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11:30:30 PM Credit crisis forces museums to be creative
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

By Matt Krantz, USA TODAY Some of the most creative things going on in museums recently have nothing to do with paint and canvas, but calculators and ... [more]

11:30:30 PM History lesson
ArabianBusiness.com - Dubai,Al Garhoud,United Arab Emirates

by ArabianBusiness.com staff writer on Tuesday, 15 April 2008 Sharjah Museums director Sue Underwood explains how to ensure each and every visitor gets the ... [more]

11:30:30 PM Culture BULLETIN
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA

Bank of America announced a new program yesterday to loan exhibitions from its art collection to museums around the country, as well as the world. ... [more]

9:48:53 PM Museum acquires 1934 Melbourne Cup
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

The story behind the chestnut horse, one of only five to win two Melbourne Cups, will be showcased at the National Museum of Australia that on Thursday ... [more]

9:48:53 PM New Museum Offers the Official Line on Tibet
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The building, sheathed in a green construction tent, will house Beijing’s first museum exclusively dedicated to Tibet. Mao, flanked by the Dalai Lama, ... [more]

4:44:06 PM Pittsburgh museum to open robot exhibition
The Associated Press -

The museum hopes by mounting the exhibit to encourage young people to pursue careers in science, math and technology, among other fields related to robotics ... [more]

4:44:06 PM Can a museum -- even MOCA -- contain this work?
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Can a museum begin to contain their work? By Christopher Knight, Times Art Critic If an artist makes art intended to function outside the confines of an art ... [more]

4:44:06 PM Mattatuck Museum Displays Art About Immigration
Hartford Courant - United States

The reception and exhibition are free with general museum admission. Admission is $4. Members and children younger than 16 are admitted free. ... [more]

4:44:06 PM Quranic calligraphy attributed to Imam Hussein (AS) donated to ...
Tehran Times - Tehran,Iran

TEHRAN -- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has donated a book of Quranic calligraphy attributed to Imam Hussein (AS) to the Astan-e Qods Museum ... [more]

2:12:17 PM Colliding Planes
Nashville Scene - TN, USA

Several of Brown’s paintings seem to be set in museums or zoos. In “Museology 17,” displays of animals and skeletons bleed into a lamp-lit interior that ... [more]

10:50:40 AM Pick named to lead Charles Allis/Villa Terrace
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

Quirk recently resigned from leadership of the two east side Milwaukee art museums for health reasons. Pick, 58, a Shorewood resident, has been director of ... [more]

9:17:02 AM Museum of Science and Industry plans major fundraising effort
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

By Kristen Kridel | Tribune reporter 10:31 AM CDT, April 16, 2008 The Museum of Science and Industry on Wednesday is announcing the launch of the largest ... [more]

9:17:02 AM IN RECANATI MUSEUM ON FRANCO UNCINI
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - Italy

(AGI) - Recanati (Macerata), April 16 - Franco Uncini, the driver who in 1982 conquered the world title 500 cc, will have his own museum on his successes, ... [more]

9:17:02 AM botanical art museum to open
BBC News - E,UK

Paintings and sketches of fruits, flowers and leaves is to open at a new museum in Kew Gardens. The Shirley Sherwood Gallery will exhibit precious works of ... [more]

8:06:35 AM TAKE THE MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES MONTH 2008 SURVEY AND WIN PRIZES!
24 Hour Museum - UK

Museums and Galleries Month is the UK-wide celebration of museums and galleries taking place during May 2008. Every year the organisers carry out a survey, ... [more]

5:22:43 AM Attleboro museum sells valuable painting
Boston Herald - United States

By AP ATTLEBORO - A painting by Russian artist Alexandre Iacovleff donated to the Attleboro Art Museum a half century ago has been sold at auction for .... [more]

3:11:31 AM Finding the muse in museum
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

VANCOUVER -- The New York Times Magazine recently featured a six-page spread on hot spots in Vancouver, with no mention of the Vancouver Museum. .... [more]

3:11:31 AM Council endorses sailing museum
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

The resolution sponsored by Mayor Ellen O. Moyer, a strong proponent of the estimated $20 million museum, passed 6-3 Monday night in a symbolic gesture that ... [more]

3:11:31 AM Royal Oak museum on way
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

Royal Oak is overdue to have a museum of local history, said Muriel Versagi, a past president of the 265-member Royal Oak Historical Society. .... [more]

12:14:50 AM Museum keeps the past alive in night journey
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia

It was Nighttime Journey at the Museum, organized by Museum Bank Mandiri at the old building in Old Town, West Jakarta. The ambience was supposed to be .... [more]



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