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News From Monday, July 19, 2010
11:19:39 PM Avant-Garde Gardening: A Q&A with IMA Curator Lisa Freiman
ARTINFO - New York,NY,USA

It was a time of growth for us, when most museums were contracting. Studying different projects, though, I began to notice that some of the most interesting ... [more]

10:21:15 PM Coast Guard investigating Star of India death
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA

Coast Guard records show the Maritime Museum has had no recent safety issues. An investigation in 2007 found it lacked a certificate of inspection for the ... [more]

7:33:56 PM Stoke 'may have to fight' to save Wedgwood Museum
BBC Sport - UK

The Wedgwood Museum, in Barlaston, was put into administration in March after the transferral of a £134m pension debt from the collapse of the pottery firm. ... [more]

5:13:37 PM World War II Museum features animals of war
The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — An exhibit opening Thursday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans features dogs, horses and other animals used during the war. ... [more]

4:22:55 PM 'Big society' museum plans in Liverpool condemned
BBC Sport - UK

Plans to have volunteers working in Liverpool's museums as part of Prime Minster David Cameron's "big society" have been branded "hypocritical". ... [more]

1:19:54 PM The Frugal Traveler: How to visit New York City on a budget
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

Low-cost museums: Many New York museums offer flexible admission prices or other discounts. For example, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has "recommended" ... [more]

12:39:47 PM Plans to save the Wedgwood Museum's artefacts discussed
BBC Sport - UK

An MP is hoping money from businesses and lottery funds can be put together to make sure a ceramics museum does not have to sell its valuable artefacts. ... [more]

11:18:14 AM What exactly is a museum?
Culpeper Star Exponent

“A museum is a place which invites, in a special way, to contemplation and musing about our humanly strive after truth, goodness and beauty. ... [more]

6:50:22 AM Changing focus to fit the times
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

The challenges facing children's museums these days are not so easily solved. The biggest? How to attract and engage young children and their families when ... [more]

4:52:48 AM Volunteer dies in fall from historic Star of India sailing ship in San Diego
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

A 68-year-old volunteer working Sunday to prepare the museum ship Star of India to set sail died after falling 40 to 50 feet, the San Diego County medical ... [more]

4:43:25 AM Three Waltham museums to receive federal grants
Daily News Tribune - Waltham,MA,USA

By Jen Judson/Daily News staff Three local museums were awarded federal Institute of Museum and Library Services grants on Thursday. The museums must now ... [more]

2:58:09 AM The American Museum of Folk Art's New Curator Problem — and It's Old Art ...
New York Magazine - New York,NY,USA

The American Museum of Folk Art is one of my favorite museums in America. It's also one of my least favorites. I love the museum because it's committed to ... [more]

12:59:00 AM Making Museums Fun for All
New York Times (blog)

Discovery is also talking to other museums, said Elizabeth Bakacs, Discovery's vice president of licensing. One that has signed on is the Burke Museum of ... [more]



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