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News From Sunday, September 24, 2006
7:02:56 PM Intrepid Museum Sets Sail For Two-Year Renovation
NY1 - NY,USA

Locals and tourists are making one last visit to the Intrepid ship museum this weekend before it goes on leave for two years starting October 1st. .... [more]

7:02:55 PM Day Trips: Galveston museum houses historic ship
Bryan College Station Eagle - Bryan-College Station,TX,USA

By GERALD E. MCLEOD. The Elissa, the official tall ship of Texas, is part of the storehouse of seafaring memories at the Texas Seaport Museum in Galveston. ... [more]

4:27:55 PM Daytona offers art museums and fine dining
Gwinnett Daily Post - Griffin,GA,USA

By Robert J. Nebel. With more than 8 million visitors each year, it is no wonder that Daytona Beach has been dubbed “The World’s Most Famous Beach.”. ... [more]

3:47:55 PM PM approves National Museum of History
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister in a newly issued dispatch okayed the proposal to build a new museum of history in Hanoi. ... [more]

1:17:56 PM ARTS NOTES: Friends of Mountain History kicks off yearlong museum ...
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA

.... People of Faiths: Rites and Rituals in the Blue Ridge Mountains,” at 26 museums across the region. The exhibit launches Tuesday ... [more]

1:17:55 PM Area museums offer more than just paintings
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

Whether you spend a long weekend touring museums in Mobile and Pensacola, or you head west to Ocean Springs and beyond, you have many options as a museum-goer ... [more]

12:37:56 PM New Rochelle's Paine museum to reopen
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA

NEW ROCHELLE — The Thomas Paine Museum on North Avenue is set to reopen after being closed last year for renovations, and having been at the center of a ... [more]

12:37:56 PM Jerusalem's Museum of Tolerance in name only
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

Jerusalem - The Museum of Tolerance started off with good intentions, over $100 million in donations, an eye-catching design by architect Frank Gehry, a 2004 ... [more]

12:37:55 PM Cosby campaigns for slavery museum
Chicago Tribune - United States

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA -- Bill Cosby has called on each American to contribute $8 to help build a national slavery museum amid the battlefields of the Civil War. ... [more]

10:02:56 AM Sanden talks about his lifetime of art
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona,FL,USA

.... Paul, Minn., native directed several museums -- the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Science in Peoria, Ill., Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago and the ... [more]

10:02:56 AM Salvaging memories
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA

.... and 20 years into locating the vessel, fought the state of Illinois over the artifacts and now finds himself in another battle: to win over museums that aren ... [more]

9:22:57 AM Kids' museum support builds
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA

Work done by Economic Research Associates projects the Delaware Children's Museum could draw more than 135,000 people per year to Wilmington's Riverfront. .... [more]

9:22:56 AM Cosby calls for donations to build slavery museum
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Bill Cosby is calling on each American to contribute $8 to help build a national slavery museum amid the battlefields of the Civil War. ... [more]

9:22:56 AM Museum curator, ex-CIA analyst to be guests on KRCU show
Southeast Missourian - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA

Thomas Garver, founding curator of the O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Va., and retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern will be featured Sunday on KRCU's "Going ... [more]

9:22:56 AM McCumsey loves museum work
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA

.... But in addition to tending the animals in her parents pasture, she milks the cows and feeds the chickens at the Frontier Culture museum for 40 hours each week. ... [more]

9:22:55 AM Discovery of Muslim graves delaying Museum of Tolerance
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

JERUSALEM — The Museum of Tolerance started off with good intentions, over $100 million in donations, an eye-catching design by architect Frank Gehry, a 2004 ... [more]

6:52:56 AM Springfield Museums record 'hot' summer
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA

.... People are vacationing "in their own back yard" and finding it fun for the whole family here at the museums and Dr. Seuss Sculpture Garden. .... [more]

6:52:55 AM Fewer visit wonders of Smithsonian museums
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

.... "We know the same thing is happening across the board in museums," Small said at a news conference after the September meeting of the 160-year-old .... [more]

6:08:04 AM Museum picks up steam
Lancaster Newspapers - Lancaster,PA,USA

.... The interactive museum is expected to draw at least 30,000 visitors a year, said David Foulk, director of development for the trust. ... [more]

6:08:04 AM His home, his work, his museum
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA

.... The Tom Museum opened this month in a townhouse on the North Side. .... With a $38,000 award from the Heinz Endowments, the Tom Museum became a reality. ... [more]

6:08:03 AM Longhorn museum could be history
Daily News - Galveston County - TX,USA

There’s nothing yet in the Butler Longhorn Museum to tell the story of the cattle bloodline that began in League City. Some wonder if there ever will be. ... [more]

6:08:03 AM Would Americans donate $8 to the planned slavery museum in ...
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA

If people on the streets of Fredericksburg are an accurate barometer, most adults and teens are willing to donate $8 to support the US National Slavery Museum. ... [more]

1:02:57 AM Bill Cosby lends support to slavery museum
Political Gateway - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA

23 (UPI) -- With the backing of comedian Bill Cosby, the US National Slavery Museum has begun a fundraising drive to build the facility in Fredericksburg, Va. ... [more]

1:02:57 AM Society: Chicago History Museum moves into its new world
Crain's Chicago Business - Chicago,IL,USA

Gary T. Johnson, eighth president of the 150-year-old Chicago History Museum, will preside over a black-tie gala Friday celebrating its reopening after a $27 ... [more]

1:02:56 AM UR museum re-creates a Russian 'apartment exhibition'
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA

BY ROY PROCTOR. The Space of Freedom," at the University of Richmond's Harnett Museum of Art, offers powerful testimony to the endurance of the creative spirit. ... [more]



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