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11:10:29 PM Living Museum looks to the stars for Galileo's 400th anniversary ...
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA

By Mark St. John Erickson | 247-4783 Visitors to the Virginia Living Museum will be able to join thousands of other people around the globe this weekend by ... [more]

10:49:02 PM Galileo's telescope on historic visit to Philly
The Associated Press

The mottled brown cylinder on display at The Franklin Institute science museum is a 400-year-old telescope used by Galileo Galilei, whose observations of ... [more]

10:18:51 PM Finlon named interim president at Denver Art Museum, will help ...
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

Longtime Denver advertising executive Cathey Finlon has been named interim president of the Denver Art Museum and will work on finding a successor to museum ... [more]

8:52:13 PM First James Bond Museum to Open in UK
Wired Blogs - USA

By John Scott Lewinski April 02, 2009 | 3:43:57 PMCategories: Exhibit, Movies Housed in a former supermarket in Cumbria (northwest England), The Bond Museum ... [more]

8:01:29 PM African-American Museum names McCormick executive director
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

Museum board president Gwynne Birzer said McCormick was the board’s unanimous choice. “Mark has demonstrated exceptional community leadership as well as a ... [more]

5:58:09 PM Museum meltdown?
Winnipeg Sun - Canada

By Ula Ilnytzky, AP NEW YORK — The recession is hitting American museums hard, forcing directors to boost admission fees, cut budgets and staff, ... [more]

4:24:25 PM Bond museum to open doors
BBC News - E,UK

A museum dedicated to films of secret agent James Bond is to open in Cumbria. The Bond Museum will feature a host of vehicles and gadgets used in the series ... [more]

4:10:53 PM Smithsonian chief: Asbestos not a problem at museums
USA Today - USA

Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough says the museum complex in the nation's capitol is safe, despite claims by a museum worker of lax asbestos protections, ... [more]

3:25:21 PM Mayan politics depicted in Penn Museum show
Reuters - NY,USA

The cylinder, part of a new exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, tells the story of the takeover of a ... [more]

2:32:00 PM Powell, Wiesel to attend Holocaust museum event
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

By Emily S. Achenbaum | Tribune staff reporter After nearly three years of construction and raising $45 million, the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education ... [more]

1:35:58 PM Wall Street Meldown Now a Museum Exhibit
US News - USA

The Museum of American Finance, which opened in New York in January 2008, has an exhibit called "Tracking the Credit Crisis: A Timeline. ... [more]

12:40:09 PM Meeting set on museum closure
Sunbury Daily Item - Sunbury,PA,USA

Merle Phillips, R-108 of RR2 Sunbury, encouraged residents to participate in the meeting with Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission officials at 7 ... [more]

10:46:49 AM Hollywood Wax Museum set to auction 200 wax celebs
The Associated Press

The Hollywood Wax Museum is offering wax representations of these and nearly 200 other celebrities at the first auction in its 44-year history, .... [more]

9:53:01 AM Threatened Nazi march in Skokie first chapter in Holocaust ...
Pioneer Press Online - Glenview,IL,USA

Both Holocaust Museums and the Niles Township Clergy Forum probably wouldn't have been created without the march, officials said. ... [more]

8:13:22 AM Ex-Seaport Museum chief loses appeal bid
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

By Craig R. McCoy The former head of the Independence Seaport Museum yesterday lost his bid to overturn his 15-year sentence. A three-judge panel of the US ... [more]

6:19:46 AM After a wild opening weekend, your UMMA begins now
Michigan Daily - Ann Arbor,MI,USA

Art museums can often seem intimidating or irrelevant to a lot of people, especially if these people aren't well versed in the subjects at hand. ... [more]

3:20:43 AM Asbestos at Smithsonian Poses No Risk, He Says
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

"I want to assure the committee and the American people that our museums are safe, open and free as always," Clough told the Committee on House ... [more]

2:16:37 AM The Emmitsburg Area Historical Society rings in the 2009 museum season
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Chime in with the celebration of the 2009 museum season in Frederick County. On the weekend of April 4 and 5, the Emmitsburg Area Historical Society will be ... [more]

1:17:37 AM Museums brace for storm as donors shy away
Reuters UK - UK

By Sylvia Westall VIENNA (Reuters) - Two million euros in three months: that's the cost so far for Vienna's Albertina Museum, home to landmark Impressionist ... [more]

12:54:14 AM Frank O. Gehry to Design Eisenhower Memorial
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The land is one block off the Mall, across from the National Air and Space Museum. The commission has asked for a landscaped civic plaza that would serve ... [more]



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