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10:43:19 PM Mardi Gras Museum's glitz, glamor auctioned off
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

The good times have turned to hard times for the Mardi Gras Museum near New Orleans. Glitzy baubles of Carnival history were auctioned off Thursday as the museum liquidated its collection of crowns, scepters, capes and costumes of kings and queens, . [more]

10:43:19 PM 'MythBusters' Rains on the Museum of Science and Industry
Chicagomag.com

In March, an 8000-square-foot exhibit dedicated to the TV show opens at the Museum of Science and Industry. While MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition will tour museums nationwide, it was developed in Chicago as a collaboration of Discovery, the MSI [more]

10:23:43 PM Birdlike dinos wore basic black with glossy touch
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscripition) - Atlanta,GA,USA

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP This undated handout illustration provided by the American Museum of Natural History shows the fossilized remains of Microraptor, a dinosaur from 130 million years ago. The fossil was found in rural China and it had black glossy [more]

10:23:43 PM C.R. Smith Museum Makes Happy Campers With the Eagle Aviation Camp This June
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

By CR Smith Museum FORT WORTH, Texas, March 8, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- There are lots of summer activities for children in North Texas, but only one Eagle Aviation Camp. The American Airlines CR Smith Museum offers not only a one-week program that wi [more]

10:23:43 PM Biltmore Again Tops NC Museums and Historic Attractions Annual Survey
MarketWatch - USA

MATTHEWS, NC, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Asheville's Biltmore once again leads the list of most visited North Carolina museums and historic attractions, and for the sixth consecutive year attracted more than a million visitors. [more]

10:23:43 PM Arts & Entertainment : Gallery (museums)
Washington City Paper - Washington,DC,USA

Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color and Space At the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to May 13 What do the light-and-space works in "Suprasensorial" have to do with Light and Space? By Kriston Capps • March 9, 2012 As the name implies,  [more]

6:26:12 PM Law enforcement museum hires former Newseum executive director to open new
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post WASHINGTON — Organizers behind the National Law Enforcement Museum being built in Washington have named the Newseum's former executive director to help lead the new museum. The law enforcement museum announced Thursday that Joe Ursche [more]

6:26:12 PM Utah Museum of Fine Arts: Giving a priceless artistic fresco a facelift
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Arts » “Crucifixion With Saints,” the Utah Museum of Fine Arts' fresco, circa 1480, restored to previous glory. By Celia R. Baker When the hunt was on for a new Utah Symphony music director in 2008, the search committee sought an exceptional artist w [more]

6:26:12 PM Ronald Reagan overtakes Abraham Lincoln in museum attendance
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA

For the first time since it opened, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., is no longer the nation's most visited presidential museum. Ronald Reagan's museum in Simi Valley, Calif., has surpassed it, according to .. [more]

6:26:12 PM Exeter museum observes Women's History Month in March
The Union Leader

Though women would not be granted the right to vote until the 19th amendment was ratified in 1920, the American Independence Museum in Exeter pays homage to Adams and other women in history with its “Remember the Ladies” series. [more]

6:26:12 PM CR Smith Museum Makes Happy Campers With the Eagle Aviation Camp This June
MarketWatch - USA

The American Airlines CR Smith Museum offers not only a one-week program that will explore and experiment with the driving force of flight - thrust - it also takes the campers behind the scenes at one of the world's largest airlines. [more]

6:26:12 PM LACMA's rock caravan carefully winds its way through Long Beach
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's shrink-wrapped monolith is about three-quarters of the way into its journey from the remote Riverside County quarry from which it was blasted to the mid-Wilshire museum where it will be the centerpiece of the .. [more]

4:33:31 PM San Francisco Florist Kaori Imaizumi to Display Floral Design at Bouquets
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Seattle Post Intelligencer The five-day celebration of spring will showcase 150 floral exhibits interpreting works of fine art from the de Young Museum's permanent collection. The event, now in its 28th year, is a benefit for the Fine Arts Museums of [more]

3:45:39 PM Mardi Gras, toy train museums auction today in Kenner's Rivertown
NOLA / Associated Press

The auction begins at 10 am at 415 Williams Blvd. The Mardi Gras Museum closed last year after it opened to fanfare in 1992 in Rivertown, Kenner's historic center. Herbie LeBlanc, president of the Mardi Gras Memorabilia Society, worked for two weeks  [more]

3:45:39 PM Jazzin' up the museums
Marietta Times - Marietta,OH,USA

An anonymous donation sparked an idea that will benefit the Campus Martius and Ohio River museums-a dinner and jazz concert to be held Friday at the Lafayette Hotel. The donation, according to interim museum manager, Leann Hendershot, who declined to [more]

3:45:39 PM Schedler warns of museum closures
The Advocate

Show caption Advocate staff photo by BILL FEIG First Assistant Secretary Kyle Ardoin, left, watches, as Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler warns legislators that he may have to close museums across the state. BY MICHELLE MILLHOLLON Secretary o [more]

2:11:03 PM Upstate NY museum rediscovers War of 1812 jacket
Wall Street Journal - USA

AP POTSDAM, NY — Just in time for the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, workers at a northern New York museum have rediscovered a jacket worn by a soldier during the conflict. Staffers are at the Potsdam Museum in St. Lawrence County were taking  [more]

2:11:03 PM The Trenton Historical Museum Isn't Boring, You're Boring
Museums

Trenton Patch editor Nate Stemen visited the Trenton Historical Museum and had this to say about it. By Nate Stemen A child mannequin wearing period clothes, pushing a baby doll in a wooden stroller was easily the creepiest thing I have ever seen and [more]

2:11:03 PM Joe Urschel Named Executive Director of the National Law Enforcement Museum
MarketWatch - USA

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) today announced the hiring of Joe Urschel to be Executive Director of their National Law Enforcement Museum, which is scheduled to open  [more]

2:11:03 PM Mural project teams with downtown Children's Museum
Indiana State University

The Gilbert Wilson Memorial Mural Project is partnering with Indiana State University's Energize Downtown initiative and the Terre Haute Children's Museum in announcing its newest venture. The Children's Museum is the site for the project's third mur [more]

11:35:13 AM Kansas Aviation Museum to dedicate new archive center
Kansas.com - KS,USA

By Molly McMillin The Kansas Aviation Museum will host a ceremony today to dedicate a new 6500-square-foot archive center, which will house the most sensitive pieces of the museum's artifacts collection. “This is a huge milestone for the museum,” sai [more]

8:56:17 AM Galleries, museums shortchange artists: painter
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada

But the canvas is now just a memory for her since it was stolen in 2003, snatched up in a sophisticated art theft that hit the sales and rental gallery affiliated with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts as well as 54 other Quebec galleries. [more]

6:30:36 AM Louisiana secretary of state forewarns of possible museum closures, layoffs
NOLA / Associated Press

By Jeff Adelson, The Times-Picayune The secretary of state's office would have to eliminate at least 10 percent of its authorized staff and could consider shutting down state museums under proposed budget cuts for next year. In part, the issue of wha [more]

5:36:54 AM Taneytown History Museum to open March 17
Carroll County Times - Westminster,MD,USA

McNulty has offered proceeds from the sale of her book to benefit the Taneytown Museum. An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this article in its entirety. Screen Name or Email Password . [more]

5:36:54 AM Museum holds dessert event
Northwest Missourian - Maryville,MO,USA

In case you didn't receive enough sweets on Valentine's Day, the Nodaway County Historical Society and Museum is giving people a second chance with this month's chocolate dessert weekend. This is the first month of the historical society's dessert .. [more]

5:36:54 AM Firefighter museum smoke detector giveaway
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

Click here Firefighter museum smoke detector giveaway Originally published: March 7, 2012 7:05 PM Updated: March 7, 2012 9:32 PM By AISHA AL-MUSLIM aisha.al-muslim@newsday.com The Nassau County Firefighters Museum and Education Center will give away  [more]

4:03:50 AM Albert Abramson, DC developer who had key role in launching Holocaust
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post Albert “Sonny” Abramson, a real estate developer who built many of the Washington area's landmark office buildings and shopping malls and who was a driving force behind the design and construction of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum,  [more]

12:25:56 AM Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for March 8-14
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA

Art of Elan: "Steppin' Out" ---- Art of Elan and San Diego Museum of Art present a performance of Asian theme dance by Jean Isaacs' San Diego Dance Theater with music by Bright Sheng, Steve Reich and an arrangement of Korean folk songs by jazz pianis [more]

12:25:56 AM Schedler: Proposed budget could force Louisiana to close some museums
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA

AP BATON ROUGE — Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler says he'll have to close some of the state's museums if lawmakers pass the budget proposed by Gov. Bobby Jindal. Schedler outlined the situation today to the House Appropriations Committee, . [more]

12:16:29 AM Miami's New Museum of Science Boasts a Shark-Filled Atrium
Flavorwire - New York,NY,USA

Posted on 5:30 pm Wednesday Mar 7, 2012 Last week, construction broke ground on the new Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science in Bicentennial Park in Miami. Apart from the green gizmos the 250000 square-foot-building will sport, including and  [more]



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