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8:22:13 PM Denver Arts Week Puts The Spotlight On Mile High Creativity
MarketWatch - USA

More than a dozen of the city's top museums, including the Denver Art Museum, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, The Clyfford Still Museum, the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), The CELL, and the Molly .. [more]

8:11:34 PM Impoverished SD Indian tribe debates development
FOX News - USA

But don't look for museums, hotels, restaurants or even many bathrooms here on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, because the Lakota make little effort to attract visitors or tourism dollars, despite the fact that they are one of the nation's poorest [more]

8:11:34 PM Suspects in stolen museum painting face charges at federal court hearing
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA

Pedro Antonio Marcuello and María Elisa Ornelas, the two people accused of trying to sell a stolen Matisse painting in South Beach, were formally charged Wednesday morning in federal court. Marcuello, a native of Cuba, and Ornelas, from Mexico, tried [more]

8:11:34 PM National museum coming to Patriots Point, officials say | News
Live 5 News

"The National Medal of Honor Museum will play a pivotal role in transforming Patriots Point into a nationally prominent destination," said PPDA Chairman Ray Chandler. "No other community can claim this unique destination asset, with its powerful ... [more]

8:11:34 PM Durham science museum plans watermelon feast for lemurs, pigs, bears (oh,
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA

WRAL.com (blog) The Museum of Life and Science in Durham is marking National Watermelon Day on Friday with a watermelon feast for some of its animals. The museum's bears, lemurs and farmyard animals all will get to cool off with the fruit. Bears will [more]

8:11:34 PM Director of National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg has lifelong interest
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA

PennLive.com His current post as executive director of The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg seems a natural progression for the high-energy boy whose parents ran the Motts Military Museum, which is still open for business in Groveport. “My who [more]

6:46:13 PM Confession of a Museum Bunny
SFWA News

Confession of a Museum Bunny. by Deborah Walker. Ideas for my stories come to me in museums, in galleries, in libraries. Find me upstairs (and it's always quieter upstairs) in the British Museum trawling the past looking for future inspiration. Old . [more]

6:46:13 PM READER SUBMITTED: Connecticut River Museum Welcomes Captain Stephen ...
Hartford Courant - United States

The announcement was made at the Museum's recently held Annual Meeting where Chairman of the Board Maureen O'Grady reported on the acquisition of a portrait of the sea captain, merchant and ship owner Clay. Born in Middletown, Clay (1751-1809) is ... [more]

6:46:13 PM Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for Aug. 2-8
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for Aug. 2-8. Print Email. 2012-08-01T11:00:00Z 2012-08-01T10:25:20Z Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for Aug. 2-8North County Times North County Times. 37 minutes ago • North County ... [more]

4:31:14 PM NYC museum to focus on Picasso's B&W palette
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

New York's Guggenheim Museum is doing something about that. "Picasso Black and White" opens on Oct. 5. It will feature 118 paintings, sculptures and works on paper by the Spanish artist. The museum said in a release that Picasso's recurrent motif of  [more]

4:31:14 PM DIA Millage Garners Support At Rally Detroit Art Museum Tax
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

But with a new poll released to the Detroit Free Press showing 69 percent of voters surveyed (237 adults in Oakland, Macomb and Wayne) support the millage, it seems likely the museum will receive the funding they say they need to stay open. "We are o [more]

4:31:14 PM Electrical failure in vault behind Easton's Sigal Museum plumes black smoke
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com - Lehigh Valley,PA,USA

No one was in the museum in the 300 block of Northampton Street when smoke alarms alerted authorities at 6:41, museum Executive Director Barbara Kowitz said. And work done in the past year to seal the vault from the museum likely protected the ... [more]

4:31:14 PM Dan Gable Museum to host introduction to women's wrestling clinic
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Two women who are pioneers in wrestling in the state of Iowa will be featured at an introduction to women's wrestling event at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum on Saturday, Aug. 11, the museum announced Tuesday. Cassy Herkelman .. [more]

4:31:14 PM Kelly- Griggs House Museum Ice Cream Social Sunday, Aug. 19
Red Bluff Daily News - Red Bluff,CA,USA

The Kelly-Griggs House Museum will have several items from the Bone-Heckle Collection, pictured here, which comes from the house of a Red Bluff family who lived in the green Victorian on the corner of Elm and Washington streets next to Red Bluff Fire [more]

4:31:14 PM Rice Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Hillsboro has summer festival this ...
OregonLive.com

View full sizeCourtesy of Catie WitherspoonThe Rice Museum of Rocks and Minerals summer festival will be this weekend. The museum is nationally recognized as the finest rocks and minerals museum in the Pacific Northwest, and one of the best in the .. [more]

3:12:54 PM New poll finds 69% of voters back millage for Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

The museum, whose annual budget is $25 million, has struggled financially for decades, hampered by the lack of a large operating endowment or public funding that sustain peer museums in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago and elsewhere. The DIA has ... [more]

12:31:06 PM New GPS museum app promises to reshape gallery-going experience
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Finding your way around a museum — or a mall or airport, for that matter — is about to be as simple as using the GPS on your phone. As of Aug. 1, the Royal BC Museum in Victoria will become the first venue in Canada to launch Wifarer, the indoor ... [more]

12:31:06 PM STMicroelectronics and Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei Use Indoor ...
Reuters - NY,USA

The future of indoor navigation is available today in your mobile phone or tablet. Taipei, Taiwan, August 1, 2012 - Many people have experienced getting lost at shopping malls, stores, airports, parking lots - or when wandering through museum exhibit [more]

12:31:06 PM Museums 2020: how can we be useful?
Guardian - UK

So, a university museum might be finding new ways to support teaching and research – and to help the university make better links with people living nearby. University museums have always done those things to a degree but the useful university museum [more]

12:31:06 PM Supporters rally for Detroit's art museum as DIA puts finances in voters'
MLive.com - MI,USA

MLive.com dia-rally.jpg Eric LacyTwo brothers, Harrison and Dash Hunger, opened a lemonade stand to support the DIA millage to solidify the Detroit art museum's finances. The boys attended a rally to support the DIA on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. By Eric [more]

12:31:06 PM Aircraft museum says fundraising money stolen
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

It has an annual operating budget of $75000. According to the Boulder Daily Camera (http://bit.ly/QdKFYc ), the museum has already received about $1500 in pledges from donors to replace the money that was stolen at the fundraising event on Saturday . [more]

10:35:26 AM Museums of Old York thank show organizers
Hampton Union - Hampton,NH,USA

The Museums of Old York want to thank Antiques Show Committee Chairwoman Karen Arsenault, Vice Chairwoman Amanda Black, Honorary Chairman Cal Hosmer and Chairwoman Cynthia Hosmer and the many committee volunteers, Old York Trustees, ... [more]

10:35:26 AM Kaleidoscope: Roscoe Village museum displays some cool stuff
Aurora Advocate - Ravenna,OH,USA

Many museums I've visited display arrowheads and ancient Indian tools uncovered in Ohio, but this is the first one where I've seen items made by Indians from all around the United States. The historic, or pioneer gallery, displays quite a collection  [more]

10:35:26 AM Public voting begins Aug. 1 for Virginia's top 10 endangered artifacts
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The program sponsored by the Virginia Association of Museums is designed to create awareness of the importance of preserving artifacts throughout the state and at museums and archives in the District of Columbia. Collecting institutions have already  [more]

8:23:33 AM Redlands museum curator co-authors major map project
Contra Costa Sun - Orinda,CA,USA

Senior Curator, Kathleen Springer (far right) and Curator of Paleontology, Eric Scott (far left) gives a tour of the exhibit "Life to Death to Discovery" in the museums soon to open, Hall of Geological Wonders at the San Bernardino County Museum in . [more]

8:23:33 AM Rosa Parks' Congressional Gold Medal goes on display at African American ...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

With the presentation of a small blue box, the African American Museum in Philadelphia received a giant national treasure Tuesday as it was lent the Congressional Gold Medal bestowed on Rosa Parks, known as the mother of the modern civil rights ... [more]

4:23:08 AM Museums changing to survive
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA

American Civil War museums are changing. They still have battle flags on walls, uniforms in glass cases with swords and weapons of every description. Personal items like knapsacks, canteens, cups, letters, pictures of wives and children that the ... [more]

4:23:08 AM Museum-caliber artists with international cache
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide - Ketchum,ID,USA

Sun Valley's attraction to the greatest of the great in music, cuisine, skiing and other diversions is only limited by the space and time in any given artist's schedule and the size of the venue. This Friday's Gallery Walk provides a snapshot of the  [more]

3:45:30 AM Museum offers information on avoiding shark bites
StarNewsOnline.com - Wilmington,NC,USA

Judy Sobota is the volunteer coordinator at the Museum of Coastal Carolina. She also conducts a program at 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the museum called Who Are You Swimming With? This popular program teaches adults and children about basic shoreline ... [more]

2:44:52 AM Museum of Biblical Art Hosts Newly Reconstructed 14th-Century Sienese ...
GalleristNY

One of the must-see exhibitions of the summer is now on view at the Museum of Biblical Art, a young, jewel-box of an institution that few New Yorkers know about, let alone visit, and that is currently facing financial and organizational challenges .. [more]

2:44:52 AM Fort Morgan Museum exhibits getting closer to construction start
Fort Morgan Times - Fort Morgan,CO,USA

Fort Morgan Heritage Foundation President Don Ostwald holds up the Navajo rug that the foundation is raffling off in September during the Fall Harvest Car Show. Tickets are available from any Heritage Foundation Board member or at the Museum & Librar [more]



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