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9:58:53 PM Space Shuttle Discovery's retirement party
Baltimore Sun

This week, the Discovery* took its last flight piggybacking a modified 747 from Kennedy Space Center to Washington DC where it will replace the Enterprise as part of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery took [more]

9:58:53 PM Metroplitan Museum Security Guard Shoots Himself in Leg
Bloomberg

A Metropolitan Museum of Art guard accidentally shot himself in the leg this afternoon while cleaning his gun in an employee locker room, a spokesman for the Manhattan museum said. “The public was never in any danger,” spokesman Harold Holzer said in [more]

9:48:14 PM Museum in suburban Philadelphia welcomes Italian company, courtesy of
The Republic

The Republic A museum known for its focus on American art, specifically the Pennsylvania Impressionists who called the region home, is hosting its first-ever international exhibition with a blockbuster show of Italian Renaissance and Baroque masterpi [more]

9:48:14 PM Designing Interactive Museum Exhibits: Three Ways to Increase Audience
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Huffington Post Museums are increasingly creating interactive exhibits as a way to increase audience engagement. This raises a natural question: What are the elements of an exhibit that prompt visitor interaction? An observation of Animation, an exhi [more]

9:48:14 PM Hat Trick: Milliner Stephen Jones to Intervene With Items From the Bowes ...
ARTINFO

by Ann Binlot Milliner Stephen Jones is ready to dress up the Bowes Museum's collection in Teesdale, England. On April 26, the renowned British hat maker will begin to stage an intervention by selecting objects at the institution to combine with his  [more]

9:48:14 PM Museum display company sues Apple over touchscreen patent
9 to 5 Mac

The company, which originally developed its technology for museum exhibits in the 1990s, is seeking an “injunction enjoining Apple from continued infringement, and an award of damages to compensate Flatworld” for the millions of iOS devices and ... [more]

6:17:31 PM A natural pairing: museums at the ballpark
Ballpark Digest

Baseball is a game steeped in history, and the best place to learn about baseball history -- and maybe even see some being made -- is at a ballpark museum. Here are our favorites. There are a lot of baseball-themed museums out there, ... [more]

6:17:31 PM Penn State All-Sports Museum Celebrating 10-Year Anniversary This Weekend
State College News - State College,PA,USA

by Laura Nichols on April 20, 2012 1:20 PM Decades of "Success with Honor" are on display in the Penn State All-Sports Museum, celebrating the feats of Penn State's finest athletes. This weekend, the museum will open its doors to celebrate its own .. [more]

5:39:00 PM Italian museum burns art to protest austerity cuts
CNN International - Atlanta,GA,USA

By Nick Thompson, CNN A museum in Naples is burning its artworks to protest austerity cuts by the Italian government. (CNN) -- A museum in Italy is burning artworks from around the world to protest harsh austerity cuts by the Italian government. [more]

5:39:00 PM The Rant: Everyone wants, and gets, a museum
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington does not need any more national museums, for both practical and philosophical reasons. Certainly, there is prestige and visibility when a museum is located in Washington, but this city is museum-saturated, and we need to share the wealth . [more]

5:39:00 PM Obama to speak at Holocaust museum
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will mark the annual commemoration of the Holocaust during a speech Monday at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The White House says Obama will discuss his administration's strategy to prevent an [more]

3:17:04 PM Queensland Museum had 'lost' treasure for 100 years
The Australian

WHEN visiting British Museum curator John Taylor asked to inspect Queensland Museum's collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts, he did not expect to stumble upon a long-lost section of the burial scroll of one of the civilisation's greatest builders. [more]

3:17:04 PM Exhibits mark anniversary of historic tragedy
Kingsport Times News - Kingsport,TN,USA

The public's fascination with the tragedy has lived on, spawning scores of books, dozens of films or television shows, a Broadway musical (or two), a traveling exhibit of artifacts, and several museums - not to mention newspaper and magazine articles [more]

3:17:04 PM The curious case of the vanishing treasures
Independent

The thieves came only two and a half hours after closing time at Cambridge University's lavish museum last Friday night. They made off with 18 exquisite pieces of Chinese art: masterpieces in jade, jasper and bronze dating back to the 14th century an [more]

12:08:51 PM Shimla's museum to showcase miniature paintings
New York Daily News

Shimla, April 20 — The state museum in this Himachal Pradesh capital, a repository of the state's rich cultural, artistic and archaeological heritage, Friday got a new block to showcase rare miniature paintings. Inaugurating the block, Chief Minister [more]

12:08:51 PM Smithsonian welcomes space shuttle Discovery
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

Discovery is the first of the three remaining shuttles that flew in space to enter a museum, where it will serve as a tourist attraction. The others, Endeavour and Atlantis, will follow in the coming months. Discovery on Thursday will become the firs [more]

12:08:51 PM SPOTLIGHT: Museum acquires more Edna Perdew items
Washington Examiner (blog)

In this photo taken April 9, 2012, Pat Selquist, president of the Charles Perdew Museum Association, poses inside the museum by a collection of pictures created by Edna Perdew. The restored workshop of famed decoy carver Charlie Perdew serves as a .. [more]

8:55:02 AM Jim Crow Museum aims to show racism's injustice
The Advertiser - Lafayette,LA,USA

In a March 14, 2012 photo, David Pilgrim, the founder and curator who started building the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, stands in the museum's entrance in Big Rapids, Mich. The museum says it has amassed the nationís largest public collecti [more]

8:55:02 AM Several potential exhibits at FIFA's planned underground museum
Yahoo! Sports (blog)

By Brooks Peck By Brooks Peck | Dirty Tackle – 29 minutes ago FIFA announced plans to use $196 million (of their $1.2 billion cash reserve) to build an underground football museum as an extension of their Zurich headquarters. [more]

8:55:02 AM Fitzwilliam Museum theft: Public questioned one week on
BBC Sport - UK

One week after Chinese works of art were stolen from a Cambridge museum, police are to question people in the area in an attempt to "jog memories". The 18 items taken from the Fitzwilliam Museum's permanent collection are believed to be worth in exce [more]

8:55:02 AM Crocker Art Museum to receive Guy Rose collection
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

The Crocker Art Museum announced that it will be the recipient of a collection by California Impressionist painter Guy Rose. "Guy Rose was as important to California as Monet was to France," said Scott A. Shields, the Crocker's chief curator. [more]

4:43:09 AM Appleton Museum of Arts succeeds through artful leadership
Ocala.com - Ocala,FL,USA

If an organization is a reflection of its leadership, and we believe it is, the community treasure we know as the Appleton Museum of Arts is more robust and invigorating than ever because of the stewardship of John Lofgren. [more]

4:43:09 AM Anthony McCall's largest museum exhibition to date opens at Hamburger
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily A woman walks inside the art work 'Five Minutes Of Pure Sculpture' by British artist Anthony McCall at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, Thursday, April 19, 2012. Anthony McCall's work will be used at the official arts festival runnin [more]

1:33:05 AM Planes destined for Glenville museum
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA

By Paul Nelson A Mikoyan Gurevich MIG-15 aircraft is removed from the deck of the The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, Wednesday, April 18, 2012 in New York. The museum moved three aircrafts from its flight deck Wednesday to make room for the spac [more]

1:33:05 AM 'Connecting Cultures' at the Brooklyn Museum
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

When I was a kid, my parents would park me in our local museum — the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — on Saturday and let me wander, which I liked to do. So I got to absorb a big art collection in a sociable, stroll-by way. There was my good pal Paul .. [more]

1:33:05 AM Ai Weiwei Retrospective at the Hirshhorn
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

A major retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington this fall, as well as a recent installation and acquisition there, may shift the balance. “It all began two years ago, before he was ever incarcerated,” said Kerry ... [more]

1:33:05 AM PHOTO: President Obama Sits In Rosa Parks Bus
NPR - Washington,D.C.,USA

by Eyder Peralta During his trip to Detroit, yesterday, President Obama visited the Henry Ford Museum and had the opportunity to sit in the bus where in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to make way for a white customer. [more]

12:17:50 AM Orlando Museum of Art lets public choose exhibit
Orlando Sentinel

Now it's being used to decide what goes on the walls of art museums. When Orlando Museum of Art's "Picturing My Florida" exhibit opens Saturday, it will join cultural icons such as the Smithsonian Institution and Brooklyn Museum in letting the public [more]

12:17:50 AM St. Petersburg's Museum of Fine Arts ranks third in Martha Stewart's top ...
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA

The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg has joined that group with the No. 3 spot on a list of the 25 most desirable places in the eastern United States for a wedding reception. It's one of only two museums on the Marthastewartweddings.com list and t [more]

12:17:50 AM Connections That Seem to Erase Boundaries
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

A few years ago the art historian Thierry de Duve observed that we are living in a paradoxical moment when the increasingly specialized culture of art is transmitted through the most general channels, like museums and galleries. [more]



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