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10:26:04 PM USS Midway Museum welcomes 1 million visitors
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

AP SAN DIEGO -- For the first time ever, San Diego's USS Midway Museum has had more than 1 million visitors in a year. Museum spokesman Scott McGaugh tells UT San Diego (http://bit.ly/KaeIzP) that between June 1, 2011, and May 31, visitors to the ... [more]

10:26:04 PM Both sides say deal is near on stalled 9/11 museum
Wall Street Journal - USA

AP NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Port Authority Chairman Patrick Foye are both saying they're close to an agreement in the dispute that has stalled the construction of the 9/11 museum at the World Trade Center site. Bloomberg said Tuesday .. [more]

10:26:04 PM Detroit Historical Society To Launch Online Collection
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

The Detroit Historical Museum's archives will now be accessible online, thanks to a major effort from the Detroit Historical Society to digitize its collection. Flickr photo by taubuch. Although the Detroit Historical Museum has been closed for ... [more]

10:26:04 PM Gowns for Belles of the Ball at the Victoria and Albert Museum
New York Times (blog)

By LAUREN HOUSSIN The Queen's Diamond Jubilee may be over but the Victoria and Albert Museum allows visitors to prolong the spirit of celebration and pageantry by focusing on a garment that encapsulates a sense of occasion: the ballgown. [more]

10:26:04 PM Corning Museum of Glass GlassLab spotlights design artist Peter Sis
Corning Leader

By Matt Alpert The Corning Museum of Glass will offer public GlassLab sessions with artist and designer Peter Sis from 10 am to noon Tuesday and Wednesday, June 12-13. Sis will demonstrate how to create art using hot glass. [more]

9:14:57 PM WYANDOTTE: Museums receive grant to develop city history exhibit
Southgate News Herald - Southgate,MI,USA

By Jim Kasuba WYANDOTTE — Among lots of competition, Wyandotte Museums came out on the winning end of a grant application process that makes possible a project with a focus on local history. After reviewing 51 applications — 31 more than the previous [more]

7:06:26 PM Space Shuttle Enterprise Damaged On Way to New Home
ABC News - United States

Image credit: Dennis Jenkins/collectspace.com The wing of the space shuttle Enterprise was damaged on its journey from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan. [more]

7:06:26 PM MUSEUM WATCH: Car show rolling into Perris
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA

Classic cars are part of Perris' annual Rods & Rails Extravaganza, set for Saturday, June 9, at the Orange Empire Railway Museum. BY NITA HILTNER The Rods & Rails Extravaganza, the city of Perris' 13th annual car and motorcycle show, featuring cars . [more]

7:06:26 PM Museum audience hears how to preserve documents
Rapid City Journal

BELLE FOURCHE – “A picture is worth a thousand words,” Bobbi Sago told about 40 people at the Tri-State Museum First Saturday Brunch June 2. Sago, special collection librarian and Archivist at the Leland D. Case Library at Black Hills State Universit [more]

6:46:49 PM Museum holding Venus transit viewing tonight
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona,FL,USA

(NJ | Jim Tiller) The Museum of Arts and Sciences will hold a viewing of the Venus transit from 5:30 pm until sunset tonight. Seth Mayo, curator of astronomy at the museum, will host the free viewing, which will use specially-equipped telescopes to . [more]

6:46:49 PM USS Midway Museum Annual Attendance Reaches One Million
NBC Sandiego.com - San Diego,CA,USA

By Monica Garske The USS Midway Museum in San Diego has achieved a major milestone: Annual attendance has already reached the one million mark. On May 31, the historic naval ship museum became one of the first naval ship museums of its kind in the US [more]

6:46:49 PM Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, Re-Opens as One of Summer's Hottest
Virtual Strategy Magazine (press release) - Bedford,NH,USA

Virtual-Strategy Magazine The Buffalo Bill Museum is set to officially re-open June 15 after millions in renovations and new features that Include a greeting from life-size Heliodisplay of Buffalo Bill himself. After six months of reinstallation, the [more]

4:02:12 PM State Museum of Pennsylvania Announces Finalists for Annual Art of the
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) It opens to the public on Sunday, June 17, at The State Museum of Pennsylvania. The 45th annual exhibit runs through Sept. 9 and includes 129 works of art by 115 artists from 30 counties. This year's exhibit received 1836  [more]

4:02:12 PM Art Museums Hijacked by NYC Street Artist
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

Bootleg postcards with the artist's work were also left in the museum gift shops. The postcards were made to look like official Gallery merchandise. The art was removed from the Museum walls, but the conflict now becomes what to do with it. [more]

4:02:12 PM A Museum of Mexican Art, Inspired By The Aztec Calendar
Co.Design

When MoMA unveiled its new building in 2004, Yoshio Taniguchi's quiet, reserved architecture stood out amongst its flashier counterparts, like Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao or Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum. Contemporary museums tend to commission big,  [more]

4:02:12 PM Public meeting set for Thursday on Gardner Museum's future
Quincy Herald Whig - Quincy,IL,USA

Reg Ankrom, executive director of the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County, at the Gardner Museum of Architecture and Design in Quincy. (HW Photo/Steve Bohnstedt) By MATT HOPF The committee established to gauge community support in maintaini [more]

3:28:36 PM Space shuttle Enterprise damaged on sea journey to Intrepid museum
Mother Nature Network - Atlanta,GA,USA

(Photo: Dave Brody/SPACE.com) Space shuttle Enterprise suffered minor wing damage on June 3 when it collided with the navigation guides for a New York railroad bridge during the first half of its sea trek to a Manhattan museum for display. [more]

3:28:36 PM New Christopher Railroad China Exhibit Opens at National Railroad Museum
MarketWatch - USA

The National Railroad Museum Will Capture the Golden Era of the American Passenger Train. This New Exhibit Will Delight the Entire Family! GREEN BAY, Wis., Jun 5, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- The National Railroad Museum will host an exhibit on [more]

3:28:36 PM Beach Fun at The Pensacola Museum of Art
WALA-TV FOX10 - Mobile,AB,USA

Florida's decades-long surfing history will be showcased during the newest exhibition at the Pensacola Museum of Art which opens Thursday, May 24, 2012. The museum will also host “The Beach Ball,” a beach-themed, outdoor street party at the Museum on [more]

3:28:36 PM Eiteljorg Museum celebrates 20th anniversary of Indian Market and Festival
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA

American Indian cultures come to life through music, art and food at the Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market and Festival. This year's entertainment is headlined by one of the most popular Native performing groups in the country, Brulé. [more]

11:11:41 AM Buffalo Bill Museum Re-Opens as One of Summer's Hottest New Attractions
MarketWatch - USA

CODY, Wyo., June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- After six months and millions of dollars in major renovations, the Buffalo Bill Museum--one of five museums within the Buffalo Bill Historical Center located in Cody, Wyoming--will officially re-ope [more]

11:11:41 AM USS Midway Museum marks one-millionth visitor
Southwest Riverside News Network

By City News Service, on June 5, 2012, at 12:46 am More than 1 million people have visited the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum on San Diego's waterfront in the past year, making it the first such attraction to reach the seven-figure attendance mar [more]

5:33:31 AM Museum Ponders Sale of Landmark Building (Washn)
OregonLive.com

The chronically underfunded institution is the city's oldest private art museum. It posted a $7.2 million deficit for the fiscal year ended last June and is considering moving because it would cost an estimated $130 million to bring its landmark home [more]

5:33:31 AM Museum hopes Venus transit is visible
Morning Sentinel

FAIRFIELD -- The LC Bates Museum staff is hoping the stars are shining early Tuesday evening. People who want to see Venus traveling in front of the sun are invited to watch the rare astronomical event from the museum on the Good Will-Hinckley campus [more]

5:33:31 AM American Indian museum in Oklahoma City hits roadblock, regroups
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

After a $40 million bond issue was defeated in the Oklahoma Senate, private matching funds are in question for the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum along the Oklahoma River in Oklahoma City. BY MEGAN ROLLAND | Published: June 5, ... [more]

1:24:50 AM Shuttle Enterprise damaged during water transport in NYC
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

Space shuttle Enterprise suffered minor wing damage on Sunday when it collided with the navigation guides for a New York railroad bridge during the first half of its sea trek to a Manhattan museum for display. Mounted atop an open-air, flat-bed barge [more]

1:24:50 AM Museum will host “Venus transit” party, rain or shine
The Register-Guard - Eugene,Oregon,USA

By Colton Totland Rain clouds will not stop a party at the Science Factory children's museum Tuesday afternoon to view the rare “transit” of Venus across the sun. The museum will still hold the free event starting at 3 pm with a lawn barbecue, ... [more]

1:24:50 AM Made In LA: The Hammer Museum Presents The First LA Biennial
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

"LA is the epicenter of creativity in the world today," said Jarl Mohn at the preview of Made in LA 2012: the first Los Angeles biennial hosted by The Hammer Museum and LAXART. The event comprises sixty LA-based artists in three LA venues throughout  [more]

1:24:50 AM Rubin Museum of Art announces new leadership appointments
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Patrick Sears, who previously served as the Rubin Museum's Deputy Director, has been appointed Executive Director. He will lead the museum in the expansion of its programming and audience engagement in support of its mission to explore the art and .. [more]

1:24:50 AM Museum at fire station honors New Hartford firefighters
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA

The New Hartford Volunteer Fire Department's Memorial Museum inside the fire station on Oxford Road houses the department's treasures and is a place that honors and memorializes firefighters who have died. Fire Chief Thomas Bolanowski and two ... [more]

1:24:50 AM Street Lab assembles temporary reading room at Children's Museum
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

Urban planner Diana Lempel, seen at bottom right, took a break from filling the Uni's shelves during the Boston Children's Museum installation to check out a book. By Jeremy C. Fox, Town Correspondent Visitors to Boston Children's Museum had an extra [more]

1:24:50 AM History museum to celebrate North Carolina sports Saturday
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall The NC Museum of History has a great event coming up this weekend that celebrates sports in North Carolina. The event shows how sports and athletes have changed over the years and also highlight opportunities to play sports i [more]

12:56:18 AM Corcoran Gallery may test market for sale of building
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The director and chairman of the Corcoran Gallery of Art — Washington's oldest museum — will seek authorization from the gallery's board of trustees Monday afternoon to hire real estate brokers to test the market for selling the landmark building ... [more]

12:56:18 AM For art museum, two key men
Fort Worth Star Telegram

By Faye Reeder Chris Hightower's plan for making the Arlington Museum of Art a major piece of the downtown cultural scene starts with a man from the distant past. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn died in 1669, but the works that made him one of Europe' [more]

12:56:18 AM Scholarships available for county museum's Summer Day Camp program
Contra Costa Sun - Orinda,CA,USA

REDLANDS - Good news for children out of school this summer - fun is in the forecast from June 25 through early August at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands. Educational summer fun continues for five sessions to Aug. 3. [more]

12:56:18 AM 'Made in LA' biennial opens to big (but local) crowds
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

By Jori Finkel "It took us an hour to find parking in Westwood," said one artist Friday night at the invitation-only "Made in LA" opening at the Hammer Museum. "The trick is to valet at the restaurant across the street," said another -- one of the 60 [more]

12:56:18 AM Museum researcher to address Congress on digitizing biological collections
University of Florida - Gainesville,Florida,USA

Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Larry Page will deliver a congressional briefing in Washington Tuesday about the value of digitizing biological collections. Page is president of the National Science Collections Alliance and will be ... [more]



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