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News From Tuesday, March 13, 2007
10:56:15 PM Researchers believe Nazi-looted art could be found in Finland
Helsingin Sanomat - Finland

Works of art which were confiscated by the Nazis during the Second World War are being searched for in Finnish art museums. Around 400 foreign pieces of art ... [more]

10:56:15 PM Amsterdam City Card First in the World to Use RFID Technology
Jazz-Quad - Minsk,Russia

The new edition of the I amsterdam Card allows visitors to pass the tickets desks of museums and other attractions in Amsterdam without putting their card ... [more]

10:56:14 PM Boost for tourism celebrated
Watton and Swaffham Times - Watton / Swaffham,Norfolk,UK

The three-year Original Norfolk partnership has rebuilt, revamped and promoted 10 museums and heritage sites across the county. Two museums have been built ... [more]

10:56:13 PM United Arab Emirates
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

The French government's controversial proposal to license the name of the Louvre, one of the world's most famous museums, to Abu Dhabi, one of the United ... [more]

10:56:13 PM Solve a crime, explore the arts at city museums
Ottawa Sun - Ontario, Canada

Kids can become forensic scientists for a day, or get their fingers into the glue at March break activities at museums around the nation’s capital this week ... [more]

8:26:18 PM ‘Global Feminisms’ Opens At Brooklyn Museum March 23
Antiques and Arts Weekly - Newtown,CT,USA

Organized by Nochlin, with Ann Sutherland Harris, "Women Artists: 1550–1950" was presented at the Brooklyn Museum in 1977. ... [more]

8:26:18 PM Online museum gives insight into tech past
IT PRO - London,Greater London,UK

Students at the University of Dundee have created a web-based Museum of Lost Interactions so that people can get a better understanding of the gadgets and ... [more]

8:26:17 PM City Calling For Museum Review
The Guardian - Charlottetown,Prince Edward Island,Canada

The City of Charlottetown wants the province to form a committee and look at how much it would cost to build a provincial museum. ... [more]

8:26:17 PM Van Abbemuseum and Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Eindhoven, The ...
frieze - London,UK

In seven rooms in the basement, the structure of the museum was exposed and examined. Much of this material, like The Ambulator – a room devised by Janna ... [more]

8:26:16 PM Museum Plaza developers now expect smooth sailing
WAVE - Louisville,KY,USA

(LOUISVILLE) -- The proposed Museum Plaza project overcame a major hurdle Monday as state lawmakers finally hammered out their differences over the $465 ... [more]

8:26:15 PM In São Paulo, Brazil, the Museum of the Portuguese Language ...
BusinessWeek - USA

The 115-yard long Grand Gallery video wall in the Museum of the Portugese Language in São Paulo. Luciano Bogado. Courtesy of the Roberto Marinho Foundation ... [more]

8:26:15 PM Growing Lutz museum focuses its mission, goals
Journal Inquirer - Manchester,CT,USA

MANCHESTER - At least two signs in the Lutz Children's Museum advise visitors that, according to its resident groundhog, spring will come early this year. ... [more]

4:48:52 PM Museum proposed for Taney County
Branson Daily News - MO, United States

FORSYTH — The White River Valley Historical Society is hoping to preserve local history by building a museum attached to the Old Taney County Jail. .... [more]

4:48:52 PM Historica Fair at museum in April
Barrie Advance - Barrie,Ontario,Canada

The Simcoe County Museum reports work for the fourth annual Historica Fair is under way. The fair takes place at the Midhurst-based museum from noon to 2 pm ... [more]

4:48:52 PM Museum's Sunday Series continues March 25
Bellevue Leader - Bellevue,NE,USA

The Sarpy County Historical Museum's Sunday Series Program takes place March 25 with speaker and historian Kira Gale, who will present an informative ... [more]

4:48:52 PM The Unique Museum in Docklands: Canary Wharf’s only Grade I listed ...
Londonlaunch - London,UK

Set in the heart of CW, Museum in Docklands is a splendid late Georgian warehouse, and the only Grade 1 listed venue in the Wharf. ... [more]

4:48:51 PM Medallions Transferred to Museum
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA

A COLLECTION of historic medallions from the David Evans site has been saved and transferred to Swansea Museum for safekeeping. Swansea Council ensured the ... [more]

4:48:51 PM Police investigating another metal theft from ESL museum
WQAD - Moline,IL,USA

LOUIS, Ill. East St. Louis police are investigating the latest theft of copper tubing from air conditioners at a city museum honoring the late dance pioneer ... [more]

4:48:51 PM Cosmoprof partners with the International Perfume Museum of Grasse.
Beauty on-line - Milano,Italy

SoGeCos, the company that organises Cosmoprof, is to sponsor the renovation and extension of an area in the International Perfume Museum in Grasse (France). ... [more]

4:48:51 PM Museum acquires Moore drawing
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK

This sketch – now on show at the museum – was completed in the summer of 1942 when he spent time at Wheldale Colliery, Castleford, drawing miners at work, ... [more]

1:08:56 PM Weisman Art Museum to unveil Gehry designs for expansion
WKBT - La Crosse,WI,USA

MINNEAPOLIS The Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota will unveil designs for a major building expansion this morning. ... [more]

1:08:56 PM Museum display highlights 'Our Nevada'
Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA

"Our Nevada," a new display at the Children's Museum of Northern Nevada, will focus on history, government and a host of other Silver State topics of ... [more]

1:08:54 PM National Museum lures visitors with new hours
Yemen Observer - Sana'a,Yemen

The National Museum will now keep its doors open to visitors for longer each day, and on more days, than ever before, the museum has announced. ... [more]

10:23:51 AM CULTURE MINISTER SAYS MUSEUMS ARE HEART OF UK CULTURAL RENAISSANCE
24 Hour Museum - UK

“The Prime Minister talked last week of a renaissance of British culture - and at the heart of that renaissance I believe are our museums,” said the ... [more]

9:28:53 AM Exhibit shows eugenics' deadly side
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA

Among the artifacts on display at the Andy Warhol Museum is a package of Luminal, a sedative used to overdose disabled children. AP/GENE J. PUSKAR .... [more]

9:28:53 AM North Charleston Fire Museum to Educate Locals and Tourists
Hospitality 1st (press release) - Cape Coral,FL,USA

North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey calls the museum, “An innovation. This is a place where families can come to learn. Residents and visitors will ... [more]

9:28:53 AM Calhoun museum showcases items from the county's past
Victoria Advocate - Victoria,TX,USA

That piano, two beds and a trunk that also survived the devastating hurricanes are some of Calhoun County Museum's most important pieces, said museum ... [more]

9:28:53 AM RCR museum starts drive
London Free Press - Canada

The museum housing the artifacts of Canada's longest-serving infantry regiment launched a drive yesterday to raise $2.3 million over two years to rebuild ... [more]

9:28:53 AM Weisman museum to expand WEISMAN MUSEUM TO EXPAND
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA

The Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota will unveil designs for a major building expansion created by Frank Gehry, the architect of the .... [more]

9:28:53 AM New center bumps up museum turnout
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA

Nearly 1250 people showed up to tour the $30 million, 63500-square-foot addition to The Mariners' Museum on Saturday, which featured a schedule of free ... [more]

9:28:53 AM Veterans escalate museum protest
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

The Royal Canadian Legion is renewing calls for a boycott of the Canadian War Museum and is asking the Senate Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs to intervene ... [more]

6:53:52 AM Cultural programme to mark Treaty of Rome anniversary
Jurnalo - Berlin,Germany

An open air pop concert, a club night and "A Night of Beauty," taking in the capital's famous museums are just some of the treats in store at the grand ... [more]

5:19:00 AM Museum Plaza gets state aid
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

The Museum Plaza project for downtown Louisville cleared a major hurdle today when the General Assembly passed legislation authorizing the use of .... [more]

5:18:59 AM MTSSR Students Visit Brunei Museum
Bru Direct - Brunei Darussalam

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Science department of Sultan Saiful Rizal Technical College (MTSSR) paid a visit to the Brunei Museum's conservatory unit ... [more]

5:18:58 AM Jefferson County Public Library Announces Children's Literacy ...
PR Inside (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria

To kick off the unique program, Jefferson County Public Library is collaborating with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Each of the 10 County libraries ... [more]

5:18:56 AM Wax up Hizzoner and put him in a museum
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA

Yet even I would be willing to stand in line to view Marion Barry immortalized in wax at Madame Tussaud's Museum, slated to open this fall in the old ... [more]

5:18:55 AM English Guided Tour Offered During Late Saturday night at National ...
Korea Newswire (press release) - South Korea

Seoul, Mar 13 (Korea Newswire)-- National Museum of Korea will offer guided tours in English for international visitors every Saturday night starting March ... [more]

5:18:54 AM Massive squid to be shipped to museum
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia

The largest squid ever recorded is expected to be transferred from cold storage to a museum in New Zealand on Tuesday. Jane Keig from the Museum of New ... [more]

5:18:53 AM Draw me a museum
Ha{;}aretz - Israel

It is a page torn from a notebook, on which is written, by hand, in pencil: "The Holon Cartoons and Comics Museum. Museum office under construction. .... [more]

5:18:52 AM Italian lawmaker chains himself to museum to protest lending painting
SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford,MA,USA

FLORENCE, Italy — An Italian senator chained himself to the gates of the Uffizi museum yesterday to protest the loan of Leonardo da Vinci's "Annunciation" ... [more]



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