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News From Tuesday, August 31, 2010
11:59:25 PM LA's MOCA and other museums participate in 'Ask a Curator'
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Engaged in their scholarly pursuits, museum curators aren't usually accessible to the general art-loving public, never mind the unwashed masses on the ... [more]

10:14:30 PM Free admission to Worcester museums this weekend
The Landmark - Holden,MA,USA

The grand finale of Free Fun Fridays will be free admission to 16 museums and cultural institutions on Labor Day Weekend. The weekend will begin on Friday, ... [more]

9:22:33 PM 'Unusual' dinosaur offers glimpse of evolutionary quirk
Christian Science Monitor - USA

Balaur "is really highly specialized and unusual," says Mark Norell, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a member of ... [more]

7:37:12 PM Memories of Princess Diana; info on the Grand Rapids Art Museum's 'Diana:
MLive.com - MI,USA

MLive.com 16, 2011), the Grand Rapids Art Museum is planning a special event at noon today with giveaways, prizes, princesses, palace guards. ... [more]

6:45:14 PM Interactive Technology to Enhance Museum Experience
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

It is an interactive exhibit system designed to customize the visitor experience at museums and exhibit venues. Onscreen talking avatars greet visitors by ... [more]

5:02:40 PM Pioneer Museum Awarded Prestigious Grant from the Institute of Museum
KBZK-TV - Bozeman,MT,USA

KBZK Bozeman News By Adam Bell According to a press release issued Monday, the Pioneer Museum of Bozeman was recently awarded a Museums for America grant from the federal ... [more]

3:12:58 PM 3 European museums that are new or have a new look
Los Angeles Times Blogs - Los Angeles,CA,USA

New and refurbished museums have popped up in Europe — including one dedicated to all things Frederic Chopin and another with the pet owl that nursing ... [more]

1:19:43 PM Museum to mark Patriot Day
Northwest Herald - Crystal Lake,IL,USA

UNION – The McHenry County Historical Society Museum will open free to the public from 1 to 4 pm Sept. 11, also known as Patriot Day. ... [more]

10:06:00 AM Flying museum celebrates WWII veterans who accomplished the extraordinary
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

... to the airport Monday to see the old planes, owned by the nonprofit Collings Foundation, which takes them around the country as flying museum pieces. ... [more]

6:24:37 AM Feeling the loss: The sale of the Chapel Hill Museum's collection
The Daily Tar Heel - USA

The Daily Tar Heel By EDITORIAL BOARD | The Daily Tar Heel The closing of the Chapel Hill Museum marked the loss of a very valuable asset to the town's culture and history. ... [more]

5:37:59 AM Kansas museum to return artifacts to Oklahoma tribe
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

A small-town museum in Kansas has decided to return a grass lodge replica and 15 clay figurines to the Wichita tribe in Oklahoma. BY SHEILA STOGSDILL Leave ... [more]

3:40:57 AM Los Gatos History Photo: Last Rose of Summer
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

But it was actually produced from a glass plate negative in the collections of the Museums of Los Gatos. Photographic plates preceded film as a means of ... [more]

2:12:28 AM Ship attacked by Israeli soldiers to become museum
Today's Zaman - Istanbul,Turkey

We will probably turn it into a museum. They have their Holocaust museums. Yes, Hitler massacred Jews. But now they are massacring Muslims in Palestine. ... [more]

2:11:33 AM Tibet on Staten Island
Wall Street Journal - USA

They are part of "Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion," a collection of 32 hand-tinted works currently on display at the Jacques Marchais Museum of ... [more]

12:59:45 AM Shops, museums see large numbers of visitors during wet weekend
The Northwest Florida Daily News - Fort Walton Beach,FL,USA

Other beachgoers forced indoors headed to the Destin Fishing and History Museum. “When people can't get to the beach, coming here is kind of a no-brainer,” ... [more]



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