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11:39:28 PM Visit to renovated Oakland Museum a hands on experience
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Photo courtesy of Tim Griffith As Alyssia Alexandria entered the newly renovated History Gallery at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) Friday night, ... [more]

10:26:14 PM Nisga'a Nation celebrates return of museum artifacts
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada

The Nisga'a Nation will be celebrating the return of 276 artifacts that were taken from them years ago and placed in the Canadian Museum of Civilization and ... [more]

7:35:49 PM Arts philanthropy: It's all right for some
BBC Sport - UK

The directors of our major museums are expert fund-raisers who are all on first-name terms with the country's 20-or-so major arts-minded philanthropists. ... [more]

7:34:15 PM British Museum Receives $38.5 Million Donation
American ...

By KATE TAYLOR John Sainsbury, the former head of a British supermarket chain, has donated $38.5 million toward an expansion of the British Museum, .... [more]

5:19:36 PM Liberace Museum shutting down next month
eWorld Post (blog)

A sad news for all those who loves to visit museums. In Las Vegas, the Liberace Museum, is set to close in October. It will put thirty people out of job as ... [more]

3:40:30 PM Museum appoints Patton Director of External Affairs
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA

Heather Patton has joined the Golisano Children's Museum of Naples as Director of External Affairs. Patton brings more than five years of marketing ... [more]

3:27:49 PM Monster Mash: Liberace Museum in Vegas to close; British Museum gets
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Los Angeles Times (blog) All the glitters: The Liberace Museum in Las Vegas has announced plans to close in October due to financial difficulties. (Las Vegas Review-Journal) .... [more]

2:03:54 PM Fire-ravaged Yankee Air Museum Plans Reopening
CBS News - USA

(AP) - The fire-ravaged Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport plans to reopen next month. The museum says in a statement on its website that its new ... [more]

12:59:47 PM Sheffield's Kelham Island Museum wins commendation
BBC News - E,UK

Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield has been given a national commendation for its recovery from the devastating floods in June 2007. ... [more]

12:12:43 PM Visit 1400 museums for free on Sept. 25, Museum Day
Los Angeles Times Blogs - Los Angeles,CA,USA

Six years ago, Smithsonian Magazine started Museum Day to spread the spirit of free admission nationwide and shine a light on places that are less well ... [more]

11:06:25 AM Salem scores big with world-class exhibit
The Daily News of Newburyport - Newburyport,MA,USA

Officials at Beijing's Palace Museum and the World Monuments Fund could have chosen any number of American museums in which to open the exhibit of paintings ... [more]

9:55:02 AM Homewood Museum opens exhibit on drink in early Md.
The JHU Gazette

By Gazette Contributor Homewood Museum toasts the new academic year with the exhibition Cheers! The Culture of Drink in Early Maryland and three Friday ... [more]

9:38:46 AM 'Shah made Cyrus Cylinder star exhibit'
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran

But the British Museum went ahead anyway, provoking furious reactions from officials. "If the [British] Museum finds they have dug a pit for themselves, ... [more]

7:31:56 AM Plan would give county direct museum control
Rock Hill Herald - Rock Hill,SC,USA

York County Manager Jim Baker will offer a plan tonight that could dissolve the county's 21-member museum board and bring museum operations under the .... [more]

7:12:18 AM Museum proposal for fire-hit site
BBC Sport - UK

John Lawson-Reay, chair of the Llandudno civic trust, says it can still be part of the town's seaside heritage and suggests a seaside museum. ... [more]

4:38:53 AM Rights museum draws mostly in-state visitors
Winston-Salem Journal

AP A recent report on attendance at the new International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro shows that despite widespread publicity, ... [more]

4:28:45 AM South Dakota's First Children's Museum Now Open in Brookings
KDLT News

The learning didn't happen in school, but in the new South Dakota Children's Museum. KDLT's Jesse Batson gives us a look at the place where learning equals ... [more]

4:04:54 AM British Museum Gets $38M Gift - Largest Donation to Arts Ever as
Conviction ...

Gather.com The British Museum gets $38 million gift from John Sainsbury, 82. This enormous gift will help the museum pay for its new extension. ... [more]



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