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10:35:24 PM Cameron Art Museum seeking $100000 from city coffers
StarNewsOnline.com - Wilmington,NC,USA

Docents Marge Gerlach and Mallory Nanny walk through one of the exhibits at the Cameron Art Museum on Friday, Feb. 26, 2010. By Patrick Gannon Wilmington ... [more]

10:22:51 PM Find your bliss in Wellesley College's Davis Museum
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA

By Chris Bergeron/DAILY NEWS STAFF After Lisa Fischman stated her goals as new director of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, an ex-punk rocker turned ... [more]

7:14:37 PM Toyota showroom faces a morbid museum
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The car showroom is directly across the street from the Museum of Death, just east of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine. The grisly tourist attraction, ... [more]

6:14:01 PM Immokalee coalition debuts modern-day slavery museum
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA

This ordinary-seeming produce truck is the centerpiece of the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum, which begins touring today. It's a replica of the one the ... [more]

5:25:48 PM A big deal at city's small museums
Crain's New York Business - New York,NY,USA

From March 1 to May 31, seven local museums are offering two-for-one admissions. Check the museums' Web sites for coupons, or stop by NYC & Company's ... [more]

2:31:12 PM Totally freaky: Japan's weirdest museums
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

The Japanese love a museum and alongside the city's many well-known galleries and institutions are dozens of smaller, often privately-run museums dedicated ... [more]

12:59:32 PM In multimedia exhibition, Asian Art Museum captures Shanghai's vibrancy ...
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By Sura Wood SAN FRANCISCO — After an esteemed tradition of showcasing collections of ancient masterpieces, the Asian Art Museum steps boldly into the 20th ... [more]

11:33:50 AM Archivists preserve records for museums, zoos, colleges and other
efforts

Seattle Times (blog) The job: Archivists work for museums, governments, zoos, colleges, corporations and other institutions that require experts to preserve important records ... [more]

10:21:15 AM Modern art collector Ernst Beyeler dies
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

In his exhibitions, he sought to give paintings and sculptures enough space to have an impact on the viewer, rejecting the old-fashioned museum approach of ... [more]

9:16:05 AM Sail museum set to launch funds drive
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

The museum has hired Odell Simms & Associates Inc. of Falls Church, Va., to organize its national fundraising drive. The Virginia company has done ... [more]

8:23:41 AM Staff, museum, street cuts proposed in Manassas budget
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Manassas Museum summer camps, such as this Civil War boot camp last year, are on the chopping block in the proposed budget. ... [more]

7:11:39 AM Milwaukee holds its own night at the museum
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA

This is not fiction, not a movie, this night at the museum. It comes to life right here in the big city, right at the Milwaukee Public Museum. ... [more]

6:35:36 AM Oxford points tourists toward University Museum, Rowan Oak
DeSoto Appeal - Memphis,TN,USA

By Melanie Addington, AP OXFORD -- With more than 40000 visitors a year, the University Museum and Rowan Oak already receive a lot of guests. ... [more]

5:29:39 AM Museum spotlights 'Devotion' to terracotta
Boston Herald

A new installation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, “Modeling Devotion,” highlights the often-overlooked medium of terracotta - or underlooked, ... [more]

4:15:57 AM Take a trip into medieval life at New York museum
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

Take the "A" Train from New York City's Times Square to the Middle Ages: Its terminus in northwest Manhattan is near The Cloisters, a museum. ... [more]

2:40:30 AM Venetian Bay festival-goers duck the rain to benefit Children's Museum
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA

It was all to benefit the Children's Museum of Naples, thanks to sponsorship of the rubber ducks and donations from private citizens and corporations. ... [more]

2:12:38 AM Kid detectives uncover fun at Naples Museum of Art family day
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA

By SARAH DONOVAN NAPLES — The Naples Museum of Art swarmed with hundreds of amateur sleuths, trying to catch an (imaginary) art thief whose next target was ... [more]

12:58:29 AM At the Hammer, Luisa Lambri makes herself at home
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Her work, he adds, provides a more human perspective on modern buildings that otherwise might "end up looking like museums. ... [more]



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