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News From Monday, September 14, 2009
11:56:25 PM Museums in Hawaii hurting for money
Victoria Advocate

HONOLULU (AP) — Museums are cutting staff, hours and collections — whatever it takes — to remain viable during the ongoing recession. ... [more]

11:46:49 PM US returns stolen fossils to China
USA Today

Customs official had seized the fossils, taken without permission from China, and asked researchers at Chicago's Field Museum and the Virginia Museum of ... [more]

10:44:24 PM NASA offers museums, schools first choice of space shuttle artifacts
Collectspace.com - USA

The prescreening website, which debuted September 1 to NASA visitor centers and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, ... [more]

10:24:31 PM Mont. museum to hold art show in March
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

(AP) — The CM Russell Museum will hold its own art show and sale in the middle of Western Art Week next March. The event will benefit the museum in Great ... [more]

8:52:49 PM Museum building 37-foot jungle gym
United Press International

14 (UPI) -- A Phoenix children's museum said it is building a 37-foot tall jungle gym with ramps, stairs and play spaces from about 50 tons of steel. .... [more]

7:35:27 PM PETA wants to turn Virginia prison into chicken museum
Madison Messenger

(AP) — An animal rights group wants to rent a prison building the state plans to close and turn it into the nation's first chicken empathy museum. ... [more]

6:43:31 PM Fort Morgan looks at museum employees
Fort Morgan Times - Fort Morgan,CO,USA

By DAN BARKER, Times Staff Writer Fort Morgan Museum Research Coordinator Joyce Martinez was researching Russian immigration in Morgan County for a local ... [more]

6:11:49 PM Intelligent Design Film to Premiere at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum ...
Reuters - NY,USA

14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The debate over Darwin rages on in America's heartland as intelligent design comes to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural ... [more]

5:16:11 PM Maine museum campaign to sustain Wyeth legacy
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

September 14, 2009 By AP ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's Farnsworth Art Museum has announced a $12 million endowment campaign to sustain the artistic legacy ... [more]

5:10:57 PM The Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

The Cocoon at the Natural History Museum's Darwin Centre is a vast, predator-free new home for some 17 million insects. By Christopher Howse Imagine a glass ... [more]

12:16:48 PM Hawaii museums slash budgets
Honolulu Advertiser

By Suzanne Roig As the economy limps along, Hawai'i's museums are finding it tougher to meet their financial needs. They've slashed budgets by cutting hours ... [more]

12:07:33 PM Plains Art Museum Holds Retirement Reception for Sue Petry
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

A public open house reception will be held at Plains Art Museum from 3:30 to 5:30 pm, Tuesday, October 6 to honor retiring staff member Sue Petry, .... [more]

9:48:17 AM Cheekwood Museum Celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2010
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, a Nashville cultural treasure, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with many exciting programs and events during ... [more]

7:56:53 AM Many moon rocks given to other nations have gone missing
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA

The Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands' national museum, announced last month that it tested its "moon" rock and discovered that it was petrified wood, .... [more]

6:08:49 AM Apollo moon rocks lost in space? No, lost on Earth
The Associated Press

The discovery of a fake moon rock in the Netherlands' national museum should be a wake-up call for more than 130 countries that received gifts of lunar ... [more]

3:45:19 AM Nassau County Museum of Art to Present Norman Rockwell: American ...
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Norman Rockwell: American Imagist, opening at Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) on Sunday, September 20, 2009 and remaining on view through Sunday, .... [more]



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