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11:34:37 PM L.A. Museum of the Holocaust's Tree of Testimony Tells Survivors'
LA Weekly

LA Weekly (blog) But no matter how frequently you'd like to deeply consider the Holocaust, a particularly meaningful way to do it is by visiting the LA Museum of the Holocaust's new Tree of Testimony exhibit, which opened this past weekend. [more]

11:16:54 PM China Extends Reach Into International Art
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Here, in the nation's financial center, the city government recently gave its blessing to a museum of contemporary art to be called an “art palace” — actually an expansion of the China Pavilion of the 2010 World Expo — that will bring the space to .. [more]

11:16:54 PM Discovery arrival brings record-breaking week of attendance to Udvar-Hazy
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By Maura Judkis The arrival of the Space Shuttle Discovery brought more than 60000 people to the Udvar-Hazy center last week, in what the museum says was a record breaking week of attendance. Isabel Lara, media relations manager for the National Air  [more]

11:16:54 PM Man questioned in Gardner Museum heist faces weapons charges
Boston Herald

A reputed Connecticut mobster suspected of having information related to the largest art theft in history from a Boston museum has been arraigned on weapons charges. Robert Gentile of Manchester was arraigned Monday in federal court in Hartford. [more]

7:00:13 PM That's shoe business! Museum is home to the world's largest collection
Daily Mail - UK - UK

Daily Mail For Northampton is home to the world's largest collection of shoes, with more than 12000 pairs on display in its roomy museum, which one commentator refers to as a 'giant shoebox'. From enormous canvas elephant boots from the Fifties to iv [more]

7:00:13 PM There's a history to Chandler museum friction
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

by Edythe Jensen - Apr. 23, 2012 10:10 AM A few years ago Chandler history buffs were looking forward to opening a new downtown museum during the city's 2012 centennial year. But the recession forced officials to put the voter-approved, museum-buildi [more]

6:39:10 PM Obama visits Holocaust Museum, unveils new Syria and Iran sanctions
ABC News - United States

After a solemn walk through Washington's haunting Holocaust Memorial Museum, President Barack Obama on Monday unveiled new sanctions targeting Iran and Syria and extended American aid in the hunt for Joseph Kony, the Lord's Resistance Army warlord. [more]

6:39:10 PM Getty Museum's designated director deals with UK museum thefts
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

By David Ng Timothy Potts, who was named director of the Getty Museum in February and who will assume the post in September, no doubt had a busy weekend. As was reported in the British media, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, ... [more]

6:39:10 PM Allentown Art Museum expands its permanent collection
WFMZ Allentown

The Allentown Art Museum has acquired a number of new artworks to add to its extensive permanent collection, which no include more than 17000 pieces. Recent acquisitions include a set of 12 German Passion prints that incorporate textiles and extensiv [more]

6:39:10 PM British Museum show tracks gold medals from Mongolian mines to Olympic
Daily Mail - UK - UK

Daily Mail By Sportsmail Reporter From mines in the United States and Mongolia to the necks of the world's most elite athletes, a display at the British Museum investigates the journey of the 4700 Olympic medals to be handed out in London this summer [more]

4:57:47 PM Remarks By President Obama At The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Yeshiva World News

This museum's Committee of Conscience, NGOs, faith groups, college students, you've harnessed the tools of the digital age — online maps and satellites and a video and social media campaign seen by millions. You understand that change comes from the  [more]

4:57:47 PM Mesa museums see economic difficulties as learning experiences
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA

Two Mesa museums are holding their own despite the economic downturn. The Mesa Historical Museum and Arizona Museum of Natural History were both impacted by the recession, but it also changed their operations for the better. [more]

4:57:47 PM Holocaust Museum gets prestigious accreditation
Ultimate West U

by Chris Peters | April 23, 2012 10:35 am The American Association of Museums announced its accreditation of the Holocaust Museum Houston on April 11. Accreditation from the association is granted following a strict schedule of self-study and peer .. [more]

4:57:47 PM Museums-and-literature project 26 Treasures to form basis of new book
The List - UK

When 26 Treasures came to the National Museum of Scotland between December 2011 and January 2012 it was well received by artists and visitors alike. 26 writers were assigned 26 objects from the museum's vast collection of historical artefacts ... [more]

1:34:52 PM New Racism Museum Reveals the Ugly Truth Behind Aunt Jemima
Atlantic Online - USA

The public will soon be able to see his entire collection and more at the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, which opens April 26 at Ferris University in Michigan where Pilgrim spent years as a sociology professor. The museum is divided into ... [more]

1:34:52 PM Fitzwilliam Museum theft: White van 'used by raiders'
BBC Sport - UK

A white van is thought to have been used in the theft of Chinese "valuable and culturally significant" art from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Police have released images of the VW Caddy van stolen from the Tower Hamlets area of east London on  [more]

1:34:52 PM Port Huron Museum kicks off last week of Toy Tech exhibit
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA

9:40 pm By CRYSTAL GARCIA Madison O'Neill kept her rocket launch strategy a secret from her brother, hoping she would win Sunday during the Port Huron Museum's Toy Tech Day of Champions. Unfortunately, it didn't work, and Brett O'Neill launched his . [more]

1:34:52 PM Commissioners agree: Museum is a good investment
Madison Messenger

County Museum Director Kim Proctor points to where exhibits will be set up in the coming months during a tour of the Rockingham County Museum on Tuesday evening. With only four months to go, the countdown is speeding up on turning the old courthouse  [more]

1:28:58 PM State Museum of Pennsylvania Announces May Highlights
MarketWatch - USA

Harrisburg's 3rd in the Burg: On Friday, May 18, at 5:30 pm, The State Museum's May "3rd in the Burg" event features the Harrisburg Jewish Film Festival screening of Intimate Grammar. Awarded "Best Feature Film" at the 2010 Jerusalem International Fi [more]

1:28:58 PM MUSEUM OF MAN RAMPS UP ITS INTERACTIVE APPROACH
U-T San Diego

San Diego Museum of Man CEO Micah Parzen is the chief architect of museum's changes. HOWARD LIPIN • UT If you grew up in San Diego, you inevitably took a field trip to Balboa Park's San Diego Museum of Man, where among the musty mummies and ancient . [more]

1:28:58 PM Ahmed Shawqi museum to be inaugurated
Ahram Online

On the Giza Corniche, the boardwalk that lines the Nile, stands the lavish, white villa of the Ahmed Shawqi museum, adorned with a small garden, ready for its official opening on Tuesday. After almost a year-long restoration process, ... [more]

11:28:41 AM Apple sued by museum display company over alleged patent infringement
UberGizmo - CA,USA

Some of you guys might be old enough to recall walking through museums back in the day before smartphones were popular, and playing around with some of the interactive displays that made use of touchscreen technology. Well now it seems that one such  [more]

9:57:51 AM President Obama to visit museum on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

WASHINGTON — On Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Barack Obama will be paying his respects at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The White House says the president will discuss his administration's strategy to prevent and respond to . [more]

9:57:51 AM Museum buys indigenous drawings of convict
The West Australian

The National Museum of Australia bought Tommy McRae's pen and ink drawing, Buckley's Escape, for $70300 on Monday. The drawing recreates the scene when William Buckley, known as "the wild white man", escaped a Victorian prison colony in the early 180 [more]

9:57:51 AM DC's Madame Tussauds wax museum adds Lady Gaga to its hall of presidents ...
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

WASHINGTON — The Presidents Gallery by Madame Tussauds is adding a figure of Lady Gaga to the Washington wax museum and is inviting visitors to join a Gaga-inspired costume contest. The Gaga figure is set to arrive at the museum Monday. [more]

7:55:44 AM Alarm over museum security
Kathimerini - Athens,Greece

Media staff were looking for Marina Lambraki-Plaka, director of the institution for the past 20 years, to get a reaction on a report by public administration inspector Leandros Rakintzis regarding the security of Greek museums. [more]

5:59:08 AM Qatar Museums To Launch Google Art Project Partnership
Bernama

Doha, April 22 (QNA) -- The Qatar Museums Authority will hold a ceremony to launch its partnership with Google on the Google Art Project at the Museum of Islamic Art on Tuesday, Qatar news agency reported. The project enables people to view over 3000 [more]

5:59:08 AM Queensland Museum discovers 3000 year old fragments from Egyptian Book of
MobyLives

MobyLives by Paul Oliver It is an unlikely, and probably a little disconcerting story, but the Queensland Museum located in Brisbane, Australia, has discovered that it houses a fragment from a 3000-year-old Egyptian manuscript. Parts of it were disco [more]

5:59:08 AM Kenner wants to revive historic Rivertown district
NOLA / Associated Press

After news of museums closing and staff being laid off, many people at the event were surprised to see Kenner's historic district alive, if not well. View full sizeBrett Duke, The Times-PicayuneKenner is launching a broad initiative to revive Riverto [more]

5:59:08 AM The school within a museum
IBNLive.com - New Delhi,India

The Museum School, a concept which was first introduced in Bhopal, is about a school within a museum. The school provides the right infrastructure for children, thereby enabling them to get information conceptually. “If museums are built in education [more]

5:56:14 AM National Museum nets rare Aboriginal art
ABC Online - Australia

The National Museum in Canberra has purchased two rare pen and ink drawings thought to have been created more than a century ago by an Aboriginal artist. Buckley's Escape, drawn by Aboriginal artist Tommy McRae, depicts convict William Buckley escapi [more]

4:28:52 AM US museum showcases racist artifacts
Mainichi Daily News

BIG RAPIDS, Michigan (AP) -- The objects displayed in the US state of Michigan's newest museum range from the ordinary, such as simple ashtrays and fishing lures, to the grotesque - a full-size replica of a lynching tree. But all are united by a comm [more]

4:28:52 AM Go West, Young Religion: Mormonism on Exhibit
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

For a glimpse of how Mormons see themselves, though, it's worth visiting the Church History Museum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints here. Created by believers, for believers, the museum shows how close to the center of American life [more]

4:28:52 AM Museum display highlights Fleming County's baseball past
Ledger Independent - Maysville,KY,USA

Three of the many baseball artifacts displayed Saturday at the Fleming County Covered Bridge Museum are shown here. The two Montreal Expos jerseys at right were worn by Fleming native Woodie Fryman during his years with the team from 1975-76 and 78-8 [more]

4:28:52 AM Tulsa's Philbrook Museum Of Art Adds Brady District Location
News On 6 - Tulsa,OK,USA

A sketch of what the area will look like when the museum moves in next year. A benefit this weekend raised $30000 to put toward continuing education and operational programs at Philbrook. After four and a half years of planning, the Philbrook Museum  [more]

3:46:58 AM Italian museum burns artworks to protest austerity measures
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran

Antonio Manfredi, director of the Contemporary Art Museum of Casoria, Italy, burns a painting of French artist Severine Bourguignon on April 17, 2012. An Italian museum pledges to burn three international artworks per week in opposition to the tough  [more]

12:38:32 AM Fazil Say at the Metropolitan Museum
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The Turkish pianist Fazil Say's performance at the Metropolitan Museum on Friday night was the only traditional piano recital presented in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium this season. That there was not a whole series of piano recitals represents  [more]

12:38:32 AM Colorado History Museum learns from its own past
Victoria Advocate

DENVER (AP) - When the dedicated staff at the History Colorado Center sat down to plan out a new museum, it had to face a cold, hard fact about the old one: It wasn't a very popular place. Oh sure, school kids came by the busload, but they didn't ... [more]

12:38:32 AM Museum spices up Hispanic history
Daily Trojan Online

Thankfully, there exists a year-old museum that casts light on the formation of Los Angeles and the history of Mexican people in the city — and does so free of charge. Teenage wasteland · Steinberg bridges the generational gap between teens and adult [more]



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