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News From Friday, June 01, 2007
11:12:23 PM Witte Museum is granted more land
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA

The city extended its lease Thursday with the Witte Museum and agreed to turn over Brackenridge Park acreage that would double the size of the museum's ... [more]

11:12:22 PM Museum bugging out
Surrey Now - British Columbia,Canada

The exhibit, on loan from Victoria's Royal BC Museum, consists of dozens of real specimens, as well as photos of BC's most interesting insects. ... [more]

11:12:22 PM Derby Museum perplexed by 'mystery trophy'
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA

The museum recently found the gold trophy presented for War Admiral's 1937 victory. The problem is museum officials thought they already had the trophy. ... [more]

11:12:21 PM New Director Flies Museum
13wmaz - GA,USA

The Museum of Aviation's new director plans to improve the facility by borrowing ideas from the Air Force's premier aviation museum. ... [more]

11:12:21 PM Museum exhibits masks for dancing and death
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

COVER UP: A traditional Bolivian mask is displayed at the National Ethnography and Folklore Museum in La Paz, where 60 masks have gone on display for the ... [more]

11:12:21 PM Photos: Porter County's Old Jail Museum getting new look, new ...
Chesterton Tribune - Chesterton,IN,USA

County museum recovers painting: Paula Ramos, the new director at the Porter County Old Jail Museum, is shown next to a large painting that was recently ... [more]

11:12:20 PM 'Battle of Midway' exhibit opens at National World War II Museum
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA

NEW ORLEANS -- The National World War II Museum continues to press its emphasis on the war in the Pacific, with a new exhibit opening Saturday on the Battle ... [more]

11:12:20 PM Eli Broad Gives $26 Million for Art Museum at Michigan State
Bloomberg - USA

June 1 (Bloomberg) -- Philanthropist Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, have given $26 million to Michigan State University to create a new art museum on the ... [more]

5:27:36 PM Polish Jewish museum to break ground
JTA - New York,NY,USA

The $58 million museum is set to open between 2009 and 2010. It will showcase the 1000-year history of Polish Jews, who comprised 10 percent of the ... [more]

5:27:35 PM New director for the Fitz
Cambridge Evening News - Cambridge,England,UK

THE new director of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum has described his workplace as one of Britain's cultural treasures. ... [more]

5:27:35 PM Carnegie Museum of Natural History Reopens the World-Renowned ...
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA

Prepare to be dazzled when Carnegie Museum of Natural History reopens Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems for public viewing on June 9. ... [more]

5:27:35 PM 'Volunteer of the Quarter' recognized at museum
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA

Cross began volunteering at the museum in 1998. He currently serves as a monitor in the Early Years, Air Power, Modern Flight, Cold War, Presidential and ... [more]

5:27:25 PM Michigan State picks up $26 million gift for art museum
MLive.com - MI,USA

Michigan State says the new museum will be world-class and will focus on modern and contemporary art. It will be named the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum ... [more]

5:27:23 PM Crystal addition to Royal Ontario Museum
Canada.com - Canada

TORONTO (CP) - Walk into the sprawling new addition to the Royal Ontario Museum and the first thing you notice is that nothing appears as it should at ... [more]

5:27:22 PM Museum creates furore out of dinosaurs
NEWS.com.au - Australia

The thrust of the museum can be summed up by one of its most popular exhibits - two animatronic children frolicking near a waterfall with two animatronic ... [more]

5:12:38 PM Museums & galleries
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

MONTHLY ART EXHIBIT FRI THRU 6/30. Artists Incorporated, 3365 Morgan Drive, Vestavia Hills. Featuring works from Jan Ellenburg, Murray Johnston, Ethel Owen, ... [more]

5:12:34 PM Two museums, two views of human history
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA

Mainstream natural history museums learned long ago that dinosaurs fascinate children (and adults), and use them to drive up visitation. ... [more]

1:42:24 PM New art museum is biggest gift in MSU history
City Pulse - Lansing,MI,USA

The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, a lavish facility designed to showcase modern and contemporary art, will break ground in fall 2008 at the university's ... [more]

1:42:24 PM Kimbell chief accepts post in Britain
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA

Timothy Potts, who announced last week that he will step down as director of Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum, has accepted a museum post in England. .... [more]

1:42:24 PM Win tickets for Build it with Bob Live at the Science Museum
St. Albans Observer - St. Albans,England,UK

Bob the Builder TM is the star of his first ever live interactive show, at the Science Museum which starts on Saturday 26th May - Friday 7th September. ... [more]

1:42:23 PM Museum secures it for 2010 exhibit
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

Jay Ferguson, a museum curator, said he wishes there was a CSI-like way to raise clues from the trophy. Without some supporting documentation, ... [more]

1:42:23 PM Museum puts dinosaurs on ark
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA

Those two truths taken in combination may explain the Creation Museum, which has just opened in Petersburg, Ky., not far from Cincinnati. ... [more]

1:22:21 PM Museums open free to the public in the Piscataqua region
Hampton Union - Hampton,NH,USA

On Saturday, June 2, many of the historic house museums of the Piscataqua region will celebrate the start of a new season with free tours of their historic ... [more]

9:52:22 AM Karen Dickson: Museum a true asset for community
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington,WV,USA

To have a nationally accredited museum of this stature in our community is a valuable asset both to the business community and the Tri-State in general, ... [more]

9:52:21 AM Kimbell director to take post at Cambridge
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA

Timothy Potts in his office at the Kimbell Museum in west Fort Worth on Wednesday, March 1, 2006. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis) ... [more]

9:52:21 AM WE BLOG EXCERPTS: CREATION MUSEUM CREATING DEBATE
Kansas.com - KS,USA

It never ceases to amaze me that those who don't want intelligent design or creationism taught in the school also want to run down a museum that has .... [more]

6:02:26 AM Israeli Museum To Launch $50M Campaign
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA

Israel's Diaspora museum, Beth Hatefutsoth, is launching a $50 million campaign to renovate its structure and grounds, expand and overhaul its exhibits, ... [more]

6:02:25 AM Local folksinger Bob Stuart to perform sea music at Maine ...
Knox Village Soup - ME,USA

ROCKLAND (June 1): Bob Stuart, one of Rockland's best local musicians, will appear in a special concert of sea music at the Maine Lighthouse Museum on .... [more]

6:02:25 AM Top-Secret $510 Million Ground Zero Museum Wallows in Grief
Bloomberg - USA

June 1 (Bloomberg) -- Contractors are pouring foundations for the $510-million World Trade Center memorial and museum. Yet the museum half of this duo still ... [more]

6:02:24 AM Museum and Gallery Listings
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 'GLOBAL FEMINISMS,' through July 1. Too much of the work in this sprawling, international assembly of recent pieces by nearly 90 women from ... [more]

6:02:23 AM Royal Ontario Museum shines light on new Crystal
CBC News - Canada

The famously ambitious Royal Ontario Museum expansion that started out as a few scribbles on a napkin will open its doors to the public this weekend. .... [more]

6:02:23 AM Grand opening: Shetland Museum and Archives, Lerwick
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK

"It's still an ongoing war of attrition to pull all the different elements together," admits Ian Tait, the museum's curator and collections officer. .... [more]

6:02:22 AM Creation Museum Revives Christian Debates Over Earth's Evolution
Gospelherald.com - China

The $27 million Creation Museum opens its doors on Memorial Day amid a flood of protests and debates over its version of history - based on the literal ... [more]

5:37:23 AM Washington DC : Unique Blend Of Sorts
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal

In other words many of the city's attractions and experiences are free, including the monuments, memorials and entrance to many museums. ... [more]

5:37:23 AM CRUMB: An Interview with Sarah Cook
WorldChanging - USA

At that time we were talking a lot about net-based art and how museums such as the Tate were commissioning artists to make work for their websites (in part ... [more]

5:37:22 AM NCMM promises to champion heritage development for sustainable tourism
Vanguard - Lagos,Nigeria

The Director General of the National Commission for Museums & Monuments, Dr. Joe Eboreime, has promised that the Commission will champion heritage .... [more]

5:37:21 AM two museums open in North America
Malaysia Sun - Malaysia

Two new museums are opening this summer in the US and Canada, which present the story of Earth's creation according to the literal teachings of the Bible in ... [more]



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