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11:06:48 PM Houston Has Problem with NASA's Choices of Space Shuttle Homes
Space.com - USA

NEW YORK – The crowd of schoolchildren, tourists and museum workers exploded in cheers yesterday when they learned New York will be the final home of NASA's prototype space shuttle, Enterprise. But not everyone is so happy. The critics are speaking o [more]

11:06:48 PM How Dinosaurs Got So Huge
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA

A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City explores the mysteries surrounding their enormity. The exhibit is dominated by a model of Mamenchisaurus, a smaller relative to Argentinosaurus. The skin is peeled back on half  [more]

10:38:47 PM A Preview of MOCA's 'Art in the Streets' Exhibit
BlackBook Magazine - New York,NY,USA

“Growing up in New York, I would visit the Met and the Whitney, and I just got comfortable at an early age going to museums,” said Freddy. The former graffiti artist/rapper and onetime host of Yo! MTV Raps is painting again, and he seemed more than . [more]

9:57:18 PM Museum exhibit opens on early years of commercial salmon fishing in Alaska
The Associated Press

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A new exhibit at the Anchorage Museum features the early years of commercial fishing for salmon in Bristol Bay. The exhibit covers the years from 1884 to 1951 when fishermen used sailboats to fish for salmon. ... [more]

9:57:18 PM The Levi's® Brand Opens Levi's® Film Workshop in Museum of Contemporary
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) The Levi's® Film Workshop will live at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) within Art in the Streets, the first comprehensive US museum survey of graffiti and street art. The story of graffiti and street art [more]

9:57:18 PM MMAM collection growing
Winona Post - Winona,MN,USA

By Cynthya Porter The Minnesota Marine Art Museum continues on its quest to make Winona home to some of the best art in the world, this week unveiling four new paintings that broaden its collection with new names as well as old favorites. ... [more]

8:51:31 PM Seattle Museum Passed Over For Space Shuttle
KUOW News and Information - Seattle,WA,USA

Despite years of lobbying, Seattle's Museum of Flight will not get a retired space shuttle from NASA. That decision was announced yesterday. But museum officials insist they are getting something even better. KUOW's Deborah Wang reports. ... [more]

8:51:31 PM Seattle shuttle consolation prize: A trainer
TechFlash - Seattle,WA,USA

What's the “full-fuselage shuttle trainer” that's coming to the museum? According to Doug King, Museum of Flight president and CEO, it's the only one of its kind in the world and it's where every space shuttle astronaut trained for space flight. ... [more]

8:51:31 PM Rock and Roll Hall of Fame launches first iPhone app
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hopes to bring music lovers a bit closer to the Cleveland-based museum with the debut of its first iPhone app. Based on the "Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" permanent exhibit at the museum, the app -- which debuted ... [more]

8:51:31 PM Of the Streets, In the Museum
LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – The Museum of Contemporary Art is getting ready to shine its spotlight on an art form usually relegated to unsanctioned canvases on the streets. Art in the Streets at the Geffen Contemporary will chronicle the development of .. [more]

8:51:31 PM Museum open extended hours over spring break
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

The Milwaukee Public Museum will be open until 9 pm starting Friday to accommodate families on spring break hoping to catch the “Mummies of the World” exhibit, the museum said Wednesday. The museum will be open from 9 am to 9 pm from Friday, April 15 [more]

8:17:14 PM Ignite Smithsonian examines the evolution of museums and culture
O'Reilly Radar - Sebastopol,CA,USA

The Smithsonian Institution,, as one of the preeminent museum systems in the world, is profoundly engaged in capturing our culture's digital transition. Yesterday, that institution hosted the inaugural Smithsonian Ignite in the "attic of the country. [more]

8:17:14 PM Museums should not fear the art snobs
Art Newspaper - UK

Combined with his interest in contemporary art and his view that “many visitors do not know much about art”, this has led Perl to warn that the director is taking the museum in a “dangerous” direction which would compromise “essential art values”. .. [more]

6:40:43 PM Math museum signs a lease for 19000 square feet
Crain's New York Business - New York,NY,USA

The Museum of Mathematics, a new nonprofit cultural institution created by former hedge fund executive Glen Whitney, just signed a lease for 19000 square feet near Madison Square Park. The museum, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 2012, ... [more]

6:29:05 PM Dulles' Air and Space Museum lands the Discovery
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By Tom Jackman The space shuttle Enterprise at the Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center. The Discovery, which actually flew many historic missions into space, unlike the Enterprise, will take its place. ( Angela B. Pan ) Of course the Smithsonian [more]

6:29:05 PM Sideways, Inc. and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Team Up on
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) CLEVELAND, April 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sideways, Inc. which transforms books, magazines and other publications into immersive experiences on mobile devices, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum today released t [more]

6:29:05 PM Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Appoints Naomi Beckwith as New Curator
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, announced today that Naomi Beckwith has been appointed the new Curator at the MCA. Beckwith is currently the Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in . [more]

5:13:51 PM Texas, Ohio Lawmakers Annoyed By Space Shuttle Snub
PC Magazine - USA

By Chloe Albanesius Lawmakers in Texas and Ohio this week criticized NASA for its decision to send the final space shuttle fleet to museums in Virginia, New York, California, and Florida rather than organizations in their home states. Sen. ... [more]

5:02:41 PM 'Missing' Treasures Returned to Egyptian Museum
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA

Four objects missing from the Egyptian Museum since the January Revolution have been returned, according to Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, on his blog today. The missing items had been stolen during protests on  [more]

5:02:41 PM 'Houston, We've Had a Problem': No Space Shuttle for Museum in
President McCain Sends Secretary of State Lieberman and Defense ...

ABC News (blog) New York City gets a consolation prize: Enterprise, the shuttle prototype built in the 1970s for early tests, will move from the Smithsonian to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Conspicuous by its absence from the list was Houston [more]

5:02:41 PM Children's Museum sets spring break attendance record
Fox 59

During the last two weeks of March and into the first full week of April, visitation to the museum was up 33% compared to 2010 and 19% over the previous record set in 2006. During the last two weeks of March and into the first full week of April, ... [more]

4:03:13 PM 4 stolen Egyptian antiquities recovered
Bikya Masr

Hawass also revealed that a special police force will be deployed to protect Egypt's archaeological sites and museums following the recent wave of vandalism and looting. He told reporters Tuesday that the authorities have been unable to protect the . [more]

3:16:49 PM Art Fund announces museum funding fillip and national art pass
Guardian - UK

Photograph: PA The UK's biggest art charity, the Art Fund, intends to increase the amount it makes available for galleries to buy works of art by more than 50% by 2014 – warning that at a time of government spending cuts, museum collections risk bein [more]

1:40:44 PM Penis museum gets human specimen
Toledo On The Move - Toledo,OH,USA

(AP) -- LONDON (AP) - It will be the big attraction at the penis museum: a human specimen. The founder (Sigurdur Hjartarson) of the Phallological Museum in a tiny Icelandic fishing town says a pickled human penis has been donated to the collection. . [more]

1:40:44 PM Toothy T. Rex Ancestor Was 'Evil Spirit Reptile'
FOX News - USA

"It would seem that Daemonosaurus represents a lineage that did not extend into the later Mesozoic," said researcher Hans-Dieter Sues, a vertebrate paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History. [Image of Daemonosaurus] The newfound ... [more]

1:40:44 PM Supersized Dinosaurs Come To Museum of Natural History
CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The Brontosaurus at the American Museum of Natural History is getting some company this weekend. The World's Largest Dinosaurs, a new exhibition, takes a look at the supersized Sauropods – the most colossal animals to ever roa [more]

1:27:32 PM UK Art Fund Increases Aid for Museums' Purchases by 50% to $11.3 Million
Bloomberg

By Farah Nayeri - Wed Apr 13 10:05:34 GMT 2011 The new National Art Pass announced by the UK's Art Fund will give free admission to more than 200 museums. Source: Bolton & Quinn via Bloomberg. The Art Fund, a membership-based UK charity that raises . [more]

11:55:04 AM Semper Fidelis Memorial Park dedication
Inside NoVA

The Marine Corps Heritage Center will host the Semper Fidelis Memorial Park dedication on Thursday at 2 pm on the grounds of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle. Overlooking the museum, the park is situated on 23.2 acres of high groun [more]

10:59:15 AM Queens Museum of Art starts expansion plan to double space by 2013
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

BY Nicholas Hirshon Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Queens Museum of Art Executive Director Tom Finkelpearl (to his right) join other city officials kicking off the expansion project Tuesday. The Queens Museum of Art formally kicked off a massive expansi [more]

10:39:24 AM National Art Pass for free museum entry
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

The charity, which raises funds for grants to museums and galleries, have announced they will increase funding by from £4.5 million a year to £7 million by 2014. Art lovers will be encouraged to join the fund in return for a National Art Pass that wi [more]

8:33:45 AM New museum exhibit retells Civil War's impact on Michigan
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA

Lansing — A Civil War exhibit featuring rare artifacts from the battlefields and the homefront opens Saturday at the Michigan Historical Museum. Though there were no battles fought in Michigan, the Civil War had a great impact on the state's resident [more]

8:33:45 AM Police Charge 2 Men In Killings Near Museum
KMBC.com - Kansas City,MO,USA

Police are searching for a second man charged in the killing of a man and a woman found inside a burning car near the Kansas City Museum on Monday evening. Police are searching for Todd Fonville, 18, who was charged with two counts of second-degree . [more]

8:17:45 AM MUSEUM TRAILER: "The Fiery Trial" tells story of Iowans in the Civil War.
WHO-TV - Des Moines,IA,USA

"Military-age men in 1860, over half of them served in the Civil War," says Michael Smith, chief curator of the State Historical Society Museum. "A little over 13000 died--either from wounds or from disease. Actually, more died of disease than died o [more]

8:17:45 AM Egypt restores four artifacts stolen from Egyptian Museum
People{;}s Daily - China

Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawas said Tuesday that Egypt has restored four ancient artifacts that were stolen from the Egyptian Museum during the anti-government protests, state-run MENA news agency reported. ... [more]

8:17:45 AM Museums of Old York pulls in $3100 for bait shack
Hampton Union - Hampton,NH,USA

Noon Friday was the deadline to bid on the bait shack, which was auctioned by the Museums of Old York to make way for a larger unit on the newly restored commercial John Hancock Wharf. "It was pretty exciting, we ended up having four bidders going ho [more]

7:03:47 AM Admission fees loom for museum visitors
Salisbury Post - Salisbury,NC,USA

By Emily Ford SPENCER — Attendance at the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer could plummet by 30 percent if the historic landmark starts charging admission, a state official says. Now free, the museum must begin charging visitors if state lawmakers  [more]

5:22:35 AM Shuttle decision spells one giant snub for Houston
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

By ERIC BERGER Space City lost out to the east and west coasts Tuesday as NASA announced the museums to which it will award space shuttles after retiring the fleet this summer. The space agency opted to place the shuttles in locations — Washington, D [more]

5:22:35 AM Forum: Museum board got it right by going non-IMAX
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL,USA

By Anonymous A few years ago the museum committee promised Peoria an IMAX theater. A few years might as well be light years in today's technology world. In the meantime, others have surpassed the IMAX technology and lowered the cost. ... [more]

3:41:35 AM No Overlap -- About Small Cultural Institutions
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

But when I think about museums -- the arts institutions I know best -- I find many "whys" and "hows" and "wherebys" for their flowering on the cultural landscape. Museums stand in distinct locations, with different populations to relate to and respon [more]

3:41:35 AM Rockford Museums Face Different Funding Challenges
MyStateline.com - Rockford,IL,USA

Museums across the country display more of their permanent collections to help stretch their budgets. But two museums in Rockford are trying two different strategies. It's been six years since a traveling exhibit has arrived at the Rockford Art Museu [more]

3:36:15 AM NZ museum pieces on open market
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand

British police are investigating how historic artefacts, including pieces gifted from New Zealand, were put up for sale when they should have been in the care of a museum. One of the pieces, a bronze statuette of Canterbury founder John Robert Godley [more]

3:36:15 AM Humanoid robots dance up a storm at Chicago museum
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

To celebrate National Robotics Week, the Museum of Science and Industry gave visitors a first look at NAO, a 23-inch-tall humanoid robot that can speak 23 languages. In a demonstration Tuesday at the museum, five NAO (pronounced "now") robots perform [more]

2:25:03 AM King Tutankhamen Artifacts Looted From Egyptian Museum Found
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

The objects were among those stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo during the protests in Tahrir Square on January 28. Many of the several dozen objects which were taken have since been recovered, but 33 remain missing from the museum. ... [more]

2:25:03 AM Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum lands Discovery installation
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By Jacqueline Trescott, Tuesday, April 12, 9:23 PM Space shuttle Discovery, the workhorse of the US space-going fleet, will become a permanent installation at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport, ... [more]

12:49:06 AM Southern California -- this just in
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Many thought the Johnson Space Center in Houston or the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Ohio would beat Los Angeles' bid, which was decidedly-low profile. Other museums promoted their bids with great visibility, attracting former .. [more]

12:29:04 AM Space Shuttle Enterprise Lands New Home on Intrepid
WNYC - New York,NY,USA

By WNYC Newsroom The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum will be the future home of the space shuttle Enterprise, a prototype shuttle used for tests that never went into space. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand made the announcement Mond [more]

12:29:04 AM Queens Museum Digs In
Wall Street Journal - USA

By PIA CATTON The Queens Museum of Art officially broke ground Tuesday on the $65 million expansion project that will add 50000 square feet to the institution. The added space will house new galleries, classrooms, public event spaces, plus a café and [more]

12:29:04 AM Veteran says upside down flag aimed at lawmakers
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

AP A veteran who placed an American flag upside-down outside a war museum in eastern Illinois said he is aware that he's upset a few people but meant no disrespect. Harold "Sparky" Songer said he is flying the flag outside the Vermilion County War .. [more]

12:02:28 AM Unsung Russian Shuttle Program Doesn't Get Star Treatment
Wired News - USA

By Matthew Shechmeister As NASA starts retiring its space shuttle fleet to museums, photos of the Russian shuttle counterpart show a strange and improbable endgame to a once grand space race. Unfinished pieces of Russia's mostly obscure shuttle progr [more]

12:02:28 AM Canadian Museums Competing to House Robotic Arm
Business Review Canada

Not only does today mark the 50th anniversary of the first man to travel in space, the late Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, but it's also the 30th anniversary of the fist space shuttle launch, which may equal good news for one Canadian museum. ... [more]

12:02:28 AM T. Rex Had a Toothy Ancestor That Couldn't Cut It
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA

"This block, along with others, was excavated at Ghost Ranch by a team of researchers from several museums in the early 1980s," Sues said. "At the State Museum of Pennsylvania, a lab was set up in the public area where visitors could watch technician [more]



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