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News From Tuesday, July 25, 2006
7:17:35 PM Bosses' joy as visitors flock to transport museum
Glasgow Evening Times - Glasgow,Scotland,UK

THE number of visitors at Glasgow's Transport Museum has rocketed since Kelvingrove Art Gallery re-opened. The West End attraction ... [more]

7:17:35 PM Museum hails ancient Psalter found in bog
Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's national museum on Tuesday hailed what it said was one of the most significant discoveries in decades -- and perhaps centuries ... [more]

6:12:13 PM Survey: Many US museums lag in researching Nazi-era looted art
Boston Herald - United States

NEW YORK - Many American art museums missed a deadline to report whether their collections contain works that might have been stolen during the Holocaust ... [more]

3:47:17 PM Oren Dunn Museum supporters look to the future
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal - Tupelo,MS,USA

BY ANDY KANENGISER. TUPELO - Tomeka Green last visited the Oren Dunn Museum when she was a middle school student 10 years ago. A ... [more]

3:47:16 PM Alaska museum reflects drama of natural wonders
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

The museum on the hill looks like breaching whales. ... The territorial Legislature created the university in 1917, specifying it include a museum. .... [more]

3:47:16 PM Developer to announce museum, hotel project in Providence
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

PROVIDENCE, RI --A Baltimore-based development company plans to transform a former power plant in the city into a museum and hotel as part of a $139 million ... [more]

3:47:16 PM Museum to get $41m facelift
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

THE first stage of a $41 million upgrade to the Australian Museum has been approved, in what will be the first big expansion of the building for almost 20 years ... [more]

12:47:13 PM Honor marshals with a museum in Arkansas
Baxter Bulletin - Baxter,AR,USA

Arkansas could be the new home of the US Marshals Museum, it was learned Monday. Fort Smith and Staunton, Va., are the two finalists ... [more]

12:47:13 PM Former power plant to be developed into museum, hotel
WLNE-TV (ABC6) - Providence,RI,USA

.... Power Plant. The building will house the Heritage Harbor Museum, Rhode Island's first Smithsonian-affiliated museum. Office space ... [more]

12:07:13 PM 34 Species Under Wild Animals Protection Act
Bru Direct - Brunei Darussalam

.... students and teachers. The talk was delivered by Museums Department Officer Kassim bin Ismail at the school's hall. Kassim bin Ismail ... [more]

9:47:14 AM Staunton is finalist for Marshals Museum
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA

Staunton is one of two finalists for a US Marshals Museum, city leaders said yesterday. The city is competing with Fort Smith, Ark. ... [more]

9:47:13 AM KC museum earns a shot at big leagues
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

Congress grants the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum national status, which could earn it wider fame. By MATT STEARNS. WASHINGTON | - An ... [more]

9:47:13 AM MAINE STATE MUSEUM Grant to fund survey of scientific artifacts
Kennebec Journal - Augusta,ME,USA

AUGUSTA -- The Maine State Museum, responsible by state law for all scientific artifacts found in Maine, has received a $150,000 federal grant to identify and ... [more]

9:47:13 AM Poor pay the price for high museum fees
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

By DAVID R. JONES. Next week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's recommended general admission fee will increase to $20. This follows ... [more]

9:07:13 AM Security Funds For Nonprofits Said on Way
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA

.... York's cultural, health, and religious institutions fund anti-terrorist initiatives, such as the installment of cameras and barriers in museums and synagogues. ... [more]

6:47:16 AM Salem museum poised for historic expansion
New River Valley Current - Christiansburg,VA,United States

A $440,000 allocation from the state could enable the Salem museum to go forward with several much-needed upgrades. The Salem museum ... [more]

6:47:16 AM Museum changes Mormon exhibit in wake of complaints
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA

SALT LAKE CITY -- Smithsonian Museum curators changed a new gallery exhibit after two Utah congressmen and others complained it portrayed Mormon church .... [more]

6:47:16 AM Koskoff, other Lamont backers to rally at museum
Bristol Press - Bristol,CT,USA

.... Koskoff and other area Lamont supporters are holding a free meet-and-greet for Lamont on Saturday at the American Clock and Watch Museum on Federal Hill in ... [more]

6:07:29 AM New Museums Are Expected to Put Diamond Valley Lake on the Map
International News Service - Sydney,Australia

.... With its giant metallic columns set against the foothills in south Hemet, their supporters have described the museums as world class. ... [more]

6:07:27 AM Museums’ Research On Looting Seen to Lag
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

A major survey of American museums has found that many have not yet done significant research to determine whether works in their collections were looted ... [more]

2:27:13 AM National designation for Negro Leagues museum is official
The State - Columbia,SC,USA

WASHINGTON - It's official: Kansas City's tribute to Negro Leagues baseball is now America's National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. ... [more]

2:27:13 AM Transportation Museum director steps down
WDBJ7.com - Roanoke,VA,USA

Bob Dills has stepped down as Director of the Virginia Museum of Transportation. The Museum's Board President says Dills gave up ... [more]

2:27:13 AM Museum reflects Alaska‘s natural wonders
Sky Valley Journal - WY, USA

By DAN JOLING, Associated Press Writer Mon Jul 24, 1:33 PM ET. FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The museum on the hill looks like breaching whales. ... [more]



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