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9:09:07 PM International Monuments Day
About - News & Issues - New York,NY,USA

And in Greece, that means free admission to almost all monuments, museums, and archaeological sites in Greece. Some private museums may not participate, ... [more]

9:09:07 PM Exhibition of Brandywine tradition art opens Saturday
UDaily - Newark,DE,USA

3:02 pm, April 16, 2007--A new exhibition at the University Museums explores the rich artistic tradition of the Brandywine Valley. ... [more]

9:09:07 PM I’m sick to death of meddling philistines
The Times - London,England,UK

It should not be necessary for a senior civil servant to spend weeks trying to persuade the Treasury that an additional £22 million will prevent the museums ... [more]

6:46:38 PM Historic Day For Thame Museum -
Thame - Oxfordshire, UK

MEMBERS of The John Hampden Regiment, in full costume, formed a guard of honour when Thame's museum was officially opened on Saturday, ... [more]

6:46:38 PM Museum quiz night a challenge: Buadromo
Fiji Times - Fiji

Museum director Sagale Buadromo said this year's event should be a challenging one with our present political climate. ... [more]

6:46:37 PM Harn Museum hosts Alachua County Student Art Exhibition
University of Florida - Gainesville,Florida,USA

Works of art by young artists from Alachua County public schools will be exhibited April 19 to May 12 in the Harn Museum of Art’s Chandler Auditorium. ... [more]

6:46:37 PM Natural History Museum Debuts NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM-Inspired Prop ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

Visit the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for a Chance to See Your Favorite Props and Costumes From the Film LOS ANGELES, April 16 /PRNewswire/ ... [more]

6:46:37 PM Berlin museum rebuffs Egyptian threat over Nefertiti
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK

Berlin - Berlin's Museum of Egyptology rebuffed Monday a threat from Egypt's top antiquities official to block all art loans to Germany unless the 'world's ... [more]

6:46:36 PM San Antonio Says Hola To Latino Museum
Jaunted - USA

San Antonio's Museo Alameda automatically became the country's biggest museum of Latino culture. Topped off with exhibits about Panamanian nail salons and ... [more]

4:44:07 PM Yad Mordechai Museum, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai Photo: Curtosy of the ...
Ynetnews - Israel

In a search for the ways in which different museums choose to commemorate the atrocities of the Holocaust and the courage of its survivors, ... [more]

3:01:47 PM UK museum traces three decades of Tibetan struggle through rare ...
DailyIndia.com - Niskayuna,NY,USA

The photographs were organised in a website as part of a project called "Tibet Visual History on-line 1920-1950" by Pitts River Museum and British Museum of ... [more]

3:01:46 PM Community Museum to Host Friendship Quilt Exhibit, Raffle Tickets ...
City of Gaithersburg - Gaithersburg,MD,USA

The City of Gaithersburg Community Museum announces a very special exhibit entitled “Oh the Stories We Could Tell….” a collection of heirloom and ... [more]

3:01:45 PM Museum makeover needs money
phillyburbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA

DOYLESTOWN - Henry Chapman Mercer created his museum to be a place where his collections could tell their stories. But audiences in 2007 experience those ... [more]

3:01:44 PM National Museum of American History Acquires Emergency 911 Cell ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

WASHINGTON, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has received an important collection of prototypes and ... [more]

3:01:42 PM Allentown museum honors anniversary of President Lincoln's death
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA

With a procession led by a horse-drawn hearse, the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum commemorated the 142nd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. ... [more]

1:01:38 PM Beaver Creek School Museum ready for visitors
Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown,MD,USA

The Washington County Historical Society, the Miller House and the Beaver Creek School Museum are members of the Washington County Association of Museums ... [more]

11:16:36 AM Maritime Museum to honor lost submarine crew
Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA

MANITOWOC — The Wisconsin Maritime Museum is planning to honor next month the lost crew of the USS Lagarto submarine, which sank in the Pacific during World ... [more]

11:16:35 AM Museum hotel idea to expand
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

When 21c Museum Hotel opened last spring in downtown Louisville, its owners weren't sure how guests would feel about a place where the lobby, hallways and ... [more]

11:16:35 AM Budget funding storage space for state museum, archives
Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA

ALBANY — In one aisle of the New York State Museum's third-floor storage area sits a statue of a yellow dog covered with paintings of different breeds and ... [more]

9:16:36 AM Several new exhibits don't paint city museums into a corner
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

Sometimes museums offer exhibits based on a thesis only the curator fully understands. The paintings have been selected to illustrate that thesis, .... [more]

7:34:07 AM Fewer vistors to Museum Weekend
DutchNews.nl - Amsterdam,Netherlands

Around 850000 people took part in the annual Museum Weekend this year, considerably less than the one million visitors in 2006 because of the tropical ... [more]

7:34:07 AM City upbeat about museum
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

In time, Nicholas Inman hopes the National First Families Library and Museum will be a regional draw for the small town of Marshfield, Mo. ... [more]

7:34:07 AM Mt. Rainier fans seek museum
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA

Longtime mountain climber Lou Whittaker has a dream to build a museum that honors climbers, athletes and soldiers who conquered Mount Rainier or used the ... [more]

7:34:07 AM Creation Museum's 1st visitor? Bill Maher
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA

The new $30 million, 60000-square-foot Creation Museum, built on prime real estate near Cincinnati's airport, isn't scheduled to open its doors officially ... [more]

7:34:07 AM Google Joins Holocaust Museum to Prevent Genocide in Darfur
The Epoch Times Ireland - Dublin,Leinster,Ireland

Google and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum announced an initiative on April 10 to bring more attention to the ongoing crisis in Darfur. ... [more]

5:34:07 AM Civil Rights activists life celebrated
UWM Post - Milwaukee,WI,USA

The museums administrator, Corry Joe Bidel, said that the museums controversial lynching exhibits were a part of Camerons legacy. Though she has found that ... [more]

5:34:07 AM Exploring the ‘Imprint’ of Black Americans
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The exhibition would travel to major museums in 10 cities for five years beginning in the summer of 2008, according to plans fleshed out over the weekend at ... [more]

5:34:07 AM CEO brings vigor and hope to the ailing EMP
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA

Before being named interim CEO, Callan -- a passionate, personable woman who is bullish on the museums' future -- had been a consultant for the successful ... [more]

5:34:07 AM Museums asked to create prayer rooms
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK

Glasgow's museums and libraries have been asked to set aside a prayer room to encourage people of different faiths to use them. ... [more]

1:21:51 AM Sterling Hill Mining Museum
New Jersey Herald - Newton,NJ,USA

Guests from around the world have discovered the wonder of minerals at the Sterling Hill Mine and Museum since 1990. The mine ceased industrial operations ... [more]

1:21:50 AM Papal museum is godsend to German village
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

The photo is just one exhibit in what is officially a museum, but one that is destined to become a place of pilgrimage for Roman Catholics. ... [more]

1:21:49 AM Local museum puts the Holocaust into perspective for those who ...
KQTV - St. Joseph,MO,USA

Posters, books and pictures remind visitors at the Military Heritage Museum of those dark days. Museum Director and war veteran, Frank Flescher, ... [more]

1:21:48 AM Wisconsin Maritime Museum to honor lost crew of the USS Lagarto
WBAY - Green Bay,WI,USA

The Wisconsin Maritime Museum is planning to honor next month the lost crew of the USS Lagarto, which sank in the Pacific during World War Two. ... [more]

1:21:46 AM Museum Director Set to Leave
WLOX - Biloxi,MS,USA

Betsy Grant's name is synonymous with the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center, a top children's museum in America. She's been with the museum for 12 years, .... [more]

1:21:45 AM 47 mln visitors to Mevlana Museum over 80 years
Today's Zaman - Istanbul,Turkey

Some 47 million people have visited the Mevlana Museum since it opened in Konya in 1927 and hundreds of thousands of people from around the world are still ... [more]

1:21:43 AM Museum work nears completion
The Rustorian - MS,USA

The Marshall County Historical Museum will soon reopen its doors to the public as renovation work on the building is near completion. ... [more]

1:21:42 AM New museum sees hundreds during free opening weekend
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA

By noon, some 850 visitors had taken advantage of the free-admission opening weekend to see an array of exhibits at the new Latino art and culture museum. ... [more]

1:21:41 AM Museum cancels ghost exhibition after fatwa
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa

Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian museum which had defied calls for it to stop a popular exhibition on supernatural beings on Friday cancelled it after an Islamic ... [more]



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