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News From Thursday, August 23, 2007
11:56:02 PM Museums experience record attendance
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA

By Jenn Kistler/Sun-News reporter LAS CRUCES -- Museums in Las Cruces have had a record number of visitors this summer. Despite the thermometer topping out ... [more]

11:23:15 PM Museum Highlights Los Angeles Police History, Hollywood Connections
Voice of America - USA

VOA's Mike O'Sullivan paid a visit to a museum that chronicles the LAPD story. The Los Angeles Police Museum is housed in an old station house, ... [more]

2:06:08 PM Art museums name new executive director
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

James Quirk, the former chief executive of Milwaukee Envelope Inc., has been appointed executive director of the Charles Allis and Villa Terrace Art Museums ... [more]

12:57:13 PM Southern Africa: SADC Delegates Informed About Functioning of ...
AllAfrica.com - Africa

.... (SADC)'s Electoral Commission Forum held on August 20-21, in Luanda, Thursday visited the National Slavery Museum to learn about its functioning. ... [more]

8:52:20 AM An international slavery museum in Liverpool
Courrier International - Paris,France

.... cocktail of guns, gangs and joblessness. Which is why the International Slavery Museum's commitment to challenging the legacies of slavery is so important." [more]

5:17:28 AM Museums combat shorter attention spans
PopMatters - Chicago,IL,USA

There are an estimated 12000 to 15000 history museums in the United States, most of which are small or medium-size historic houses or local historical .... [more]

4:47:29 AM Team off to museum meet
The Nation Newspaper - Bridgetown,St. Michael,Barbados

This news came from marketing officer of the Barbados Museum, and public relations officer of the Barbados National Committee of ICOM, Christine Skeete. ... [more]

1:13:30 AM Treasures of Northern Neck on new DVD
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA

They all show up on a new DVD, "The Museums of Virginia's Northern Neck," released this week by the Northern Neck Tourism Council and the 19 museums .... [more]

12:42:48 AM Iowa Museum Prescribes CT Scans for Mummies
ARTINFO - New York,NY,USA

DAVENPORT, Iowa--Two mummies will be carefully removed from their cases at Iowa's Putnam Museum today and taken by ambulance to the local Genesis Medical ... [more]



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