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News From Wednesday, June 30, 2010
11:20:48 PM Lady Gaga gives cold shoulder to 'Paparazzi' at MIT Museum's Polaroid
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA

Wicked Local (blog) By Jennifer Brown Hours before the press conference at the Cambridge MIT Museum, fans were tweeting up a storm--Lady Gaga, the world famous pop diva, ... [more]

9:30:36 PM Ulster Museum wins 100000 pounds Art Fund Prize
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The Ulster Museum in Belfast won the Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries on Wednesday, and with it 100000 pounds ($150000), highlighting a cultural ... [more]

8:39:56 PM Prehistoric Moby Dick Had Foot-Long Teeth, Hunted Other Whales
FOX News - USA

The Leviathan now resides in the Natural History Museum of Lima, Peru, and may remain unique for a long time to come. The relatively small numbers of such ... [more]

7:16:05 PM Ancient sea monster dined on whales
TG Daily - Westlake Village,CA,USA

The 17-meter-long creature was discovered by a team of palaeontologists from several European Natural History Museums and Utrecht University. ... [more]

5:05:12 PM More Trouble Over BP's Museum Sponsorships, Activists Spill Oil Inside and
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

mediabistro.com (blog) ArtInfo has collected a handful of quotes from both sides of the debate and the Guardian's Jonathan Jones has filed this op-ed that the museum is right to ... [more]

3:17:35 PM Ringo Starr's Drum to Become Museum Item in New York
Peace fm Online

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will display the snare drum as part of a special exhibition honoring his big birthday on July 7. The instrument, which was ... [more]

3:01:19 PM Museums, update June 30
Fort Pierce Tribune - Fort Pierce,FL,USA

Children's Museum of the Treasure Coast: 1707 NE Indian River Drive, Jensen Beach, (772) 225-7575. Art workshops 11 am-2 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays through ... [more]

10:05:13 AM Toshiba LEDs to Light Up the Louvre Museum
MarketWatch - USA

Under the agreement, Toshiba will support lighting renovations in some of the museums most visited public spaces with provision of its state-of-the art LED ... [more]

8:28:23 AM Ray Harryhausen Pledges Collection of Life's Work to National Media Museum
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

On the day of Ray Harryhausen's 90th birthday, at the official opening of the exhibition "Ray Harryhausen - Myths and Legends" at the London Film Museum, ... [more]

5:13:02 AM Rudolf Leopold, Art Collector, Dies at 85
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Like many European art museums in recent years, the Leopold has confronted questions about the provenance of some of its artworks, specifically about .... [more]

4:12:02 AM Wallace asks Fort Monroe to discuss slavery museum
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA

By David Macaulay, dmacaulay@dailypress.com | 247-7838 HAMPTON – A proposal to bring a slavery museum to Fort Monroe will be discussed by officials when ... [more]

4:03:53 AM Museum Breaks Ground in Hopes of Getting Space Shuttle
KIROtv.com - Seattle,WA,USA

Seattle's Museum of flight is competing with 20 other museums, hoping to be selected as the new home for a space shuttle. We found 6 year old Luke Doucette, ... [more]

12:19:19 AM Bp Protesters Stage Mini-Spill at Tate Britain
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Protesters took their dissatisfaction with BP to the steps of the Tate Britain museum in London, above, using the occasion of a summer party celebrating the ... [more]

12:17:51 AM New Space Gallery at The Seattle Museum of Flight Breaks Ground
2K Play and Nickelodeon Announce Dora the Explorer Debut for Wii™

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seattle's Museum of Flight broke ground today on the first phase of its new 15500-square-foot “Human Space Flight Gallery. ... [more]



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