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11:59:54 PM Wallace Study receives highest honor
thepaper24-7.com - USA

The museum is just one of 10 winners of the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation's highest honor for museums and libraries, .... [more]

10:44:39 PM Financing troubles may delay museum
KTEN - Denison,TX,USA

.... AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Efforts to obtain interim financing to keep construction going at the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum has failed. ... [more]

8:14:36 PM Roger M. Buergel Appointed Chief Curator of Miami Art Museum
ARTINFO - New York,NY,USA

By ARTINFO MIAMI—The Miami Art Museum (MAM) has appointed Roger M. Buergel as the museum's first chief curator, deputy director for programs. ... [more]

7:30:20 PM Best Dream Home: Museum of Jurassic Technology
LA Weekly - Los Angeles,CA,USA

The Museum of Jurassic Technology, which opened in the late 1980s and, along with its curator-creator David Wilson, was profiled in Lawrence Weschler’s book ... [more]

5:05:40 PM ‘The Colored Museum’
Packet Online - Princeton,NJ,USA

We’re flying through space and time, visiting different museum exhibits of African-American culture and history, pointing up the pain, the contradictions ... [more]

4:24:55 PM Capsule that caught comet dust goes to Smithsonian
The Associated Press -

WASHINGTON (AP) — The capsule that brought the first comet samples back to Earth is going on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. ... [more]

3:51:28 PM Museum Autumn Festival Starts Monday
Kultúra.hu - Budapest,Hungary

More than a hundred museums around the country plan some 700 programmes for the third Museum Autumn Festival between September 29 and November 15. ... [more]

2:48:47 PM Museum With a One Track Mind
The Moscow Times - Russia

But to get the real museum experience and discover how the metro truly works, they would have to follow a convoluted route at Sportivnaya metro station, ... [more]

12:38:38 PM Tina elected as US museum trustee
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India

Art connoisseur Tina Ambani has been elected as the trustee of the prestigious Peabody Essex Museum (PEM ) in the United States—one of the oldest museums ... [more]

12:35:32 PM ‘Museums Free-for-All’ in LA, Orange counties
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

On Saturday, Oct. 4 and Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, the fourth annual “Museums Free-For-All” is offering free admission on one or both days at 24 museums in Los ... [more]

11:50:01 AM Vote on Bay of Pigs museum issue sidestepped
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA

At issue: whether Parcel B, a county-owned property next to downtown's American Airlines Arena, should be turned into a Bay of Pigs museum. ... [more]

10:59:35 AM Burpee, Discovery Center museums secure goal, Kresge grant
Rockford Register Star - Rockford,IL,USA

Workers at the Burpee Museum of Natural History and the Discovery Center Museum can breathe a little easier and let out a sigh of relief. ... [more]

10:06:26 AM Chemical Heritage Foundation Presents Making Modernity and Unveils ...
MarketWatch - USA

The museum will also host changing exhibitions: the first, Molecules That Matter, a scientific and artistic representation of ten organic molecules that ... [more]

9:21:53 AM Free brain food in Britain
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

Britain's museums are now free, a boon for tourists eager to learn more about the country and the world. In 2001, the British Government did a very good ... [more]

8:28:16 AM New York Museum Cancels Terror Exhibition After Controversy
FOX News - USA

Josh Azzarella’s “Untitled #23 (Lynndied)" was to be part of the canceled terror exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum. Josh Azzarella’s “Untitled #23 ... [more]

7:46:56 AM Norton Museum to receive national award at White House
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA

By JAN SJOSTROM The West Palm Beach museum will be one of five museums and five libraries awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service in an ... [more]

7:40:06 AM Jane Lynch at Chicago History Museum
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

by Michael Lehet, Chicago Gay Examiner Jane Lynch, who I had the pleasure of meeting earlier this year, will be speaking at the Chicago History Museum ... [more]

6:45:25 AM Evanston group fails to create a museum
WTHI - Terre Haute,IN,USA

AP - September 30, 2008 8:14 AM ET EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) - A group of Evanston residents wanted to turn a historic building into a museum and now, ... [more]

6:00:43 AM Pelé opens first football museum in Brazil
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

Brazil opens what it claims to be the world’s first football museum this week, amid digs from the city that lost out in the battle to host the country’s ... [more]

1:51:49 AM Buddhist Woodcraft Museum in Yeoju
ÄÚ¸®¾ÆÅ¸ÀÓÁî - South Korea

By David Watermeyer If you want to take a day trip out of Seoul and savor something really worthwhile, the Mok-A Museum, officially designated as a national ... [more]

1:51:06 AM Thessaloniki: The City of Museums
Quest Bulgaria Property Magazine - Kotel,Bulgaria

This majestic city in Northern Greece is rooted in 3000 years of history and the fact that it is home to one of the largest collections of museums in the ... [more]

1:08:32 AM Franklin Institute among 10 to get national honor
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

The medal, the nation's highest honor for museums and libraries, will be presented by Laura Bush at a White House ceremony next Tuesday. ... [more]

1:05:02 AM Head of human-rights museum puts spotlight on city's social ills
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

WINNIPEG -- The success of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg will depend on the city dealing with its social issues, says the woman who .... [more]

12:10:38 AM Science museum finds itself in middle of observatory dispute
Canada.com - Canada

The Canada Science and Technology Museum has stepped into the middle of an ugly dispute over a historic Toronto-area observatory. ... [more]



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