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News From Thursday, July 22, 2010
9:13:05 PM Negro Leagues to begin fundraising drive
The Associated Press

Money already has been raised, but the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City plans to open the campaign officially on July 28. ... [more]

8:15:53 PM An air and space museum for Hangar One?
Mountain View Voice - Mountain View,CA,USA

Hopes are that with enough interest and financial backing from donors, Hangar One could be home to a major earth, air and space museum -- possibly as one of ... [more]

7:04:30 PM A Display on Galileo With Catholic Overtones
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

But as recently as last fall, at a news conference introducing an exhibition of historic telescopic instruments at the Vatican Museums, the director of the ... [more]

5:36:11 PM New Zealand museum thaws 100-year-old Scotch
The Associated Press

Four of the crates were left in the ice, but one labeled Mackinlay's whisky was brought to the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch on New Zealand's South .... [more]

5:04:24 PM Regina museum has everything you ever wanted to know about toilets
Calgary Herald - Calgary,AB,Canada

By DOYLE FOX, Leader-Post July 22, 2010 9:31 AM Christa Donaldson, executive director of the Regina Plains Museum, peeks out from behind an outhouse door on ... [more]

3:03:21 PM Schools and museums make architecture prize shortlist
The Associated Press

Two schools and three major museums, including in London, are among the outstanding buildings in the running for this year's Riba Stirling Prize - a ... [more]

1:35:23 PM Houston Museum Learns a Corpse Flower is the Ticket to Increased Popularity
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

By Steve Delahoyde on Jul 22, 2010 06:59 AM If you work for a struggling museum, which as we've seen over the last couple of years pretty much means any ... [more]

12:09:05 PM Waukesha museum hosts realism exhibit
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

AP The Waukesha County Museum is hosting an exhibit from a Milwaukee artist known internationally for his realistic sculptures. ... [more]

10:46:49 AM Stirling prize shortlist 2010: 3 museums, 2 schools, 1 apartment block
Guardian - UK

Public buildings dominate the shortlist of the £20000 Stirling prize, for the best new building in the UK and Europe by a British architect. ... [more]

3:43:45 AM Night at the Museum
Metro Weekly - USA

by Doug Rule “I've been dreaming of this day since the very first time I saw Crack,” says Kevin Hull, manager of special programs at the Hirshhorn Museum. ... [more]

1:29:34 AM Schools and museums vie for prize
BBC Sport - UK

Two schools and three major museums are among the buildings up for this year's Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) Stirling Prize. ... [more]

1:17:12 AM Smithsonian holdings to aid researchers in Gulf
The Associated Press

The museum and research complex in Washington holds the most complete set of invertebrate species from the Gulf, offering scientists studying the spill's ... [more]



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