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News From Friday, July 02, 2010
10:35:58 PM Sperm whale's giant head uncovered
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

.... the living killer whale," said Olivier Lambert, one of the study's lead authors and a paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. ... [more]

10:27:27 PM Museum helps save Iraqi treasures
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

Terry Drayman-Weisser, the director of conservation and technical research at the Walters Art Museum, knew she had to do what she could to help get the ... [more]

8:00:05 PM The Week in Art: Top Five – "What Do They Want?" Edition
ARTINFO - New York,NY,USA

According to figures released this week from several top museums (all of which have had particularly high attendance), the answer is, well, ... [more]

7:14:00 PM A modest proposal: Twitter, meet your new mascot
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA

The researchers who discovered it, led by Olivier Lambert of the Natural History Museum in Paris, thus classify it as a "raptorial sperm whale." Raptorial. ... [more]

4:13:29 PM Norman Rockwell exhibit opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

.... borrowed from the collections of Hollywood celebrities Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, opened Friday at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. ... [more]

4:03:05 PM Charles Saatchi to Hand Over Saatchi Gallery to British Government, Rename
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

mediabistro.com (blog) He's also throwing in £25 million worth of art to make sure the museum has enough to work with upon its (re-)opening. There are few details about the ... [more]

2:45:58 PM Madison museum offers free admission to service members, families
Randolph Reporter - Bernardsville,NJ,USA

6, the Museum of Early Trades and Crafts is proudly participating in the “Blue Star Museums” program, which offers free admission to all service men and ... [more]

12:46:10 PM Graduate's floating museum idea for Lindisfarne Gospels
BBC News - E,UK

A university graduate has come up with a unique design for a "floating museum" to exhibit the Lindisfarne Gospels. Matt Drury, who lives in Newcastle, ... [more]

11:53:14 AM Lady Gaga Stops by MIT Museum to Check Out New Polaroid Archive
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

... popping into the MIT Museum to see their new Polaroid archive, which was acquired by the museum back in May and is set to going on exhibition in 2013. ... [more]

8:56:10 AM Antiques: 'Art in Revolutionary Philadelphia': Museum offers a look at ...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

While this might be the scenario presented in patriotic movies, "Art in Revolutionary Philadelphia," a special exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, ... [more]

7:22:34 AM Saviour Saatchi
Economist - UK

The gallery's new name is a conscious nod to MOCA LA, the Californian grand-daddy of contemporary-arts museums which was saved 18 months ago by a $30m ... [more]

5:48:28 AM Closing museum and gallery exhibits in Washington area
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Closing Saturday: "Expanding Horizons: Recent Additions to the Drawings Collection" at Baltimore's Walters Art Museum (410-547-9000); "If I Told You One ... [more]

4:58:49 AM Foundation planned for Shockoe Bottom slave museum
Richmond Times Dispatch

Meanwhile, the slavery museum that had been planned in Fredericksburg by former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder remains ineligible to raise money, as its delinquent ... [more]

2:29:02 AM A 'troubled' museum now fit for a queen
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada

Joanne DiCosimo, president of the Canadian Museum of Nature, right, accompanied the Queen and Prince Philip on a special tour of the newly renovated Ottawa ... [more]

1:33:32 AM Fossil Of 'Macropredator' Whale Found In Peru Desert
All Headline News - USA

The tooth size prompted colleagues Erich Fitzgerald, a vertebrate paleontologist at Museum Victoria in Melbourne, and Professor Jelle Reumer, .... [more]



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