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News From Monday, April 09, 2007
7:41:44 PM Vietnam, Singapore to promote cultural cooperation
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam

Under the nine-article MoU, Singapore’s National Heritage Board will introduce Vietnamese culture at its museums to mark the 35th anniversary of the ... [more]

7:41:43 PM JHU Course Catalog: Museums and Controversy
Johns Hopkins Gazette - Baltimore,MD,USA

THE COURSE: Museums and Controversy. Offered by the Department of the History of Science and Technology in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. ... [more]

7:36:47 PM Artist Sol LeWitt dies at 78
Poughkeepsie Journal - Poughkeepsie,NY,USA

Major retrospectives of his works were organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1978 and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2000. .... [more]

7:36:46 PM Local Marine gives a personal tour of new museum
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA

Adjacent to Quantico, the new National Museum of the Marine Corps' glass roof appears to soar skyward, making it visible from several miles away. .... [more]

7:36:46 PM 'Sparkling Gems' focuses on museum founder
Knox Village Soup - ME,USA

The inaugural issue shines the spotlight on museum founder Ken Black, who died Jan. 28. Black spent decades amassing a collection of lighthouse lenses and ... [more]

7:36:45 PM Rift shuts down museum
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA

Sandra Kennedy, the Executive Director of The Orange County Natural History Museum in Laguna Niguel looks at a fossilized creature nicknamed Waldo. ... [more]

7:36:43 PM Museum debunks moon landing conspiracy theorists
CBC News - Canada

An Ohio museum is challenging the conspiracy theorists who argue Neil Armstrong's 1969 lunar landing was a hoax. The Armstrong Air & Space Museum in ... [more]

7:36:42 PM Man Kicks Foot Through Priceless Painting At Milwaukee Museum
KSDK - St. Louis,MO,USA

The museum admits the man had time to destroy the painting before security arrived, and now say they are working on a new security plan. ... [more]

4:01:43 PM Gallery is step closer to winning arts 'Oscar'
Chichester Today - Bath,England,UK

The longlist of ten museums and gallery projects competing for the prestigious £100000 Gulbenkian Prize was this week slashed to a shortlist of four – a ... [more]

3:54:14 PM Italian villagers battle New York museum over ancient war chariot
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia

A SMALL mountain village in Umbria is fighting New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for the ownership of a 2600-year-old Etruscan war chariot. .... [more]

3:54:14 PM Harn’s Museum Nights features film screening, interactive experience
University of Florida - Gainesville,Florida,USA

During the Harn Museum’s Museum Nights on April 12 at 6 pm, filmmaker and professor Salem Mekuria will screen her film “IMAGinING TOBIA” (2006) and discuss ... [more]

3:54:14 PM Flintknappers Manufacture Arrowheads, Tools At UI Natural History ...
PressZoom (press release) - Amsterdam,Netherlands

If you walk into the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History on a Friday afternoon, you'll witness a scene from the past: a group huddling together, ... [more]

3:54:14 PM Prison museum board discusses education
Leavenworth Times - Leavenworth,KS,USA

Members of the Kansas Regional Prisons Museum Board of Directors reviewed ways to bring an educational component to the museum to attract more visitors and ... [more]

3:54:13 PM Negro Leagues Museum traveling US
AtlantaBraves.com - Atlanta,GA,USA

In tribute to the men who made "black baseball," the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum will again go on a barnstorming tour. No, the museum won't be playing any ... [more]

3:54:13 PM Vandals spray graffiti on museum rail cars
Journal Times Online - Racine,WI,USA

Vandals break into a storage barn at Mukwonago and spray graffiti across four railroad cars owned by the East Troy Electric Railroad Museum. ... [more]

3:54:13 PM What Hoax? Museum To Set Record Straight Over Moon Landing
NewsNet5.com - Cleveland,OH,USA

WAPAKONETA, Ohio -- A western Ohio museum is confronting conspiracy theorists who argue hometown hero Neil Armstrong's 1969 moonwalk was a hoax. ... [more]

12:11:43 PM Open house at Historical Museum on Sunday
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA

The Madison County Historical Museum & Archival Library will have its spring open house from noon to 4 pm Sunday. The event will feature three discussions. ... [more]

12:11:43 PM USA : Textile Heritage Museum to hold Quilt exhibition on April 13
Fibre2fashion.com - India

Members of the Museum will be displaying their collections like Vintage Linens, Lace & Quilts, World War II uniforms and memorabilia. ... [more]

12:11:42 PM Joss House Museum hosting tours as part of 'Joy Luck Club' program
Auburn Journal - Auburn,CA,USA

Richard Yue, whose family owned the building for several decades, is part of the effort to preserve Auburn's Joss House Museum and keep it open to the ... [more]

12:11:42 PM The Yemeni Military Museum: A journey through Yemen’s historical eras
Yemen Times - Sana{;}a,Yemen

The three main Yemeni museums are: The National Museum, The Public Heritage Museum and The Military Museum, each with a branch in governorates such as Aden, ... [more]

12:11:41 PM Janie Cohen, director of the Fleming Museum at the University of ...
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA

The black-and-white street sign marking the place stands these days outside an exhibit at the University of Vermont Fleming Museum, a museum of art and .... [more]

12:11:40 PM 1 million species ... and counting
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Thomas Orrell, a biologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, said the finished catalogue will include all known living organisms, ... [more]

12:11:40 PM Museum tackles lunar allegations
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA

WAPAKONETA, Ohio - A museum honoring the first man to walk on the moon is not afraid to confront conspiracy theorists who argue his lunar landing was a hoax ... [more]

8:39:12 AM Wanted: Engineers geared up for past
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK

But its future, along with other sites across Yorkshire, could be in jeopardy as industrial museums struggle to find replacement engineers to keep the ... [more]

8:39:12 AM Latinos want to get more involved in city museums
Greeley Tribune - Greeley,CO,USA

As part of the Greeley Museums' effort to reach out to Latinos in Greeley and Weld, a Latino Advisory Committee was created and will have a booth at the ... [more]

8:29:13 AM Water Leak Threatens Brooke County Museum
Wheeling Intelligencer - Wheeling,WV,USA

WELLSBURG — Ruby Greathouse is apprehensive about turning on the lights to the second floor of the Brooke County Museum. The facility has survived several ... [more]

8:29:13 AM Latest bug exhibit infests Oshkosh Public Museum
Advance Titan - Oshkosh,WI,USA

In the normally stuffy confines of the Oshkosh Public Museum, insects are lurking. A two-headed bug slithers past a hairy spider that eats birds. ... [more]

8:29:12 AM Museum hosts traveling exhibit
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA

The museum will host "Redcoats: The British Soldier in South Carolina during the American Revolution," an exhibit dedicated to the English, ... [more]

8:29:12 AM Singapore to organize Vietnam Museum Festival
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam

The Museum of Asian Civilizations particularly wants to strengthen ties with the HCM City branch of the Vietnam Museum of History. ... [more]

8:29:12 AM UK: Helicopter Museum wins grant for new education, skills ...
UVOnline.com - Burnham,UK

The Helicopter Museum (THM) at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, which holds the world's largest dedicated collection of rotary-wing aircraft, has been awarded ... [more]

8:29:12 AM Museum challenges conspiracy theorists
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa

Ohio - A museum honouring the first man to walk on the moon is not afraid to confront conspiracy theorists who argue his 1969 lunar landing was a hoax. ... [more]

8:29:12 AM Effort to catalog species tops 1 million
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

Thomas M. Orrell, a biologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, said the finished catalog will include all known living organisms, ... [more]

4:29:24 AM Saving tangible heritage
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India

Australia is keen to offer its expertise in helping Calcutta’s museums preserve their collections better and also equip them to react with alacrity to ... [more]

4:29:23 AM American Museums in Crisis: A New Thing?
History News Network - Seattle,WA,USA

Those who have studied the history of American or even European museums will recognize that the museum is described using the terms, “crisis” and ... [more]

3:49:13 AM New York State Museum provides family entertainment
Capital News 9 - Albany,NY,USA

The New York State Museum has begun its "family fun weekends," and some Capital Region families decided to head down to check it out this Easter. .... [more]

3:49:13 AM Precious artifacts not damaged - National Museum Director
Daily News - Columbo,Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: The two artifacts of the national museum that were exposed to rain due to repairs of the museum’s roof have not been damaged and there is a .... [more]

3:49:13 AM Net museum for art lovers
CCTV - Beijing,China

He dreamt of opening a private museum a couple of years ago in order to share his collection with others. But it's not an easy dream to make come true. ... [more]

3:49:13 AM Effort to catalogue living species tops 1m
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa

Thomas M Orrell, a biologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, said the finished catalogue will include all known living organisms, ... [more]

3:49:13 AM End of an era for Air Force Museum?
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand

National's Defence spokesman, Dr Wayne Mapp wants to know what's being done to keep the Ohakea Air Force museum open and running. ... [more]

3:49:12 AM Pa. museum housing 16000-year-old site to close temporarily
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA

A western Pennsylvania museum that houses one of the earliest known sites of human habitation on the continent will close in June for repairs. ... [more]



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