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News From Saturday, March 17, 2007
9:48:48 PM Louvre Abu Dhabi underlines globalisation of art world
Nation Multimedia - Bangkok,Thailand

Standing as architectural landmarks, the two "chain museums" are an important step in the plan to build a $27 billion tourist and cultural development on ... [more]

7:53:49 PM Montana man wants cannon back; Oklahoma museum says no
KTEN - Denison,TX,USA

The cannon is currently housed at an artillery museum at Fort Sill, and post officials say they have no plans to return it. ... [more]

7:53:49 PM President Papoulias inaugurates Pottery Museum in Volos
Athens News Agency - Athens,Greece

President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias on Saturday inaugurated the N. and S. Tsalapatas Pottery Museum in Volos, on an official visit to the city where ... [more]

7:53:49 PM Historical museum gets first director
McMinnville News-Register - McMinnville,OR,USA

Many of these artifacts are housed in the Yamhill County Historical Museum, along with other remnants of a bygone past. And now, as executive director of ... [more]

7:53:49 PM Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth explores images of childhood in ...
Canada.com - Canada

Museum curator Andrea Karnes said she created the show after studying how artists' images of children changed through the centuries. ... [more]

7:53:48 PM The collection at the Afghanistan Museum-in-Exile in Bubendorf has ...
swissinfo - Switzerland

A Swiss museum has returned nearly 1500 artefacts to Afghanistan after they were sent into exile to save them from destruction during the country's ... [more]

7:53:48 PM Florida museum caught in the middle of dispute over Confederate ...
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA

A museum is standing behind an exhibit by artist John Sims, including a Confederate flag hung from a noose on a 13-foot gallows in a display titled "The ... [more]

4:14:02 PM Maureen Davidson: Nature rendered through the artist's eye at ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA

"Artists at Continent's End: the Monterey Peninsula Arts Colony 1875-1907" at Monterey Museum of Art provides a needed jolt to attention by showing those ... [more]

4:13:59 PM Memphis Rock 'n Soul Museum Honors Isaac Hayes
Memphis Flyer - Memphis,TN,USA

The Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum hosts the first of its two “Memphis Music Salute” receptions scheduled for 2007 on Saturday, March 17, from 5 until 7 pm, ... [more]

4:13:56 PM HOLD tight - a South Yorkshire transport museum is on the move.
Sheffield Today - UK

Sheffield Bus Museum is leaving its premises at the old Tinsley Tram Sheds and moving down the road to Rotherham. The move, after more than 15 years in ... [more]

4:13:48 PM 1400 artifacts of Afghanistan’s museum in exile in Switzerland ...
Boston Herald - United States

KABUL, Afghanistan - More than 1400 artifacts - protected from looters and the Taliban since 1999 at a museum-in-exile in Switzerland - were returned to the ... [more]

12:33:54 PM Museum given manuscript of early Hilo businessman
HonoluHonolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USAlu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA

DeSoto Brown and Betty Lou Kam accepted the manuscript for the museum ... brazilian Rodrigo Santoro, one of the hot guys on "Lost," has an eight-page spread ... [more]

12:33:51 PM Museum activity is not satisfactory in Azerbaijan, minister says
Azeri Press Agency - Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan’s Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfaz Garayev expressed his dissatisfaction with the museum activity, saying new museums should be constructed, ... [more]

12:33:51 PM 1400 artifacts of Afghanistan's museum-in-exile in Switzerland ...
International Herald Tribune - Paris,France

KABUL, Afghanistan: More than 1400 artifacts — protected from looters and the Taliban since 1999 at a museum-in-exile in Switzerland — were returned to the ... [more]

9:46:09 AM 2 museums opening new shows
Staten Island Advance - Staten Island,NY,USA

STATEN ISLAND, NY -- Two borough museums will open new shows tomorrow, with receptions that are open to the public. At the Alice Austen House Museum, .... [more]

9:46:09 AM Swedes' attendance at museums drops
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada

Sweden's state-owned museums have seen visitors drop by more than one-third since the new government scrapped a free-entry policy, news reports and museum ... [more]

8:53:48 AM Vietnam to build natural history museum
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh city,Vietnam

The government earlier approved last November construction of the National Historical Museum to showcase Vietnam’s 4000-year history. ... [more]

8:53:48 AM Museum and gallery events
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Philadelphia Museum of Art 26th St. & JFK Pkwy.; 215-763-8100. www.philamuseum.org. Georg Jensen Silversmiths. Exbition of works by Danish silversmith Georg ... [more]

8:53:48 AM Fort Worth art museum's exhibit explores images of childhood
Team 4 News - Harlingen,TX,USA

Museum curator Andrea Karnes says she created the exhibit after studying how artists' images of children changed through the centuries. ... [more]

8:53:48 AM Museum boycott is wrong answer
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada

For some of the now grey-haired Canadians who as young men flew bomber missions over Nazi Germany, the Canadian War Museum's description of the Allied ... [more]

6:03:48 AM The electric charge of DC culture
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

Nigel Tisdall thinks the US capital has a stunning collection of paintings and sculpture, displayed across its 19 museums. ... [more]

5:01:30 AM Alice’s Wonderland Opens May 26 At Creative Discovery Museum
The Chattanoogan - Chattanooga,TN,USA

This interactive exhibit based on Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland will be at the museum from May 26 to Sept. 4. ... [more]

5:01:29 AM Museum to host government career fair
The State - Columbia,SC,USA

A State Government Career Fair will be held from 10 am to 6 pm March 28 at the State Museum, 301 Gervais St., in Columbia. ... [more]

5:01:29 AM Museum lands copy of Harper’s Weekly
Burnaby Newsleader - British Columbia, Canada

The New Westminster Museum and Archives had known for a number of years about the Aug. 12, 1865 issue and tried to find it for the collection. ... [more]

5:01:27 AM Rugby museum collection under threat
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

The NZ Rugby Museum's collection of memorabilia could be lost to Palmerston North if its national identity cannot be retained in this city, chairman Clive ... [more]

5:01:25 AM Museum reverses decision
calendarlive.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA

An ancient Indian sculpture quietly consigned for sale in a New York gallery by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be returned to the museum, ... [more]

5:01:20 AM Organised by the British Council and the Museum of Contemporary ...
E-Flux - New York,NY,USA

The exhibition is the culmination of a four-year collaboration between the British Council and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. ... [more]

5:01:17 AM Long-awaited museum picks Claremont packing house as its home
calendarlive.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA

The museum will open April 15 with "A Conversation With Color: Karl Benjamin, Paintings 1953-1995," a retrospective of 46 works by an internationally ... [more]

5:01:16 AM Museum stakes hopes on ambitious Modernism show
Reuters - NY,USA

... of Art is casting a broad spotlight on Modernism, a period of cultural rebirth the museum hopes will signal its own recovery from long struggles. ... [more]

5:01:15 AM Judge Allows Museum to Sell Off Some Art
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

State Supreme Court Justice Diane Devlin dismissed legal action brought by a group of museum members who argued that selling the pieces would violate the ... [more]

5:01:11 AM Hermitage museum thief given five-year sentence
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan

The court ruled that Nikolai Zavadsky, 54, colluded with his late wife, a museum curator, in the thefts, court spokeswoman Veronika Morozova said. ... [more]



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