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News From Friday, April 20, 2007
11:24:06 PM Skanska gets city's nod as museum builder
Charlotte Business Journal - Charlotte,NC,USA

A Tampa Bay area contractor and its minority-owned partner will be the likely builders of the new Tampa Museum of Art, Mayor Pam Iorio confirmed Friday. ... [more]

11:24:06 PM The museum that lets kids speak up, touch artifacts
Today's Zaman - Istanbul,Turkey

The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara provides children with a tangible version of history in hands-on workshops. ... [more]

11:24:06 PM Curator 'perfect match' for museum
MLive.com - MI,USA

"This was a wonderful, wonderful beginning, but my goal coming out of college was always to work in a museum," she said. "I loved my experience at the ... [more]

11:24:04 PM Museum re-acquires 1841 Turner oil
United Press International - USA

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 20 (UPI) -- A Texas museum has spent $6.42 million to get back a JMW Turner oil painting it wrongly thought it owned for 41 years. ... [more]

11:24:04 PM Rome to transform its historic centre into huge museum district
CBC News - Canada

The City of Rome has approved plans to create a six-hectare museum sector around the Colosseum, the Imperial Forums and the Piazza del Campidoglio. .... [more]

11:24:03 PM Met Museum opens Greek, Roman galleries
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

NEW YORK - The original plan for the south galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was to make them the home for the museum's Greek and Roman holdings. ... [more]

11:24:03 PM Canada to profile human rights at Winnipeg museum
Reuters Canada - Toronto,Canada

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A new museum that is planned to showcase both human rights champions and atrocities got a boost on Friday when the Canadian ... [more]

5:39:04 PM Cassidy: Computer History Museum gets piece of past
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

Which is why a handful of people stood Wednesday in a Mountain View computer museum and raised a champagne toast to two battered covered-wagon wheels that ... [more]

5:39:04 PM Winnipeg human rights museum to be national institution
Canada.com - Canada

WINNIPEG — The federal government will announce Friday it is designating the proposed Canadian Museum for Human Rights as a national institution to make it ... [more]

3:39:07 PM Museums Merge with Might and Muscle
Waldo Village Soup - ME,USA

By Bob Hastings. ROCKLAND/ROCKPORT (April 19): Three Knowlton Moving vans pulled up to the Maine Lighthouse Museum in downtown Rockland on Thursday loaded ... [more]

3:39:07 PM 'Spider-Man 3' will open at local museums
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA

Two local museums will open the hotly anticipated "Spider-Man 3" on their giant IMAX screens on May 5, the same day the film opens in theaters. ... [more]

1:54:04 PM Museum day celebrations to get underway
News.gov.hk - Hong Kong

A Museum Panorama will be held at the Cultural Centre on May 12 and 13. Open from 10am to 6pm both days, the colourful panorama will feature games and ... [more]

1:54:04 PM Michener Museum to begin expansion in October, open in 2009
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA

Michener Museum officials hope to get borough approval and start construction in October of a new wing that will add an upper level gallery and a room for ... [more]

1:54:04 PM Museum getting a makeover
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA

The Behringer-Crawford Museum in Covington is throwing one last bash in the old homestead Saturday - a free reception for people who want to take a last ... [more]

1:54:04 PM Greece to speak to British Museum next month about loan of artifacts
Kathimerini - Athens,Greece

Greek officials and representatives of the British Museum may discuss possibly loaning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece when they meet on May 4, .... [more]

11:54:04 AM calendar[FILMS - MUSEUMS & GALLERIES - MISC. MUSIC]
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

RESIDENCY CZECH SCULPTOR, CESTMIR SUSKA SAT THROUGH 4/30 10 am-5 pm, 4/22 & 4/29 noon-5 pm Birmingham Museum of Art, 2000 Eighth Ave. North. 254-2566. FREE ... [more]

10:09:05 AM Children's Museum gets new leader
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA

Stanford University-trained art scholar Rachel Teagle will be the new executive director of the Children's Museum San Diego, officials announced yesterday. ... [more]

10:09:05 AM New Manager/Keeper for Museum of Country Life, Castlebar
Mayo Advertiser - Castlebar,Mayo,Ireland

The Director and Board of the National Museum of Ireland have announced the appointment of a new Manager/Keeper at the Museum of Country Life, Turlough Park ... [more]

10:09:05 AM Berkshire Museum
Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA

PITTSFIELD — The latest show of support for the Berkshire Museum from the family of the institution's founder, Zenas Crane (1840-1917), comes in the form of ... [more]

10:09:05 AM Michener Museum plans expansion
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA

For information on how to donate to the James A. Michener Art Museum, call Carol Nelson, the museum's director of advancement, at (215) 340-9800, ext. 167 ... [more]

10:09:05 AM World War I bomber from Bikaner in British museum
India eNews.com - Gurgaon,Haryana,India

A rare World War I bomber that Britain gifted to a royal family in India's Rajasthan state in the early 1920s is now on display at the Imperial War Museum ... [more]

10:09:04 AM Rights museum set to win federal funding
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

The government is expected to announce Friday that the proposed Winnipeg-based Canadian Museum for Human Rights has won federal operating funding of between ... [more]

10:09:04 AM Pest controller imprisoned for stealing from prestigious ...
International Herald Tribune - Paris,France

"Through his selfish actions, he has cost the Australian Museum not only a great deal of money, but damaged its reputation," Judge Peter Berman said, ... [more]

8:11:35 AM St. Joseph Museums` board and attorney look into a NAGPRA claim ...
KQTV - St. Joseph,MO,USA

The national body that represents Native American repatriation said the museums shouldn`t be housing certain Shippe artifacts because of a conflict with a ... [more]

6:24:07 AM 7m refit for people's museum
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK

A £7.18m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund will be spent on the People's History Museum, at the Pump House, a former Edwardian hydraulic pumping station, ... [more]

6:24:07 AM A new home for Queensland's Air Museum
ABC Online - Australia

The Queensland Government and the Caloundra City Council made a decision last year that the museum would close when the current lease expires in 2014. ... [more]

6:24:07 AM Museum and Gallery Listings
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Roughly every decade, the Jewish Museum offers a survey of contemporary art from and about Israel. This year non-Israeli artists from Europe and the United ... [more]

6:24:07 AM Australia jails 'obsessed' museum thief
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA

An "obsessed" Australian museum worker who stole thousands of exhibits, including a stuffed lion and a rare dolphin skeleton, was jailed for seven years ... [more]

2:41:36 AM Graceland banks on 'Promised Land'
InterGame - Oldham,Lancashire,UK

.... at the Tennessee house, which opened as a museum in 1982 - five years after Presley's death - and is one of the most visited home museums in the US. ... [more]



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