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11:51:43 PM Seattle Museum of Flight awaits Tuesday shuttle announcement
Seattle Post Intelligencer

The Seattle Museum of Flight's Space Gallery is seen under construction on March 23, 2011. (Ted Huetter/Museum of Flight) | Click picture for photo gallery Museum officials and aerospace geeks across the country, including in Seattle, are set learn . [more]

11:51:43 PM Re-enactors help history come alive at The National Civil War Museum
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA

A scene out of history, re-enacted for more than two dozen spectators Sunday afternoon on the grounds of The National Civil War Museum. Two days before the nation pauses to mark the 150th anniversary of the firing upon Fort Sumter, a small band of .. [more]

11:51:43 PM Florida should get a retired space shuttle
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA

Now the remaining shuttles, which began their lives as advanced technological marvels, are soon to be relegated to museum pieces. Although these venerable spacecraft may be grounded, they can still be a potent economic force, especially for Florida's [more]

11:07:26 PM Demolishing the Uganda museum will set a bad precedent
The Monitor, Uganda - Kampala,Uganda

Currently, there are more than 20 community museums and cultural centres across Uganda - from Moroto, the home of the Karamoja Women Cultural Group Museum to Kabale, the home of Edirisa Museum, which is motivated by the desire to promote the ... [more]

10:52:33 PM Davis Museum; Artist El Anatsui strikes a cultural chord
Milford Daily News - Milford,MA,USA

Making its US premiere, a sweeping retrospective, "El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa," brings 60 often astounding sculptures and installations to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College. Filling most of two floors, . [more]

10:04:13 PM THE MERCER MUSEUM OF THE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND AP
phillyburbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Francis Channing Barlow, holds a Sharps Carbine .54 cal rifle and explains its function to Robert Albrect of Huntingdon Valley (left) and David DiToro of Warrington at the Civil War Museum in Doylestown. Tuesday marks the 150th anniversary of the sta [more]

9:42:12 PM Tourists return to Egyptian Museum after its re-opening
Al-Masry Al-Youm

Four tourist groups visited the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square following its re-opening on Sunday morning. The Museum was secured from both the inside and out following the government's decision to re-open the museum to international and local ... [more]

8:55:36 PM Artist John McCracken, whose work helped define LA's postwar aesthetic,
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Los Angeles Times McCracken's work, encompassing painted geometric sculpture and, in later years, highly polished bronze and reflective stainless steel, is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art and [more]

7:08:45 PM Egypt's museum of antiquities opens after a night of violence
Ahram Online

Today the Egyptian museum in Tahrir re-opened its door for visitors after closing for a day after violence erupted in Tahrir Square and the military allegedly attacked protesters. The media rumoured that the museum would close until further notice, . [more]

7:08:45 PM Around the Towns: Macculloch Hall to host "A Day in the Life of a
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

Morristown Green - NJ.com By Star-Ledger Staff Macculloch Hall Historical Museum executive director Carrie Fellows wears period garb to demonstrate open-hearth cooking at the museum in Morristown. Morristown — Next weekend, historic and cultural site [more]

5:59:28 PM Egyptian Museum closed after protests
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran

Cairo's Egyptian Museum has been closed to visitors following demonstrations in the capital city's Liberation Square which left six people dead. The museum was closed on Saturday when violence broke out as the Egyptian military dispersed a peaceful . [more]

5:59:28 PM Monet Exhibit Opens to the Public
fox4kc.com - Kansas City,USA

"The panels were sold individually to three different museums in the midwest," explains Associate Curator at Nelson-Atkins, Nicole Myers. One panel went to St. Louis, the other to Cleveland, and the third piece has been here at the Nelson Atkins Muse [more]

3:25:14 PM New museum highlights Muscatatuck history
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

AP A new museum highlights the history of a former Indiana center for the developmentally disabled that has become a center the military and other agencies use to train for urban combat and rescues. The Indiana National Guard says the Muscatatuck ... [more]

3:25:14 PM Unsigned Band Museum Offer Free Downloads
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Hailing from Hamburg, Germany, Museum have recorded and released two EPs and have completed their debut album Traces Of, but they have yet to find a label to release their album. Museum are Tobias Hermes on vocals and guitar; Söhnke Grothusen on guit [more]

3:25:14 PM John Fitch Steamboat Museum Opens
Patch.com

By James Boyle | Email the author | 9:18am A scale model of the steamboat Fitch used to travel along the Delaware is housed in the museum. One of Warminster's proudest moments in history finally has a true home with the grand opening of the John Fitc [more]

12:44:00 PM Mansfield museum features local role in nation's conflict
Mansfield News Journal - Mansfield,OH,USA

MANSFIELD -- When the Mansfield Museum opens for its 10th season April 16, visitors will be taken... At long last spring has arrived, and I have begun my annual bout of angst over the fate of my... The bottom line seems to be that unless something .. [more]

11:43:42 AM Back Story: Shelburne archive sheds light on museum's past
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA

Museum visitors typically see works that hang on walls or stand on display. But those who take a tour of the Shelburne Museum archives will see museum objects of a different order: the records, documents and correspondence that, taken together, ... [more]

11:02:53 AM London Museum Revisits Lost Collections
New York Times (blog)

By MATTHEW SUMMERS-SPARKS Hunterian Museum A detail from “View of the College Museum” by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, circa 1842. Since at least the 17th century, London has been a home to a wide range of museums and private collections of medical and ... [more]

11:02:53 AM Dayton seeks to capture space shuttle tourism
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

The Dayton region looks to engage tourists if the National Museum of the United States Air Force lands one of the space shuttles. As one of the top aviation museums in the world, the National Museum of the United States Air Force is considered a stro [more]

9:49:40 AM Detroit museum exhibit about forgeries, science behind uncovering fakes
Greenfield Daily Reporter - IN, USA

Greenfield Daily Reporter It explains the science and research behind figuring out whether works are authentic The show includes about 60 artworks and highlights mistakes and other discoveries made over the years about pieces of the museum's extensiv [more]

9:49:40 AM Museum presents six Jefferson Awards
Martinsville Bulletin - Martinsville/Henry County,VA,USA

The Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) presented its 24th annual Jefferson Awards at a dinner and ceremony Friday night at the museum. The award winners were Douglas Owsley, Ph.D., division head for physical anthropology at the Smithsonian ... [more]

9:49:40 AM For Toddler and Mom, Hour at Children's Museum's a Full Day
Patch.com

Kristi Gilbert discovered that the DuPage Children's Museum in Naperville is so exhilarating that after an hour's visit, both mom and toddler were ready for a nap. There was a time when a dog never went to a trainer or a groomer, and kids stayed out  [more]

7:48:17 AM Sites vie to house old space shuttles
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

At least five sites are seen as the favorites to become the home of the soon-to-be retired space shuttles, places ranging from aviation museums to the Johnson and Kennedy space centers. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is scheduled to announce his . [more]

7:48:17 AM Provo printing museum: Labor of love, risk of loss
Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA

Visitors begin a tour at the Crandall Historic Printing Museum in Provo Tuesday, April 5, 2011. MARK JOHNSTON/Daily Herald The man who developed the printing press in Europe in the 1400s, Johannes Gutenberg, was foreclosed on and lost his presses ... [more]

7:48:17 AM Tulsa vies to become home of retiring NASA space shuttle
Tulsa World - Tulsa,OK,USA

With 21 museums and visitor centers nationwide bidding for the shuttles, Tulsa theoretically has a 1-in-7 chance of landing one. The clear front-runners include the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex near the shuttle launch site in Florida, ... [more]

7:19:34 AM Museum displays ancient shark fossil found in mine
Denver Post

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A miner has found a fossil from a shark jawbone deep in a central Kentucky mine, and it is on display at the University of Kentucky. The fossil was found in February in Webster County, Ky., where miner Jay Wright, 25, was working to  [more]

6:20:00 AM Can I get that shuttle when you are done with it?
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

Twenty-one museums and science centers want one of the three retiring spaceships. Winners will be named Tuesday, the 30th anniversary of Columbia's maiden voyage. Snagging Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour doesn't come cheap. NASA puts the tab at $28. [more]

6:04:31 AM Chicago's Civil War roots run deep
Chicago Sun-Times

BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter/kspak@suntimes.com Apr 9, 2011 11:54PM Portrait of Elmer Ellsworth's Chicago Zouaves on display at The Chicago History Museum's current exhibit on Chicago and the Civil War. | Jean Lachat~Sun-Times If the United States ... [more]

6:04:31 AM EMP | SFM: Swoopy, psychedelic blob comes home
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

The Experience Music Project | Science Fiction Museum has mounted a new, potentially blockbuster exhibit about one of Seattle's most famous homegrown bands, Nirvana. It's all part of a renewed focus on the local. By Janet I. Tu EMP | SFM employees .. [more]

6:04:31 AM OU museum exhibits collection of Chinese teapots
NewsOK.com

A collection of decorative Chinese teapots is on view at University of Oklahoma's Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman. BY JOHN BRANDENBURG Leave a comment NORMAN — A small but most enjoyable show — like a hot cup of tea on a cold day — is on view  [more]

4:27:01 AM Children's Museum donates passes to children through ARC
Richmond Times Dispatch

Nadia and Franklin, both 2, visit the Children's Museum of Richmond recently with a group from The Greater Richmond ARC. By Carolyn Harris As part of the Children's Museum of Richmond Scholarship Fund, the museum donates 180 free passes annually to T [more]

4:04:15 AM Take a spin to the Petersen Automotive Museum
San Gabriel Valley Tribune - West Covina,CA,USA

Now neither of us is a huge automobile fan, so I was unsure how he would react to a visit to The Petersen Automotive Museum on Wilshire Boulevard near the La Brea Tar Pits. My concerns vanished as soon as we passed through the chrome and glass doors. [more]

3:08:34 AM Town and Country: National Soaring Museum to feature unusual aircraft
Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA

Ithaca Journal As someone who at one time wanted to be a pilot, and who grew up around airports, I've always enjoyed visiting the aviation museums here in the Southern Tier. That includes the National Soaring Museum, which sits on top of Harris Hill  [more]

2:12:06 AM Civil War, Gone with the Wind in April exhibit at museum
Echo Pilot - Greencastle,PA,USA

The Civil War artifacts and Gone with the Wind memorabilia will be exhibited in the German bank barn at Allison-Antrim Museum, 365 S. Ridge Ave., Greencastle through the month of April. Allison-Antrim Museum is open Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p [more]

2:01:37 AM Tom Hennessy: Dream of Long Beach 'Smithsonian West' lingers
Contra Costa Sun - Orinda,CA,USA

By Tom Hennessy, Press-Telegram Columnist The Smithsonian Institution's "Castle" is the iconic symbol on Washington's Mall for the cluster of America's national museums but some Southlanders can see Long Beach as a logical Left Coast home for an anne [more]

12:22:58 AM Civil War anniversary activities planned
Chicago Sun-Times

By Dave Gathman dgathman@stmedianetwork.com Apr 9, 2011 05:42PM Union re-enactors participate in a Civil War battle re-enactment May 16, 2009, at the Naper Settlement museum village in Naperville . Hundreds of re-enactors participated in the event, . [more]



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