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News From Friday, August 05, 2011
11:11:08 PM McQueen Pushes Feminist Buttons
Patch.com

On final weekend, Metropolitan Museum of Art extends viewing hours to midnight for 'Savage Beauty.' By Laura Gilkey The demand for this show has been so great that that the Museum is offering extended hours from now until Sunday, August 7. ... [more]

10:04:56 PM Tour de museums
Hindustan Times - New Delhi,India

If you are interested in history, art, architecture or religion, a tour to destinations known for their museums is a must. With that in mind, online travel adviser Cheapflights (www.cheapflights.com) offers some of the best museum destinations. ... [more]

10:04:56 PM Tory wonders why Colchester clock museum is shut despite trust's cash
Essex County Standard - UK

A CAMPAIGNING councillor has questioned why Tymperleys Clock Museum, in Colchester, has closed after it emerged a trust fund, and not taxpayers' money, was being used to keep it open. The 15th-century building, bequeathed to the town by philanthropis [more]

8:59:45 PM For the lowdown on getting high, visit the DEA Museum
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Illegal drug use dates as far back as the Opium Wars of the early 1800s, and the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum in Arlington uses those conflicts as a jumping off point to explore drug abuse in the United States. Documenting 150 years of ... [more]

8:59:45 PM The “Spirit of Tuskegee” Stearman Lands in DC
Hirshhorn

Photo courtesy of National Museum of African American History and Culture This past Tuesday afternoon, after a month long trip across the country with several stops at air shows and air fields along the way, Matt Quy landed his “Spirit of Tuskegee” . [more]

7:38:17 PM Former Staffer at Mark Twain Museum Admits Theft
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA

By Shelly Banjo An employee of the Mark Twain House and Museum pleaded guilty Friday to wire fraud and filing false income tax returns after she was charged with stealing more than $1 million from the Hartford, Conn. nonprofit. ... [more]

7:38:17 PM 1 year later: Chilean miner museum opens
WNEM - Saginaw,MI,USA

Four of the 33 Chilean miners rescued a year ago travel to Washington to open a museum in their honor. (Source: CNN) AP Exclusive: AQIM not ready to attack Europe WASHINGTON (CNN) - The story of the 33 men who were trapped at a depth of 700 meters an [more]

7:38:17 PM Support for proposed children's museum is transferred to Reading Museum
bctv.org

On the first Sunday afternoon of each month, the museum staff will present activities and demonstrations for its family visitors, themed toward a gallery or special exhibition. Some of the featured activities will include how to mummify an apple in t [more]

7:22:43 PM History comes to downtown South Bend with "Museums on Michigan"
Fox 28 - South Bend,IN,USA

By Adam Ziegler, Internet Director - email The Center for History, South Bend Museum of Art, and the Studebaker National Museum will be filling empty storefronts with displays starting Friday at 5:00pm. The "Museums on Michigan" displays, a partnersh [more]

4:43:55 PM Tina Ambani | Any museum I create will not merely be art
Livemint - Delhi,Delhi,India

The Rietberg Museum in Switzerland is also currently showcasing a miniature art show, curated by Padmabhushan Dr Goswamy, our guest of honour. Have to ask, there's nothing miniature about Reliance, is there? All your canvases here are larger than lif [more]

4:43:55 PM Chief curator named for Miami Art Museum
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA

By Hannah Sampson As the bones of the new Miami Art Museum go up along Biscayne Bay, the organization is making key hires to prepare for its 2013 opening. On Thursday, museum director Thomas Collins announced the selection of Tobias Ostrander as chie [more]

4:43:55 PM Jon Stewart crucifies American Atheists; re: 9/11 cross
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Stewart slammed atheists for opposing a Christian cross being included in the new National 9/11 Memorial and Museum set to open in September. The museum is a public building being funded with federal and state money. American Atheists contend that th [more]

4:37:37 PM Artists series to be presented at the museum
Estes Park Trail Gazette - Estes Park,CO,USA

These artists will be the focus of a series of five programs entitled, "Estes Park Artists," to be presented at the Estes Park Museum. Beginning Thursday, Aug. 1, at 7 pm, the series will be held the second and fourth Thursdays of the month through . [more]

4:37:37 PM Capital Gazette Communications
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA

The emphasis on paleontology sets the Calvert Marine Museum apart from other Chesapeake-inspired museums. The first stop for most visitors is a "discovery room" that includes a sandbox with scores of shark teeth for children to dig and find. ... [more]

3:29:35 PM BMW and Guggenheim Museum team up to tackle urban issues
Canadian Business - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

By Jeff Beer | August 04, 2011 BMW and the Guggenheim Museum have officially launched the aptly named BMW Guggenheim Lab in New York this week. Located on a former empty lot in Manhattan's Lower East Side, the pop-up lab is described as "part urban . [more]

3:29:35 PM Rembrandt's paintings of a realistic-looking Jesus focus of exhibit at ...
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

1648 1650 by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch, is a part of the "Heads of Christ" series shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through Oct. 30. If you were painting the face of Jesus in Rembrandt's time — the 17th century — you had three sources [more]

2:22:46 PM In the Scottish vaults
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

Tongue twister ... a gallery in the new National Museum of Scotland. Photo: National Museums Scotland Jonathan Glancey tours the new National Museum of Scotland, filled with thousands of rediscovered objects. A hippo suspended from the rafters. ... [more]

2:22:46 PM Museums on Michigan brings history downtown
WNDU-TV - South Bend,IN,USA

If you haven't had time to visit all of the museums in South Bend, Friday may be the day to go. Three of the city's museums are being put downtown. The Center for History, South Bend Museum of Art and the Studebaker National Museum will temporarily . [more]

12:32:52 PM Michigan Tech dedicates mineral museum building
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

AP A ceremony with was held Thursday at the school in Houghton for the AE Seaman Mineral Museum's new home. The school says on its website that the project was made possible by 1957 Michigan Tech alumnus Tom Shaffner, who pledged $1 million toward th [more]

11:44:01 AM Delta Becomes “Official Airline” of the Whitney Museum
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

Enter Delta Airlines, who just this week became “The Official Airline of the Whitney Museum.” Sure, there are perks, with things like their frequent flyers now getting free admission, and we suppose the travel angle sorta makes some sense, ... [more]

10:18:59 AM Heritage Museum Exhibits US Muslim Roots
Onislam.net

WASHINGTON – Digging into the history of early Muslims who came to America centuries ago, a new Islamic Heritage Museum has opened recently in Washington DC, in a bid to fight misconceptions about US Muslim roots. “So many times people, Americans and [more]

10:18:59 AM Fountains of youth: Museum's Art Garden takes shape
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA

Vicksburg's Martha Ferris created the artwork that became this mosaic fountain at the Mississippi Museum of Art. / Brian Albert Broom/ The Clarion-Ledger Fountains designed by Martha Ferris are a part of the promenade of The Art Garden at the ... [more]

10:05:21 AM Redeveloped museum breaks records
M&H Online

The newly-transformed National Museum of Scotland has reportedly welcomed a record 100000 visitors through its doors in less than a week after opening to the public on 29 July. Within an hour of the new entrance doors opening, 6000 people had made .. [more]

7:36:06 AM Military museum plans advance after Brevard County approves special permit
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

Attorney Kim Rezanka and Knight's Armament Co. founder and owner C. Reed Knight Jr. listen as the Brevard County Commission approves Knight's conditional-use permit for a 150000-square-foot military museum near Titusville. / Dave Berman, FLORIDA TODA [more]

7:36:06 AM March Field Air Museum illustrates local Air Force connections
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA

The interior of the main display hangar at the March Field Air Museum in Riverside County. Photo courtesy March Field Air Museum Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles of local museums that feature military history. ... [more]

7:36:06 AM Lucille Ball celebrated with new Hollywood Museum exhibit
KABC - Los Angeles,CA,USA

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Hollywood Museum is celebrating the legendary Lucille Ball with a new exhibit. It's timed to coincide with two special events- "I Love Lucy" is now 60 years old, and Ball herself would have been 100 years old on Saturday. .. [more]

4:18:38 AM Schwarzenegger museum in Austria
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand

The Austrian home Arnold Schwarzenegger grew up in is now to be tuned into a museum. Photo / AP Arnold Schwarzenegger's childhood home has been turned into a museum. The Hollywood star has given his blessing for the Austrian house he grew up in to be [more]

4:18:38 AM New exhibit opens at Mariner's Museum
WAVY-TV - Portsmouth,VA,USA

(WAVY) - A partnership between Huntington Ingalls Industries ' Newport News Shipbuilding division and the Mariner's Museum has resulted in a collection of 51 photographs that document 125 years of Newport News Shipbuilding. The photographs are now in [more]

4:11:37 AM Pultizer Prize photography at YAM leaves viewer in tears, speechless
Billings Gazette

"When I find myself in a museum of this stature, where this exhibit is exquisitely displayed, it makes me very happy and very proud," Rubin said. "This is an amazing amount of space. Most museums don't have this much space." The exhibit is so large,  [more]

2:07:01 AM Arnold Schwarzenegger's First Home Turned Into A Museum!
PerezHilton.com - Scottsdale,AZ,USA

Anyone who wants to can see Arnold Schwarzenegger's roots as the Austrian home he grew up in has been turned into a museum. The home, which he occupied from 1947 to 1966, is now open for public viewing. . From his first work-out machines to an ... [more]

2:07:01 AM AD Classics: Museum of Modern Art, Gunma / Arata Isozaki
International Business Times - New York,NY,USA

By Taylor Metcalf | August 4, 2011 9:23 PM EDT Considered one of Arata Isozaki's greatest masterpieces, the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma stands as a testimony to Isozaki's architectural ideology and represents a summary of his achievements. ... [more]

12:48:01 AM Mariners' Museum photo exhibit chronicles Newport News shipyard's 125-year
Virginian Pilot - Hampton Roads,VA,USA

The Virginian-Pilot A photography exhibit offering an inside look at the 125-year-old history of Newport News Shipbuilding opens Saturday at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News. Titled “Always Good Ships,” the exhibit's 51 photos chronicle such even [more]



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