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11:24:20 PM Museum exhibit chronicles rock & roll photography
Boston Herald

By Arthur Pollock WORCESTER - The original 1898 curators of the Worcester Art Museum could hardly have imagined that 112 years later its hallowed halls ... [more]

8:38:23 PM ILLINOIS EXCHANGE: Group starts fundraising to put recovered fighter plane
FOX2now.com - St. Louis,MO,USA

FOX2now.com GLENVIEW, Ill. (AP) — Three board members of the Glenview Naval Air Station Museum says it's time that recovered fighter planes pulled from Lake Michigan ... [more]

8:28:08 PM Museums Collections Management Facility Project Underway
Southern Maryland Online - MD,USA

21 to mark the beginning of a Collections Management Facility being built for the St. Mary's County Museum Division on the grounds of the St. Clement's ... [more]

6:32:32 PM Poetry, music celebration set to get under way at Museum of Science
Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA

Visitors to the Buffalo Museum of Science today will help raise money for this summer's Juneteenth Festival. The third "Breathe Your Ancestors' Air" .... [more]

5:40:39 PM Carousel museum opens up with new treasures
Bristol Press - Bristol,CT,USA

By JACKIE MAJERUS BRISTOL — After a couple months of winter closure, the New England Carousel Museum is open for business again with a lot of new pieces to ... [more]

4:46:51 PM American Indian art exhibit opens today at Museum of Art
WKYC-TV - Cleveland,OH,USA

CLEVELAND -- A new exhibit, celebrating Native American artwork, is opening today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The artwork includes masks, ... [more]

2:53:46 PM First Lady Ball Gown To Be Donated To Museums
E Canada Now - Brantford,Ontario,Canada

The one-shoulder white chiffon inaugural ball gown of Michelle Obama will be donated to the Smithsonian Institution, one of America's premier museums. ... [more]

1:12:34 PM Museum plans spring art event
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art will also hold its annual "Spring Break Art Break" classes March 17-19 in the Museum annex. The schedule will be 10 am-noon for ... [more]

12:25:04 PM The Tri-County Quilters comes to Museum Center
Cleveland Daily Banner - Cleveland,TN,USA

GRAND FINALE — The exhibition of quilts featured in the lobby at the Museum Center at Five Points will conclude with the Tri-County Quilters of Dayton from ... [more]

11:24:18 AM Louisville Slugger Museum a must-see for baseball fans
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

"That was pretty neat holding that bat," Montgomery said after touring the museum and factory with his wife and in-laws. "It brings back those childhood ... [more]

9:17:00 AM Public sector funding a growing trend for museums
Quad City Times, IA

A museum business model where operating expenses are solely subsidized by private donations is becoming a thing of the past, according to a spokesman from ... [more]

8:45:59 AM Head Strong: Why not a museum at the Gamble and Huff site? |
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Philadelphia Inquirer What better anchor for the Avenue of the Arts than a museum where residents and visitors could go and formally tour where classics such as the Soul Train ... [more]

7:50:57 AM What killed Fresno Metropolitan Museum?
Fresno Bee (registration) - Fresno,CA,USA

By Russell Clemings and George Hostetter / The Fresno Bee Tim Marsh remembers when he first realized the Fresno Metropolitan Museum's south wall might ... [more]

6:19:02 AM Museum highlights modern-day slavery problem in Florida
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA

A traveling museum is bringing attention to the slavery problem that still exists in Florida's agricultural industry. By AMY BENNETT WILLIAMS ENSLAVED: This ... [more]

6:17:33 AM Plans for slavery museum put on hold
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA

L. Douglas Wilder confirmed in a letter last week to state officials that he is no longer raising money for his US National Slavery Museum, planned for ... [more]

5:32:11 AM EDITORIAL: Collaboration is key in museum's development
South Carolina Now

The new Florence Museum of Art, Science and History offers the city of Florence a prime opportunity for downtown revitalization and cooperation with the ... [more]

1:13:21 AM Homes tour helps fund Myrtle Beach Art Museum
South Carolina Now

It was the art museum's 10th Annual Spring Tour of Homes fundraiser. Organizers said many of the homes have recently been renovated. ... [more]

12:58:58 AM Ruben Ochoa: In a construction zone
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Outside his studio, Ruben Ochoa stands by a piece created for a solo show at San Diego's Museum of Contemporary Art. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) By ... [more]



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