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News From Tuesday, June 24, 2008
9:44:01 PM Rose projects help museums, blind, card collectors
Terre Haute Tribune Star - Terre Haute,IN,USA

Devices that will help blind and visually impaired persons play cards, a personalized audio-visual tour guide system for Terre Haute’s Swope Art Museum, ... [more]

4:47:47 PM Saidpur Museum: Capital’s history in black and white
Daily Times - Pakistan

Ibrar Hussain, the CDA’s administrative officer at the photo museum, told Daily Times that the electronic media routinely visited the village. ... [more]

4:47:47 PM DuPage County board hands over museum to Wheaton Park District
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA

By James Fuller | Daily Herald Staff Visitors to the DuPage County Historical Museum may be greeted by Wheaton Park District staff as soon as this September ... [more]

4:47:47 PM Civil rights images come to Atlanta museum
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

The High Museum of Art is focusing on the civil rights era in two new exhibits that include 200 photographs, many of which have never been publicly ... [more]

2:02:50 PM Car fumes drive off museum staff
Fort Mills Times - Fort Mills,SC,USA

The Museum of Art-Fort Lauderdale had to be evacuated after two antique cars in an exhibit were started up and filled the building with carbon monoxide. ... [more]

11:02:18 AM Virginia Museum books honored
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA

Two books from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts -- "Country Pursuits: British, American and French Sporting Art From the Mellon Collections in the Virginia ... [more]

11:02:17 AM Space trip flag handed to museum
BBC News - E,UK

A Saltire flag which made a trip into space has been handed over to a museum for posterity. The flag belonging to the Scottish Parliament was taken on a ... [more]

9:16:38 AM A Jewish museum in Chicago closed a controversial exhibit under ...
JTA - New York,NY,USA

The Spertus Museum, a division of the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, shut an exhibition of Palestinian and Israeli concepts of homeland, ... [more]

8:44:52 AM Looted Nazi art on show in Paris
ABC Online - Australia

Works on show in Paris also include a string of masterpieces that were snapped up by German museums and collectors eager to profit from the strength of the ... [more]

5:52:54 AM Imaginary independence: Spertus Museum shuts down exhibit in face ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - New York,NY,USA

Back in May, the Chicgao Sun-Times had a short write-up hailing “Imaginary Coordinates,” a multimedia exhibit at the Spertus Museum that “juxtaposes the ... [more]

5:41:49 AM Qld museum receives piece of police history
ABC Online - Australia

The Queensland Police Commissioner has presented a piece of police history to a museum in Brisbane. The police service says the recently restored 1935 .... [more]

1:19:41 AM Art museums in a building boom
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

By Thomas J. Sheeran, Associated Press CLEVELAND -- Art museums throughout the country have gone on a construction binge as older institutions freshen up ... [more]



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