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News From Friday, June 15, 2012
7:42:42 PM Edinburgh Legionnaires' outbreak: Improvement order for National ...
BBC Sport - UK

The National Museum of Scotland is the third place in Edinburgh to be given an improvement notice as part of the investigation into the source of the city's ... [more]

7:42:42 PM The Sweet Spot: June 15
American ...

David Carr and A. O. Scott discuss the relative merits of museums and memorials, and how to best make sense of Sept. 11. [more]

7:42:42 PM Asian Art Museum's MATCHA Program Hosts Art Mash Up with ...
AsianWeek - San Francisco,CA,USA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The Asian ArtMuseum is hosting an art mash up, featuring poets, tattooartists, drag queen divas and djs as part of its MATCHA series ... [more]

7:42:42 PM Fear and Loathing in LA: The Death Museums
San Diego Reader - San Diego,CA,USA

The Museum of Death on Hollywood Blvd (whose $15 fee includes parking – in Hollywood!) is a fun and fascinating way to spend a few hours, as long as you ... [more]

5:27:16 PM WWII Plane Wreck Not Stuka, but Larger JU88
ABC News - United States

German Military Historical Museum spokesman Capt. Sebastian Bangert said Friday that enough of the plane has now been recovered to make clear it is not a ... [more]

5:27:16 PM Fossil museum to restore historic Mammoth Orange food stand
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

What is old, and even older, will unite to return a roadside attraction in the shape of a giant orange to Highway 99 in the San Joaquin Valley. [more]

5:27:16 PM Solstice at Cleveland Museum of Art: Events and ideas for ...
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

The Cleveland Museum of Art will celebrate the summer solstice Saturday with a midsummer festival, combining food, drinks and music inside and outside the ... [more]

5:27:16 PM Music Box as Muse to Puccini's 'Butterfly'
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Chinese tunes on an 1877 music box at the Morris Museum in New Jersey, possibly heard by Puccini, may have inspired passages in his opera “Madama ... [more]

4:55:30 PM A Cover Album Is A Tiny Museum Of Songs
NPR - Washington,D.C.,USA

Looking back over several new (and drastically different) albums of cover songs reveals that it's been a very good year for assertive, interpretive pop music. [more]

4:55:30 PM The Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturday Presents Keith ...
Dinosaur ...

On July 7, 2012, Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturday celebrates the last weekend of the exhibition Keith Haring: 1978-1982 with performers and activities ... [more]

4:55:30 PM 3-D Copying Makes Michelangelos of the Masses
Bloomberg

When Cosmo Wenman went to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in late .... Or will museums try to lock up the digital versions of their treasures, so that ... [more]

2:19:10 PM Museum keeps KKK flag
Cebu Daily News - Lahug Cebu City,Philippines

CURATOR Alvin Zamora of the Rizaliana Museum unfurls the KKK flag that has been with the University of Southern Philippines Foundation since 1951. [more]

12:06:22 PM Beachwood's Maltz Museum appoints Lynda Bender as new director ...
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

Lynda A. Bender is the new executive director of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. She was appointed June 11 and will replace Judi Feniger, who left the ... [more]

10:02:08 AM Willi Miller: Active military offered free access to many museums
Fort Pierce Tribune - Fort Pierce,FL,USA

The Vero Beach Museum of Art's Blue Flag Museum affiliation is part of an inspired national collaboration involving museums across the country, the National ... [more]

4:44:47 AM Canadian railway's iconic silver spike joins museum's collection
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Ceremonial 'last spike' never actually made it to historic ceremony at Craigellachie, B.C., on Nov. 7, 1885, but sat for years on desk of railway baron Sir William ... [more]

1:37:51 AM Galloping Geese ride again at Colo railroad museum
The Associated Press

The railroad shut down in the 1950s, but six Geese were rescued by collectors and museums. This weekend, five of the original Geese and a replica of another ... [more]

1:13:51 AM Museum and Gallery Listings for June 15-21
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

A critical guide to exhibitions and installations in New York. [more]

1:13:51 AM Ceremonial "Last Spike" to land in Canada's main history museum
Canada.com - Canada

One of Canadian history's most enduring mysteries has been solved after the descendants of William Van. [more]

1:13:51 AM Museum without a home finds one in St. Paul
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA

The Minnesota Museum of American Art plans to partially re-open in October in downtown St. [more]



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