum has already canceled planned exhibitions on the ... [more]

9:18:05 AM Taiwan museum expects more exchanges with counterparts across Straits
China View, Beijing, China

26 (Xinhua) -- Officials at the "National Palace Museum" of Taiwan prepared to welcome the director of a major mainland museum Thursday and said they .... [more]

8:22:09 AM Monday at the museums with Paul
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

By Michael Harrington If ever there was a ready-made audience for "Cezanne and Beyond," the new show opening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art today, .... [more]

5:05:43 AM Scientists Find First Animal That Had Sex
FOX News - USA

The specimens were found in the Gogo Formation of Western Australia by John Long of the Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. At first, he thought that ... [more]

5:03:51 AM Museum showcases Viennese architects
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA

The exhibit will not be shown here because, as some Akron museum officials noted, the museum had an exhibit on Coop Himmelb(l)au a year and a half ago. ... [more]

12:34:50 AM Top draws: museums and galleries offer light amid the economic gloom
Guardian - UK

Some of Britain's leading museums, galleries and heritage sites, many of which have free entry, are cheerier than most when it comes to predictions for the ... [more]



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