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10:14:55 PM Squaw Valley Institute partners with KidZone Museum for affordable
Sierra Sun - Truckee,CA,USA

Sierra Sun In support of that effort, Squaw Valley Institute and KidZone Museum are entering into a partnership focused on bringing programming for a more creatively, culturally and intellectually stimulating community for all ages. Anyone purchasing [more]

10:14:55 PM Hong Kong Won't Forget
Wall Street Journal - USA

Yet the temporary June 4 Memorial Museum here is having a revolutionary impact. Tucked above a lively street market in the Sham Shui Po district since April 29, this tiny museum offers a potpourri of exhibits related to June 4, 1989, when tanks rolle [more]

9:02:02 PM Space shuttle Enterprise docks at New York museum home
Reuters - NY,USA

(Updates with arrival at museum) By Mathew Murphy NEW YORK, June 6 (Reuters) - The space shuttle Enterprise - named after the spaceship in Star Trek - floated past the Statue of Liberty on a barge on Wednesday and docked near its new home at a museum [more]

9:02:02 PM Museum of Glass to Get New Wing
American ...

By ROBIN POGREBIN The Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York will create a new North Wing with a design by architect Thomas Phifer and Partners that was unveiled Wednesday. The 100000-square-foot expansion includes new galleries for the museum's [more]

9:02:02 PM Beatles museum in Hamburg closing due to 'lack of interest'
NME.com - UK

The Beatles museum in Hamburg, Germany will close down at the end of this month, according to reports. The five-storey 'Beatlemania' museum was opened in May 2009 but will apparently be shut at the end of June due to a lack of interest from Fab Four  [more]

9:02:02 PM Lake Worth history museum reopens in time for city's centennial
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA

By Willie Howard LAKE WORTH — As the city prepares to celebrate its 100th birthday, the Lake Worth Historical Museum is open again -- at least on Wednesday and Friday afternoons. Cut from the city's budget in 2008 and closed for the past 17 months, . [more]

7:54:46 PM 1 space shuttle already at museum, 2 more to go
Wall Street Journal - USA

AP The space shuttle prototype Enterprise moved to its new home Wednesday, the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on the Hudson River in New York. NASA's three real space shuttles — the ones that rocketed into orbit — also will spend [more]

7:54:46 PM More Than Just America's Car Museum
MSN Autos (blog)

LeMay Museum guest curator Ken Gross tells us why it's so much more than a collection of classics. By Chuck Tannert 6 hours ago Last week we gave you a behind-the-scenes look at LeMay Automotive Museum in Tacoma, Wash., just a few days before it open [more]

5:33:44 PM Space shuttle Enterprise arrives at New York's Intrepid museum
Christian Science Monitor - USA

At the same time, the space agency assigned the museum homes for its space-flown orbiters. By Robert Z. Pearlman, SPACE.com / June 6, 2012 The space shuttle Enterprise, a prototype which never flew in space, travels up the Hudson River by barge to it [more]

5:33:44 PM Remains of Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre found
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

This is an image issued by Museum of London Archaeology on Wednesday June 6, 2012 , showing an archaeologist as she undertakes initial archaeological excavation work at the site of The Curtain Theatre in London in October 2011. [more]

5:33:44 PM The Museum for African Art: New York, I Am Still Waiting...
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Last month news came of the delay in plans to open the new home of The Museum for African Art, in New York. Damn, I thought to myself for a number or reasons. First is that I really miss this Museum, which has more than any in the United States (exce [more]

5:33:44 PM Prestigious Swiss Museum to be Auctioned by US Auction House, Theriault's
MarketWatch - USA

The Museum, which has long been a fixture of the important Swiss city that also hosts The World Economic Forum each year, was recently nominated in 2010 as a European Museum of the Year. Founded by legendary Swiss collector, Angela Prader, the museum [more]

4:17:10 PM Turn museums into parastatals to succeed - Mogobe
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana

University of Botswana (UB) theatre studies lecturer and interim chairperson of The Friends of The Museum Society, Thulaganyo Mogobe, has said that museums must become autonomous if they are to become viable entities. Mogobe said as long as museums a [more]

4:17:10 PM 'Pawn Stars' Consultant Makes Visit to Edmonds Historical Museum
Patch.com

By Patch Staff This week, the Edmonds Historical Museum welcomed a peer reviewer as part of a yearlong museum assessment program—and he's somewhat of a celebrity. Mark Hall-Patton is the administrator of the Clark County Museum system in Nevada and a [more]

1:13:41 PM Museum visitors get view of Venus
Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA

It's as big as a planet can look in the sky, actually,” said Hughes, from the rooftop of the Buffalo Museum of Science. Hughes, who observed the rare celestial phenomenon through his own telescope and a homemade cardboard projection box, ... [more]

1:13:41 PM Corning glass museum unveils $64M expansion plan
Wall Street Journal - USA

AP CORNING, NY — The Corning Museum of Glass is unveiling plans for a $64 million expansion that will include one of the world's largest facilities for glassblowing demonstrations. Officials at the museum in New York's Southern Tier are announcing th [more]

1:13:41 PM Space Shuttle Enterprise is the latest historic vessel picked up by
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com By Lisa Rose/The Star-Ledger View full sizeJohn Munson/The Star-LedgerThe Space Shuttle Enterprise is lifted onto a barge at JFK International Airport today in preparation for its trip next week to the Intrepid Sea, Air and S [more]

1:13:41 PM Sigal Museum to display rare copy of Declaration of Independence
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com - Lehigh Valley,PA,USA

By Sarah Peters | The Express-Times View full sizeExpress-Times Photo | BILL ADAMSTom Lingenfelter, right, talks with Bill O'Neil on Tuesday at the Sigal Museum prior to the announcement that his anastatic copy of the Declaration of Independence, ... [more]

1:13:41 PM Palm Springs Air Museum to adopt cutting-edge A/C
My Desert - Palm Springs,CA,USA

The vintage World War II airplanes at the Palm Springs Air Museum will soon have a cutting-edge solar thermal air conditioning system to keep them cool, run almost entirely by hot water. The technology, called micro-concentrated solar power, ... [more]

12:19:13 PM Julie Genisot column: Military Veterans Museum and Education Center will
Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA

Appleton Post Crescent Last year, I sent an email for my writing business and in response I met a museum — the Military Veterans Museum and Education Center in Oshkosh. The museum was the idea of veteran Russ Mueller. He knew there was history in the [more]

8:14:56 AM Space Shuttle Enterprise Embarks for NYC Intrepid Museum Today
Space.com - USA

by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor Space shuttle Enterprise will arrive at New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum today (June 6), after a 3-day sea trek that included a layover in New Jersey. The prototype shuttle, which did n [more]

8:14:56 AM Museum salutes gliders used in D-Day invasion
LubbockOnline.com

Lubbock's own Silent Wings Museum, founded by the National World War II Glider Pilots Association Inc. glider pilots who served in the war, will be holding an event today from 10 am to 5 pm to commemorate D-Day and teach visitors about the gliders. [more]

8:14:56 AM Actor Joe Mantegna to serve as spokesman for National Army Museum
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post Actor Joe Mantegna is helping raise money needed to build a national museum for the US Army. Mantegna has been named the national spokesman for the fundraising campaign to build the long-planned National Museum of the United States Ar [more]

8:14:56 AM Museum attendance numbers swell in wake of exhibit's opening
Craig Daily Press - Craig,CO,USA

Dan Davidson, Museum of Northwest Colorado director, holds an original Saturday Evening Post cover featuring the “Spirit of Education” on Tuesday in his office. The museum is exhibiting the original painting by Norman Rockwell, as well as all 323 ... [more]

8:14:56 AM Children's Museum plans special celebration of trains June 10
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA

DOVER — The Children's Museum of New Hampshire has created a special opportunity for young train enthusiasts that will include activities at the museum as well at the Dover Rail Yard. The museum's second annual Train Time event will take place on ... [more]

8:14:56 AM Transit of Venus viewed from Discovery Museum
Ct Post

The transit of Venus as captured by Mike Florio of www.mikefloriophotography.com, who was working with the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport on Tuesday. Florio was working with the museum staff duiring the event. Photo: Contributed Photo / Connecticut . [more]

5:19:08 AM Enterprise damaged en route to NYC museum
10 Connects

The prototype space shuttle orbiter was on its way from John F. Kennedy Airport to a layover in Jersey City, NJ on Sunday, before embarking on the final leg of its journey up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. [more]

3:04:34 AM NY mayor, Port Authority: Deal near on stalled Sept. 11 museum at World
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post 11 museum that is to tell the stories of the dead and provide a final resting place for unidentified human remains said Tuesday that they're close to an agreement to resume construction. “We're down to a few things, a very small amoun [more]

3:04:34 AM City Council creates 'working group' for Southwest Museum issues
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

The LA City Council creates a 'working group' to work toward a solution of dispute between Southwest Museum supporters and the Autry National Center. The Southwest Museum has been largely closed since 2006. (Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times / June 30, . [more]

3:04:34 AM Tulsa Museum Chronicles American Aviation and Military History
FedSmith.com - USA

By Marilyn Jones Although the 19000-square-foot Tulsa Air and Space Museum (TASM) focuses on Oklahoma history, must of what is on exhibit in this hanger-style building reflects aviation and military history on a national level. [more]

3:04:34 AM Hammer Museum Bike Night 2012: Bike Lovers Unite (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Which is why the Hammer Museum has dedicated an entire night to the two-wheeled beauties. This Thursday is the Westwood, Calif. museum's fourth annual Bike Night, and it looks like it's going to be even more bicycle-tastic than last year! [more]

1:34:12 AM Controversy swirls around Corcoran's possible move from 17th Street NW
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post Few marriages have the potential to be as uneasy as that between an art museum and an art school. These relationships are beset with existential questions such as “To create — or to curate?” The partners are always mutually suspicious [more]

1:34:12 AM Ibadan Museum establishes Museum of Plant Garden
Nigerian Tribune

THE National Museum of Unity, Ibadan, Oyo State, added another feather to its cap, making this year's International Museum Day celebration and the 10th anniversary of the National Museums of Unity, Ibadan, historic and grand, with its establishment o [more]



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