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News From Wednesday, August 23, 2006
9:27:40 PM INTERVIEW - Russia art thief was above suspicion - culture boss
Reuters India - Mumbai,India

.... to steal works of art worth $5 million because she was a trusted employee and security guards did not think to check her bag, the country's museums chief said ... [more]

9:27:39 PM Day of tributes for thousands of slaves
ic Liverpool - Southport,England,UK

.... David Fleming, director of National Museums Liverpool, which has organised commemorations since 1999, said: "In partnership with the council and Liverpool's ... [more]

9:27:39 PM Wi-Fi, Better Cell Reception for Smithsonian Museums
DCist.com - Washington,DC,USA

.... Access System in phases over the next two years, a step which means both free wireless Internet and improved mobile phone reception in and around their museums ... [more]

7:47:49 PM Children’s museum has high hopes for new event
Brownsville Herald - Brownsville,TX,USA

A year from now, the Children’s Museum of Brownsville may have its own recognizable event: a child-centric romp through Dean Porter Park featuring magicians ... [more]

7:47:48 PM Bay Area museum leaning away from global warming center proposal
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Officials at the Coyote Point Museum said they will likely reject a proposal to scrap the struggling wildlife learning center to build a ... [more]

7:47:48 PM Animal rights activists fight to build museum next to UW labs
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA

MADISON, Wis. - Plans to build a museum protesting primate research on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus were blocked when a business owner backed out ... [more]

5:37:42 PM Jon Finch starts as MLA West Midlands' new Chief Executive
eGov monitor - London,UK

Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLA) West Midlands has appointed Jon Finch as its new Chief Executive. Jon, who was previously ... [more]

4:42:47 PM Museum unveils aboriginal artifacts from Scottish earl's ...
CBC News - Canada

The Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton has unveiled a $1.1-million collection of aboriginal artifacts gathered by the 9th Earl of Southesk while he travelled ... [more]

4:42:47 PM Great Lakes Children's Museum scheduled to reopen September 16
Grand Traverse Herald - Traverse City,MI,USA

After a year without a building, the Great Lakes Children's Museum will reopen on September 16 with a grand celebration at their new facility in Greilickville. ... [more]

4:42:41 PM World Trade Center Museum Opens First Exhibit
NY1 - NY,USA

There's no museum in place yet, but the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation is opening its first public exhibit at the World Trade Center site Thursday. .... [more]

2:27:40 PM Clermont museums open doors for free Sept. 16
Community Press - Florence,KY,USA

.... Sept. 16. Eleven museums will be open, free to the public. Take a step back in time by visiting any or all of the following: Goshen ... [more]

2:27:39 PM Museums here little affected by illegally acquired art, artifacts
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA

.... from Jewish owners by the Nazis or Soviets during World War II, art that subsequently ended up in international auction houses where museums bought them. ... [more]

1:37:40 PM Group hopes $400,000 it raised will preserve Coyote Point Museum ...
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

A community group that wants to preserve San Mateo's Coyote Point Museum has raised more than $400,000, and museum officials said Tuesday that a rival proposal ... [more]

1:37:39 PM City Oks management deal with salt museum
Hutchinson News - Hutchinson,KS,USA

The Hutchinson City Council approved a management agreement for the Kansas Underground Salt Museum on Tuesday, but not before removing a stipulation that money ... [more]

1:37:39 PM Silver River Museum will host lecture on Aug. 31
Ocala.com - Ocala,FL,USA

The Silver River Museum and Environmental Education Center is conducting an evening lecture, "The Floridan Aquifer: Florida's Fragile Underground Reservoir ... [more]

11:22:39 AM Food exhibit nourishes rural museums
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

By Andrea Uhde. Small-town museums may have found a way to draw the big crowds of their city counterparts: Offer food. Thousands ... [more]

7:22:40 AM Children’s Museum Markets Calendar
Rocktown Weekly - Harrisonburg,VA,USA

.... The sixth-grader from Wilbur Pence Middle School has been marketing a calendar to support the Harrisonburg Children’s Museum. ... [more]

7:22:39 AM Fishing for new park ideas, good vibes for museum and fatherly ...
PensacolaNewsJournal.com - Pensacola,FL,USA

.... Their concept would include an aquarium and a Bass Pro Shops as well as the maritime museum, cruise ship and other amenities suggested by others. .... [more]

5:12:47 AM Smithsonian Museums Make Changes, Prepare For Renovation
NBC 4.com - Washington,DC,USA

WASHINGTON -- No one expects to see the scarecrow from the "Wizard of Oz" at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, but in just a few months ... [more]

5:12:44 AM Smithsonian Collections On Display Nationwide
W*USA 9 - Washington,DC,USA

WASHINGTON - Museums across the country are helping the Smithsonian show off more of what it has. Museums and other cultural organizations ... [more]

5:12:40 AM SLAVERY REMEMBRANCE WEEK: City of Liverpool calls on the ...
Black Britain - UK

.... National Museums Liverpool has played a key role in Slavery Remembrance Day and Black Britain wanted to know how the Head Curator of the National Museums ... [more]

4:18:01 AM Brooklyn Museum surveys WTC site
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan

A new exhibit opening at the Brooklyn Museum examines the history of the land where the World Trade Center stood and to how artists responded to its ... [more]

4:18:00 AM Art museum trustees choose Tulsa's Ferriso
Portland Business Journal - Portland,OR,USA

The Portland Art Museum's board of trustees approved Tuesday the appointment of Brian Ferriso as the museum's executive director. ... [more]

4:17:57 AM The Fountain Is Moving: Celebrate With The Art Museum
WCPO - Cincinnati,OH,USA

The "Genius of the Water" fountain has been on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum during the construction of Fountain Square. ... [more]

4:17:54 AM Holocaust Museum hosts workshop for educators
St.Louis Jewishlight.com - St. Louis,MO,USA

Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center on the theme "Jewish-Christian Relations in Light of the Holocaust." The curriculum and materials developed for the ... [more]

4:17:49 AM Contributors finally become a Kelvingrove museum piece
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK

WORK began yesterday on mounting 9500 names marking individual contributions to the cost of refurbishing Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. .... [more]



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