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9:58:13 PM Museum's planning a 'surprise' at Business After Hours
The Wenatchee World Online

By Mike Irwin Officials at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center say they'll unveil a “surprise” Wednesday when they host the Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce's Business After Hours gathering. A surprise? We're hoping it's a Red Lobster . [more]

9:58:13 PM Largest paper airplane: Arizona Museum sets world record (Video)
World Records Academy - Miami,FL,USA

TUCSON, AZ, USA--The Pima Air & Space Museum launched a 45-foot long airplane paper airplane which glided at about 100 mph for 7 to 10 seconds before falling to the ground - setting the new world record for the Largest paper airplane, according to .. [more]

7:24:27 PM National Canal Museum to open Hugh Moore Park location this spring
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com - Lehigh Valley,PA,USA

View full sizeExpress-Times Photo | BRUCE WINTERSue Francisco, with the National Canal Museum, leads the mules Hank, left, and George along the tow path as visitors ride the Josiah White II. This year, a canal museum will greatly expand the lessons . [more]

6:22:14 PM Artist Keith Haring's early abstract works, creative processes seen in ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA

"Keith Haring: 1978-1982" at the Brooklyn Museum includes 155 works on paper, 30 black-and-white subway drawings, seven experimental videos and rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers and documentary photographs. [more]

5:25:06 PM Museum of the Confederacy sharing its Civil War trove, Lee's sword with
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post Ulysses S. Grant is returning to Appomattox as the centerpiece of a new museum examining the post-Civil War struggle to heal the nation. The uniform Lee wore that day in 1865 will also be on display March 31 when the Museum of the Con [more]

5:25:06 PM Oldest US natural history museum offers rare peek
The Associated Press

Its 225000 annual visitors may associate the nation's oldest natural history museum solely with dioramas and dinosaurs, but behind the scenes there is groundbreaking research conducted by world-renowned scientists and an enviable collection of some 1 [more]

5:25:06 PM Renfrew Museum and Park: 200th Anniversary column
Waynesboro Record Herald - Waynesboro,PA,USA

By Anonymous Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles on Renfrew Museum and Park as part of its 200th anniversary, which will be celebrated in September. Every spring, Renfrew's fields reawaken in delicate tones of violet, ... [more]

5:25:06 PM A PH museum first: Every weave tells Filipino story
Inquirer.net

Behind the first permanent exhibit of Philippine indigenous fabrics at the National Museum is Sen. Loren Legarda. LYN RILLON MANILA, Philippines—The first permanent exhibit of Philippine fabrics is now open at the National Museum and behind it is Sen [more]

2:28:38 PM Lee's Sword Featured at Appomattox Museum
ABC News - United States

Ulysses S. Grant is returning to Appomattox as the centerpiece of a new museum examining the post-Civil War struggle to heal the nation. The uniform Lee wore that day in 1865 will also be on display March 31 when the Museum of the Confederacy opens a [more]

2:28:38 PM Children's museum celebrates millionth visitor
Bloomington Pantagraph - Bloomington,IL,USA

NORMAL — The Children's Discovery Museum reached a milestone — its 1 millionth visitor — three years earlier than organizers ever thought. “When we originally built the museum, we thought it would take 10 years before we reached a million visitors,”  [more]

2:28:38 PM "Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective" at the Denver Art Museum
AssociatedPress -

"Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective" at the Denver Art Museum. The exhibition covers 40 years of the fashion designers career. [more]

1:47:34 PM Changes coming to Museum of Westward Expansion, but the buffalo will stay
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA

The new Museum of Westward Expansion entrance is also shown. Rendering courtesy of CityArchRiver When is the last time you visited the Museum of Westward Expansion — without an out-of-town visitor? Many of us never return to the Old Courthouse or the [more]

1:47:34 PM Top ten strangest Irish museums - including a leprechaun one VIDEOS
Irish Central - NY,NY,UK

This museum is the place to experience the sounds, sights, and stories and magic of the land of those miniature, mischievous, mythological figures. If you are among the throngs who fell in love with the movie you are certain to fall in love with this [more]

9:43:43 AM Now that's a paper airplane
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

By Aubrey Cohen, Seattlepi.com Staff Arturo Valdenegro, 12, of Tucson, Ariz., got this super-cool dream realized on Wednesday, when the Pima Air & Space Museum realized its Great Paper Airplane Project, launching a 45-foot-long, 24-foot-wide paper .. [more]

9:43:43 AM Middleton museum is dedicated to mustard
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA

Patti and Barry Levenson in April will mark the 20th anniversary of establishing the museum, which contains the world's largest collection of mustards and related memorabilia. / Mary Bergin/Special to the Press-Gazette Shortly after our host delivere [more]

9:43:43 AM Railroad museum demolishes building, looks to the future
Republican & Herald

Inc. is used to raze part of a foundry at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum on March 13 in Hamburg. HAMBURG - As ruins from the borough's industrial past come down, representatives of the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum are thinking about their . [more]

4:26:33 AM Fresh outlook: New Bedford Art Museum reopens
SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford,MA,USA

PETER PEREIRA/The Standard-Times Closed since January for renovations, the New Bedford Art Museum reopened Friday. PETER PEREIRA/The Standard-Times Closed since January for renovations, the New Bedford Art Museum reopened Friday. [more]

4:26:33 AM York County's new museum director 'excited' about getting to work
Rock Hill Herald - Rock Hill,SC,USA

By Jamie Self - jself@heraldonline.com Carey Tilley, executive director of the Culture and Heritage Museums, spent his first week meeting museum employees, learning museum ins and outs, and visiting sites. Tilley is the first permanent director for t [more]

4:26:33 AM Jasmine Children's Museum welcomes its 1 millionth visitor
Shawnee News Star

The Prince family is welcomed as the one millionth visitor at the Jasmine Moran Children's Museum in Seminole. By Kory B. Oswald After 19 years of business, the Jasmine Moran Children's Museum in Seminole welcomed its one millionth visitor through it [more]

4:26:33 AM William Sidney Mount Exhibition Is at the Long Island Museum
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Both, however, are part of “Facing the Issues: William Sidney Mount and Current Events,” an exhibition at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages that seeks to link paintings by Mount, who lived in Stony Brook and did much of hi [more]

3:43:08 AM The Textile Museum's tribute to traditions
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Two exhibitions at the Textile Museum offer a glimpse of traditions that still persist, from a 500-year old silk workshop in Japan to a group of contemporary artists looking to the museum's backrooms to build a new heritage. [more]

3:43:08 AM 800-pound paper airplane soars over Arizona desert
msnbc.com (blog)

Workers prepare to launch a 45-foot paper airplane from the Pima Air and Space Museum over the desert in Eloy, Ariz. on March 21. A 45-foot paper airplane from the Pima Air and Space Museum is launched from a helicopter in Eloy, Ariz. on March 21. [more]

3:43:08 AM Wood Brothers donate Daytona 500 winning car to the Henry Ford Museum
CBSSports.com - USA

By Pete Pistone | NASCAR Blogger Trevor Bayne's 2010 Daytona 500 winning Wood Brothers Racing Ford was donated to the Henry Ford Museum in an emotional ceremony. Eddie and Len Wood presented the historic machine Thursday night at the museum in Dearbo [more]



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