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10:40:46 PM Ten museums to participate in Museum Mile Festival
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

The 34th annual Museum Mile festival will begin tomorrow, June 12, from 6 to 9pm. Museums on the upper East side, from 105th Street to 82nd Street will open their doors to the public, offering programs like dancing, art workshops, live music, ... [more]

10:40:46 PM Honolulu Museum of Art Participates in Blue Star Museums
Urban Oahu

The Honolulu Museum of Art announced that for the third year it is participating in Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense. As part of the program, the museum is [more]

9:25:37 PM Another Museum Mulls Pulling Up Stakes
Wall Street Journal - USA

Less than a month after the Barnes Foundation relocated to downtown Philadelphia from suburban Merion claiming financial necessity, another museum is planning a copycat move. Citing its own troubled balance sheet, a rundown physical plant and a desir [more]

9:25:37 PM L.H. Bailey Museum to present special photo exhibit
HollandSentinel.com - Holland,MI,USA

By Staff reports The Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum (LHBM) of South Haven, Michigan will present “Through the Lens of LH Bailey”, its photo exhibition of the works by Liberty Hyde Bailey. The exhibit opens to the public on Saturday June 23, ... [more]

9:25:37 PM Maltz Museum names new executive director
Cleveland Jewish News - Cleveland,OH,USA

The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage has appointed Lynda A. Bender its new executive director. Bender, currently the museum's director of education and public programs, replaces Judi Feniger, who resigned in May after more than five years leading the  [more]

9:25:37 PM HNIs plan private museums to display treasured assets
Business Standard (blog)

India's uber-rich are now keen to set up private museums to display their treasured asset collections. High net worth individuals are now approaching their bankers to help them set up trusts that will own, govern and manage private museums. [more]

9:25:37 PM Lotton legacy showcased at Museum of American Glass
Auction Central News - New York,NY,USA

WESTON, WV – To mark the 50th anniversary of the studio/contemporary glass movement in the United States, the Museum of American Glass in West Virginia is hosting an exhibition, “The Lotton Legacy, Three Generations of American Glass. [more]

6:50:22 PM Google's art project puts masterpieces a click away
CBS News - USA

It's since become a huge online museum featuring the best of other museums around the world. Without leaving the house, you can view more than 30000 works of art from over 150 collections in 40 countries. The man behind the project, Amit Sood, ... [more]

6:50:22 PM Florence Griswold Museum presents On Hudson: Highlights from the Albany ...
ShorelinePlus.com

By Florence Griswold Museum OLD LYME, CT - The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, is collaborating with the Albany Institute of History & Art in Albany, New York, on an exchange of original exhibitions drawn from each other's ... [more]

5:35:19 PM Virginia museum displays Civil War photos of young girls in hopes of
FOX News - USA

Fox News Many soldiers carried photographs of loved ones into battle and for the first time, photographic images of war were available — and the Museum of the Confederacy has its own vast collection of images today, many of them identified. [more]

5:35:19 PM Behind-the-scenes museum tour in Ohio allows public to see restoration
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post The plane will eventually be displayed at the National Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton. But in the meantime, the public can see the progress of the Belle while museum staffers and volunteers f [more]

5:35:19 PM Maltz Museum in Beachwood names new executive director
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

By Sun News staff BEACHWOOD - Lynda A. Bender has been appointed executive director of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. She will replace Judi Feniger, who is leaving the museum to explore other opportunities, according to a museum release. [more]

5:35:19 PM Porter Co. museum makes most of space, vision
Washington Examiner (blog)

And for the past month, the staff at the Porter County Museum has been working hard to recreate an ice cave, and find a "suitable fit" for a Mastodon skull and fossilized remains of early man for a new exhibit called "Prehistoric Porter County," whic [more]

5:35:19 PM More terracotta warriors unearthed in China
msnbc.com (blog)

Chinese archaeologists at work in the extended excavation of the Pit One of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xian, using delicate equipment to help preserve the detailed work in their original production more than 2000 years ago, ... [more]

2:31:14 PM Former sheriff's home, jail make history come alive for Porter County
Greenfield Daily Reporter - IN, USA

Greenfield Daily Reporter And for the past month, the staff at the Porter County Museum has been working hard to recreate an ice cave, and find a "suitable fit" for a Mastodon skull and fossilized remains of early man for a new exhibit called "Prehis [more]

2:31:14 PM Railroad Museum Celebrates “Diesels & Dads” on Father's Day!
The Sacramento Press

by Traci Rockefeller Cusack, published on June 11, 2012 at 6:45 AM The California State Railroad Museum is gearing up to celebrate “Diesels and Dads” on Sunday, June 17 (Father's Day), by showcasing seven rarely seen diesel locomotives that will be o [more]

2:31:14 PM Benton project's goal is to create museum district
The Southern

The streetscape project will, in effect, create a “museum district” by connecting the Historic Jail Museum and Franklin County Garage Museum with an attractive walkway, Franklin County Historical Society President Robert S. Rea said. [more]

12:28:49 PM Civil War photos: Help sought to solve old mystery
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

By STEVE SZKOTAK AP Ann Drury Wellford, manager of Photographic Services for The Museum of the Confederacy, a Civil War battlefield photos at the museum in Richmond, Va., Friday, May 25, 2012. Private Thomas W. Timberlake of Co. [more]

12:28:49 PM Cancun Underwater Museum adds 60 new sculptures
Florence

The Cancun Underwater Museum off the coast of the Mexico's No. 1 tourist destination was created two years ago with the submerging of about 400 life-size sculptures, many of them cast from local residents. The reinforced cement figures, which include [more]

12:28:49 PM Germans recover Stuka bomber wreck from Baltic Sea
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

German military museum is preparing to hoist the wreck of the Stuka dive bomber from the floor of the Baltic Sea, a rare remaining example of the plane that once wreaked havoc over Europe as part of the Nazis' war machine. [more]

12:28:49 PM Anti-Zionist slogans daubed at Israel Holocaust museum
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

Yad Vashem, a museum and memorial, was established on a Jerusalem hilltop in 1953 and is often visited by foreign leaders who lay wreaths in its stark Hall of Remembrance. (Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Editing by Jeffrey Heller) [more]

12:28:49 PM Drake helps Meek Mill shoot video at the Art Museum
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Rap star Drake helped North Philly's Meek Mill shoot a video for his song "Amen" (featuring Drake) Sunday afternoon on the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps. Drake performed Saturday night at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden and hung out after th [more]

10:34:04 AM Neb. quilt museum opens doors to service members
Washington Examiner (blog)

(AP) — An international quilt museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is offering free admission to active-duty service members and their families. The International Quilt Study Center and Museum is participating in a nationwide program for ... [more]

8:46:52 AM Public's aid sought in '90 Gardner Museum heist
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

Federal officials investigating the 1990 Gardner Museum heist plan to launch a public awareness campaign similar to the one that led to last year's arrest of James “Whitey'' Bulger, in the latest sign that officials have sharpened their probe into th [more]

8:46:52 AM Train heritage museum revives bygone era
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA

By Bryan Fitzgerald Museum-goers check out the exhibits at the ALCO Heritage Museum in Schenectady. (Bryan Fitzgerald/Times Union). Museum and local government officials and former American Locomotive Co. employess cut the ribbon at the grand opening [more]

8:46:52 AM Penguins' graphic sexual acts shocked researcher
msnbc.com - USA

The naughty notes were rediscovered recently at the Natural History Museum in Tring, in England, and published in the recent issue of the journal Polar Record. George Levick, a surgeon and the medical officer on Scott's famous 1910-1913 expedition to [more]

8:46:52 AM Museum exhibit can help you build Port A tarpon boat
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA

By Mike Baird Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Rick Pratt, Port Aransas Museum director (second from right) feels the inside of the boat as workers Denny Larkin (from left), Charlie Fisher and Chuck Tise sand down the primer before a final coat of paint i [more]

8:46:52 AM Museum of the Waxhaws event focuses on War of 1812
CharlotteObserver.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

By John Anderson Arthur Lightbody of Waxhaw will again assume the persona of Andrew Jackson on June 16 when the Museum of the Waxhaws presents a "Living History Day" celebrating the Bicentennial of the War of 1812. The Museum of the Waxhaws is ... [more]

8:46:52 AM Museum lets visitors pass judgment
San Angelo Standard Times - san angelo,tx,USA

Weeks after the judging, a small group of people gathered Saturday on the second floor of the saddle-roofed building that hosts the biennial competition, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, for an event called Judge for Yourself. [more]

8:19:04 AM German 'exploded museum' tests limits of art
Windsor Star - Ontario, Canada

Originally modest in size, documenta's budget is now around $32 million, and artworks are shown throughout the city in parks, museums, cinemas, and the train station, "like an exploded museum,"says Christov-Bakargiev. Documenta is one of Europe's top [more]

1:57:16 AM Heyworth museum owner may nix addition
Bloomington Pantagraph - Bloomington,IL,USA

HEYWORTH — The owner of a military history museum in Heyworth says he probably will scrap his plans to expand because of red tape from village officials. Gary Simpkins hopes to add a 12-by-16-foot library addition to the Simpkins War Museum, ... [more]

1:57:16 AM Museum talk links abolition, women's rights movements
Auburn Citizen

The Howland Stone Store Museum in Sherwood aims to preserve and educate the public on the Howland family's deep involvement in the anti-slavery and women's rights movements. This was the topic of discussion at the June Sunday Social “The Woman ... [more]

1:57:16 AM Traveling Vietnam War museum visit is part of annual Northwood picnic
Mason City Globe Gazette

NORTHWOOD — Declassified photos and military gear housed in a special traveling museum brought back memories of warfare in the Mekong Delta Sunday for Vietnam veterans and their families in Northwood. The veterans, participating in the 11th annual .. [more]



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