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11:15:53 PM Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA

Zeum (Ze-um)—not your typical museum; a place that builds voice, ignites the imagination, nurtures the creative process, and encourages innovation. ... [more]

10:15:36 PM Nearly extinct California frog rediscovered
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

USGS and San Diego Natural History Museum biologists found the endangered frog during separate trips in June. The frogs were spotted at two locations about ... [more]

10:08:40 PM Naval museum likely to claim bomber if it is raised
San Diego Union Tribune

By Ed Zieralski SAN DIEGO — Is a custody battle likely between two aviation museums for the rare Navy SB2C-4 Helldiver bomber that's been resting on the ... [more]

9:15:36 PM From the Movies to the Museums
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Obviously, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian showcases plenty of scenes from the Smithsonian Museums. If you've already seen the movie, .... [more]

1:11:28 PM Va art museum gets rare German art
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

(AP) — A major family collection of German Expressionist art "so rare that it is almost indescribable" has found a permanent home at the Virginia Museum of ... [more]

12:16:05 PM Air and space museum opens in Germany
The Associated Press

Now a museum focused on the life and work of the German-born aeronautics pioneer opened Friday in the southern German town of Friedrichshafen, where Dornier ... [more]

11:27:52 AM Coast Guard museum plan on hold
TheDay - New London,CT,USA

By Kathleen Edgecomb , Jennifer Grogan New London - Plans for a Coast Guard museum, which city officials have long hoped would be the impetus for economic ... [more]

10:04:08 AM Evebnts calendar: Museums and galleries
Ventura County Star - Camarillo,CA,USA

[photocredit]Painting by Leslie Marcus[/photocredit] They Paint Horses, Don't They? is a new exhibit at the Museum of Ventura County that features more than ... [more]

9:22:48 AM Local museum wants WWII plane, too
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA

“We've already put our hat in the ring for it,” Jim Kidrick, president and chief executive of the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park, ... [more]

8:31:39 AM Museums plan arch gateway
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA

The structure would be erected next to the new Museum of Springfield History, scheduled to open this fall. By PETER GOONAN SPRINGFIELD - The Springfield ... [more]

8:25:14 AM Civil War Museum sounds alarm on leaving Phila.
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

For history lovers, the Civil War Museum on Pine Street was a pantheon for 86 years, filled with relics found nowhere else, relics with distinct ... [more]

7:36:23 AM Spiffed-up Oswego museum to reopen
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

By Jack McCarthy | Special to the Tribune Workers busy sanding floors this month at Oswego's Little White School Museum cleaned up years of grime and .... [more]

6:30:05 AM Lizard Day at Miami Science Museum
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA

At Miami Science Museum's annual Lizard Day, guests will be dared to sample wild cuisine, such as stir-fried mealworms, ant crisps and critter gelatin .... [more]

6:24:03 AM Children's Museum takes playful approach to learning
Greenville News - Greenville,SC,USA

By Amy Clarke • Staff writer • July 24, 2009 Several years and millions of dollars and countless hours in the making, the Children's Museum of the Upstate ... [more]

5:38:11 AM Art talk with Mark Bradford tonight at the Dallas Museum of Art
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford will talk about his work tonight at the Dallas Museum of Art. The artist's work is currently featured in the DMA's Private ... [more]

5:24:14 AM Art galleries, museums
Kansas.com - KS,USA

Family Artventure — Las Artes de Mexico, 11 am-3 pm, Wichita Art Museum, 1400 W. Museum Blvd. Free. Information, 316-268-4921. ... [more]

4:45:10 AM Virginia Museum acquires prized German Expressionist art
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA

Community activist Anne Rosenberg Fischer, who died last year, and her family agreed to the gift-purchase arrangement with the museum. ... [more]

3:01:38 AM Winterthur Opens New Exhibition Featuring Paintings from the ...
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

The collaboration between the Met and Winterthur is a reflection of the longstanding relationship between the two museums. Morrison H. Heckscher, chairman ... [more]

1:01:37 AM Spare Times
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

“All these arts were bubbling in New York at the time,” said Laura Beiles, an associate educator at the museum who helped plan the program. ... [more]



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