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11:18:20 PM Kentucky Derby Museum gets Mine That Bird items
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

The Kentucky Derby Museum's $5.5 million dollar renovation project will include an exhibition of the 2009 Derby winning team of Mine That Bird. ... [more]

9:25:55 PM New York City Wants a Space Shuttle
Space.com - USA

Once those final flights are complete, the space shuttles will be up for grabs for interested museums in the United States [space shuttle photos]. .... [more]

7:46:20 PM Sidon to add new museum to list of historical sites
Daily Star - Beirut,Lebanon

By Mohammed Zaatari SIDON: The 6000 year old city of Sidon is to add a new museum to its list of historical sites, the Saint Nicholas Greek Melkite Catholic ... [more]

7:11:24 PM Hobby Lobby shopping for Bible museum site in Dallas 1:15 PM CT
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA

Privately held Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. said it was looking for property in Dallas, possibly as many as 7 acres, to start the National Bible Museum. .... [more]

5:45:13 PM New Museum Architects SANAA Win Pritzker Prize
Curbed - New York,NY,USA

For most people, their most recognizable recent project is probably the much-talked about New Museum on the Bowery in New York, a building our sibling ... [more]

4:41:51 PM Museums get a boost in attendance
CNN/Money - USA

By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney.com staff writerMarch 29, 2010: 11:35 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- More people are flocking to museums nationwide, ... [more]

3:08:59 PM Sideshow: Honors for two architects | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/29/2010
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Sejima, 54, and Nishizawa, 44, join Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Renzo Piano in receiving the top honor in the field in recognition of the art museums, ... [more]

3:07:41 PM Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion architects capture prestigious prize
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA

LOS ANGELES - The architects who designed the Toledo Museum of Art's see-through Glass Pavilion won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury ... [more]

11:21:59 AM New York wants a shuttle orbiter
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

The competition will heat up with museums from Seattle, Dayton, Ohio, and elsewhere making their cases, in public and in private. Schumer apparently got a ... [more]

10:43:22 AM Lottery cash for Southampton's Titanic museum
BBC News - E,UK

A new maritime museum in Hampshire has moved a step closer after the plan was awarded a £4.6m lottery grant. Southampton City Council had planned to sell ... [more]

9:03:06 AM LocalSen. Kirsten Gillibrand calls mission to land NASA shuttle at
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

New York Daily News Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer meet with Connecticut Cub Scouts at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. Take it from the kids - a space shuttle in New ... [more]

7:14:44 AM Corrections
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

A listing in the March 26 Weekend section incorrectly said that the "Spectacular Saturn" exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum was open indefinitely. ... [more]

5:35:50 AM Pony Express attracts attention
St. Joseph News-Press - St. Joseph,MO,USA

Already this year, there have been visitors at the Patee House and Pony Express museums from Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Ireland, ... [more]

4:37:23 AM Young 'Spring into Art' at Steamboat Museum
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

The exhibit was open to artists within 52 miles of the museum. The number represents the age of the museum. “The house is much older, of course,” Molnar ... [more]

12:41:48 AM How Art Museums are Striving to Stay Relevant for a New Generation
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

The upcoming American Association of Museums (AAM) conference (happening here in Los Angeles in late May) is called "Museums Without Borders" accompanied by ... [more]



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