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10:14:59 PM Love letters between Richard Nixon and his wife to be put on display in
TheCelebrityCafe.com - Valley Stream,NY,USA

TheCelebrityCafe.com Richard Nixon's love letters to his wife Pat can now be viewed publicly, as they are going on display at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. The letters go back to before Nixon became president a [more]

10:14:59 PM Readington museum cleaned up after oil furnace malfunction coats
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com By Frank Mustac / Hunterdon County Democrat Black oily residue from a oil-burning furnace system that malfunctioned last week reportedly coated the interior of the Bouman-Stickney Farmstead museum at 114 Dreahook Ro [more]

6:19:34 PM Museums and me: Junction's top tips for engaging young people
Guardian - UK

This summer the Museum of London will open Our Londinium 2012, an exciting new look at the museum's Roman collections created by over 100 young Londoners and co-curated by the museum's resident youth panel, Junction. That's us, and here are our top . [more]

6:19:34 PM Cahoon Museum Presenting Gruppé Family Of Artists
Antiques and Arts Weekly - Newtown,CT,USA

Courtesy of Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass. :During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, the Gruppé family contributed to the New England art scene by producing many artists, including Charles Paul Gruppé (1860–1940), sons Emile (1896–1978) and [more]

6:15:19 PM Included in museum admission
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The celebration of pi (and pie) includes a pie-eating contest, pizza pie tossing, a pi recitation contest, pi-themed crafts and a search for circular objects in the museum. Currently there are no reader reviews for this listing. [more]

6:15:19 PM NASA Prepares to Ship Shuttles to Museum Retirement Homes
Space.com - USA

by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor NASA is set to begin delivering its retired space shuttles next month to museums for their public display. Out of the four orbiters to be moved — space shuttles Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour, ... [more]

3:57:34 PM Liverpool museums could start charging due to funding cuts
BBC Sport - UK

Museums in Liverpool have warned they might have to close displays and start charging in order to save money. National Museums Liverpool, which runs seven museums in the city, is looking to save £3m over the next two years as part of funding cuts. [more]

3:57:34 PM Titanic museum to celebrate disaster's centenary with descendants of
Daily Mail - UK - UK

Daily Mail By Graham Smith The world's largest Titanic museum will mark the centenary of the ship's sinking by welcoming descendants of survivors and victims. The ceremony on April 14 - exactly 100 years after the world's most famous passenger liner  [more]

3:57:34 PM Exhibit Endeavour: NASA shuffles shuttles for final museum prep
Collectspace.com - USA

March 13, 2012 — NASA is set to begin delivering its retired space shuttles next month to museums for their public display. Out of the four orbiters to be moved — space shuttles Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour, as well as the prototype Enterprise  [more]

1:48:44 PM Scrap Metal to Environmental Museum: Glacier Society Launches Campaign
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) A new science museum being built in the park complements and creates a synergy for both institutions. "The fascinating life of this ship has a unique role in US history and its future," says Charles Green, founder of the e [more]

1:48:44 PM El Greco to Goya: Masterpieces from the Prado Museum
MarketWatch - USA

Museo de Arte de Ponce and the Spanish Embassy in the United States, held a joint press conference at the Cervantes Institute in New York City to announce El Greco to Goya: Masterpieces from the Prado Museum, a historic exhibition that marks the ... [more]

11:31:44 AM A day at the museum is 5000 years on Earth
China Daily

The 28-year-old from Shanxi's provincial capital Taiyuan says her job as a museum guide at Shanxi Museum is one, "I love with all my heart". So every day she has worked for the past three years are days spent in "paradise", she says. [more]

9:15:19 AM Albert Abramson, Holocaust Museum Backer, Is Dead at 94
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Albert Abramson, who became a principal force in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington by using the same pragmatic approach that had made him a successful developer of apartments, offices and malls, died last Tuesd [more]

9:15:19 AM Museum Talk: Graves along the trails
Mercury-Register - Oroville,CA,USA

By KEN MANIES - Museum Docent During the years of the Overland Trail, there were no records kept of the names or numbers of those who died. Those who kept journals would count the numbers of fresh graves, or relate the story of someone from their par [more]

7:37:16 AM McDorman proposes museums for former Davis Paints site
Delaware News - Delaware,OH,USA

By MICHAEL HAYES Area automobile dealer Bob McDorman unveiled his bold vision for a car museum to be built on the old Davis Paints site on East Waterloo Street in downtown Canal Winchester at the City Council meeting on March 5. [more]

5:42:17 AM Foreclosed Homeowners Inspire Museum's Architects Show: James S. Russell
BusinessWeek - USA

By James S. Russell on March 13, 2012 Amid a housing market profoundly altered by stagnant incomes, declining wealth and Wall Street folly, the Museum of Modern Art displays a waterfall cascading down an atrium in a high-rise apartment. [more]

5:42:17 AM Love letters at Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum reveal
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily Nixon shared the stage with Patricia Ryan in a community theater production and six of the dozens of letters they exchanged during their two-year courtship will be unveiled Friday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum as part [more]

5:42:17 AM National Cowboy Museum announces literature, music, film and TV winners
NewsOK.com (blog)

NewsOK.com (blog) America's premier Western museum, the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, celebrates its 51st anniversary with the announcement of the Western Heritage Award winners in literature, music, film and television. Give April 21, t [more]

3:42:12 AM State museum association books Convention Hall for gathering
Enid News & Eagle

Enid Convention and Visitors Bureau announced Oklahoma Museums Association has reserved the space for its 2013 state convention, making it the first organization to book a convention in the still-being-renovated building. Convention Hall is being ... [more]

3:42:12 AM MoMA, Transformed
Wall Street Journal - USA

By VL HENDRICKSON There was no fake blood at the Museum of Modern Art on Saturday night, and no glitter or permanent Sharpie markers, either. But there was face paint, cat masks, wigs and weaves to help transform the more than 1000 guests and the tro [more]

2:03:46 AM Herkimer Community Museum opens to the public
Herkimer Evening Telegram - Herkimer,NY,USA

Brothers Griffin and Brenden Bryant sift through sand as they uncover buried fossils in the fossil room on Saturday at the Herkimer Community Museum. By Nichole Grant The Herkimer Community Museum opened it doors during a soft opening on Saturday. [more]

12:11:01 AM Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Hosts Mid-Winter Gala
Women's Wear Daily - USA

By Diane Dorrans Saeks A sudden downpour notwithstanding, Vanessa Getty and Alexis Traina, both in long black lace Chanel gowns with dramatic trains, swept into San Francisco's Legion of Honor museum Saturday night for the eighth annual Mid-Winter Ga [more]



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