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11:03:43 PM Cities, space centers, museums want to be shuttles' final landing spot
CNN - Atlanta,GA,USA

Besides Florida and Texas, the Museum of Flight in Seattle wants one. In fact, one wall of a new space gallery where a shuttle would be housed is already up. The museum's president, Doug King, says museum officials don't have any inside information.  [more]

10:17:42 PM Wednesday Talk: How the Civil War Transformed America
Patch.com

Steven Berizzi, a history professor at Norwalk Community College, will give a lecture on the Civil War at the museum at 11 am Wednesday, the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, and one of his topics will be how the war changed America. ... [more]

10:17:42 PM Museum of New York's Joel Grey Exhibit Opens Tomorrow
Broadway World - Monsey,NY,USA

The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) (1220 Fifth Avenue), in its all-new exhibition Joel Grey / A New York Life, examines the enduring impact that legendary actor Joel Grey and his adopted city have made on each other. Through rare artifacts fro [more]

10:17:42 PM Warminster centrifuge museum giving it another whirl
phillyburbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Rick Kintzel The 250-ton centrifuge, the largest in the world, that is on display at the Johnsville Centrifuge & Science Museum building in Warminster. web_only Posted: Monday, April 11, 2011 5:15 pm | Updated: 5:27 pm, Mon Apr 11, 2011. ... [more]

10:17:42 PM Palm Desert Couple Spearhead New Museum
Patch.com

Jerry and Georgia Fogelson, working with Indian Wells City Councilman Ed Monarch, are the energetic force behind the opening of the new Palm Desert expansion of the Palm Springs Art Museum. By David Rothmiller | Email the author | 9:53am For Jerry an [more]

10:10:58 PM Where Will NASA Space Shuttles End Up?
PC Magazine - USA

"We look forward to moving our retired Orbiters to museums and science centers across the country to inspire the next generation of explorers," Bolden said during a March appearance before Congress. Bolden's Tuesday appearance will actually be to ... [more]

8:53:41 PM See 10 museums in and around Great Falls for free this Sunday
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA

10:00 pm Families have the opportunity on Sunday to visit Great Falls' unique array of museums, all for free. The 11th annual Sunday Sampler, organized by the Great Falls Museum Consortium, runs from noon to 5 pm Families and friends are invited to . [more]

8:53:41 PM Museums Weigh In On Ai Weiwei's Fate
The Nonprofit Quarterly (blog)

April 8, 2011; Source: New York Times | Leading art museums around the world are banding together online to exhibit their support for detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Representatives of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County . [more]

8:53:41 PM Should Smithsonian Museums Charge a Fee?
AOL Travel News

Would you still be drawn to Washington DC if all the museums charged $7.50 per person for admission? The idea to end free admission to museums run by the Smithsonian is one idea the bipartisan panel tasked by President Obama has pinpointed as a ... [more]

8:33:41 PM Bugs emerge to bug us, and a few pose health risks
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscripition) - Atlanta,GA,USA

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP A live Brown Recluse Spider crawls in a dish at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, Wednesday, March 30, 2011. It's that time of year when the bugs emerge to bug us. ... [more]

8:33:41 PM Sculptor Serra shows unsung drawings at NY museum
Reuters - NY,USA

A new show, "Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective," opening on Wednesday at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, exposes nearly 40-years worth of the artist's drawings, sketches and works on paper. "My drawings are seen very infrequently ... so I [more]

8:33:41 PM Community Children's Museum offers educational fun for all ages
Dailyrecord.com - Parsippany,NJ,USA

A child assumes command of the mission control portion of the Friendship 7 space capsule simulator at the updated Community Children's Museum in Dover. / Photo Communty Children's Museum ~ DOVER — Just because children are on spring break doesn't mea [more]

7:22:59 PM Shelby County settles on location for museum
Victoria Advocate

(AP) - The city of Calera has been chosen as the future home of a fire service museum in Shelby County. Shelby County officials announced the selection Monday. The city of Pelham had also sought the museum, but withdrew its proposal for the project.  [more]

7:22:46 PM Civil War Road Trip
Slate

Last summer, John Swansburg embarked on a 10-day Civil War road trip, traveling from Vicksburg, Miss. to Gettysburg, Pa. and stopping at as many battlefields, prison camps, and museums as he could manage along the way. (Also one laser light show. ... [more]

5:47:04 PM Which Museums Will House Retired Space Shuttles?
FOX News - USA

By Mike Wall New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum would display the orbiter inside an enclosed hangar located along Hudson River Park Pier 86 where the aircraft carrier is berthed, just blocks from Times Square. NASA is expected to announ [more]

5:47:04 PM Speed Museum to start $31M expansion project this year
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

Officials with The Speed Art Museum unveiled plans for a 200000-square-foot expansion of the art museum Saturday, unveiling a $79 million master plan that will be constructed in three phases. Officials also announced that the museum already has reach [more]

3:58:08 PM Cairo reopens Egyptian Museum
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran

Cairo's Egyptian Museum has been reopened one day after anti-government demonstrations in the African capital's Liberation Square left six people dead. Four tourist groups visited the museum on Sunday morning while the building was secured from both  [more]

3:58:08 PM Centenary of Titanic's launch
RTE Interactive - Ireland

William Blair, head of human history for National Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI), said: 'For 50 years, from 1869 until 1919, there was never a day when Harland and Wolff did not have a ship under construction for the White Star Line so this collecti [more]

3:01:24 PM Saginaw County history museum looks at auto-making
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

The exhibits coordinator at the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History admits he's a little young to remember that day himself; many of the plants and supporting machine shops have since closed, he said, with 671 still employed by Saginaw Metal ... [more]

3:01:24 PM Museum Of Flight Counting Down To Shuttle Decision
KIROtv.com - Seattle,WA,USA

Of the more than 20 locations vying for a shuttle, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has been promised Discovery. The announcement of where the retired shuttles will go will take place at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ... [more]

3:01:24 PM Garfield museum offers gardening workshop
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA

Garfield Farm Museum will hold a gardening workshop from 1 to 5 pm Sunday, April 17, at the museum, 5 miles west of Geneva, off Route 38 on Garfield Road. The workshop, titled “Growing Vegetables: A Lost Family Art,” will be given by garden expert .. [more]

3:01:24 PM Pennsylvania Lumber Museum plans $5.4 million expansion; fall work won't ...
Greenfield Daily Reporter - IN, USA

The Pennsylvania Lumber Museum is planning $5.4 million in renovations and improvements, the first major fix-up since the attraction opened in 1972. The museum is in north central Pennsylvania, along US Route 6 in Galeton, about 150 miles northeast o [more]

2:48:42 PM 600 Year Old Book Found In Sandy, Utah
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Sanders says he hasn't seen anything like it outside of museums, and never expected to find something like it in Sandy, Utah. It's 200 years older than the oldest book printed in America says Sanders. There are more than 1800 wood cut illustrations.  [more]

1:41:26 PM NASA Space Shuttle Decision Day For Tulsa Is Tuesday
News On 6 - Tulsa,OK,USA

TULSA, Oklahoma -- The Tulsa Air and Space Museum will find out Tuesday morning if it gets one of the three retiring space shuttles. Museum administrators hope Tulsa's many contributions to the shuttle program, its central location and a plan to buil [more]

1:41:26 PM Oracle museum to temporarily house Smithsonian exhibit on America's food
The Republic

The Republic Oracle's "hidden little museum" landed a Smithsonian traveling exhibit that will be on display through May 1. The "Key Ingredients: America by Food" exhibit is the current main attraction at the Oracle Historical Society and Acadia Ranch [more]

1:00:34 PM Decision nears for space shuttle retirement homes
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

By Dave Berman, Florida Today CAPE CANAVERAL — 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. ... [more]

11:45:49 AM Mt. Clemens train depot gets $30000 for repairs
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

BY MEGHA SATYANARAYANA Volunteer Timothy Backhurst talks about the Michigan Transit Museum in Mt. Clemens on Sunday. Façade repairs to the structure, which is on the national registry of historic places, are to be completed by June 30. ... [more]

11:39:27 AM Sunday Sampler: Free entry draws museum crowds
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA

Linda Carpenter and her husband started touring all of Great Falls' museums on Sunday afternoon with grandkids in tow, but when history became a little too dry for the 5- and 6 -year-olds, the party split up. "Grandpa is at the History Museum," said  [more]

10:35:14 AM Stearns History Museum marks 75 years
St. Cloud Times

10:36 pm Amanda (center) and Jessica Lavan (right) look over the dioramas of animals Sunday in the Stearns History Museum with their mother, Margo “Marge” Colomb. All three are St. Cloud residents who came to help celebrate the 75th anniversary of th [more]

9:24:27 AM Cookeville History Museum gets copies of 1940s letters about Jackson
The Republic

The Republic The Cookeville History Museum has received copies of letters of Mrs. Rutledge (Graeme McGregor) Smith about a portrait of President Andrew Jackson's wife that was presented to the White House. In 1940, Smith, a native of Putnam County, r [more]

8:24:02 AM Children's Museum offering time to children and families affected by autism
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA

BY RONI REINO DOVER — This weekend, the Children's Museum of New Hampshire's Autism Partnership Program will offer two free hours of museum time for families with children affected by autism. As part of Autism Awareness Month, the museum will be ... [more]

8:24:02 AM Post office eyed as museum space
The Register-Guard - Eugene,Oregon,USA

By Matt Cooper Bob Hart, executive director of the Lane County Historical Museum, hopes it can move into the downtown post office. As a museum director, you know it's time for a bigger building when you're storing artifacts in an old bathroom. ... [more]

7:58:00 AM A new focus for Latino cultural activity in LA
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

But until now it hasn't been able to sustain a permanent major museum or cultural center dedicated to that teeming constituency. For decades, local Latino politicians and arts officials have watched with mounting frustration and embarrassment as ... [more]

6:45:14 AM Mobile museum recounts horrors of modern-day slavery in Florida
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

Romeo Ramirez of Immokalee answers questions for visitors to the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum, which made a stop Sunday at Ascension Catholic Church in Melbourne. The traveling museum is a replica of a cargo truck that held imprisoned Mexican an [more]

5:25:57 AM Museum opens Civil War exhibit
Salisbury Post - Salisbury,NC,USA

It is part of the Rowan Museum's new Civil War Exhibit. photo by Wayne Hinshaw, for the Salisbury Post Sharon Hall from Cleveland looks over an exhibit created to show how Union General Stoneman piled goods in the street and burned them during the .. [more]

4:44:25 AM Shuttle decision to be aired in Dayton
Dayton Daily News - Dayton,OH,USA

NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden is expected to reveal which museums will receive one of three retired shuttles at 1 pm Tuesday. The gathering is part of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums . [more]

4:44:25 AM Polk Museum of Art: Museum of Excellence
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA

The Polk Museum of Art has been accredited for the third time by the American Association of Museums. Audio podcast of the Editorial Board's interview with representatives of the Polk Museum of Art. Time: 1:24:02. The reaccreditation follows 18 month [more]

4:44:25 AM Spotsy museum could open by May
The Free Lance-Star

A new museum hopes to tell the stories of the Civil War battles--and the county residents who carried on throughout the war. "We want to tell the story of the Spotsylvania citizens, the residents," said Terry Dougherty, who is directing efforts for t [more]

3:24:31 AM UM Museum of Art celebrates drawings of illusion and interaction
questions

“Where to Draw the Line: the Maine Drawing Project” celebrates the art of drawing at Maine galleries and art venues throughout 2011, and Orono's University of Maine Museum of Art's spring show through June 11 includes two exhibits of drawings as a pa [more]

3:24:31 AM Kidzu Children's Museum to move to temporary location
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall Kidzu Children's Museum in Chapel Hill will temporarily relocate to a new space across Franklin Street in University Square early this summer, according to a news release. The new location will serve as Kidzu's temporary home [more]

3:00:37 AM Google donates $12M to museums
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By Mike Swift Google (GOOG) is giving $12 million to seven prominent science museums, including two in the Bay Area, to thank institutions that inspired many of its employees to pursue careers in the computer sciences and engineering. ... [more]

3:00:37 AM Bid to rehouse old Skyhawk in WOW museum
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

The World of Wearable Art and Classic Cars Museum in Annesbrook might be the new home for one of the RNZAF's defunct Skyhawk jets, if Nelson MP Nick Smith gets his way. He is working with the museum to see if it is possible to secure one of the 17 .. [more]

2:13:33 AM A 600-year-old book is found
KPLC-TV - Lake Charles,LA,USA

SALT LAKE CITY, UT (KSTU/CNN) -The town museum in Sandy, UT, was holding an antiques fundraiser, inviting residents to donate money to find out how much their valuables were worth. A rare book dealer, Ken Sanders, could not stop looking at what may . [more]

2:10:15 AM Where will Space Shuttle fleet land?
MyFox Tampa Bay - Tampa Bay,FL,USA

“It's important to put them on display so anyone can see them; those massive machines,” said Maxwell Green an official with the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa. In all 21 museums are vying for one of only three Space Shuttles in existence at  [more]

12:59:53 AM Flagler Museum's 'Our Town' pop-up book shows 'what Palm Beach used to be
Palm Beach Daily News - Palm Beach,FL,USA

Palm Beach Daily News John Blades, executive director of the Flagler Museum, found a way to make representative scenes in the town's history really pop. He worked with paper engineer Jane McTeigue and designer Roger Culbertson to create a pop-up book [more]



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