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National Museum Discovers Significant Animal and Human Fossils
Asmara — The Eritrean National Museum has discovered a jaw and teeth of a missing link of an extinct elephant family, as well as human frontal lobe and ...
2.6 Million Museum Visitors Recorded This Year
PUTRAJAYA, Dec 30 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Museum Department has recorded 2.6 million visitors at its 21 museums this year, with one million visitors at ...
Museum officials appeal to government for more funding to finish ...
Construction work on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is expected to be completed in late 2012. The provincial government isn't ruling out the ...
Famed German museum gets a modern makeover
FRANKFURT - A series of museums along Frankfurt's Main River is the equivalent to Manhattan's famed museum mile, making the German city perhaps one...
Carnegie Museum of Art Announces Two Major Acquisitions
Carnegie Museum of Art announce two major acquisitions representing the museum's strengths in 19th century neoclassical art and contemporary art. ...
Train museum battles mold
The city turned the depot into a museum and houses memorabilia related to trains and also the history of this area. Bonnie Donaldson, museum director, ..
Eight-Track Museum Opens in Texas
All jokes about Christmas miracles aside, the world's first eight-track museum opened on Christmas afternoon. Owned and operated by 51-year-old James ...
Museum of Moving Image reopens with film series
After being closed for almost two years for an extensive expansion, Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image is prepared to get the cameras...
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China builds Sichuan earthquake museum
Chinese state media says construction has begun on a museum commemorating the nearly 90000 people who died during a 2008 earthquake. ...
New Canadian War Museum exhibit gives viewers a brush with war
A new exhibit at the Canadian War Museum will give art lovers and history buffs a unique perspective on Canadian conflicts from the Korean War to ...
Members of pro-Kurdish party not allowed in Turkish torture museum
Three deputies from Turkey's pro-Kurdish party were not allowed to enter a new torture museum recently converted from a prison in Ankara on Thursday. ...
Art program at Johnson Museum helps addiction recovery effort
Then the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University contacted him, and almost four years later, Rusen couldn't imagine a program without it. ...
Museum piece Exhibits added for Civil War's 150th anniversary
Brandon Pollock Dennis Bresson poses with one of two Civil War cannons he helped secure for the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum in Waterloo. ...
World's first ArtScience Museum to open in February
The world's first ArtScience Museum (picture), located at Marina Bay Sands, will open its doors on Feb 17 next year. There will be 21 gallery spaces ...
Man sues Bakersfield museum after raccoon attack
A man is suing a Bakersfield zoo and museum for negligence after he was attacked by an escaped raccoon from one of its live exhibits. ...
Slavery museum property in jeopardy
L. Douglas Wilder could be on the verge of losing the 38-acre property in Fredericksburg where he had planned to build a slavery museum. ...
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NY museum welcome port for antique MA racing boat
Only few get to claim that experience, but the Antique Boat Museum is living that dream with Atosis, a 104-year-old race boat that was found sitting in the ...
Historic needlework featured at Florence Griswold Museum
Needlework has a connection, too, to Miss Florence Griswold, whose artist boardinghouse became the Florence Griswold Museum. She and her mother and sisters ...
Building finally worthy of Erie Art Museum
Twenty-ten will certainly be best remembered as the year Erie got the art museum building it deserves. Not the art museum it deserves; ...
Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum presents collection of World War ...
The Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum will present the exhibition "WW I Posters: On the Home Front" from Jan. 8 through March 12. ...
Museum gains accreditation
Brock Hanson and David Townsend, both 12, look at museum exhibits Wednesday with their grandfather, Larry Fenstermaker. The family traveled to the museum ...
3 sentenced for Swedish museum heist
Three men were sentenced Wednesday for their roles in an art heist at Sweden's Malmo Art Museum, court records show. Among the works snatched ...
Mexican Museum celebrates more than anniversary
It was no coincidence the Mexican Museum celebrated its 35th anniversary, first-ever gala and new Director Jonathan Yorba at the Four Seasons on Saturday. Saturday also marked the centennial of the Mexican Revolution,...
Nazi-Looted Art Should Be Returned by Museum, Commission Rules
Austria’s Leopold Museum should return seven Nazi-looted paintings by Egon Schiele and Anton Romako to their rightful owners, said an art commission set up by the country’s Ministry of Culture.
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New museum and gallery for Fife
A new museum and art gallery are set to be built in Fife under multi-million pound plans for Dunfermline.
Refined Jewish Museum Shows Up Drab Philadelphia Mall: Review
A shapely classical goddess in marble benignly waves visitors into the new home of Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History.
A Museum Opens in a Nuremberg Courthouse to Commemorate Nazi Trials
It was no coincidence that the Allies chose Nuremberg for the site of the first-ever war crimes tribunal at the end of World War II. They hoped to transform this Bavarian city — once the site of massive Nazi rallies and the promulgation of Hitler's anti-Semitic race laws in 1935 — into a symbol of international justice and the rule of law. In his closing statement in 1946, United States chief ...
47 years after JFK assassination, Sixth Floor Museum adapts to new era
TOM FOX/DMNThe museum wants to keep jogging the emotions of those old enough to recall the tragedy but needs to find ways to explain the killing to those who were yet to be born.
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Michigan Museum Planned Celebrating Ford's Model A
Museum Celebrating Ford's Model A Planned For Southern Michigan; Groundbreaking Next Summer
Museum moments are worth preserving
[Blog - by Dea Birkett] Cutting funding for local museums brushes aside the fact it is a single object in a small gallery that can have the biggest impactRemember your first visit to a museum?
Denver museum Plans To Sell Namesake's Art
[Blog - by Deidre Woollard] The issue of when and just how much of its artwork a museum can sell is one we keep seeing in the news.
Stars Raise Funds For museum Of Contemporary Art
The museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), celebrated its 31-year history as one of the world’s leading contemporary art institutions on Saturday, November 13, 2010, with The ...
Asian Art Museum reportedly in financial turmoil
San Francisco's Asian Art Museum is in dire financial straits and could be forced into bankruptcy if it can't work out a new deal with its lender by Friday, according to knowledgeable sources. Our sources say the...
Crisis thrusts Wall Street museum into prominence
David Cowen, center, heads The Museum of American Finance on Wall Street. Its exhibit on the recent scandals is drawing crowds. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, center, is one of the financial figures seen in the exhibit.
Harry Potter museum in UK to open in 2012
The new Leavesden studio complex that will house the Harry Potter museum (photo credits: flicks.co.nz) MANILA, Philippines – The Harry Potter movie franchise is nearing its end now that its second to the last installment, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,” is currently shown in theaters. However, the magical world of Harry Potter will live on courtesy of its very own museum.
Inside the Brain: Museum Exhibit Will Blow Your Mind
NEW YORK - Bars of light passing across a massive tangle of cables give the sense of being surrounded by crackling electrical signals and firing neurons as you enter the American Museum of Natural History's new exhibit here. Most people may visit the museum for the fossils, but this time they'll want to stay for the brains.
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Museum commemorates Pearl Harbor, WWII
On Dec. 7, the Historical Society Museum will have the grand opening of its Pearl Harbor/WWII Commemorative Exhibit. The VFW, American Legion , the Canadian Legion, Honor Flight, and the Memorial Society will all be participating in the ceremony.
Science Museum in London to Debut New Permanent Climate Science Gallery
The Science Museum, London, will open a new permanent climate science gallery - ‘atmosphere: exploring climate science’ on 4 December 2010. LONDON.- The Science Museum , London, will open a new permanent climate science gallery - ‘atmosphere: exploring climate science’ on 4 December 2010.
National Museum of Korea displaying Hindu god masks
Nevada (US), Nov 23 : Prestigious National Museum of Korea (NMK) in Seoul is displaying masks of Hindu gods in an exhibition which will continue till September 11 next year.
Solar Power at Children's Museum
New solar panels on top of the Children's Discovery Museum in Uptown Normal. Normal hopes the solar power helps save between five and ten percent on the museum electricity bill each month.
Monster Mash: Clint Eastwood receives Museum of Tolerance award
Honored: The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles bestowed its Tolerance Award to Clint Eastwood at the museum's first International Film Festival...
Biloxi fire museum reopens Saturday
The newly repaired West End Hose Company #3 Museum and Fire Educational Center will reopen Saturday. The museum closed earlier this year while the city repaired damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.
International move to curb disposals
LONDON. Leading international museum directors have restated their opposition to the financially motivated sale of works of art from public collections when the proceeds are used for “anything other than acquisitions or the direct care of the...
Oregon museum's renovated military room reopens
By JULIE M. McKINNON BLADE STAFF WRITER From a piece of wood from Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship in the War of 1812 to a Silver Star awarded posthumously to an Oregon man killed in the Vietnam War, the renovated military room at the Oregon Jerusalem Historical Society museum made its debut on Veterans Day. Several area veterans who donated uniforms and other military items to the ...
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