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News From Sunday, August 09, 2009
11:06:20 PM Museum exhibit showcases 1800s Ozarks hygiene
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

That's according to an exhibit on display at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. The exhibit, which is called "Squeaky Clean," shows the ... [more]

10:05:37 PM Happy birthday, Smithsonian Institution! dc's great museum network ...
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Nearly one-hundred and sixty-three years later, Smithson's vision has grown to include, amongst other installments, nineteen official Smithsonian Museums ... [more]

7:37:15 PM Quick Bits: Namco Museum Essentials
San Jose Mercury News - United States

Maybe the thought of that came into play when NamcoBandai decided to name its downloadable collection of arcade games Namco Museum Essentials. ... [more]

5:42:58 PM Weston man assesses Iraq's museums
Hartford Courant - United States

But there's one question that might not immediately leap to mind: What will happen to that country's museums? In fact, in the wake of major upheavals, .... [more]

5:35:21 PM Museum kits make history more hands-on
Sumter Item - Sumter,SC,USA

By GINA VASSELLI Children like to touch things, which doesn't usually go well with museums, where glass cases protect most artifacts. ... [more]

4:00:53 PM Worcester Art Museum exhibit explores centuries of printmaking as art
Daily News Transcript - Needham,MA,USA

A current exhibit at the Worcester Art Museum demonstrates how ancient relief printmaking techniques evolved into a dazzlingly complex artform that's still ... [more]

11:31:55 AM Mascoutah Heritage Museum: How can you throw away stuff like this?
Belleville News Democrat - IL, USA

That applies to museums, as well as people, as Carol Klopmeyer, of the Mascoutah Heritage Museum, has found out. Her latest acquisition is a tall stack of ... [more]

9:42:46 AM Raising 'Hell'
San Diego Union Tribune

Collections are what separate museums from other kinds of exhibition spaces. They both mirror and express the core identity of an institution. .... [more]

9:05:35 AM New job for hot dog vendor booted by Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

BY Veronika Belenkaya and Samuel Goldsmith Pasang Sherpa is set to sell hot dogs for fellow museum-based vendor Dan Rossi. The booted Metropolitan Museum of ... [more]

8:01:44 AM Atheists expelled from Creation 'Museum'
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Now he can add being expelled from the Creation “Museum” to his resume. Well, actually he wasn't expelled; it was some of the atheists he was with that were ... [more]

7:12:38 AM 'Brokeback Mountain' shirts star at Autry National Center museum's ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

The props integral to the movie starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal were tracked down and brought to the museum as part of a display on contemporary ... [more]

6:03:09 AM Museum marks Lincoln Bicentennial
Baton Rouge Advocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA

And, well, that's getting ahead of the story, which, in the West Baton Rouge Museum, is the chair. It's not the actual piece in which Lincoln sat on that ... [more]

5:31:30 AM Canoe museum planned
Leader-Telegram - Eau Claire,WI,USA

By Joe Knight SPOONER - Jamie Dunn surveyed the concrete floor and bare walls of what will become the Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum and said the rats and ... [more]

4:56:03 AM Woodstock's spirit plays on
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

I've been to many music museums and this one qualifies as world class. It houses 330 photos and multiple video rooms spiced by a 132-seat theater showing ... [more]

3:04:35 AM Night at the Museums
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA

Museums in Washington, DC, join several other cities in using after-hours parties with drink, music and dance to lure the young and hip. Here's a sampling. ... [more]

12:19:15 AM Ojai Valley Museum fetes Mad magazine's Sergio Aragonés
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Cartoonist Sergio Aragonés poses with his self-portrait at the Ojai Valley Museum, whose "Mad About Sergio" exhibition runs through Oct. 4. ... [more]



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