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11:00:19 PM Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for Aug. 16-22
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for Aug. 16-22. Print Email. « Preview calendar Blythe Barton Dance. » 2012-08-15T11:00:00Z 2012-08-15T11:20:41Z Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for Aug. 16-22North County Times ... [more]

11:00:19 PM Cheap Trick rocker Rick Nielsen's legendary collection of guitars on display
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

And in three individual glass museum cases: the black skeleton pajamas he wore onstage; the checkerboard sweater he often donned in music videos; and a pair of old jeans, on which his wife once sewed novelty patches. I asked Nielsen if the TV series  [more]

10:27:40 PM Sept. 11 museum lawyers: Display of steel cross is no different from
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post NEW YORK — Lawyers for the Sept. 11 memorial at the World Trade Center site say a judge should toss out a lawsuit by a national atheists group seeking to stop display of a cross-shaped steel beam found among trade center wreckage. The [more]

10:27:40 PM Glenbow Museum lays off staff
Edmonton Journal

In downtown Calgary, Glenbow Museum is both a museum and art gallery with a collection of over a million artifacts and about 28000 works of art with a focus on Western Canada. tfletcher@calgaryherald.com. Twitter.com/ThandiFletcher. © Copyright (c) T [more]

10:27:40 PM Hagerstown Museum won't be open for Jubilee Days
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA

The second and third floors of the building at 96½ E. Main St. that house the museum will be closed as work continues to repair the damages from the June 23 fire that struck the building as well as the adjacent Willie & Red's restaurant. Butters said [more]

10:27:40 PM (R)evolution in Baden-Baden: Wangechi Mutu Transforms Museum Row
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

With these collaborative forces of commerce, government, community and art colluding to transform this aristocratic summer playground into a Bracha Ettinger birth matrix by way of Werke von Wangechi Mutu's The Undreamt Descent, curated by museum ... [more]

6:23:58 PM State Museum will reopen on Sundays
Albany Times Union (blog)

The museum was closed on Sunday starting in January 2011 as a result of state budget cuts. Before that, Sundays were the second busiest day, after Saturday, and represented 20 percent of attendance. The museum had been open seven days a week from ... [more]

6:23:58 PM Museum Of Science And Industry Exhibit Looks At The Future Of Lunar,
Chicagoist

Chicagoist Dusty the Rover. (Chuck Sudo/Chicagoist). As the latest Mars Rover Expedition continues to score another point for Science, an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry shows what could be in the works for future lunar or interplanetar [more]

6:23:58 PM Cape Cod Museum of Art trustees address financial woes
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA

A serious drop in donations and fundraising initiatives has crippled the museum, which last year celebrated its 30th anniversary. “When [Elizabeth Ives Hunter] retired, we took a good hard look at our finances and found we are not bringing in the ... [more]

6:23:58 PM New Elliott Museum building highlights local vision
Fort Pierce Tribune - Fort Pierce,FL,USA

It was these formations that inspired the architectural team of Gould Evans as they designed plans for the new Elliott Museum. In tribute to the original Elliott Museum, pulverized rocks from the demolition of the original building were incorporated  [more]

6:23:58 PM Museum finds stored artwork is Picasso worth millions; plans to sell it |
Arts ...

14 News WFIE Evansville “Seated Woman with Red Hat” (“Femme assise au chapeau rouge”) c. 1954-1956 – had not been identified as a Picasso in documentation provided to the museum when the piece was gifted in the 1960s. It has been in the museum's stor [more]

6:23:58 PM Indianapolis Museum of Art names new CEO
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA

A museum veteran with more than 25 years of experience, Venable has served as the deputy director of the Dallas Museum of Art and deputy director for collections and programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art. While serving as the director of the Speed, [more]

6:23:58 PM Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art names executive director
Indianapolis Business Journal - Indianapolis,IN,USA

“iMOCA will continue to challenge what people consider a museum,” Marsh said in a prepared statement. “We provide a more intimate experience so visitors can get close to the art we exhibit. Art has no value without an audience. I appreciate the peopl [more]

6:12:10 PM Maine State Museum names Bernard Fishman as its new director
Auction Central News - New York,NY,USA

AUGUSTA, Maine - The Maine State Museum Commission has named Bernard Fishman, former director of Rhode Island Historical Society, as the new director of the Maine State Museum in Augusta. A veteran museum director with 28 years of experience, ... [more]

6:12:10 PM New Library Program to Offer Downloadable Museum Passes
Patch.com

As part of the Discover & Go Network, Santa Cruz Public Library cardholders have access to free and discounted passes to 30 Bay Area museums and cultural institutions including Aquarium of the Bay, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Bedford Gallery, Cartoon  [more]

2:56:06 PM 9/11 cross check
New York Post - New York,NY,USA

In court papers, the museum says American Atheists Inc. doesn't have a prayer of proving that the iconic, cross-shaped steel beam will impose religion “through the power of the state.” The Manhattan court filing seeks to toss out a lawsuit the atheis [more]

2:56:06 PM Infantry museum screens movie on WWII regiment
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

The National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center is screening a movie honoring soldiers from an airborne regiment who freed French resisters during World War II. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports ( http://bit.ly/MvSzvL) the free showing of "Saints  [more]

1:20:21 PM St. Clement's Island Museum Offers Private Presidential Memorabilia Exhibit
Bay Net - Lexington Park,MD,USA

The St. Mary's County Museum Division will present a special temporary exhibit at the St. Clement's Island Museum in Colton's Point, MD to highlight items in the private Presidential memorabilia collection of the Roberto L. G. Lizama family. [more]

1:20:21 PM A Shelburne Museum Exhibit Demonstrates That Quilting Is for Real Men
Seven Days

In its exhibit “Man-Made Quilts: Civil War to the Present,” the Shelburne Museum presents some gorgeous textile creations, most accompanied by great stories. But one thing might irk some female viewers: The show celebrates men picking up a ... [more]

10:06:10 AM Institute of Museum and Library Services Awards $150000 Grant to the
Virtual Strategy Magazine (press release) - Bedford,NH,USA

Virtual-Strategy Magazine The Museum of the City of New York was awarded a $150000 grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America Program, which will enable the Museum to embark on an extensive redesign of its Websi [more]

8:12:47 AM Museum Tries to Shine
Wall Street Journal - USA

Backers are trying to win approval to begin museum operations on renovated city property formerly used as a Coast Guard depot near the ferry landing. The group, which says it needs $600000 for the "pilot" museum facility and another $400000 for first [more]

8:12:47 AM Museums didn't move cars during charity walk
Hampton Union - Hampton,NH,USA

As the new executive director of the Museums of Old York (formerly Old York Historical Society), I have been heartened by the friendliness and spirit of cooperation here in the communities of York, but was distressed to read a letter to the editor in [more]

8:12:47 AM Vintage station sketches on display at California rail museum
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

Artist Walter J. Wedlock began sketching vintage train stations in the 1970s to preserve them in ink before a third of them were torn down. The resulting collection of 52 drawings and one watercolor were eventually donated to the California State ... [more]

8:12:47 AM Appraisal Day at museum reveals some treasures
Ventura ...

By the time the doors opened at the Museum of Ventura County on Tuesday morning, more than 50 people had lined up with family heirlooms and acquired treasures, hoping to find out whether the items had any monetary value. The museum's Appraisal Day, . [more]

8:12:47 AM Maritime Museum pool to be used for water sports
The News - International - Pakistan

KARACHI: Pakistan's biggest pool that is being built at Maritime Museum for the first ever dolphin shows in the country would be used for water sports later, a navy officer told 'The News'. He said that they had plans to hold different water sports a [more]

3:49:58 AM Sign up for free tickets to Staten Island and NYC museums
Staten Island Advance - SILive.com - Staten Island,NY,USA

That's when museums across New York City and the country will be offering free admission as part of Smithsonian magazine's Museum Day Live!, annual event celebrating education through the nation's wide array of museums and cultural institutions. [more]

3:49:58 AM Museum's memorabilia a stomp back in time
St. Catharines Standard - St. Catharines,Ontario,Canada

.... Potrecz, The Standard. Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:32:52 EDT PM. Tanya Faulkner, collections technician at the St. Catharines Museum, holds a penant that's part of a treasure trove of baseball memorabilia from the of St. Catharines Blues and Sto [more]



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