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9:54:24 PM The firestorm over private museums
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA

By Lauren AE Schuker - The Wall Street Journal Collectors looking to show off their riches used to donate their art to a museum. Now many are building their ... [more]

9:54:24 PM Grand Rapids Art Museum Repatriates Saint Eustace Panels Stolen ...
Art Daily - USA

The Grand Rapids Art Museum announced today that the Museum is returning two Italian panel paintings stolen from the Church of Saint Eustace in Campo di ... [more]

8:40:48 PM Parishes, museums plan anti-fire, disaster measures
Inquirer.net - Philippines

This would be our priority," said Lindzey Romero, curator of the Boljoon Parish Museum. Romero said the parish is also studying the possibility of creating ... [more]

6:09:08 PM Formal Opposition: Protesters Dress Down Brooklyn Museum Over ...
Village Voice - New York,NY,USA

Chants creative and classic poured from the crowd of protesters assembled behind NYPD barricades on Thursday evening outside the Brooklyn Museum. ... [more]

6:09:08 PM US museum to return stolen Italian art
PR Inside (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria

AP GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (AP) - The Grand Rapids Art Museum will return two 14th-century panel paintings to Italy after learning they were stolen from a ... [more]

2:20:27 PM Museum Store Association to Hold Expo in Tampa
Newswire Today (press release) - London,UK

The Museum Store Association (MSA) will hold its annual meeting and Expo in Tampa, FL, April 12 - 15, at the Tampa Convention Center. ... [more]

2:17:46 PM Top five museums: Little Black Dress
Times Online - UK

Museum & Art Gallery, Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton (01273 292882), until Jun 1, free The forces that have shaped the capital throughout the ages. ... [more]

11:00:15 AM Cordova Historical Society and Museum to take part in national project
Cordova Times - Cordova,AK,USA

In a few years, thousands of museums and historic houses across the country will benefit from a new national program soon to be tested at the Cordova Museum ... [more]

10:41:38 AM Grand Rapids Art Museum to return stolen art
Michigan Business Review - Ann Arbor,MI,USA

The Grand Rapids Art Museum is returning pair of Italian panel paintings that it has discovered were stolen from a church in Italy in 1902. ... [more]

10:41:38 AM Doctor Who set to land at museum
The Press Association -

Doctor Who is to descend on a museum in Glasgow, it has been announced. Thousands of sci-fi fans are expected to visit the Kelvingrove Gallery for a major ... [more]

10:41:38 AM Museum Accepts Aging Skipjack, Plans Restoration
WJZ - Baltimore,MD,USA

The Richardson Maritime Museum in Cambridge is planning a $300000 restoration of what may be the largest surviving skipjack in the Chesapeake Bay. ... [more]

8:17:45 AM Explore museums after dark
This is London - London,England,UK

Londoners are being offered the chance to visit their favourite museums and galleries at night. As part of Museums at Night Weekend, venues across the city ... [more]

8:17:45 AM Exhibit that uses cadavers is setting museum record
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

Experts in the museum industry say that science centers are increasingly turning to for-profit traveling exhibits to offer more options to museum-goers. ... [more]

7:41:33 AM Botswana: National Museum to Host Photo Exhibition
AllAfrica.com - Africa

The National Museum will next week be hosting a rare but interesting exhibition of photographs by veteran photographers Sandy Grant and Phil Sandick. ... [more]

7:41:33 AM Mystery of our art in darkness
The Australian - Australia

IT was 3.39am in the still, humid, early hours on Tuesday this week when the security alarms at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory rang: ... [more]

7:41:33 AM Museum digs deep to set up new record
Huddersfield Examiner - Huddersfield,UK

A RECORD number of people visited the National Coal Mining Museum during the past year. The attraction near Grange Moor welcomed over 135000 people through ... [more]

5:10:34 AM Rehberg pushes for more funding for Museum of the Plains Indian
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA

Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., has requested increased funding for the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning in the annual Interior Appropriations bill. .... [more]

3:23:04 AM THOUSANDS SIGN UP TO SAVE MUSEUM
Burton Mail - Burton on Trent,England,UK

Additionally, a second protest group has now been set up on social networking site Facebook, while the original site - Save the Bass Museum - set up more ... [more]



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