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11:04:12 PM Children’s Activity Museum facing grim future
Daily Record - Ellensburg,WA,USA

Werner, who visits the activity museum once every couple weeks, was there with her father, Fritz. Photo by Joe Whiteside/Daily Record ... [more]

11:04:12 PM Minister urged to save museum
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand

National’s Defence spokesman, Wayne Mapp, says the one-month stay of execution given to the Ohakea Air Force museum, must be used wisely. ... [more]

11:04:12 PM Governor not sure of funding support for Marshal Museum
Pine Bluff Commercial - Pine Bluff,AR,USA

Beebe's discretionary fund, approved by the Legislature this month, includes up to $25 million for the museum. The governor told members of the local Rotary ... [more]

11:04:12 PM Unknown Van Gogh found in museum cellar
United Press International - USA

ZAGREB, Croatia, April 12 (UPI) -- An uncataloged collection stored in the basement of a Croatian museum may have yielded a previously unknown work by ... [more]

11:04:12 PM Now, here’sa good hair day, literally
Financial Express - Bombay,India

The small tufts of brown hair were displayed at the Egyptian Museum alongside pieces of linen bandages and 13 pieces of resin used in the mummification of ... [more]

11:04:11 PM Walton-backed museum lands different Eakins painting
Pine Bluff Commercial - Pine Bluff,AR,USA

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, rebuffed in its attempt last year to pay Thomas Jefferson University $68 million for Thomas ... [more]

11:04:11 PM Largest Latino museum opens in Texas
MLive.com - MI,USA

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A hot-pink building with colored lights in this city of Hispanic immigrants will house the nation's largest museum devoted to Latino ... [more]

7:24:09 PM Acquisitions survey: New media on the rise
Art Newspaper - UK

US museums are expanding their contemporary collections to include new media art, with acquisitions of film, video and mixed media installations on the rise ... [more]

5:34:31 PM Namco Bandai Games Brings Namco Museum DS To The Nintendo DS This ...
MobileTechReview.com - Mountain View,CA,USA

NAMCO BANDAI Games America announced today that Namco Museum DS is bringing its popular arcade games to the Nintendo DS this summer. ... [more]

5:34:31 PM Roebling museum undeterred by stalled redevelopment
Alton Telegraph - Alton,IL,USA

Roebling Historical Society President Donna McElrea said, "There's a lot going on all at once," in terms of the Main Gate Museum becoming its own entity. ... [more]

5:34:30 PM Good reasons to back Yankee Air Museum Effort to restore valuable ...
MLive.com - MI,USA

An ambitious, 20-year plan to rebuild and expand the Yankee Air Museum is under way, a $100 million effort that aims to replicate a World War II air base. ... [more]

5:34:09 PM Beebe Unsure On Museum Funding
Fort Smith Times Record - Fort Smith,AR,USA

Circuit Judge Jim Spears, a member of the Marshals Museum steering committee, introduced Beebe and told the audience that he’d known Beebe since they went ... [more]

5:34:09 PM Google Earth and US Holocaust Museum Help Darfur
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA

On Tuesday April 10, 2007, Internet giant Google, partnering with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, launched its project "Crisis in Darfur" using ... [more]

1:49:11 PM New Biblical Museum Raises $27 Million
WLKY - Louisville,KY,USA

Organizers said a northern Kentucky museum that teaches the biblical story of creation has raised $24 million in private donations. ... [more]

1:49:11 PM Visitors To Learn About Eakins In Disgusting Museum
PW-Philadelphia Weekly - Philadelphia,PA,USA

The hospital sold the painting for $68 million to the National Gallery of Art and the as-yet-unbuilt Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, founded by Wal-Mart ... [more]

1:49:11 PM Museum push to attract visitors
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK

VISITOR numbers at Sheffield's Kelham Island industrial museum have increased by more than half since management was handed over to a trust almost a decade ... [more]

1:49:11 PM Massillon Museum director named president of statewide association
Massillon Independent - Massillon,OH,USA

Shearer, executive director of the Massillon Museum, was appointed president of the Ohio Museums Association last month. “It’s an honor,” said Shearer, ... [more]

1:49:11 PM Waltham: Room to grow at museum
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

You can see it at the new home of the Waltham Museum, which finally has enough room for its many windows into the past lives of the Watch City. ... [more]

11:59:10 AM Museums, magazine and mogul lend their names to new furniture lines
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA

The Smithsonian collection from Bernhardt Furniture is based not only on pieces owned by the popular museums in Washington, DC, but also on the structures ... [more]

11:59:10 AM Moscow Authorities to Tempt Youth into Museums at Nighttime
Russia-InfoCenter - Moscow,Russia

On May 18, the International Day of Museums, the Night in Museum project will be for the first time put into practice in Moscow. ... [more]

10:06:42 AM Vietnam joins regional co-operation project on museum
Nhan Dan - Hanoi,Vietnam

The Cultural Heritage Department and three museums of Vietnam will join a cooperation project on museum with partners from Cambodia and Laos. ... [more]

10:06:42 AM Google Earth, US Holocaust museum to focus on Darfur
Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem,Israel

In a project with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, inaugurated Tuesday, the Internet search company has updated its Google Earth service with ... [more]

6:24:11 AM Ohakea Museum trust backs off
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

Ohakea's Air Force Museum has won a reprieve just three days from the April 15 deadline for its enforced closure by the Wigram-based Air Force Museum Trust. ... [more]

6:24:10 AM Pizza box a museum collectible in Finland
Earthtimes.org - USA

The Finnish National Museum and the Helsinki City Museum have begun gathering modern artifacts that museum officials feel best represent current times, ... [more]

6:24:10 AM Lexington to vote on plan for museum
New River Valley Current - Christiansburg,VA,United States

The fate of what has become a controversial proposal to lure the Museum of the Confederacy to Lexington from its cramped quarters in Richmond will be ... [more]

6:24:10 AM Museum director learning the ropes
San Mateo Daily Journal - San Mateo,CA,USA

Rachel Meyer first thought she didn’t have the energy to become the head of Coyote Point Museum when considering applying for the position earlier this year ... [more]

6:24:10 AM Tiffany diamond adds lustre to US museum
Economic Times - India

WASHINGTON: Light flashes across the 82 facets of the Tiffany Diamond, highlighting the brilliance of the giant gem at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ... [more]

3:11:42 AM New Science & History plans will bridge museums
Fort Worth Business Press - Fort Worth,TX,USA

.... remain substantially unchanged, what with surrounding lots at the Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum, the Carter Exhibits Hall and the museums themselves. ... [more]

3:11:39 AM Bank of America treats customers with trips to museums
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA

SAN DIEGO - Bank of America announced Wednesday its "Museums on Us" program, which will enable its customers to visit museums and cultural institutions for ... [more]



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