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News From Sunday, September 25, 2011
11:07:18 PM Air museum volunteers still hoping for reprieve
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Volunteer John Kozak greeted visitors to the Canadian Air & Space Museum with a smile and invited them to sign a petition that sat at a large table by the doors to save the museum. Sunday was the last day the museum was open to the public. ... [more]

11:07:18 PM Cup noodle museum an instant hit
The Malaysia Star - Malaysia

By YOSHIKAZU TSUNO JAPAN's Nissin Foods opened a cup noodle museum on Sept 17 charting the history of the speedy snack where visitors even get the chance to create their own tasty version. “We opened this place ... as a factory that gives children .. [more]

9:30:46 PM Underwater history museum nears to open
Hurriyet Daily News

Turkish northwestern province of Edirne will have one of the world's most unique underwater history museums when a three-staged project is completed. The museum will include 800 artificial reefs The sculptures depicting the Gallipoli Campaign are bei [more]

9:26:02 PM Museum of Christian Art opens for masses
Times of India - India

MUMBAI: The Museum of Christian Art, which contains artifacts of centuries old church heritage in the region was inaugurated on Sunday by the archbishop of Mumbai, Cardinal Oswald Gracias. Calling it a contribution to the cultural heritage of the cit [more]

9:26:02 PM Museum offering students free admission
9NEWS.com

That's why the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is offering school field trip groups free admission. This is the first time the museum has offered the program, which allows students and their chaperons to take a free self-guided tour of the museum [more]

7:40:37 PM Turkey: Boston museum returns top of Hercules statue
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By AP, ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey says the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has returned a piece of a Hercules statue after two decades of negotiations. Turkey had claimed the top of the Weary Heracles, Greek for Hercules, was stolen from an archaeological .. [more]

5:15:12 PM Search for Omaha museum's Christmas tree is on
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

(AP) — The search for a Christmas tree to for Union Station in Omaha's Durham Western Heritage Museum is on. Homeowners who have a large evergreen tree they plan to remove are encouraged to contact the museum. For a tree to be considered, ... [more]

2:46:39 PM Mass appeal is a monster success at museums
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

A third way ... the Lord of the Rings exhibition brought huge numbers to the Powerhouse Museum. Photo: Steven Siewert Pop culture exhibitions are drawing the crowds, writes Adam Fulton. It is almost two months away but about 15000 tickets have alread [more]

2:18:55 PM San Diego Creation Museum: New Human Anatomy Exhibit Evidence of Creator
Christian Post - San Francisco,CA,USA

The Creation and Earth History Museum in San Diego County celebrated National Museum Day Saturday with the opening of its Human Anatomy Exhibit, expanding on the nonprofit ministry's focus of teaching about the Creator. The Creation and Earth History [more]

11:45:19 AM Museum Day draws visitors from near, far
Herald Times Reporter - Manitowoc,WI,USA

The Wisconsin Maritime Museum, which featured its triple-expansion engine during Museum Day on Saturday, was a stop on their driving trip to the East Coast to visit their grandchildren. "This is absolutely fascinating," Garry Duff said. ... [more]

11:45:19 AM Hands On Children's Museum goes solar
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USA

The City Council this month approved a lease with the Hands On Children's Community Project to install solar panels on the museum, which is under construction near East Bay. The city built and owns the building and is leasing it to the museum. ... [more]

11:45:19 AM National Civil Rights Museum turns 20
DeSoto Appeal - Memphis,TN,USA

By Scott Carroll The National Civil Rights Museum in Downtown Memphis marked its 20-year anniversary Saturday, thanking supporters and visitors with what museum director Beverly Robertson called a "community celebration." Attendees toured the museum  [more]

11:45:19 AM Spectacular Quilts, Fabric Works from Around the World at Newark Museum
Patch.com

31 at the Newark Museum's spectacular new shows are almost blindingly dazzling. A case in point is an anonymously stitched quilt, "Wild Goose Chase" from the early 1800s that opens the show "Patchwork; From Folk Art to Fine Art" in the main first flo [more]

8:31:46 AM Washington's Gunn Memorial Museum holding Civil War events, beginning
Torrington Register Citizen - Torrington,CT,USA

Torrington Register Citizen WASHINGTON — The Gunn Memorial Museum's exhibit, Letters From the Battlefield: Stories of Washington's Civil War Soldiers, in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, will be open for viewing for all of the [more]

8:31:46 AM Getty Museum to Return Ancient Artifacts to the Motherland
Greek Reporter

James Cuno (left), President & CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, and Pavlos Yeroulanos (right), Minister of Culture and Tourism of Greece An agreement was made to send two ancient Greek artifacts back to the motherland from the Getty Museum in an attem [more]

6:23:32 AM Toronto`s Canadian Air & Space Museum shut down
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada

Volunteer Bill Tee helped build the replica Avro Arrow that attracted visitors to the Canadian Air and Space Museum for years. The doors to Toronto's Canadian Air & Space Museum are locked after the museum's landlord rescinded on promises to allow th [more]

6:23:32 AM CDC museum: Where art meets public health
United Press International

24 (UPI) -- The David J. Sencer Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Museum in Atlanta debuted an innovative handwashing art exhibition Saturday. "Watching Hands: Artists Respond to Keeping Well" showcased the work of six artists who ... [more]

5:03:33 AM Heritage so easily trashed
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

The Canadian Air and Space Museum was served with an eviction notice and the locks were changed last week. What a sad coincidence that on the same day we learn that the city's libraries may be safe for the moment and that we're not about to surrender [more]

2:40:52 AM Disputed Palestinian children's art exhibit shown near Oakland children's
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

San Jose Mercury News By Kristin J. Bender OAKLAND -- An exhibit of controversial drawings and paintings by Palestinian children was shown in a downtown Oakland museum's courtyard Saturday, after the Museum of Children's Art canceled the display thre [more]

1:35:22 AM Cup noodle museum an instant hit in Japan
ABC Online - Australia

Japan is renowned for its weird museums and a new member of that club has opened its doors in Yokohama. The museum pays tribute to the instant snack that has sustained generations of Australian university students, cup noodles. ... [more]

1:35:22 AM Charles and Ray Eames' living room makes an interim home at LACMA
criticism

Thankfully it was the museum doing the moving." Landmark houses, in full or in part, have been re-created before in museums, notably at Museum of Contemporary Art shows on the postwar Case Study House program and the work of architectural icon Rudolp [more]

1:08:44 AM Canadian Air and Space Museum closes doors to visitors
Toronto Sun - Ontario, Canada

By Tom Godfrey ,Toronto Sun Tibor Kiss and his four-year-old son Ryan were one of the last visitors to the Canadian Air and Space Museum after Downsview Park decided to evict the museum. The doors will only open now to allow volunteers to pack up. .. [more]

1:08:44 AM Thousands flock to St. Petersburg attractions for free museum day
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA

PETERSBURG — David and Jytte Nielsen thought they were safe by showing up to the Dali Museum early on Saturday. But by the time the couple arrived at 9:30 am, they discovered plenty of other people had the same idea. Several hundred already were in a [more]



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