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11:33:51 PM In Fiery Protest, Italian Museum Sets Art Ablaze
KERA News

By NPR People: Sylvia Poggioli Antonio Manfredi, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Casoria, Italy, burns an artwork by French artist Severine Bourguignon. Manfredi is burning the museum's works to protest deep cuts to the arts. [more]

11:33:51 PM Dispute Over Bill on Borrowed Art
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The lending and borrowing of famous artworks is the essence of cultural exchange between museums in the United States and abroad. So routine is the practice, and so universally valued, that the American government has traditionally protected it with  [more]

11:33:51 PM History Museum Offers Free Admission to Military Personnel This Summer!
The Sacramento Press

by Traci Rockefeller Cusack, published on May 21, 2012 at 1:59 PM Today, the Sacramento History Museum announced its participation in Blue Star Museums, a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of ... [more]

11:33:51 PM Historical Society Thankful for Support of Museums
Patch.com

The Saline Area Historical Society thanked DPW Director Jeff Fordice and the City of Saline for its support of the Rentschler Farm and Depot Museum. By Tran Longmoore The Saline Area Historical Society, in the process of renovating the Rentschler Far [more]

10:01:59 PM National Museum Of American Jewish History Announces Loan Of Original
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) With immense gratitude to the Morris Morgenstern Foundation, the National Museum of American Jewish History announces the confirmation of a loan to the Museum of the original letter written by George Washington to the Hebr [more]

10:01:59 PM Parrish Art Museum to Open New Building in November
American ...

By ROBIN POGREBIN The Parrish Art Museum's new home in Water Mill, NY — designed by Herzog & de Meuron — will open on Nov. 10, the museum is to announce on Tuesday. The 34400-square-foot building, on a 14-acre site, will nearly double the size of the [more]

10:01:59 PM WVU Moves Forward With Plans for First Art Museum
WBOY-TV - Clarksburg,WV,USA

The university has marked out an area for the museum next to the education center on the Evansdale campus. The university has marked out an area for the museum next to the education center on the Evansdale campus. The visitor's bureau said it's not . [more]

10:01:59 PM Expert helps museum identify clothing treasures
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA

Palladium-Item photo by Rachel E. Sheeley Want to get involved in preserving and displaying the Wayne County Historical Museum's clothing and textile collection? Call (765) 962-5756 or visit the museum at 1150 N. A St. in Richmond. [more]

7:30:08 PM Ads Ask You to 'Picture' Philadelphia as an Art Destination
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The long-in-gestation, and highly contentious, move of a famed museum to an urban home is the springboard for a campaign that celebrates not only the museum but also its new neighbors and neighborhood. The campaign began last week, timed to the openi [more]

7:30:08 PM Muscle Car exhibit at Sloan Museum boasts rare, lauded vehicles
MLive.com - MI,USA

By William E. Ketchum III | wketchum@mlive.com FLINT, MI — Car enthusiast Tom Pease volunteers his time at Sloan Museum, but this morning, he enjoyed a perk of the job: a ride in a 1987 Buick GNX to drop it off inside the museum. [more]

7:30:08 PM Kentucky Museum & Heritage Professionals Converge on Bowling Green
Bowling Green Daily News - Bowling Green,KY,USA

June 3-5 will bring representatives from museums and heritage cultural sites from across Kentucky to Bowling Green for the Kentucky Museum & Heritage Alliance annual conference. “We are a group composed of professionals and volunteers who are ... [more]

7:30:08 PM Local Museums Offer Fun Summer Camps & Activities for Kids!
The Sacramento Press

by Traci Rockefeller Cusack, published on May 21, 2012 at 9:08 AM In addition to its fascinating Gold Rush past, the Sacramento area is rich with an amazing array of state-of-the-art museums and historic sites that offer visitors the chance to explor [more]

4:58:05 PM National Museum of Health and Medicine reopens in Silver Spring
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

When you hear of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, it sounds like something educational and scientific. And while it is those things, it's also quite ghoulish and slightly gory. The facility that houses much of the physical history of medic [more]

4:58:05 PM Museum Yanks Masturbation Video
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

OTTAWA -- Disappointingly enough, a soon-to-be-unveiled exhibit at Canada's federal science museum will not include an animated video of young people masturbating. According to a Reuters report, the museum has removed the video from "Sex: A Tell-All  [more]

4:58:05 PM Smithsonian to create its 1st human genome exhibit
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is developing its first major exhibit on the human genome. By BRETT ZONGKER Associated Press No comments have been posted to this article. The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is .. [more]

4:58:05 PM Albert Einstein museum to be built in Jerusalem
JTA - New York,NY,USA

Einstein also left the university the right to use his image; the museum reportedly will be constructed in the shape of his head. The government allocated about $260000 for the initial planning phases of the museum celebrating the father of the theor [more]

4:11:03 PM Philadelphia's Barnes museum becomes 'nation's weirdest'
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

By CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT PHILADELPHIA -- Saturday the Barnes Foundation opens its new museum here on the busy Benjamin Franklin Parkway. With hundreds of Renoirs, Cezannes, Matisses and Picassos, it's just up the street from the Philadelphia Museum of A [more]

4:11:03 PM Wyandotte Museums Receives $14500 Grant
Patch.com

By Jason Alley The Michigan Humanities Council has awarded Wyandotte Museums with a $14500 grant to fund the reinstallation of Wyandotte's history exhibit gallery. As shown here, a similar exhibit was housed in the museum's basement for 30 years. [more]

4:11:03 PM Union Fire museum to participate in CAP program
Carlisle

1 Museum was chosen to participate in the 2012 Conservation Assessment Program of Heritage Preservation, the fire company announced in a press release recently. In doing so, Union's museum joins the 2800 museums that have participated in CAP in its . [more]

4:11:03 PM Bulgarians Still Favor Cinema over Museums - Survey
Sofia News Agency - Bulgaria

The average Bulgarian favors the cinema and the theater, seldom visits museums, but the number of library visitors is on the rise, according to data from statistical surveys conducted by the National Statistical Institute, NSI. [more]

12:55:53 PM Nantucket museum lauds lighthouse keepers in new exhibit
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

Lighthouse keepers and their loved ones, are the theme of this year's exhibit, "Guiding Lights: Nantucket's Lighthouses, Keepers & their Families," at the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum from May 24-Oct. 8. The exhibit celebrates those who .. [more]

12:55:53 PM SILVER SPRING,
WTVM - Columbus,GA,USA

years of collecting body parts. [more]

12:55:53 PM Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum Scores Midtown Building, Preps Private
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) NEW YORK, May 21, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- The Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum has scored a Midtown New York City location for the Hip Hop Museum and Educational Complex. The mid-rise site is in a prime location that [more]

11:24:26 AM Smiles Greet Museum Day in Arusha
AllAfrica.com - Africa

Besides the fact that they might have been trying to hide this feeling from any on-lookers, their satisfaction was revealed to all by the gleam on their faces, while they made small adjustments to the model of the Arusha Declaration Museum. [more]

11:24:26 AM Country Marks Museum Day
AllAfrica.com - Africa

By Jean Pierre Bucyensenge, 21 May 2012 The Institute of National Museums of Rwanda (INMR) on Friday joined the rest of the world to mark this year's International Museum Day, with emphasis on the role of museums in changing the lives of citizens. [more]

11:24:26 AM Museum promotion launched
Chinadaily USA

By Lu Hongyan (chinadaily.com.cn) A promotion for children to better understand the relics displayed in museums was started over the weekend in Shaanxi History Museum in Xi'an, capital of Northwest Shaanxi province. According to Zhao Rong, ... [more]

7:49:19 AM Museum offers learning, socializing
Beckley Register-Herald - Beckley,WV,USA

By Wendy Holdren Register-Herald Reporter BECKLEY — Today, 100 Washington St. in Beckley is the home of the Southern West Virginia Multicultural Museum and Community Center, where people of all ages and cultures are welcome to visit, socialize and .. [more]

7:49:19 AM Peabody Museum exhibit puts food in focus
telecommunications

By Chris McBriarty NEW HAVEN — The latest exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum, “Big Food: Health, Culture, and the Evolution of Eating,” set a record for the most visitors to the Peabody in March in a decade, and may also be changing lives. [more]

7:33:22 AM Fashion icon to bequeath trove to Salem museum
parties

By Christopher Muther Salem is about to become a far more fashionable city thanks to a 90-year-old fashion icon who says she will bequeath a significant slice of her couture collection to the Peabody Essex Museum. Iris Apfel, the celebrated New York  [more]

7:33:22 AM London Based Fine Arts Museum Selects New PR Agency From Marketing Quotes
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA

PR Web (press release) A London based fine arts museum has selected a new PR agency from the Marketing Quotes website to help with boosting publicity. A special exhibition has been put on to mark the Queens Jubilee, which is what the PR agency will b [more]

7:33:22 AM National Museums Liverpool to see 53 staff leave as funding cuts bite
Liverpool Daily Post - Liverpool,UK

“I am very saddened at having to say goodbye to these staff, each of whom has played a part in making National Museums Liverpool the success story that it is – a museum service that is much loved and valued by the people of Merseyside. [more]

2:04:13 AM Exhibition at Canadian Museum of Civilization exposes doomsday prophecy
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily The answers are revealed in MAYA – Secrets of Their Ancient World, a landmark exhibition opened Friday May 18, 2012 at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Sweeping in its scope, the exhibition provides a compelling look at a civilization t [more]

2:04:13 AM International Museum Day marked at Hazara University
The News - International - Pakistan

MANSEHRA: The Department of Archeology of the Hazara University in collaboration with the Abbott Museum, Abbottabad observed the International Museum Day by holding a painting competition to highlight the significance of the day, which was attended b [more]

1:24:01 AM National Museum of Health and Medicine reopening on 150th anniversary
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

There's more than war in the Defense Department's refreshed and relocated National Museum of Health and Medicine, which is celebrating its grand reopening in Silver Spring on Monday. The arthritic skeleton of Peter Cluckey sits in its wooden chair, . [more]

1:24:01 AM Dale Chihuly's Seattle Center Garden And Glass Museum Sneak Peek (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Locals feared the loss of open space, arguing the world didn't need another Chihuly museum. Well, they might be eating their words come next week -- early reviewers of the Garden And Glass Museum have nothing but handblown stars in their eyes. [more]



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