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11:56:56 PM 9/11 exhibit opens at Indiana War Memorial Museum
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

11 terrorist attacks has opened at the Indiana War Memorial Museum. WRTV-TV reports (http://bit.ly/qgm5wr ) the permanent exhibit at the downtown Indianapolis museum includes a piece of steel from the World Trade Center and limestone from the Pentago [more]

9:38:00 PM Kremlin museums tap into taste for modern
Toronto Sun - Ontario, Canada

(Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin) A new show displaying the works of 20th century French couturier Paul Poiret turns the dark chambers of the Kremlin Museums into a colorful showcase of popular modern culture alongside the regal clothing and objects of ... [more]

9:38:00 PM 2Do: Museums, Parks, Family Events and More for Sept. 9-15, 2011
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA

Hosted by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum. Advance tickets available at the museum. 1-8 pm Wednesday. $7, advanced; $8 at the gate. St. Vincent Catholic Church. 164 W. Market St., Akron. 330-535-3135 or stvincentchurch.com. [more]

9:21:47 PM George Harrison exhibit to open Oct. 11 at Grammy Museum
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles will mount a major exhibition on the life and music of George Harrison opening Oct. 11 in conjunction with the forthcoming Martin Scorsese documentary with which it shares the title “George Harrison: Living in the ... [more]

9:21:47 PM Museum and Gallery Listings for Sept. 9-15
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. American Folk Art Museum: 'Super Stars: Quilts From the American Folk Art Museum' (through Dec. 31) This location is featuring 20 quilts [more]

9:21:47 PM Twin Towers' 9/11 Memorial and Museum Opens To Public Sunday
ThirdAge

The Twin Towers site's 9/11 Memorial and Museum, established by the World Trade Center Foundation and the Port Authority... Read More of New York and New Jersey, will open to the public next week. The Twin Towers site's 9/11 Memorial and Museum, ... [more]

7:02:06 PM Walters gets artwork, promise of $4M from New Mexico collector
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

"This extraordinary gift will vault the Walters into a position of leadership among American museums in this new and exciting field of collecting and research," said Walters board President Douglas W. Hamilton Jr. Art of the ancient Americas "is not  [more]

6:39:03 PM NYC museum taking over another in lower Manhattan
Wall Street Journal - USA

AP NEW YORK — A financially struggling museum in lower Manhattan is getting a lifeline from an uptown colleague. The Museum of the City of New York is taking over financial and managerial responsibilities for the Seaport Museum New York. ... [more]

6:39:03 PM The California Museum & Comcast Announce the 2011 Dreamers Challenge
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) 8, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The California Museum announces the fourth annual California Hall of Fame-inspired Dreamers Challenge Scholarship today, which will award two 2012 graduating high school seniors with a $5 [more]

6:39:03 PM New Space Exploration Museum Opens in Marin County.
MarketWatch - USA

8, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The W Foundation (TWF) will be opening a new space exploration museum in the San Francisco Bay Area. The emphasis will be on the history of space exploration, and how discoveries in science and technology allowed th [more]

5:14:14 PM Tired of Thieves, Chinese Government Demands Museums Beef Up Security
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

Reuters is reporting that now the government has issued a mandate requiring all museums to beef up their security or they will be forced to close temporarily until the issues are fixed. If they don't do enough, then those closures will be permanent.  [more]

4:50:27 PM Painting at Fla. museum believed stolen by Nazis in WWII
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

Who could have guessed that a Hollywood-worthy tale of international intrigue was unfolding behind the scenes at a local art museum? This 473-year-old painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Girolamo Romano was believed to have been stolen by Nazi [more]

4:50:27 PM Israel Museum returns art to Jewish artist's heirs
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Israel's national museum has returned an impressionistic painting to the estate of its creator, the German-Jewish Max Liebermann. The work was looted from the Jewish Museum in Berlin, where it was on loan from the artist, in the 1930. ... [more]

4:50:27 PM Museum of American Finance Launches Museum Finance Academy
MarketWatch - USA

NEW YORK, Sep 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Museum of American Finance announced today the launch of the Museum Finance Academy, a 10-week financial literacy course for 11th and 12th graders with the goal of teaching students to aspire to financial [more]

4:50:27 PM Industry giants of the past take center stage at Muskegon Heritage Museum
MLive.com - MI,USA

The Muskegon Heritage Museum recently created four new exhibits on the history of former Muskegon industries – Lift Tech International, formerly Shaw Electric Crane, Manning, Maxwell and Moore, Shaw-Box Crane and Hoist and Dresser Industries Inc.; .. [more]

4:50:27 PM George Harrison Grammy Museum exhibit will be a window into his world
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

The upcoming George Harrison exhibit at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles will give fans an inside look at the former Beatle's life, according to details of the exhibit released by the museum Thursday. The exhibit, titled "George Harrison: Living in t [more]

3:43:51 PM Greece: Couple who had stolen work were 'amateurs'
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscripition) - Atlanta,GA,USA

AP ATHENS, Greece — A leading Greek art expert has described two suspects who received a stolen 17th century artwork and were then arrested when they left the museum label on the back as "amateurs." A cameraman records at the National Gallery a stole [more]

3:43:51 PM Art of fallen Navy SEAL will be displayed at Fort Pierce museum
Fort Pierce Tribune - Fort Pierce,FL,USA

By Zaimarie De Guzman JUAN DALE BROWN/SCRIPPS TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS FORT PIERCE; Waiting to be hung at the National Navy UDT-SEAL MUSEUM on North Hutchinson Island. Artist Joshua Harris a Navy Seal in 2008 died in Afghanistan he left more then 12 [more]

3:02:04 PM Nine 9/11 Exhibitions Opening at NYC Galleries and Museums
The L Magazine

It's 9/11 tenth anniversary week, and in addition to witnessing the opening of a whole new museum devoted to the tragic events of that day, most of the city's major museums (and a few galleries) are planning commemorative exhibitions of their own. .. [more]

3:02:04 PM York County museums budget includes $113000 in staffing cuts
Rock Hill Herald - Rock Hill,SC,USA

By Jamie Self - jself@heraldonline.com The new leaders of York County's museums asked the county for about $113000 less this year than last - 3.8 percent of the $2.9 million the museums requested last year. The budget request from the Culture and ... [more]

3:02:04 PM Mooresville's Lazy 5 Ranch Leads NC Field Trip Annual Attractions Survey
MarketWatch - USA

The Schiele Museum of Natural History, Gastonia; 12. Museum of Life and Science, Durham; 13. Children's Theatre of Charlotte; 14. North Carolina State Capitol, Raleigh; 15. Old Salem Museums & Gardens, Winston-Salem; 16. Biltmore, Asheville; 17. ... [more]

12:33:22 PM FALL VISUAL ARTS PREVIEW: Frame by frame
The Patriot Ledger

By Chris Bergeron With few exceptions, art won't be imitating real life in area museums this fall. As Americans commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and live amid economic uncertainty, only Fruitlands Museum has devoted  [more]

10:35:02 AM Tallahassee museum's painting believed stolen by Nazis
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA

The Mary Brogan Museum of Art & Science in Tallahassee discovered a piece of artwork believed to have been stolen by Nazis during World War II. / Gannett TALLAHASSEE — Who could have guessed that a Hollywood-worthy tale of international intrigue was  [more]

10:35:02 AM National Museum attracts 500000
The Associated Press

The newly-redeveloped National Museum of Scotland has attracted more than half a million visitors since it reopened to the public less than six weeks ago. It opened its doors again on July 29 after a three-year redevelopment at a cost of £47 million. [more]

8:45:56 AM ESSAY: Reliving instead of remembering Sept. 11
Wall Street Journal - USA

11 museum that will look something like this. Planners spoke years ago of an "immersive" area where visitors will hear, see and know what Sept. 11 really felt like. Maybe you'll hear Brian Sweeney, a passenger on United Flight 175, calling his wife . [more]

8:45:56 AM 20 Pinoys in 9/11 Memorial Museum
ABS CBN News - Philippines

Guests get a sneak peak of what the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center would be like before it opens to the public this Sunday, the 10th year anniversary of 9-11. A selection of artifacts from the museum's growing ... [more]

8:45:56 AM Exhibit at Penn museum of objects excavated from 9/11 site
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

These are some of the pieces included in the new exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, "Excavating Ground Zero: Fragments from 9/11," a collection of objects recovered from the World Trade Center site  [more]

8:45:56 AM White elephants in the Blackhawk Museum
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By Georgia Lambert DANVILLE -- There will be white elephants loose in the Blackhawk Museum on Friday through Sunday. The annual Blackhawk Bargain-Basement Sale will be held from 10 am to 4 pm Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free to the sale, ... [more]

8:45:56 AM On Alki, a statue of memories
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

On Sunday, from 7 until 9 pm, the Log House Museum museum will display at the base of the Alki Beach Statue of Liberty statue a small portion of notes, art and other items left there after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. By Erik Lacitis Cathie Bachy,  [more]

8:45:56 AM Patriot Guard spreads code
Monroe News Star - Monroe,LA,USA

Patriotism and support for US troops, escorted by the Patriot Guard motorcycle riders, rolled into the Twin Cities Wednesday morning as the "Patriots & Heroes Pacific-to-Potomac Relay" tour made a stop at the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum. . [more]

7:00:28 AM A unique museum opened in Azerbaijan exhibiting a 3700–year old samovar
Azerbaijan Business Center - Azerbaijan

President Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva got acquainted with construction of Gala Archeology and Ethnographic Museum Complex and took part in opening of Antiques Museum. Creation of Archeology and Ethnographic Museum Complex at the ... [more]

7:00:28 AM Cuomo Remembers 9/11, Explores Casino Gaming in WNY
WBEN 930 - Buffalo,NY,USA

Buffalo, NY (WBEN)- Andrew Cuomo in Buffalo yesterday, as one of the several visits he's making to September 11th memorial displays at museums around the state. The display at the Birchfield Penney Art Center includes a New York City Police van, ... [more]

4:47:00 AM Battleship Iowa to be Los Angeles museum
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

The mighty battleship Iowa, a 68-year-old veteran of two wars, is headed for Los Angeles and a new life as a museum ship. The Iowa has been laid up in the so-called Ghost Fleet in Suisun Bay for 10 years while a local nonprofit group negotiated with  [more]

4:47:00 AM City gets new classic auto museum
Chicago Sun-Times

By David Roeder Business Reporter droeder@suntimes.com September 7, 2011 9:10PM Larry Klairmont is a real estate investor who is setting up a museum of old cars that he has collected called the Imperial Auto Collection. The automobiles are almost rea [more]

4:47:00 AM Facebook App 9/11 Memorial Lets You Dedicate Status Updates to Victims
Mashable - Los Angeles,CA,USA

Facebook, in collaboration with The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, will ask members to update their profile photos or dedicate their statuses in remembrance of the victims who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001. The 9/11 Memorial applicatio [more]

4:47:00 AM Council OKs deals on Mob Museum that it couldn't refuse
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

A big step was taken in that direction Wednesday when the City Council approved several agreements intended to move forward the Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas. Because the museum is housed on Stewart Avenue in the first post office and courthouse . [more]

2:49:09 AM Sacred stone no longer for auction
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

Bernice Murphy, the head of Museums Australia. Photo: Virginia Star THE sacred Aboriginal tjuringa stone that was about to be sold by an English auctioneer has been withdrawn from sale. Following a story in yesterday's Herald, the auctioneer said the [more]

2:49:09 AM Museums told to step up security
China Daily

BEIJING - Police and cultural authorities have ordered museums to tighten security, following three thefts this year. The crimes include a May raid at the Palace Museum in China's capital, in which several exhibited items on loan from a Hong Kong ... [more]

2:28:41 AM 'New York Remembers' 9/11 memorial exhibits in place throughout the state
The Saratogian

The New York State Museum is striving to make that shared “Where were you on 9/11?” recollection tangible. The museum, which put in place a permanent 9/11 exhibit, “The World Trade Center: Rescue, Recovery, Response,” less than a year after the ... [more]

12:53:37 AM The El Paso Museum of Art Announces Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and
Dallas Art News - Dallas,Texas,USA

Dallas Art News Today, the El Paso Museum of Art announced and exciting exhibition titled Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and the Art of Illustration. The exhibit was organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, and is made up of ori [more]

12:47:03 AM Seaport Museum Takeover Planned
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The Seaport Museum New York, in the South Street Seaport district, may be taken over by the Museum of the City of New York. By ROBIN POGREBIN The Museum of the City of New York will take over the beleaguered Seaport Museum New York using a $2 million [more]

12:47:03 AM Museum Slated for Aretha Franklin's Memphis Home
MyFox Memphis - Memphis,TN,USA

According to Herb Jackson with the RESPECT Foundation, "We're going to refurbish the property, refurbish the house, leave it where it is and build an interactive museum around the property." It will be a multi-million dollar project that will include [more]



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