Museum Articles, Blogs & Headlines — April 2008
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Art museums struggle with provenance issues
The Christian Science Monitor
Recent high-profile police raids show that the problem of stolen and looted art remains...
Changes at the helm
Hibbing Daily Tribune
CHISHOLM — A new — yet familiar face — has been entrusted with the top duties at Ironworld. Steve Harsin, longtime director of Ironworld’s museums and libraries, has been promoted to chief operations officer at the nonprofit museum...
Nobel Prize Exhibition Opens at The Tech Museum of Innovation
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
SAN JOSE, Calif.----The Tech Museum of Innovation , one of the nation's premiere science and technology museums, today unveiled nobel! >100 Years of the Nobel Prize, a unique exhibition celebrating the extraordinary winners of the prestigious international honor and their work...
NYC museum sued over Iwo Jima photos
USA Today
A history buff sued the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, claiming it lost several World War II-era photographs that he had loaned it, including the famous shot of a U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima...
Ontario unveils millions for arts
The Globe and Mail
Surprise $75.5-million in grants will allow major museums to whittle down debt...
Museum awarded £3.7m lotto grant
BBC News
An historic Teesside museum is celebrating a £3.7m grant from the heritage Lottery Fund...
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Museum staff take strike action
BBC News
National Museum Wales sites are closed as workers stage an historic one-day strike in a pay row...
Look Here! Future Gets Boost
The Morning News
The Children's Museum of Northwest Arkansas took one more step toward reality this week with the receipt of a $370,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation. The grant will "help fund the foundational and fundamental aspects of the museum to include an executive director and the launching of project initiatives," according to Shannon Letts, a Children's Museum founding board member...
Urbana district receives $1 million grant for history education
The Champaign News-Gazette
URBANA – Area teachers will learn more about history, and how to get their students excited about it, thanks to a $1 million grant to the Urbana school district from the U.S. Department of Education. The three-year Teaching American History grant is actually $999,136, and it is part of $114.7 million awarded nationwide. It is the fourth such grant the Urbana district has received...
Council Approves $37 Million For Art Museum, Park
The Tampa Tribune
TAMPA -- Plans to build a new Tampa Museum of Art and Curtis Hixon Park cleared a major hurdle today when the city council approved $37 million in contracts for the two projects...
Combat photojournalists shot down while covering Vietnam War receive museum interment
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
WASHINGTON - Nearly four decades after their deaths, four combat photographers received a museum burial Thursday as family, friends and former colleagues recalled how the men gave their lives to show the world "Vietnam as they saw it...
Museum preserves history of gold mining in Taiwan
Channel NewsAsia
TAIPEI : What was once a bustling mining town in north Taiwan is now a historical museum park - set up to preserve a long-forgotten part of the island's history...
Traveling WWII photo exhibit unveiled at Westchester History Museum
Chesterton Tribune
Lakeshore Public Television has announced Westchester Township History Museum will showcase the station’s WWII Hoosier Veterans Photography Exhibit, “Of Men and Mission,” through April 30...
11-year-old outsmarts Smithsonian museum
San Jose Mercury News
ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) - Is fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam smarter than the Smithsonian? On a winter break trip with his family to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, the 11-year-old southwestern Michigan boy noticed that a notation, in bold lettering, mistakenly...
Costs Put Brakes on Porsche Museum But Finishing Line in Sight
Deutsche Welle
Over-spending and delays have hit the Porsche Museum, currently under construction in the German city of Stuttgart, the sports car manufacturer said. The opening is now scheduled for December...
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