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7:34:24 PM Asia's private museum boom symbol of clout
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan

A boom in private museums funded by wealthy collectors is transforming the artistic landscape in Asia. A boom in private museums funded by wealthy collectors is transforming the artistic landscape in Asia and filling the cultural vacuum left by ... [more]

5:48:58 PM Helium shortage has NY museum scrambling to fill replica of Civil War ...
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

BUFFALO, NY — A helium shortage is threatening to deflate a western New York museum's plans for the July 4 launch of a manned balloon like the ones used in the Civil War to guide Union artillery against Confederate positions. [more]

5:48:58 PM Swift donates $4 million
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

The Taylor Swift Educational Center will increase the museum's educational facilities seven-fold, officials said in announcing her pledge Thursday. It is being designed to include three classrooms and a children's exhibition gallery. [more]

3:14:41 PM Southwest Museum to open on May 19
Boulevard Sentinel

Southwest Museum advocates are rallying the community to participate and attend the re-opening of exhibit space at the famous Southwest Museum. Although the exhibit space will be limited to the upper and lower lobby areas of Los Angeles's first Museu [more]

12:22:36 PM Ottawa's Museum of Science and Technology Racy Exhibition Epitomizes ...
Technorati (blog)

Canada's Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa is a perfect example of what happens when governments do not seek to shrink and cut their spending programs, incessantly. On May 17, the museum opened a graphic exhibition: “Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition. [more]

12:22:36 PM Ship museum near Bay City gets a seaworthy attraction
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

AP BAY COUNTY -- The 418-foot destroyer USS Edson, which served during the Cold War and the Vietnam War, is expected to become the centerpiece of a ship museum near Bay City. Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum President Mike Kegley and the Navy's ... [more]

12:22:36 PM Golf museum pays tribute to 'Mickey' Wright
Dailyrecord.com - Parsippany,NJ,USA

Visit MyCentralJersey.com to see a video. during Tuesday's ceremony at the USGA museum. preview of the Mickey Wright Room at the United States Golf Association's Museum on May 15, 2012. Carner played with Wright in the 1960s on the LPGA tour. [more]

12:00:51 PM Sharjah Museums Department plays a vital role in promoting and
AME Info - United Arab Emirates

AME Info Manal Ataya, Director General of the Sharjah Museums Department (SMD) was invited to give a talk under the heading 'Sacred creations' as part of a series of talks being run in conjunction with the Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority's thre [more]

8:17:13 AM Sharjah Museums Department celebrates International Museums Day
AME Info - United Arab Emirates

As part of its International Museum Day celebrations, Sharjah Museums Department (SMD) is organizing a series of scientific and entertaining events at the Sharjah Aquarium and Sharjah Maritime Museum external area under the theme 'Museums in a Changi [more]

4:38:23 AM Donor, 105, gives NYC museum $5M to train teachers
Wall Street Journal - USA

AP NEW YORK — The American Museum of Natural History is taking on training science teachers — with help from a 105-year-old New York philanthropist. The museum announced Kathryn W. Davis' $5 million gift Friday. The state Education Department and the [more]

4:38:23 AM The view at museums, galleries this season
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA

Free. www.creationsgallery.com Delaware Art Museum “Painted Poetry: The Art of Mary Page Evans,” through July 15 (Evans discusses her work at 11 am June 16). “Once Upon a Time in Delaware/In Quest of the Perfect Book,” Nina Katchadourian, June 23-Sep [more]

12:15:18 AM Artist George Grosz's series capturing Dallas in 1952 goes on exhibit at
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post “Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas,” a series of works by the German Dadaist George Grosz, opens Sunday at the Dallas Museum of Art. The series captures everything from the downtown skyline rising from the prairie to the c [more]



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