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News From Monday, February 06, 2012
2:58:34 PM Museums team up with Manchester hospitals to give patients a 'hands-on'
Manchester Evening News

Manchester Evening News The elephant's tusk comes from Manchester Museum, where he is a volunteer. Photo by Mark Waugh Manchester hospitals are boosting patients' wellbeing – by bringing museum exhibitions to the wards. for them to handle Central Man [more]

2:58:34 PM The Athens War Museum
Gadling - Santa Monice,CA,USA

It's one of a case of Papandreou's personal weapons on display at the Athens War Museum. Greece has a long and proud military history stretching all the way back to when hoplites met Persian invaders and chariots were the latest thing in military ... [more]

2:58:34 PM Experience a Life at Sea at the Malta Maritime Museum
Gozo News - Victoria,Gozo,Malta

Heritage Malta is organising another edition of Life at Sea at the Malta Maritime Museum in Birgu on Sunday 12th February. The event will consist of a re-enactment of life at the Birgu creek during the 18th century. Exhibits on display will be brough [more]

1:04:36 PM Charles Dickens Museum launches new identity and plans refurbishment
Design Week - London,UK

The Charles Dickens Museum in London is rolling out a new identity, created by Cog Design, and is set to launch an expansion and refurbishment programme. The work comes in the bicentenary year of Dickens' birth. Dickens's bicentenary is being marked  [more]

1:04:36 PM Travel Digest: Snow Train and Milwaukee Public Museum sleepover
Wisconsin State Journal

It's Snow Train Weekend at Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, Friday through Sunday, Feb. 12. This is the 37th year for the Snow Train, which takes passengers on a 50-minute round-trip trek through the scenic Baraboo Hills. [more]

12:50:33 PM Historical and Museum Commission office to serve NEPA
PoconoNews.net - Newburgh,New York,USA

HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) today announced the opening of a new field office for historic preservation services at Graeme Park, 859 County Line Road, Horsham, Montgomery County, one of 25 historic sites and  [more]

11:22:07 AM Museum talk highlights civil-rights titan Catto
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

By Kevin Smith After his lecture, Andy Waskie (left) visits with Ahmad Kenya, a performance and visual artist, at the Grand Army museum. Despite its significant history, the Grand Army of the Republic Museum and Library in Philadelphia is an unimposi [more]

11:22:07 AM ASU Art Museum explores miracles in exhibit
Tucson Citizen

It will be on display at the ASU Art Museum in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts through June 2. The museum is on the southeast corner of Mill Avenue and 10th Street in Tempe. The exhibit uses a variety of video monitors and screens of  [more]

11:22:07 AM History Museum for Springfield-Greene County honors service of first
News-Leader.com

Springfield News-Leader Where: The History Museum for Springfield-Greene County, in City Hall at 830 Boonville Ave. in Springfield. Hours: 10:30 am-4:30 pm Tuesday through Friday and the second Saturday of the month. The exhibit runs through May 4. [more]

11:22:07 AM At the Gardner Museum, a seamless celebration of 'Pierrot Lunaire' at 100
parties

That it has retained its vitality was clear from a performance on Thursday night at the Gardner Museum in its new Calderwood Hall to mark the piece's centenary. The stage was set with Paula Robison, handling the vocal duties, surrounded by the five . [more]

11:22:07 AM Brody Wilkinson Partners with Fairfield Museum in Honoring our Nation's ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA

Their works are now on exhibit at the Fairfield Museum through August 5, 2012. “Bridgeport has played an important role in our firm's history. We are delighted to celebrate the City's past and help promote its future while, at the same time, ... [more]

10:59:26 AM The 250 Million Dollar Cezanne: What Does It Mean To You?
Forbes - USA

But even as the royal family purchases properties and cultural treasures from throughout the West, they are also busy acquiring even greater treasures from the Islamic world, not to mention building – at unimaginable costs – entire museums, ... [more]

10:59:26 AM Abu Dhabi's outsized cultural ambitions
Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem,Israel

But the presence of local outlets of the Guggenheim and Louvre museums also highlights the prickly issue of what role Western cultural institutions should play in a Muslim country. In a surprise move, Abu Dhabi's Executive Council brought back to lif [more]

8:56:57 AM Black History Month | Chicago's DuSable exhibits keep the past ever-present
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

CHICAGO — In 1961, Margaret Burroughs, an artist, poet and educator, founded a museum in her modest home on the South Side of Chicago to preserve and promote the achievements of African Americans. Not quite 50 years later, another South Side resident [more]

8:56:57 AM Hopkins, Page at Thos. Moser
Knox Village Soup - ME,USA

Hopkins of Rockland, a native of North Haven, is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design who has exhibited at the Farnsworth Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, the University of Maine Museum of Art and a .. [more]

6:17:53 AM Morris Museum's winter exhibits spotlight a pair of artists
Dailyrecord.com - Parsippany,NJ,USA

COURTESY OFTHE ARTIST ~ The Morris Museum's winter exhibits spotlight substantial achievements by a pair of notable artists. “Bold Strokes” presents a generous selection of paintings by Garden State artist Chris Kappmeier, while “Celebrating Our ... [more]

6:17:53 AM Local museum's niche: 'bizarre' attractions
St. Augustine Record

Frank and Lynn Bird of Lake Como, Fla., take a look at the car in which actress Jane Mansfield died in 1967 in this 1998 photograph from The Tragedy in US History Museum. By SHELDON GARDNER Opened amid controversy in St. Augustine in 1965, ... [more]

6:17:53 AM Missoula Art Museum has most successful benefit auction since recession
The Missoulian

The Missoula Art Museum's Benefit Art Auction surpassed a threshold it hasn't reached since before the economy went sour, and enthusiasm about the 40th annual event seemed to hit another peak Saturday as well. "Oh goodness, it was an outrageously fun [more]

2:11:46 AM Canadian Museum of Nature welcomes whale exhibit from New Zealand
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada

The Canadian Museum of Nature will be closed as usual next Monday, but it will be buzzing with activity. The whales are arriving. A climate-controlled truck will back up to a heated tent at the front door, so that the enormous skull of a sperm whale  [more]

1:14:45 AM Science Museum gets expansion funding, plans to break ground in April
Palm Beach Daily News - Palm Beach,FL,USA

By David Rogers The South Florida Science Museum is poised, after more than a decade of attempts, to transform itself into a modern science education center for the Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast region. The plan is downsized from past visions, [more]

12:49:04 AM 'I rest my case'
Times of India - India

For the first time in nearly two weeks after the unfortunate heist at the museum of Christian art (MOCA), the committee has acquired a face. That's an achievement for Goans and heritage lovers as all of us now know at least one of them. [more]

12:49:04 AM Wedgwood: UN joins campaign to save musuem treasures
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

The Wedgwood Museum must be saved, the United Nations heritage committee says, despite a High Court decision that its collection should be sold to pay off the company's £134 million deficit. John Caudwell with a Wedgwood vase. [more]

12:49:04 AM Jaguar to close museum, looking for new location
Autoblog - Santa Monica,CA,USA

Part of the complex included the Jaguar Heritage Museum and its collection of 150 cars, so when the Browns Lane site was sold in 2007 to an Australian developer, the countdown began on the museum's remaining time. Now comes the formal announcement th [more]

12:49:04 AM The £160m hand of cards
Independent

Under its previous ownership The Card Players was rarely lent out; however, speculation is mounting that it could take pride of place on permanent display at the Qatar National Museum, which is due to reopen in 2014. There it will hang alongside a .. [more]



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