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News From Monday, May 14, 2007
11:16:29 PM Botetourt students leave 'footprints' in history museum
OurValley.org - Roanoke,VA,USA

An exhibit developed by some of the gifted students in Botetourt’s elementary and middle schools opened in the Botetourt History Museum in Fincastle ... [more]

11:16:28 PM Celia Cruz Exhibit Opens At Bass Museum
NBC6.net - Miami,FL,USA

An exhibit exploring the life of legendary Cuban-born singer Celia Cruz opens this week at the Bass Museum of Art on Miami Beach. ... [more]

11:16:28 PM Turkish artifacts donated to Islamabad Heritage Museum
Daily Times - Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has contributed some valuable artifacts for display in the Heritage Museum, Lok Virsa on Monday. ... [more]

11:16:28 PM 'Fetish to Fashion' exhibit wholesome fun at Bead Museum
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

"We actually took the name from a book by Daniel Nadler,"said Katey Anderson, Bead Museum executive director. "In fact, about a third of the pieces on ... [more]

11:16:27 PM Bye-Bye, Black History Museum?
Boise Weekly - Boise,ID,USA

Money problems have forced the Idaho Black History Museum to lay off its staff and severely cut back on operations. Shenna Smith, from the museum's board of ... [more]

11:16:27 PM The European Museum of the Year Award
Art Daily - USA

The European Museum of the Year Award, organised by the European Museum Forum, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, with a Presentation Ceremony and ... [more]

11:16:26 PM Massive bronze cats to once again grace UM museum
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

Starting Wednesday, two new bronze pumas will be placed on perches in front of the museum, filling the void created in August when the original cats, ... [more]

11:16:26 PM Cincinnati Art Museum Announces Short List of Architects
Art Daily - USA

The Board of the Cincinnati Art Museum today announced the short list of architecture firms selected as candidates to work with the Museum on the ... [more]

5:56:25 PM Annandale National Historic Site celebrates Museums Day
Tillsonburg News - ON,Canada

"We tend to visit museums when we’re on vacation," said Phelps, "but this is a golden opportunity for people to take that hour and visit the museum in their ... [more]

5:26:27 PM Mark Twain Museum's
WVVA TV - Quincy,IL,USA

Join John North, as he hosts and performs during May’s “Tea Time Party” at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum on the 2nd floor auditorium of the Mark ... [more]

5:26:27 PM Deadwood's Days of '76 Museum receives $40512
Alton Telegraph - Alton,IL,USA

The team will provide the museum staff and board with detailed action plans to best stabilize, preserve and protect artifacts in the museum's possession and ... [more]

5:26:26 PM Folksinger Judy Cook to perform sea music at Maine Lighthouse ...
Waldo Village Soup - ME,USA

The program is part of the "Music and Lore of the Sea" concert series cosponsored by Rockland Folk Arts and the museum. The concert begins at 7:30 pm in the ... [more]

5:26:26 PM Massive bronze pumas to once again decorate UM museum
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

Starting Tuesday, two new bronze pumas will be placed on perches in front of the museum, filling the void created in August when the original cats, ... [more]

5:26:26 PM International Museum Day opens
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Dr Ho said the Leisure and cultural Services Department had organised the meaningful and interesting Museum Panorama since ... [more]

2:06:27 PM Night at the Museums
GQ - USA

... aims (according to press materials) to turn the city's museums into a "cultural free-for-all for connoisseurs, first-timers, doubters, and admirers. ... [more]

2:06:26 PM Worcester museums offer Passport to Discovery for school kids
Delaware Coast Press - Rehoboth Beach,DE,USA

OCEAN CITY — Worcester County museums will offer a “Passport to Discovery” to encourage children to learn about local history. ... [more]

1:36:28 PM Angola: Luanda's Slavery Museum to Re-Open
AllAfrica.com - Africa

The Slavery National Museum, located in Luanda's Samba District, will re-open its doors to the public next Friday, date that is commemorated the ... [more]

1:36:28 PM Museum to move into bigger space in better location
Press Herald - Portland,ME,USA

The Museum of African Culture, which for the past nine years has been housed in a rented house on Spring Street in Portland, is expected to move downtown in ... [more]

1:36:28 PM Museum, city in bind on repairs
Palo Alto Daily News - Palo Alto,CA,USA

Drop for drop and dollar for dollar, plans for the Palo Alto History Museum may be more than the city bargained for, thanks to a leaky basement ceiling that ... [more]

1:36:27 PM A museum divided
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA

For 44 years, artifacts tracing the triumphs of flight have been proudly displayed at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park. ... [more]

1:36:27 PM Bus museum readies for season
Hibbing Daily Tribune - Hibbing,MN,USA

HIBBING — When the Greyhound Bus Museum opens for the season on Monday, it will have even more to offer visitors. A new Greyhound has been added to the ... [more]

1:36:26 PM Renovations once again make Ringling museum
Ocala.com - Ocala,FL,USA

SARASOTA - The Ringling museum's aging roof couldn't stop Tropical Storm Gabrielle's drenching rain, which dripped into buckets only a few feet from ... [more]

1:36:26 PM Aboriginal remains return to Tasmania
ABC Online - Australia

The museum kept refusing requests for the bones to be returned to Tasmania because it said it wanted to keep the remains for scientific testing. ... [more]

10:16:26 AM Little Hope Remains For Carted-Off antiquities
The UCSD Guardian Online - San Diego,CA,USA

May 14, 2007 — In the last couple of weeks letters have been sent to most of the world's major museums asking for the return of Egyptian artifacts to their ... [more]

9:46:28 AM New York museum pays homage to late 'king of fashion'
South Asian Women's Forum - New Delhi,India

NEW YORK (AFP) - But now, more than 60 years after Poiret's death, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is hoping to change that with an exhibition devoted ... [more]

9:46:28 AM Heritage museum inaugurated
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India

Pathanamthitta, May 14: The Heritage Museum cum Reference Library at Aranmula, a project jointly sponsored by the Centre and the United Nations Development ... [more]

9:46:27 AM Iran’s Most Ancient Banner Go on Display in National Museum
Cultural Heritage News - Tehran,Tehran,Iran

According to Mohammad Reza Kargar, director of Iran’s National Museum, this collection is consisted of a number of invaluable Iranian national treasures ... [more]

9:46:27 AM Hawaii Army Museum 'Living History Day' Scheduled for May 19
Hawaii Reporter - Kailua,HI,USA

The US Army Museum of Hawaii will host 232 Years of military history when it presents “Living History Day” from 10 am to 3 pm on Saturday, May 19th, ... [more]

9:46:27 AM Aviation museum sought for Rome
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA

ROME — A nonprofit group has proposed building an aviation museum at the Griffiss Business and Technology Park, which was once home to a US Air Force Base. ... [more]

9:46:26 AM EUROPEAN MUSEUM OF THE YEAR AWARD
Artline - Bucharest,Romania

The European Museum of the Year, organised and given by the European Museum Forum has celebrated it's 30th anniversary during a ceremony, ... [more]

9:46:26 AM Varsity may return remains
Oxford Mail - Oxford,England,UK

Oxford University museum bosses have met Australian Government representatives for talks on the possible return of Aboriginal remains to Tasmania. ... [more]

6:31:26 AM Readington Museums tries to bring history to children
Bridgewater Courier News - Bridgewater,NJ,USA

READINGTON -- The Readington Museums wants to take children back to a time when T and V were simply letters of the alphabet, when eggs came from chickens ... [more]

5:56:29 AM Bible exhibit to be extended at Museum of Idaho
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA

A popular exhibit looking at the history of the Bible at the Museum of Idaho is being extended and expanded with additional material. ... [more]

5:56:28 AM Aboriginal remains coming home to Tas
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia

The remains were taken from Tasmania in the 19th century and found their way into the museum's collection in the 1940s through donations and transfers from ... [more]

5:56:28 AM Site chosen for Iran's Fars Provincial Museum
IranMania News - Iran

LONDON, May 14 (IranMania) - Haft-Tanan area of Shiraz has been selected as the site for the proposed Fars provincial museum following studies conducted on ... [more]

5:56:28 AM No special treatment for Beaconsfield museum upgrade
ABC Online - Australia

The West Tamar Council says a plan to upgrade the Beaconsfield Grub Shaft Gold and Heritage Museum will not get special treatment. ... [more]

5:56:28 AM Caldwell Museum Re-opens
Fox 12 Boise - Nampa,ID,USA

Caldwell, Idaho-- After being closed for more than a year the Caldwell museum is once again opening its doors. Its been taken over by the Canyon County ... [more]

5:56:27 AM Exhibit by UCSC art students at Museum of Art and History
UC Santa Cruz (press release) - Santa Cruz,CA,USA

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History is presenting an exhibition by UCSC art students titled “Invisible Boardwalks” through June 1 at its Lezin Gallery. ... [more]

5:56:27 AM Meaford celebrates museum renovations
Owen Sound Sun Times - Owen Sound,Ontario,Canada

It took a lot longer than expected but the renovated and expanded Meaford Museum re-opened Saturday after its closure nearly three years ago. ... [more]

5:56:27 AM Finding Minnesota: Minnesota Fishing Museum
WCCO - Minneapolis,MN,USA

"This is the oldest one we have, it's a 1902, electric," said the museum's founder, 84-year-old Al Baert. He's pointing to one of many antique outboard ... [more]

5:56:26 AM Museum offers art that kids can get their hands on
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA

A traveling exhibit from the Children's Museum of Portsmouth, Museum To You will set up shop in the Millyard May 23 to June 16. ... [more]

5:56:26 AM Cernuschi Museum shows Lorestan artifacts
IranMania News - Iran

LONDON, May 14 (IranMania) - Last year?s exhibition of Sassanid artworks at the Cernuschi Museum of Paris wetted appetites: the officials of the museum have ... [more]



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