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11:24:27 PM DomRep museum to honor victims of dictatorship
The Associated Press

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A new museum honoring the more than 50000 people who died under former dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo is scheduled to open Sunday, a day before the 50th anniversary of his death. Officials expect to unveil  [more]

11:24:27 PM Santa Cruz Surfing Museum marks 25th anniversary
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

Now, the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum filled with historical photos and memorabilia has turned 25 just a few years after nearly closing. On hand were some of the original members of the Santa Cruz Surfing Club, including 88-year-old Ted Nicholson who .. [more]

11:24:27 PM Military Museum Holds 'Vet-Together'
State Journal - Charleston,WV,USA

By Malarie Dauginikas WESTON -- Memorial Day is often thought of as a time to honor the fallen members of the military, but one local military museum is bringing why we honor those who have served to life. The Mountaineer Military Museum in Weston he [more]

11:15:33 PM Free museums for military this summer
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA

By Aaron Jentzen This summer, US military personnel and their families can visit more than 1300 museums, including four in San Antonio, for free. The program, called Blue Star Museums, begins Monday, Memorial Day, and runs through Labor Day. ... [more]

9:08:55 PM Underwater Science Festival aims to educate on submerged life
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA

By James H. Burnett III More than 1000 people poured into the Miami Science Museum Saturday to explore the museum's newest permanent exhibit and take part in the facility's inaugural Underwater Science Festival. For many visitors, on the final day of [more]

8:21:28 PM Museum on Main Plans Exhibit and Talk Bear In Mind: The Story of the ...
Livermore Independent - Livermore,CA,USA

Illuminating the story of the grizzly is the exhibition "Bear In Mind: The Story of the California Grizzly" which opens at the Museum on Main in Pleasanton on Thursday, May 26. The California grizzly possessed characteristics that we hold dear: ... [more]

8:21:28 PM Plans for national Latino museum on Mall move forward
Scripps News - Washington,DC,USA

By MICHAEL COLLINS, Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON - A new report moves plans for a Latin American museum on the Mall a step ahead.700. Latino museum recommended as part of Smithsonian Most people who walk past the grassy, 5-acre patch in the [more]

7:28:05 PM Mention Milwaukee and museums come to mind.
Des Plaines Journal - Des Plaines,IL,USA

But Milwaukee has a thriving cultural life, slices of which are tucked away in museum galleries. On a recent getaway centered around a Milwaukee Bucks basketball game at downtown's Bradley Center, I carved out time to visit the Milwaukee Public Museu [more]

7:28:05 PM Arizona Science Center is a Blue Star Museum
About - Cities & Towns

By Judy Hedding, About.com Guide May 28, 2011 Arizona Science Center is joining more than 1300 museums in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa that will participate in the Blue Star Museums program offering free .. [more]

7:28:05 PM The new, new MFA
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

Very little happens at top speed in museums. But the signs are good. Parts of the display that struck people as surprisingly strong, such as art from the ancient Americas, have prompted offers from collectors wanting to contribute. ... [more]

6:27:55 PM Soldiers' art tells war stories at new Ohio museum
Dayton Daily News - Dayton,OH,USA

The reflection of Joel Parkinson, curator of the new World War History and Art Museum, in seen in a display case holding the helmets of US Army soldiers who fought in WWI Monday, May 16, 2011 in Alliance, Ohio. The museum, opening Saturday, May 28, . [more]

6:27:55 PM New exhibit on headgear at Alaska State Museum anything but 'old hat'
The Republic

A Japanese fur hat used in the Japanese Army in the 1940s that was found on Kiska after Allied forces retook the island is seen in this undated photo provided by the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, Alaska. The hat is part of "Just Old Hat(s): Headgear [more]

6:27:55 PM Alexandria museum with controversial artifact hauls in more publicity
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA

U-Haul unveiled the image Saturday morning at the Alexandria museum that houses the stone during the city's "Awake the Lakes" celebration. About 1000 people celebrated the announcement at the Runestone Museum with T-shirts and a truck depicting the . [more]

6:27:55 PM Museum says Memorial Day losing identity in the US, offers ways to honor
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Daily Journal But Box is among a growing minority, according to the National World War II Museum. A study done for the museum found that Memorial Day was losing its identity as a day to honor those who died defending the US "We asked for the study to [more]

6:27:55 PM Commemorative Aero Museum hosts Memorial Day celebration
Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA

HEBER -- The Utah Wing of the Commemorative Airforce Museum in Heber is offering a great way to honor and remember those who have died in our nation's service on Memorial Day with the "Celebrate Our Legacy" Commemoration. ... [more]

4:30:31 PM Back Story: Remembering Roland Park teacher's museum tours
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun You could always tell when Kay Cavanaugh was around, whether you could see her or not. It was that infectious and penetrating laugh of hers that came so easily, erupted often and brightened classrooms, ... [more]

2:17:10 PM Front Row - War Correspondents - From Telegram to Twitter
BBC Sport - UK

Kirsty Lang examines the changing role of the war correspondent with several generations of war reporters, as a major new exhibition opens at the Imperial War Museum North. Kirsty Lang examines the changing role of the war correspondent in the light  [more]

12:28:54 PM Memorial Day events
Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA

The Douglas County Historical Society will offer a Blue Star Museums program beginning Memorial Day and extending through Labor Day, Sept. 5. Active-duty military and their immediate family members will receive free museum admission. ... [more]

12:00:05 PM Smithsonian opens special exhibit of NASA artwork with more than 70 pieces
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is opening an exhibit of more than 70 different artworks that present an insider's view of NASA since its early days. In 1962, NASA Administrator James Webb invited artists to illustrate [more]

11:19:00 AM Cuban crisis era jet at Open Cockpit Day in Atwater
Modesto Bee - Modesto,CA,USA

The museum houses planes dating back to World War II. Also at the museum are planes from the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the present day. "There are not too many experiences like this in abundance," Pruzzo said. "If not for museums like Castle, . [more]

9:47:26 AM Museum's redevelopment supported by city council
Times Colonist - Victoria,British Columbia,Canada

By Sandra McCulloch And Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist May 27, 2011 The museum's expansion would require the parking lot behind the current building be rezoned to a comprehensive development zone from its current family-residential zoning, which allo [more]

9:47:26 AM Hitler's WWII 'code-cracking' Tunny machine restored by UK museum
DailyIndia.com - Niskayuna,NY,USA

London, May 28: The British National Museum of Computing in Bletchley has unveiled a reconstruction of one of the Tunny machines that played an important role in disentangling Allied interceptions of the coded orders that German leader Adolf Hitler . [more]

9:47:26 AM At Museum, See Art That's Driven By Invention
Patch.com

On view at Montclair Art Museum until June 19, Warhol's many sketches, illustrations and silk-screen experiments, all grouped around the theme of the automobile, finds one icon still commenting upon another icon. Another artworld firebrand also has . [more]

9:47:26 AM Morrison museum celebrates history with "Cretaceous Day"
Denver Post

( Provided by Morrison Natural History Museum ) The Morrison Natural History Museum celebrates the distant history of the Front Range today with "Cretaceous Day," featuring hourly tours and special activities. This small teaching museum highlights .. [more]

6:00:19 AM World War II codebreaking machine fully rebuilt
Digitaltrends.com

The UK's National Museum of Computing has finished rebuilding a Tunny machine, crucial to decrypting German communiques during World War II. The United Kingdom's National Museum of Computing has finished its laborious rebuild of a Tunny machine, ... [more]

5:17:54 AM Heritage Center joins Blue Star Museums
Maryville Daily Times - Maryville,TN,USA

By Robert Norris bobn@thedailytimes.com The Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center has joined more than 1300 museums around the country offering free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day. .. [more]

5:17:54 AM New exhibit seen as progress toward permanent aviation museum in Fort Worth
Fort Worth Star Telegram

By Chris Vaughn FORT WORTH -- Plans for a major aviation museum in Fort Worth have been stuck in the conceptual stage for years, hindered at various times by a shortage of money, dissension among personalities and lapses in focus. ... [more]

5:17:54 AM Cooper-Hewitt Announces Winners and Finalists of the 12th Annual
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily WASHINGTON, DC- The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its 12th annual National Design Awards program. Today, Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge announced t [more]

5:17:54 AM Slater nears historic landmark OK
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA

By Casey Seiler State editor ALBANY -- Just in time for Memorial Day, the USS Slater museum ship has cleared a significant hurdle in its quest to be named an official historic landmark by the National Park Service. Leaders of the Destroyer Escort ... [more]

3:37:07 AM Surfing Museum in Santa Cruz celebrates silver anniversary
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By JM Brown Santa Cruz Surfing Club founding member Harry Mayo cuts the surf museum's 25th birthday cake with a surfboard fin Friday at the lighthouse. SANTA CRUZ -- When Ted Nicholson hitchhiked from his San Bruno naval post to Santa Cruz in 1944, . [more]

2:35:01 AM Visual art possibilities this holiday weekend
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA

It can also be spent looking at art and visiting one or more of the region's fine museums. A still from "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"(2005), Directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson. Pictured are Victor Van Dort, voiced by Johnny Depp, and the Corpse .. [more]

1:33:42 AM Remembering a teacher who loved to give guided tours of museums
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

It was that infectious and penetrating laugh of hers that came so easily, erupted often and brightened classrooms, living rooms, social gatherings and even the sacred galleries of some of the world's most fabled art museums. ... [more]

1:29:08 AM When Museum and Fashion Crowds Collide
Wall Street Journal - USA

By MARSHALL HEYMAN The El Museo Gala on Thursday at Cipriani 42nd Street was ostensibly a society party for a museum, the El Museo del Barrio New York. "It's one block up from the Museum of the City of New York, and I actually have been there," said  [more]

1:29:08 AM Servicemen and women get in free at New Bedford Whaling Museum
Taunton Gazette - Taunton,MA,USA

By Anonymous In partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Blue Star Families, the New Bedford Whaling Museum is proud to participate for the second year in the Blue Star Museums Program, which offers free admission to active-duty ... [more]

1:29:08 AM Tim Burton's WIld and Wonderful World
NBC Los Angeles - Los Angeles,CA,USA

By Scott Huver Tim Burton the filmmaker, still exploring the depths of his whimsically demented mind, is hardly ready for a museum. Tim Burton the artist, displaying the prodigious products of his singular creative vision, certainly is. ... [more]

1:29:08 AM Critic's Notebook: When it comes to architecture, museums forsake the past
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

A proposed addition to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, by the architecture firm Snohetta. (SFMOMA / May 28, 2011) By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic Even with the economic recovery limping along, American museums  [more]

1:29:08 AM Youth, With Hopes and Bliss Intact
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

A viewing area for “Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive” at the New Museum. An image from “Making of the Spaceship,” one of the seven videos the installation exhibits. In stable, wealthy nations, schools and vocational programs provide guidance and  [more]



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