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News From Monday, June 07, 2010
10:32:56 PM Taxi Said to Have Carried JFK Assassin Sells Above Estimate
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA

RM had hoped to attract specialty collectors and museums seeking items related to President Kennedy, and that's what happened. The Historic Auto Attractions ... [more]

9:21:23 PM The birthplace of Michael Jackson was a museum
Daily News

Which was the birthplace of Michael Jackson in Gary, Indiana, will become a museum. Before there Neverland ranch in California and before Michael Jackson ... [more]

8:41:29 PM Museums for free
Weekly Volcano - Lakewood,WA,USA

However, from now until Labor Day 2010 more than 700 museums spread throughout all 50 states are offering free admission to active duty military personnel ... [more]

8:26:56 PM Layoffs, furlough days ordered at Farnsworth Museum
Bangor Daily News

By Emily Burnham ROCKLAND — Cost-cutting measures at the Farnsworth Art Museum have resulted in a few staff members being laid off and others being ... [more]

7:13:58 PM StoryCorps to Visit IMLS's Medal-Winning Libraries and Museums
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA

Washington, DC—Each year, select museums and libraries with outstanding records of community service receive the Institute of Museum and Library Services' ... [more]

6:32:54 PM Appalachian Trail Museum opens Saturday at Pine Grove Furnace
The Shippensburg News-Chronicle

After months and months of artifact and exhibit gathering, the society opened its Appalachian Trail (AT) Museum, located within a stone's throw of the AT in ... [more]

5:29:03 PM New film museum is a smart venture
The Daily Astorian - Astoria,OR,USA

But this pairing is appropriate for Astoria's new Oregon Film Museum. It will look like a sure thing to some, but it is a risk for the Clatsop County ... [more]

4:19:24 PM $4 million raised for Museum of Alabama
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

By David White MONTGOMERY - State archives staff and archives foundation board members have raised a bit more than $4 million in contributions for a Museum ... [more]

1:43:14 PM Bookmarks along Georgia's Literary Trail
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

Other great writers are from Georgia, and while you can certainly visit the towns from which they hail, there are no museums or monuments dedicated to such ... [more]

12:37:16 PM Germany delays Berlin palace project by three years, sources say
Earthtimes.org - USA

The palace, which is to extend a downtown complex of museums packed with priceless art treasures, has become a symbol of the gravity of the German fiscal ... [more]

10:22:14 AM Ozzy Osbourne Wants To Donate His body To Museum!
Oneindia - Tamilnadu,India

When I die, I should donate my body to the Natural History Museum,” “It's all very well going on a bender for a couple of days but mine went on for 40 years ... [more]

6:04:44 AM Preserving and protecting commissioned art
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Shortly thereafter it was allocated to the Los Angeles Museum, where it hung until 1945 when the museum lent it to San Pedro Catholic Marine Service in the ... [more]

5:18:20 AM Miller: Tribal nations and museums working in partnership
Indian Country Today

By Robert J. Miller Throughout the history of Euro-American contact with indigenous peoples in North America, the interests of anthropologists, museums, ... [more]

4:38:34 AM Apollo 12 art caper: Does the moon harbor a tiny museum?
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

By Forrest Myers By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY Andy Warhol and five other artists likely left a 1969 calling card — a so-called moon museum of six sketches ... [more]

1:57:42 AM Security Costs Loom For Unfinished Museum At OKC
KOKI FOX 23 - Tulsa,OK,USA

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The top official of the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum being built at Oklahoma City says the state could end up footing ... [more]

12:49:49 AM Guggenheim eyes China
China View, Beijing, China

By Wu Ziru BEIJING, June 7 -- As one of the most prestigious art museums in the world, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York has also found ... [more]

12:27:17 AM Oswald's getaway cab sold to Illinois museum
The Associated Press

DALLAS — The Checker cab Lee Harvey Oswald took after President John F. Kennedy's assassination has been sold at auction to an Illinois museum. ... [more]



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