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11:23:09 PM Sixth-graders make Kenyan connection
Cincinnati.com

The program is a collaboration between the Museum Center and the National Museums of Kenya at Lamu. The program was designed to introduce middle-schoolers to the traditional arts of storytelling, poetry and oral histories, and to use them to teach ea [more]

9:35:26 PM US airs concerns on Chabad-Russia feud over texts
JTA - New York,NY,USA

Chabad attorneys submitted a statement and letter to the State Department declaring that it will not try to enforce last year's judgment by seizing cultural objects lent by Russia to American museums. Russia's Ministry of Culture did not respond to A [more]

9:33:21 PM High-Tech Robots Bring Bible History to Life
Christian Post - San Francisco,CA,USA

By Katherine T. Phan | Christian Post Reporter The words "high-tech" and "ancient artifacts" don't usually go together but at the new "Passages" Bible exhibit, which debuts Monday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, high-tech robots are combined with [more]

7:54:49 PM Elmhurst Celebrates International Museum Day Sunday with a Trolley Trip ...
Patch.com

By Jim Svehla | Email the author | 2:00pm Luke Brown, 6, with his sisters Haley, 8, and Jamie, 3, talk about rocks with aa volunteer at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art Sunday. Elmhurst's annual Museum Day featured free admission, exhibits, ... [more]

6:29:12 PM ArtsBeat: MoMA to Pay $31.2 Million for Folk Art Museum Building
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By KATE TAYLOR The Museum of Modern Art will pay $31.2 million for the American Folk Art Museum's building, according to a notice the folk art museum filed to its bondholders. The two museums announced the planned sale last week but had not disclosed [more]

6:29:12 PM The Mourners Exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art Wins an Association of
Dallas Art News - Dallas,Texas,USA

Dallas Art News The Dallas Museum of Art announced today that it is the recipient of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) annual Award for Excellence in the category of museum exhibitions for The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the C [more]

6:00:21 PM Civil War general's severed leg on display in Md.
Wall Street Journal - USA

The specimen belongs to the National Museum of Health and Medicine. It's being displayed at Fort Detrick while the museum moves from Washington to Silver Spring. Sickles lost his leg in 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg. The exhibit includes a 12-poun [more]

5:18:49 PM International Museums Day to be marked in Ho
Ghana News Agency - Accra,Ghana

Ho, May 16, GNA - This year's International Museums Day will be marked in the Volta Regional capital Ho on Wednesday May 18 with clean-up exercise, lectures and an exhibition. The general theme for the celebration is: "Museum and Memory". ... [more]

5:18:49 PM Iran's riches gather dust in dormant museums
Financial Times

Near the entrance of the Archaeological Museum of Iran, huge pottery vessels painted with simple geometric shapes dating back to the fifth millennium BC proudly signal the depth of the country's civilisation. Yet initial impressions are misleading. . [more]

5:18:49 PM Wisconsin Maritime Museum to celebrate special week
Herald Times Reporter - Manitowoc,WI,USA

MANITOWOC — The Wisconsin Federation of Museums will be celebrating International Museum Day by sponsoring Wisconsin Museums Week through Sunday. From Friday through Sunday, the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc will celebrate by hosting its 35t [more]

4:46:37 PM West Point Museum in NY opens Civil War exhibit today to mark conflict's
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post By AP, HIGHLAND FALLS, NY — The West Point Museum is opening an exhibit of artifacts and artwork from the US Military Academy's extensive Civil War collection. The exhibit opens Monday in the Foyer Gallery within the main entrance to  [more]

4:46:37 PM Dog days of summer to arrive at local museum
Norwalk Plus Magazine - USA

By Stepping Stones Museum for Children Stepping Stones Museum for Children is pleased to announce BooZoo's Canine Carnival June 4 and 5 from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, a two-day event on museum grounds. Featuring dozens of vendors, performances, ... [more]

4:46:37 PM McWane Science Center plans $5M expansion for preschoolers
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

By Joseph D. Bryant -- The Birmingham News The McWane Science Center plans to add a $5 million children's museum aimed at preschoolers, the popular attraction's largest expansion since it opened in 1998. The Birmingham Children's Museum, ... [more]

4:13:45 PM Suez National Museum to Open Thursday
Ahram Online

Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass will officially inaugurate the Suez National Museum this Thursday. Built over three years with a budget of LE 42 million, the museum is 5950 square meters in size and ... [more]

4:13:45 PM Learning from Singapore's museums
Philippine Star - Manila,Philippines

The only places I refused to visit though were the SG museums. I did not want to care about Singapore's history and culture. But my mom must always get her way lest we won't get the new clothes and shoes we so desperately need. And though I hated it, [more]

4:13:45 PM Iowa company ready to make monumental museum move
Eastern Iowa Life

CEDAR RAPIDS — Leaders of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library didn't have to search far to find a mover capable of relocating the iconic building. Crews from Patterson Structural Moving have successfully lifted the National Czech and Slovak  [more]

2:55:49 PM New home for Ohio man's pencil sharpener 'museum'
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

Paul Johnson had kept his collection in a small shed he called his museum, outside his home in Carbon Hill in southeast Ohio. A new home for his more than 3400 sharpeners was dedicated Friday inside a regional welcome center. ... [more]

2:55:49 PM Museum exceeds expectations with brunch theatre fundraiser
Woodlands Online, LLC - The Woodlands,TX,USA

With a cast of 16 adults and children, the atmosphere was charged with laughter as the crowd of family, friends, members and donors of The Woodlands Children's Museum supported the Sunday brunch theatre fundraiser. "We were hoping this would be a goo [more]

1:09:56 PM Vidalia onions are so sweet that they have their own museum
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA

Since 1931, Vidalia sweet onions have been grown in only 13 counties and portions of seven others in Southeast Georgia, and it's such a sweet success story that it was only a matter of time - well, some 80 years - before a museum honoring them would  [more]

1:09:56 PM Appalachian museum celebrates joys of hiking
Reuters - NY,USA

Halfway along a hiking trail that stretches along the east coast of the United States from Georgia to Maine, a museum celebrates the joys and wonders of the great outdoors. The Appalachian Trail Museum, in the tiny village of Gardners in the ... [more]

1:09:56 PM Palace Museum under Criticism Again
CRIENGLISH.com - Beijing,China

Beijing's Palace museum is once again under criticism following last week's security breach which led to the theft of precious artworks from the Forbidden City. The museum is now facing criticism for its decision to turn its Jianfu Hall, which includ [more]

1:09:56 PM New Museum Exhibit Remembers the Ladies
Patch.com

Now through July 16, the Museum of the San Ramon Valley celebrates the 100-year anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in California, with a display of period garb, artifacts, and historical information about the lives of local women. ... [more]

1:09:56 PM Ying Quartet at the Independence Seaport Museum
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

1 doing in the quartet's repertoire Friday at the Independence Seaport Museum? It's a big piece to learn for its limited potential mileage, but it makes sense in venues along the East Coast, where the former longtime director of Philadelphia's ... [more]

1:09:56 PM West Point Museum to open Civil War show
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA

Photo provided By Wayne A. Hall The West Point Museum begins a continuing exhibition of rarely or never seen Civil War artifacts today to mark the 150-year-old struggle that pitted officers from the US Military Academy against each other. ... [more]

1:09:56 PM Manassas Museum Extends Hours for Summer
Patch.com

The museum will be open on Mondays for the summer "to accommodate a growing number of seasonal visitors." By Erin Gibson | Email the author | May 15, 2011 There's good news for those looking for a chance to see the many exhibits and artifacts ... [more]

1:09:56 PM Prairie Grove Promotes Tolerance With Holocaust Museum
Patch.com

Prairie Grove Junior High School students will host a Holocaust Memorial Museum, open to the public, from May 24-26. By Brittaini Maul | Email the author | 6:00am A past exhibit at the museum. Kate Bieschke For the past three years, eighth-grade ... [more]

12:29:12 PM Museum open evenings in Dorchester are a big hit
Dorset Echo - UK

By Lucy Pearce » THOUSANDS flocked to Dorchester over the weekend to experience a unique night-time experience at the museums in the county town. The Museums at Night event on Saturday allowed families to visit all seven attractions with just one ... [more]

12:29:12 PM Weekend culture round-up - Museum Night
thenews.pl

Culture vultures in the Polish capital have a cracking weekend in store with both the Warsaw Book Fair and the 8th Night of Museums lined up. Culture vultures in the Polish capital have a cracking weekend in store with both the Warsaw Book Fair and t [more]

10:32:41 AM Police to take over local museums for Zara Phillips' wedding
Guardian - UK

The report reveals that council-run museums close to the Canongate Kirk are due to be used by police for security. The council said it is likely the People's Story Museum and the Museum of Edinburgh will need to be closed to the public as a result. . [more]

9:48:24 AM Museum of the San Ramon Valley exhibit to focus on suffrage centennial
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By Rebecca F. Johnson Dressed as suffragettes Carmen Curtis, Sonya Seyler, and Linda Soda, all of Danville, talks to visitor Sarah Hanson, of San Francisco,at the Museum of the San Ramon Valley in Danville, Calif., on Saturday, May 14, 2011. ... [more]

9:48:24 AM Dispute Over Archive Leads Russia to Nix Art Loans
ABC News - United States

Russia has already frozen art loans to major American institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Houston Museum of Natural Science, fearing that its cultural property could be seized after the Brooklyn, NY-based Chabad-Lubavitch . [more]

9:48:24 AM Palace Museum Apologizes for Wrong Word on Banner
CRIENGLISH.com - Beijing,China

Officials from the Palace Museum present a silk banner to police on Friday, May 13, 2001, in Beijing to express their thanks for arresting a suspect in a recent theft. [Photo: Xinhua] The Beijing-based Palace Museum inside the world-famous Forbidden  [more]

9:48:24 AM Jared Leto: Museum of Sex Visit with 30 Seconds to Mars!
Just Jared - New York,NY,USA

Jared Leto and his 30 Seconds to Mars bandmates attend a special screening of their controversial music video “Hurricane” at the Museum of Sex on Tuesday (May 10) in New York City. The 39-year-old rocker and actor was extremely excited to show the .. [more]

9:48:24 AM Frozen drink machine makes History Museum
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Today, that first margarita machine is in the collection of the National Museum of American History in Washington. The frozen margarita also helped Tex-Mex cuisine to become a nationwide favorite. Link your account to your Twitter or Facebook account [more]

9:48:24 AM New Tin Shed wartime museum with Hollywood connection
WalesOnline - United Kingdom

Thanks to his old work colleague Andy Isaac, whom he met during his time working at the MoD in Pendine, he has been inspired to help create a museum and venue in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. Making use of a huge collection of '30s and '40s memorabilia [more]

7:14:15 AM Sharjah Museums organises photo exhibition
AME Info - United Arab Emirates

As part of its International Museums Day celebrations, the Sharjah Museums Department, in cooperation with Al Andalus School, has organised a week-long photographic exhibition to present the history of the Al Mahatta Museum (the old Sharjah Airport). [more]

6:49:36 AM Street exhibit energizes art movement
Hampton Union - Hampton,NH,USA

The small "museum that would" has done it again. This time, the Portsmouth Museum of Art has splashed color across the city with "Street AKA Museum," an indoor and outdoor exhibit featuring the work of internationally renowned street artists. ... [more]

6:49:36 AM Adios, Pablo: Exhibit closes at VMFA
Richmond Times Dispatch

Chris Werner and Tracy Herman of Richmond leave the Picasso exhibit at its closing at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. By Michael Martz Harris, who is 8, held up the photo of the sculpture from the brochure for the epic "Picasso" exhibition that end [more]

5:28:52 AM Transformation of biblical proportions
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

Interactive features more readily associated with science museums also help provide context. Visitors can enter St. Jerome's cave to learn about the fourth-century scholar best known for the Vulgate, his Latin translation of the Bible. ... [more]

5:28:52 AM Zeal for history, national pride fill up Romania's museum night
China View, Beijing, China

BUCHAREST, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Tranquility would naturally fall on a museum at night, but there in Romania over the past weekend, things are just the other way around. The eight-year-old Vlad, accompanied by his parents, finished his "valuable" ... [more]

4:38:37 AM Writer Gertrude Stein celebrated at Jewish Contemporary Museum
San Francisco Examiner - San Francisco,CA,USA

The Contemporary Jewish Museum features an exhibit exploring the life of Gertrude Stein. (Courtesy photo) Violinist Corey Cerovsek appears in recital. [7:30 pm, Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, 3921 Fabian Way, ... [more]

4:38:37 AM Driver hits historic rail museum in Sanford
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA

Sanford, NC — A driver smashed into a historic railroad museum in Sanford Saturday evening, police said. Police said Cameron Lee Culler, 23, of Pleasant Garden, ran a stop sign at Charlotte and Hawkins avenues shortly before 9 pm and drove straight . [more]

3:10:30 AM China critics decry Forbidden City's club
AsiaOne

By Cheng Yingqi BEIJING - After coming under criticism last week for having security too lax to prevent the theft of precious artworks, the Palace Museum found itself in the center of a controversy again over the weekend. This time the museum, ... [more]

3:10:30 AM New exhibitions debut at the Huntsville Museum of Art
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

By Sarah Cure, The Huntsville Times Special to The TimesPictured is a sample of the "Future Retro" exhibition at the Huntsville Museum of Art. HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Three new exhibitions ranging from classic automobile renderings to photographs ... [more]

2:31:24 AM Encyclopedia will inventory all kinds of life
CharlotteObserver.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

Currently, information on some species is only available piecemeal in different museums, collections, websites or roughly scribbled in the field notebooks of individual biologists. This first-ever global inventory will compile all facts about every . [more]

1:13:56 AM Northwest Airlines artifacts soar in value
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

Two museums are actively seeking donations of Northwest artifacts, including timetables and airplane models. Meanwhile, everything from service pins ($40.99) to stickers ($2.95) is being hawked on eBay. "You never know what people have tucked away in [more]

12:25:29 AM Forbidden City rocked by fresh private-club rumors
Global Times

Citing an unnamed source, the Beijing News reported Sunday that the Palace Museum last month had handed out registration forms for a club located in the Jianfu Palace, rebuilt with money from the Hong Kong-based China Heritage Fund in 2005. ... [more]



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