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News From Sunday, September 05, 2010
9:37:41 PM Backyard volunteers helping track firefly numbers
The Associated Press

Fontaine said the museum is committed to operating the program and database for at least 10 years to provide a year-to-year snapshot of firefly distribution ... [more]

8:48:53 PM Railway fans flock to museums / Simulators, chances to operate real
Daily Yomiuri Online - Japan

The Daily Yomiuri Railway museums are proving consistently popular, with children, the middle-aged and elderly all flocking to experience a variety of mock situations using ... [more]

7:23:43 PM War museum's visitor center opens Tuesday
Mineral Wells Index

The museum is located just east of Mineral Wells on US Highway 180. A large sign for the visitors center was installed this week in preparation for the .... [more]

5:36:32 PM Detroit museum puts its art on the streets
CBC News - Canada

'"We hope people will be surprised and pleased when they see them," museum director Graham WJ Beal said in a statement referring to the 40 pieces that have ... [more]

5:14:12 PM Hollywood heavyweights descend on Toronto for annual film festival – and
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA

Avon Messenger Sitting on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario, it's the home of magnificent museums (The Royal Ontario Museum, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art), ... [more]

2:14:13 PM Detroit Institute of Arts puts up ornately framed, life-sized copies of ...
The Associated Press

The museum is putting up ornately framed, digital reproductions of some of its most significant paintings throughout southeast Michigan. ... [more]

1:52:51 PM Transforming Works
Wall Street Journal - USA

Like recent shows of performance artists Marina Abramović, at MoMA, and Tino Sehgal, at the Guggenheim, "Big Bambú" reflects museums' increasing belief in ... [more]

12:45:55 PM Bugs are the big draw in new CW museum tour
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA

Most days, the atmosphere inside the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum is like that of any other art museum — pretty serene and quiet. ... [more]

9:57:21 AM Museum's director relishes chance to showcase collection
Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA

An art museum is a depository for these thoughts, ideas, opinions and emotions. I think the best art museums inspire us when we encounter these works that ... [more]

9:17:59 AM Museum fails to keep Blodwen in Wales
BBC Sport - UK

A prehistoric woman's skeleton which went back to her north Wales roots for the first time in more than 100 years will return to a Lancashire museum. .... [more]

8:53:28 AM In midst of funding cuts, Pears fights for museum's future
Alexandria Town Talk - Alexandria,LA,USA

She currently serves as the executive director of the Alexandria Museum of Art. She discussed with The Town Talk recent funding cuts, the Cultural Arts ... [more]

6:46:32 AM Some thoughts on the restoring honor rally
SunJournal.com - Lewiston,ME,USA

I had spent the previous day in two museums: The Ford Theater and The Holocaust Museum. From the Ford Theater, I brought on board fresh images and ideas ... [more]

5:16:26 AM Guild of American Papercutters National Museum promotes art form in Somerset
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA

By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Among the works on display at The Guild of American Papercutters National Museum in Somerset is "Hunterdon County ... [more]

4:30:30 AM Two exhibits opening Thursday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art
NewsOK.com

2 at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. BY RICK ROGERS Leave a comment Eighteenth-century Venetian art and metal sculptures by Jonathan Hils are the focus of ... [more]

1:52:01 AM Wooden boats enliven New Hampshire museum
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

The New Hampshire Boat Museum in Wolfeboro showcases many a wooden boat that might otherwise have gone to the burn pile. (Marty Basch for The Boston Globe) ... [more]



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