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11:47:38 PM Premier History Museum to Undergo Renovation
Voice of America - USA

By Jeff Custer. The National Museum of American History in Washington, DC will soon undergo a major renovation. But officials have ... [more]

7:17:40 PM Fewer planets, more work / Museums, planetariums, publishers rush ...
Daily Yomiuri Online - Japan

The International Astronomical Union's decision in Prague to remove Pluto from the planetary system gave science museums and planetariums, already busy looking ... [more]

6:32:42 PM Preservation at Deadwood's Adams Museum
Alton Telegraph - Alton,IL,USA

The talk coincides with the opening of his photography show in the museum's mezzanine gallery. The event is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. ... [more]

4:12:46 PM Museum's grant to restore coke ovens
Leader Times - Kittanning,PA,USA

West Overton Museums received a $10,000 grant from the Rivers of Steel Heritage Foundation to have coke ovens on the Scottdale property restored. .... [more]

3:22:45 PM The Ripley's Believe It or Not museum
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA

.... The museum is about a half-mile up the road, on the left. Admission: For the museum exhibits alone, it's $14.95 for adults, $11.95 for children 5-12. ... [more]

3:22:45 PM Marine mannequins add realism to museum
Marines.com - USA

.... “That’s creepy,” he said as he examined the mannequin that was created from castings of his body for use in displays at the National Museum of the Marine ... [more]

3:22:45 PM Work to start on new $30 million museum
WCAX - Burlington,VT,USA

BUFFALO, NY Governor Pataki was in Buffalo yesterday for the groundbreaking for a new 30 (m) million-dollar art museum. The Burchfield ... [more]

12:17:40 PM Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion to debut
Monroenews.com - Monroe,Michigan,USA

Those are the words of the people who helped breathe life into the Toledo Museum of Art's new Glass Pavilion, which will make its public debut Sunday. .... [more]

12:17:39 PM New museum director ready to start
The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA

Kent Ahrens, a seasoned museum administrator and art historian, is the new executive director of the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Loretto. .... [more]

10:02:40 AM Art museums provide culture, people-watching opportunities
Daily Trojan Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA

.... Funny thing was, my parents took me to plenty of museums growing up, not just the art ones. Something must have gone surprisingly ... [more]

10:02:39 AM 4 designs for city's heritage park offered
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA

The design team for Tucson Origins Heritage Park is on a march to November to figure out how to best lay out the streets, cultural plaza and museums that best ... [more]

9:12:40 AM » Greece: Getty museum to return items to Greece.
Zanteweb - Zante,Zakynthos,Greece

The Getty Museum signed over the ownership, of these two artefacts, on the 20th of August and they are expected to arrive in Athens on August 31st. ... [more]

9:12:40 AM State agriculture museum to be built in Mercer
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA

.... Mercer County will be the home of a new multimillion-dollar museum that will tell the story of Kentucky agriculture's past and present. ... [more]

9:12:39 AM Museum-quality fashions
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

No place to go? How about heading to the Morris Museum (6 Normandy Heights Road) in Morris Township to see how women got all dressed up through the ages? ... [more]

9:12:39 AM Museum astronomer could see Pluto's demotion coming
News-Herald.com - Willoughby,OH,USA

The fact is, the far-distant object isn't even rocky, says Simpson, observatory coordinator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. ... [more]

9:12:39 AM The first exhibition in the new Toledo Museum of Art Glass ...
Monroenews.com - Monroe,Michigan,USA

Located in the Glass City, the Toledo Museum of Art has been home to one of the world's finest glass collections, but it's been hidden away for more than three ... [more]

9:12:38 AM Museum relinquishes painting stolen from church
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada

The San Diego Museum of Art relinquished an 18th-century painting to the Mexican government after it was found to have been stolen from a rural Mexican church. ... [more]

6:02:39 AM Museum of Art returns stolen painting to Mexico
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA

Mexican authorities reclaimed an 18th-century painting yesterday that had been stolen from a church and then sold to the San Diego Museum of Art six years ago. ... [more]

6:02:39 AM Three local artists in Toledo museum show
Monroenews.com - Monroe,Michigan,USA

TOLEDO - Three Monroe County artists are among those exhibiting in the 2006 Toledo Area Artists Exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art. ... [more]



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