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News From Saturday, May 05, 2007
7:41:30 PM Solar panels going up at the new Antique Car Museum
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA

The Tallahassee Antique Car Museum is going solar with financial help from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. ... [more]

7:41:29 PM US museum showcases low-cost solutions for world's poorest
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA

The museum is hoping the exhibition will help raise awareness of the need for "humanitarian design" by showcasing innovations that can dramatically affect ... [more]

3:56:30 PM Artist to open private museum in Bodrum
Voices Newspaper - Didim,Aydin,Turkey

With this museum, I aim to treat art lovers to works by national and international artists, and encourage and instruct society with cultural exchanges," ... [more]

3:56:29 PM Designer unveils Vision For Human Rights Museum
Canada.com - Canada

WINNIPEG - One of the world's leading museum designers yesterday provided the most detailed vision yet for the proposed Canadian Museum for Human Rights, ... [more]

12:51:29 PM Make museums free for kids: Estabrooks
The Daily News - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada

He’s proposed that the province stop charging admission to provincially run museums for children under 12. Most museums are free for kids five and under; ... [more]

12:06:30 PM Getting there: Nevelson retrospective at Jewish Museum
Knox Village Soup - ME,USA

(May 5): Louise Nevelson’s first retrospective came in 1967, when she was 68, at the Whitney Museum of Art, with only a modest catalog. ... [more]

12:06:30 PM Group looks to found museum
Demopolis Times - Demopolis,AL,USA

DEMOPOLIS — Following the founding and creation of a mission statement for the Marengo County Archives and History Museum Foundation, group members have ... [more]

12:06:29 PM A Winnipeg museum: Will anyone come?
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Did he intend Ottawa's support for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to help it host debates over the rights of, say, Afghan prisoners? ... [more]

8:16:31 AM Museum seeks leader to stem slide
Indianapolis Business Journal - Indianapolis,IN,USA

The new Indiana State Museum building—a 230000-square-foot study in glass, steel and limestone—opened in 2002 to blockbuster attendance, with nearly 260000 ... [more]

8:16:30 AM Ad club gives $310K to Russell museum
Billings Gazette - MT, USA

GREAT FALLS - The Great Falls Advertising Federation has given the CM Russell Museum $310200, the museum's portion of the sales from the recent CM Russell ... [more]

8:16:30 AM Natural history museum embarks on $115-million drive
calendarlive.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA

The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History quietly has begun a $115-million fundraising campaign and five-year renovation project to update the oldest ... [more]

4:56:31 AM Bell tolls for museums
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA

In his new role, he will lead an organization that covers art museums, science museums, natural history museums and more. Bell's grandfather, James Ford ... [more]

2:56:31 AM A good idea for museum
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

I think it is a great idea to change the name of the Mesa Southwest Museum to Arizona Museum of Natural History. It would reflect better the type of museum ... [more]

2:56:31 AM Child falls 17 feet at Children's Museum
WOOD-TV - Grand Rapids,MI,USA

GRAND RAPIDS -- A two-year-old boy fell 17 feet at the Grand Rapids Children's Museum around 7 pm on Thursday, sending him to the hospital for almost a day. ... [more]

2:56:30 AM museum promises to be both interactive and introspective
Canada.com - Canada

Museum designer Ralph Applebaum of Ralph Applebaum Associates makes a public presentation of his plans for the Canadian Museum of Human Rights on Friday, ... [more]

2:56:30 AM A brief history of the Seattle Art Museum
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA

1931: The Art Institute becomes the Seattle Art Museum under Richard E. Fuller. He and his mother, Margaret E. MacTavish Fuller, offer the city $250000 to ... [more]

2:56:29 AM USA. National Geographic Real Pirates exhibition world premiere at ...
BYM News (press release) - Gibraltar,Spain

The exhibition, featuring actual artifacts recovered from the ocean floor, will begin a five-year US tour with its world premiere at Cincinnati Museum .... [more]

2:56:29 AM Tools for poor at NYC museum show
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA

In this undated handout photo provided by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, children stand outside a laminated corrugated cardboard structure ... [more]



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