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10:32:18 PM Fire museum adds safety component for students
Cambridge Times - Cambridge,Ontario,Canada

The Fire Hall Museum and Education Centre is attempting to make Cambridge a little safer for one of its most vulnerable groups. This week, museum officials ... [more]

10:32:17 PM Museum saviour gives up the helm
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

Over the past 12 years Bob Croker has saved a national museum from closure helping transform it into a place visited by 100000 people each year. ... [more]

10:32:17 PM New Maritime Museum director to put Madisonville lighthouse and ...
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA

Jay Martin, the new executive director of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum, hopes that the lighthouse and the cottage will again become focal ... [more]

10:32:17 PM Wright Museum lays off 5, will add 3 new positions
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA

In another reflection of the state's cloudy economic outlook, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History is eliminating five full- and .... [more]

10:32:16 PM 'Great American Cover Up' At American Folk Art Museum
Antiques and Arts Weekly - Newtown,CT,USA

This is the museum's first presentation in more than 40 years that traces the history of American rug making through different periods, forms and techniques ... [more]

10:32:16 PM Phila. art museum gets a facelift
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

By Peter Dobrin Gliding up the south side of the Philadelphia Museum of Art on platform lifts, past the tap-tap-tap of masons repointing mortar around .... [more]

6:27:14 PM Huron City Museums present Pioneer Day
Huron Daily Tribune - Bad Axe,MI,USA

HURON CITY -- Huron City Museums are hosting the fifth annual Pioneer Day on Saturday, June 16. Free presentations will be given in the Huron City Church and ... [more]

6:27:14 PM Conservative Government Attacks Community Museums
Liberal Party of Canada (press release) - Canada

OTTAWA - Community-based museums across the country are now operating at their lowest funding level ever, because of the Conservatives' devastating cut to ... [more]

5:12:15 PM High Point University Students Consult On Furniture Museum Project
Furniture World Magazine (press release) - USA

The museum, which recently received the holdings from the now-closed Furniture Discovery Center, needed to evaluate how best to use the materials in a fun ... [more]

5:12:15 PM Florida Museum opens new shark exhibit June 16 featuring 60-foot ...
University of Florida - Gainesville,Florida,USA

The Florida Museum of Natural History tells this remarkable story in its exciting new national traveling exhibition, "Megalodon: Largest Shark that Ever ... [more]

5:12:14 PM Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile Offering Museum Packages
dBusinessNews Chicago (press release) - Chicago,IL,USA

Chicago , IL - June, 2007] -Stay at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile between now and December 30, 2007 and save with the Children's Museum Art ... [more]

5:12:14 PM Greece to turn its last royal palace into museum
Reuters - NY,USA

"This will become a museum and a large park, an area of recreation and environmental education for Athenians." Located on the slopes of Mount Parnitha some ... [more]

2:42:14 PM Auburn Cord Museum Earns Several National Awards
Autochannel - USA

Each category is divided into two divisions: museums with annual budgets under $300000, and museums with annual budgets over $300000. ... [more]

1:22:17 PM Museum offers summer camp
Marietta Times - Marietta,OH,USA

"I've been to the museum before with my mom, and it's really cool there," the Harmar Elementary School third-grader said. "What I'm looking forward to at ... [more]

1:22:16 PM New Cambodian museum to show lost Buddhas
Middle East Times - Cairo,Egypt

TOKYO -- A museum showing 274 long-lost Cambodian Buddhist statues, some a millennium old, will open in November near the Angkor Wat temples, ... [more]

1:22:16 PM Dr. Stephen Pang would like to see Queen's University's Museum of ...
The Kingston Whig-Standard - Kingston,Ontario,Canada

Looking around the museum, it's clear that studying the specimens would allow for a more thorough understanding of anatomy than by looking at diagrams in a ... [more]

1:22:15 PM Stark Museum receives citation
Orange County News - Orange,TX,USA

The Stark Museum of Art received statewide attention recently at the Texas Association of Museums State Meeting in Austin, receiving the 2007 Mitchell A. ... [more]

10:52:15 AM Action: With 'The Shape of Play Today,' Children's Museum coming ...
The Reporter - Fond du Lac,WI,USA

"Children's museums exist to provide families with fun, engaging exhibits and programs, and a healthy and nurturing environment," said Carolyn. ... [more]

10:52:14 AM Vatican-curated exhibit on display in Mississippi
PR Inside (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria

The show features more than 100 works _ most of which have never been seen in the United States _ from Italian museums such as Palazzo Venezia and Galleria ... [more]

9:32:19 AM Region to consider new $22.7M museum
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada

Regional councillors will consider today whether to spend $22.7 million to build a regional museum by 2010 at the Doon Heritage Crossroads site in south ... [more]

9:32:19 AM Children's Museum Gala-Goers Get Inside Look At Blue Back Square
Hartford Courant - United States

The Children's Museum hit the jackpot Friday when it held its annual gala in one of the most awaited and anticipated spots in the area - Blue Back Square in ... [more]

9:32:18 AM Arnot Art Museum names interim director
Elmira Star-Gazette - Elmira,NY,USA

By Salle E. Richards Frederick A. Betschen of Elmira, a retired Elmira schools administrator, has been named acting executive director of Arnot Art Museum ... [more]

9:32:17 AM Children's museum bids high
Bellingham Herald - Bellingham,WA,USA

BELLINGHAM -- Bids to build the city's new art and children's museum came in about $1 million higher than expected, but the City Council might be better off ... [more]

9:32:17 AM City Council Hears Plans Regarding Greensboro Historical Museum's ...
dBusinessNews Triad (press release) - NC,USA

Greensboro - Today the Greensboro Historical Museum shared information with City Council and the City Manager's Office about its upcoming exhibition plans ... [more]

9:32:16 AM Bennington Museum to host Impressionist masters
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA

By PATRICK McARDLE Herald Staff BENNINGTON -- The Bennington Museum will host an exclusive showing of works by Impressionist masters such as Claude Monet, ... [more]

9:32:15 AM 13 top architectural firms compete for Sheikh Zayed National ...
Gowealthy.com - Dubai,United Arab Emirates

The museum is being built in the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island, the tourism, cultural and residential real estate development being created 500m ... [more]

9:32:15 AM Museum finds a new direction
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada

The Children's Museum is about to embark in a new direction that should be positive for the museum as well as the region. The museum has decided to form a ... [more]

9:32:14 AM Unique Museum/Hotel/Restaurant and Residential Complex Slated for ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA

Some of 21c's most innovative aspects will be its artist lofts and new contemporary art museum. Twelve artists' lofts will be made available at favorable ... [more]

7:02:14 AM Rice gets millions to start Ph.D. program in art history
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

Curators from the museums will help teach courses and serve as thesis readers, while graduate students conduct scholarly research on the development of ... [more]

3:52:17 AM Create a museum to honor local innovators
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA

We have the Roberson Museum and the Walk of Fame at the entrance of the Metro-Center and still some desire more to honor these innovators. ... [more]

3:52:17 AM Nicholas-Beazley pancake fundraiser defies rain/New addition to ...
The Marshall Democrat-News - Marshall,MO,USA

By ERIC CRUMP/Editor The Nicholas-Beazley Aviation Museum's Pancake Fly-in, Drive-In breakfast Sunday, June 10, was beset by steady rain but hungry area ... [more]

3:52:16 AM Our wine, our history to feature at museum
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

Museum chief executive Steve Austin said visitors to Marlborough might go to two or three wineries, but not discover what made up the characteristics of ... [more]

3:52:16 AM Museum heritage left in the lurch
The News - International - Pakistan

Since 2001, the Qura'an Gallery at the National Museum has had a recurrent problem of termites. And efforts to eradicate this problem the gallery has meant ... [more]

3:52:16 AM 13 leading firms to submit concept designs for museum
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates

The museum, which will be built in the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island - the tourism, cultural and residential destination being created 500 metres ... [more]

3:52:15 AM Unique shapes on Roanoke's new art museum tell a story
WDBJ7.com - Roanoke,VA,USA

There's no question Roanoke's new art museum is bold. But what you may not know is that some of the unique shapes on the building actually have meaning. ... [more]

3:52:15 AM Seafood Museum Trying To Move To Tullis
WLOX - Biloxi,MS,USA

On Tuesday, we should find out if the Biloxi City Council favors the Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum's relocation plans. The city council will debate a ... [more]



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