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News From Tuesday, September 06, 2011
10:53:17 PM USS Iowa to be moved to LA to be battleship museum
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER AP LOS ANGELES—The Navy says the USS Iowa—the last surviving World War II battleship without a home—is heading to the Port of Los Angeles where it will stand as a permanent museum and memorial to battleships. ... [more]

10:53:17 PM Cuomo unveils 9/11 remembrance flag
Albany Times Union (blog)

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum unveiled the state's official September 11th Memorial Flag in a news conference at the State Museum. The flag — to be flown at the Capitol and the entrance to the memorial at th [more]

10:53:17 PM Panetta visits 9/11 memorial, museum
United Press International

6 (UPI) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta toured the National September 11 Memorial and Museum site in New York just days before the 10th anniversary of the terror attack. "This Sunday, the nation marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the worst terrori [more]

9:12:42 PM The Pearl Jam museum and pics from PJ20
Seattle Post Intelligencer

The setup was part of the museum at Pearl Jam 20 in East Troy, Wis. The guitar used by Mike McCready in Shadow, a band played with while at Roosevelt High School in Seattle. It was part of the museum in East Troy, Wis., for Pearl Jam 20. ... [more]

9:12:42 PM Apple and designer Jonathan Ive star in German museum exhibit, book
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

The exhibition recently opened at the Museum for Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, Germany, and runs through January. "Apple Design" is a companion book to the exhibition, which also features scholarly commentary and products influenced by Apple design: .. [more]

7:37:44 PM NH Children's Museum in Dover saves trees with social media, email
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA

By David Anderson DOVER — With more than 93000 visitors annually, the Children's Museum of New Hampshire is striving to use its position as the state's most-visited cultural attraction to help end paper waste. “As part as our effort to go green, ... [more]

7:37:44 PM A Beaded VW Beetle to tour US, European museums of art in 2012
Torque News

The project of bringing the Beaded VW Beetle to a museum came about as a result of the museum president's visit to Miami. "We are constantly coming up with projects to raise money so that the museum can have exhibitions and be a lively museum,” said  [more]

6:56:52 PM Curators make hard choices at 9/11 museum
Reuters - NY,USA

A recovered FDNY Squad 252 helmet belonging to deceased FDNY member Kevin M. Prior is seen in this photograph before becoming a part of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York August 22, 2011. Kevin Prior, a firefighter with Brooklyn' [more]

6:56:52 PM Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm fights for 9/11 cross
Staten Island Advance - Staten Island,NY,USA

The lawsuit – which was filed in state supreme court in Manhattan over the summer not long after the cross was placed on the World Trade Center site as part of the museum – has sparked a national controversy. Edwin F. Kagin, the atheist group's ... [more]

6:15:12 PM Encyclopedia Of Life Announces New And Expanded Data
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

“Here at London's Natural History Museum, we are partners in the BHL and have been working, as part of a Europe collaboration, to create a digital library from the collections of European natural history museums which in turn supports EOL. ... [more]

5:40:14 PM The Museum Of Work And Culture Honors Labor Fighters Of Yesteryear
Patch.com

At Woonsocket's Museum of Work and Culture, a standing-room-only crowd of history lovers and labor activists gathered Monday for a mock union meeting that examined the Rhode Island labor riots of September 1934, which left two dead and dozens injured [more]

5:40:14 PM Fitchburg Art Museum Welcomes Exhibit Celebrating the Graphic Novel
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) Triumphant Mixed-Media Exhibit on Loan From Normal Rockwell Museum Making Its Only New England Appearance at Fitchburg Art Museum From Sept. 25-Jan. 1 FITCHBURG, MA, Sep 06, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Fitchburg Ar [more]

4:32:08 PM Sneak peak at 'Beatrice Wood: Career Woman' at Santa Monica Museum of Art
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

The museum extravaganza known as Pacific Standard Time, a set of exhibitions exploring different slices of Southern California art history, doesn't officially kick into gear until the first week of October. But a handful of the 60 exhibitions are ... [more]

4:32:08 PM Museum heads look to Florida for ideas
Daily Comet - Thibodaux,LA,USA

Houma's military museum will benefit from knowledge gained during a trip to a top-flight Navy museum in Pensacola, Fla., board members say. Six members of the Terrebonne Parish Veterans Memorial District spent Wednesday visiting with officials at the [more]

4:13:25 PM Museum to launch exhibit on ancient Chinese, French rulers
Focus Taiwan News Channel

6 (CNA) The National Palace Museum is to host an exhibition on Chinese Emperor Kangxi and French King Louis XIV, in which the cultural interactions between the two kingdoms will be showcased, the museum said Tuesday. According to the museum's website [more]

4:13:25 PM A roller coaster trip to Corning
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Corning is home to two outstanding museums, the Corning Museum of Glass and the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, and it's also a good jumping off spot for a trip to the Finger Lakes, one of the greatest wine producing areas in the world. ... [more]

3:03:05 PM State Museum Insiders' Tour Part of Harrisburg's Annual Gallery Walk
MarketWatch - USA

6, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- To complement the 2011 Art of the State exhibition currently on view, The State Museum of Pennsylvania will offer its third and final insiders' tour at 1 pm on Sunday, Sept. 11. Artist Lydia Panas, winner of the Art [more]

3:03:05 PM Outrage over sale of sacred Aboriginal stone
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

"No public museums will display these objects or photograph them" ... Michael Pickering. Photo: Graham Tidy AN English auction house will today sell off a rare Aboriginal Tjuringa stone, a totem so sacred to indigenous culture than Australian museums [more]

2:49:43 PM Mementos gathered by first couple head to museum exhibits
My Desert - Palm Springs,CA,USA

Family members of Gerald and Betty Ford are going through their belongings to determine what to include in the Ford museum and library collections. / Associated Press file photo For more coverage of Betty Ford go to mydesert.com/bettyford. ... [more]

2:49:43 PM International Panoramic Conference to be held at Gettysburg National
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Gettysburg Foundation, in cooperation with the International Panorama Council (IPC), will host the 2011 International Panorama Conference at the Gettysburg National Military Park Muse [more]

2:49:43 PM Patriotic relay arrives Wednesday
Monroe News Star - Monroe,LA,USA

Patriotism and support for US troops will roll into the Twin Cities when the "Patriots & Heroes Pacific-to-Potomac Relay" motorcycle tour stops at the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum at 10 am Wednesday. Civilians, veterans and patriots of all  [more]

1:38:05 PM New York City Fire Museum Showcases Highly Detailed Ground Zero Model,
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) David Munson's amazingly detailed three-part model "WTC Triptych" is on display now at the New York City Fire Museum in Manhattan's Soho district. With each model measuring 17 inches x 17 inches, it was created on a Z Corp [more]

1:38:05 PM Editorial: Navy SEALs ... Museum tells heroic tale of nation's elite
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA

Naples Daily News The National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum on Hutchinson Island, on Florida's east coast, is the only museum dedicated solely to telling the story of the elite SEALs who had their birth in the amphibious warfare training that took place on t [more]

1:38:05 PM NJ Museum to Host Yearlong Sept. 11 Tribute
NBC Philadelphia - Philadelphia,PA,USA

A New Jersey State Museum exhibit commemorating the Sept. 11 attacks will feature oral histories, local photographs and industrial artifacts from ground zero. Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno announced details of the “Remembering 9/11” exhibit during a news ... [more]

1:04:07 PM Heritage Week at Iziko Museums
Artslink.co.za News (press release)

Heritage Week (19-25 September) is an exciting time at Iziko Museums. 'See things differently' and gain fresh perspective on our diverse cultural heritage. The national Heritage Week theme: “Celebrating Heroes and Heroines of the Liberation Struggle  [more]

10:58:46 AM New Munch Museum loses support
Views and News from Norway

Oslo's conservative city government coalition was split after one of its members, the Progress Party, backed out of an earlier political agreement to support construction of a new Munch Museum at Bjørvika in Oslo. The new museum was initially propose [more]

10:58:46 AM Preston Hall Museum closes for £7m revamp
GazetteLive - Middlesbrough,UK

by Chris Hole, Evening Gazette ONE of Teesside's most popular museums shut its doors this week for a major refurbishment. Preston Hall Museum, in Eaglescliffe, will be closed until next summer as part of an overall £7m redevelopment project. ... [more]

10:29:02 AM National Civil War Museum putting human face on strife
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA

By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Memorial bricks in front of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg honor ancestors who fought. HARRISBURG -- Battlefield surgery is a topic that continues to fascinate many of the young visitors to the . [more]

10:29:02 AM Annual Artrageous event to take over another block of downtown Wausau
Wausau Daily Herald - Wausau,WI,USA

Curator Jane Weinke sets up a bird sculpture Wednesday for the annual “Birds in Art” exhibit at the Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, part of this weekend's annual Artrageous event. / (Xai Kha/Wausau Daily Herald) More information: Art for sale, ... [more]

10:29:02 AM Expansion studied for Frontier Trails Museum
KCTV5 News - Kansas City,MO,USA

(AP) - A museum dedicated to western Missouri's role in the nation's westward expansion could be in for its own expansion. The city of Independence has hired a company to create a master plan for the future of the National Frontier Trails Museum, ... [more]

10:29:02 AM Libros Schmibros offers literary levity at temporary location in Hammer
contributors ...

Daily Bruin By KYLIE REYNOLDS Libros Schmibros, a lending bookstore, hosts a trivia night on Saturday at its temporary location in the Hammer Museum. Open until Oct. 9, the Libros Schmibros bookstore at the Hammer Museum is collaborating with various [more]

10:29:02 AM 9/11 Tribute Exhibit at Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
DigitalJournal.com - Canada

This piece of history will be on view free of charge beginning Sunday, September 11, in the Museum's atrium until November 2011, and afterwards, when it will be installed permanently as an exhibit outside the Museum's main entrance. ... [more]

9:56:26 AM Judge Allows Suit Against Hungary Over Artworks to Proceed
American ...

By CAROL VOGEL A United States District Court in Washington has rejected Hungary's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it and its museums and a university for artworks claimed by the heirs of the Jewish banker and renowned collector Baron Mor . [more]

9:20:09 AM Hull House Museum to open arts education exhibit
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

"Unfinished Business: Arts Education" opens Tuesday at the museum on the campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago. Museum officials say the community-curated exhibit shows the different reasons why arts educations are necessary. ... [more]

9:20:09 AM On Labor Day, museum remembers strike
Woonsocket Call - Providence,RI,USA

But at the city’s Museum of Work And Culture, the holiday was another chance to remember a difficult period of local history, a national textile worker’s strike that came to town in early September 1934 and claimed the lives of two city men in .. [more]

9:20:09 AM Letter: Vero Beach Museum of Art one of true jewels of Treasure Coast
Fort Pierce Tribune - Fort Pierce,FL,USA

For me, however, the jewel in the crown is the Vero Beach Museum of Art. In addition to providing residents with extraordinary exhibits, it offers a Distinguished Professor Series where one can sit in an auditorium and listen to professors from the . [more]

8:50:22 AM Learn all aspects of stitching at local museums
Delaware Coast Press - Rehoboth Beach,DE,USA

The Julia Purnell Museum FiberFest and the Nassawango Outdoor Quilt Show will run at the same time as "Stitching in Snow Hill." Also included in the festivities are the Purnell Museum's Delmarva Needle Art Show and Competition. ... [more]

7:41:24 AM Allen Art Museum reopens to public today
The Morning Journal

OBERLIN — Following the successful completion of a 20-month renovation, the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) reopens to the public at 10 am Tuesday 10 am, reveling a better emphasis on the museums own, acclaimed collection. As always, admission is .. [more]

7:36:06 AM 10 Killed in Weekend Violence
Wall Street Journal - USA

Police said they were investigating what led officers to arrest the pair while they tried to cross a checkpoint on their way to a lunch at the Brooklyn Museum attended by many dignitaries. Charges were not filed. Stefan Ringel, a spokesman for Mr. .. [more]

7:36:06 AM 'Modular' 3D Printed Shoes by Objet on Display at London's Victoria and
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) See ten Bhomer's Objet 3D printed Rapidprototypedshoe at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 6th September 2011 – 2nd January 2012 and visit www.vam.ac.uk/powerofmaking for more information on the exhibition. [more]

5:19:08 AM Faith Ringgold's Peace Story Quilt Takes Center Stage at the Met's 9/11
School Library Journal - USA

School Library Journal Ringgold's work has been exhibited in major museums around the world and can be found in the collections of the Met, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. Working with New  [more]

5:19:08 AM Hammondsport, NY - Coolest Small Town in America?
WETM-TV - Elmira,NY,USA

The lake-side community's charm, water access, and abundance of things to do from wine tastings to museums, draws in visitors from across the world according to tourists. “You immediately come in and feel warm and welcome,” said first-time Hammondspo [more]

5:05:49 AM Pools Mist Names of the Dead With Grace at 9/11 Memorial: James S. Russell
Bloomberg

By James S. Russell - Tue Sep 06 04:01:00 GMT 2011 Water falls in the north pool of The National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York. Pools are located on the sites of the two towers of the World Trade Center destroyed in the terrorist attac [more]

3:32:32 AM Stadel Museum discovers an important work by French academic painter
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily In the context of examining the Städel's nineteenth-century holdings in view of the imminent reopening or new presentation of the museum's collections respectively, an important painting by the French academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 [more]

1:24:22 AM Equine Therapy: The Horse Exhibit
PsychCentral.com (blog)

“The American Museum of Natural History is truly one of the world's great natural history museums, and they did a masterful job in developing an exhibition that not only illuminates the timeless union between humans and horses, but does so in an ... [more]

1:24:20 AM City Councilman Is Handcuffed at West Indian Day Parade
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The police said that before their identities had been established, Mr. Williams and Mr. Foy were prevented from entering an area near the Brooklyn Museum that had been blocked by officers. “A crowd formed and an unknown individual punched a police .. [more]



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