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11:12:18 PM Attend films, museums for history lessons
Augusta Chronicle - Augusta,GA,USA

Children view a model of the USS Augusta warship at the Augusta Museum of History. Perhaps you've lived here for years or maybe even your entire life, ... [more]

8:38:29 PM Polish museum debuts 3-D movie about World War II
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

But 3-D can also be used for historical films, as proved by a new initiative by a museum in Poland. "City of Ruins," a new short documentary film, ... [more]

7:09:44 PM Rafael Viñoly Architects to Design Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily The unusually diverse work the firm has completed includes award-winning educational facilities, courthouses, museums, performing arts centers, ... [more]

4:17:18 PM Ohio museum to show art by Stones' Ronnie Wood
The Associated Press

The Butler Institute of American Art says the exhibition opening is the first for Wood at a major American museum. The 63-year-old British musician plans to ... [more]

1:42:24 PM Shawnee museums receive grants
Shawnee Dispatch - Shawnee,KS,USA

The trust fund's Grant Review Board, which had reviewed requests involving 11 applications seeking $312361, presented recommendations for $172461 in 2010 ... [more]

12:40:02 PM Milwaukee museum hosts mummies exhibit
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscripition) - Atlanta,GA,USA

"Mummies of the World" will be at the Milwaukee Public Museum from Dec. 17 through May 30. It features a collection of 150 real human and animal mummies and ... [more]

12:07:42 PM Temple? School? Try Nightclub: The Soul of a New Museum
New York Observer

By Michael H. Miller Three million people visited the Museum of Modern Art in the year ending last month, a new record in its 81-year history. ... [more]

8:14:58 AM Smithsonian honors Philadelphia hat-maker
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

A documentary producer for National Public Radio, Limerick had heard that the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture was ... [more]

7:43:56 AM Erie Art Museum Awarded for Youth Programming
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA

Erie, PA, July 28, 2010 --(PR.com)-- The Erie Art Museum is proud to announce that it has received a Museums for America grant for $91714 from the federal ... [more]

3:25:09 AM Hungary Sued in Holocaust Art Claim
New York Times

The lawsuit has been filed against Hungary and several museums that it oversees. The suit, filed on Tuesday, includes an unprecedented twist: in addition to ... [more]

2:05:42 AM Museum Center makes pitch to change state funding of historic sites
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati,OH,USA

McDonald, president of the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, made a Statehouse pitch Tuesday to legislators to change the way the state budgets ... [more]

1:20:54 AM Crusaders Join Herod's Sauna in $100 Million Jerusalem Museum
Bloomberg

By Gwen Ackerman - Tue Jul 27 23:00:01 UTC 2010 A mihrab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The mihrab, which is a niche in the center of the wall that ... [more]



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