Museum Articles, Blogs & Headlines — December 2006
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Museums face funding crisis
The Journal
Museums across the North-East face "disaster" under threatened Government cutbacks which could spell the end of vital conservation work and valuable collections, it was warned...
Mayor Says Gross Clinic To Stay in Philadelphia
The Morning News
Two Philadelphia art museums secured enough money to thwart a bid by Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton for the painting "The Gross Clinic," Philadelphia Mayor John Street...
Muslims remember Holocaust victims at memorial museum / Americans gather in response to recent conference in Iran
San Francisco Chronicle
Local Muslim leaders lit candles Wednesday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to commemorate Jewish suffering under the Nazis, in a ceremony held just days after Iran had a conference denying the genocide. American Muslims "believe we have to learn...
Frazier Museum names interim director
Business First of Louisville
Mary Case, a community leader from Washington, D.C., has been named interim executive director of the Frazier International History Museum in Louisville, effective Jan. 2...
Museum Fears Munch Work Damaged in Theft
ABC News
Museum Fears Recovered Munch Masterpiece 'The Scream' Suffered Permanent Damage in Theft...
Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute and Museum set to open Jan. 12
InterMat
The International Wrestling Institute and Museum, founded in 1997, has officially changed locations...
Ripley's buys infamous Cook County, Ill., gallows
USA Today
Morbid curiosity beat out history to lay claim to the infamous Cook County gallows. The oddity-loving Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum outbid the Chicago History Museum late Wednesday night, offering $68,300 for the rights to the contraption that put 86 inmates to death...
Group wants Sidney to be home for rodeo museum
Shenandoah Valley News Today
Rodeo in Iowa is synonymous with Sidney. Known as Rodeo Town U.S.A., the Fremont County Historical Society wants to preserve the more than 80 years of rodeo history with a rodeo museum...
Virginia Museum of Natural History welcomes rare collection
WDBJ 7 Roanoke
A rare collection of dinosaurs and fossils is about to open at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. For the next few months, visitors will be able to check out "Chinasaurs: The Great Dinosaurs of China."
Thyssen Museum Presents Arikha Studiolo Anthologies
Art Daily
Lorenzo Lotto, Self-portrait, oil on tablet, 43 x 35 cm. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid. MADRID, SPAIN.- The first in a new series of exhibitions at the Thyssen Museum opened to the public...
Grout awards contract for museum expansion; wins $50,000 grant
Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier
WATERLOO --- The Grout Museum has awarded a contract for construction of its $11 million Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum expansion, and received a $50,000 grant for construction of a stained-glass "contemplative area" inside it...
"Temples and Tombs" Egyptian Exhibit To Open at Cummer Museum
First Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Mummies, pharaohs, and more will have a place here on the First Coast as the "Temples and Tombs Exhibit" opens at the Cummer Museum of Art. The exhibit covers nearly 3,000 years of history and includes artifacts more than 6,000 years
Museum refit plans win seal of approval
The Scotsman
A MASSIVE revamp of the Royal Museum could be finished by 2011 after the scheme was given the final seal of approval...
Fate of Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance Rests With Israeli High Court
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
Israel's highest judicial and executive authorities both have weighed in on the protracted dispute surrounding construction of a $200 million Center of Human Dignity-Museum of Tolerance in the heart of Jerusalem...
National Museum reopens after 3-year make-over
Channel News Asia via Yahoo! Asia News
SINGAPORE: Singapore's arts and heritage development marked another milestone on Thursday night with the grand opening of the National Museum...
LBJ Museum of San Marcos opens
News 8 Austin
After nine years of planning, the Lyndon B. Johnson Museum of San Marcos opened its doors to the public Wednesday...
Hirshhorn Museum Appoint New Director of Communications
Art Daily
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. WASHINGTON.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announces the appointment of Gabriel Riera as director of communications and marketing within the museum’s division of external affairs...
Massillon plans Paul Brown museum
Dayton Daily News
State lawmakers have earmarked $75,000 to help the city pay for a design of a museum honoring legendary football coach Paul Brown...
World War II is in the air again at aviation museum
USA Today
Pearl Harbor has added another visitor attraction. The Pacific Aviation Museum, featuring a collection of vintage aircraft, launched Thursday on Ford Island in the area strafed Dec. 7, 1941, by Japanese fighter planes...
MetLife Foundation Awards $1 Million to Science Museums
FinanzNachrichten
MetLife ( Nachrichten ) Foundation today announced the grant winners of its Partnership for Intergenerational Learning program. Fifteen science museums from around the United States were awarded grants totaling $1,000,000, directly benefiting...
Ottawa museums get boost of nearly $100M
CBC Ottawa
Five national museums in Ottawa will get a big boost of funds for fixing leaky roofs, other repairs and long-term building maintenance, the federal government says...
Defending the Encyclopedic Museum
The New York Sun
Tonight, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philippe de Montebello will make the case that museums should continue to acquire antiquities, even when they have imperfect knowledge of an object's provenance. Mr. de Montebello, the museum's director, is repeating a lecture he first gave two weeks ago, in which he argued that the law and public opinion have swung too far in favor of the rights of...
IMLS Calls for 2007 National Leadership Grant Applications (2006-12-07 - 2007-03-01)
Absolutearts.com
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accepting grant applications to the agency's 2007 National Leadership Grant (NLG) program. The previously published deadline of February 1, 2007 has been moved to March 1, 2007. Since 1998 National Leadership Grants have supported the innovative thinking that is needed to help libraries and museums...
Nation's Museums Undertake Major Building Efforts
Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will next year become one of the latest museums to unveil a major expansion, part of a building boom among museums of all sizes...
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Announces Participating "National Design Triennial: Design Life Now" Designers
Contract Magazine
The "National Design Triennial" is an ongoing exhibition program at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum...
Ex-curator of Wahiawa museum charged with fraud in Nebraska
Honolulu Advertiser
LINCOLN, Neb. — The former museum curator of the Korean War museum in Oxford, Nebraska — who set up similar museum in Hawai'i two years ago — was charged with defrauding Nebraska war veterans, local governments and private individuals, Attorney General Jon Bruning...
DAM: It's dizzying
Denver Post
"Art is made to disturb," Georges Braque, the cubist painter and Pablo Picasso buddy, once said. But art museums? The new Denver Art Museum addition, it seems, is disturbing some visitors by making them dizzy...
Tessa Jowell hails 'inspirational' 29 million extra visits to National Museums since admission charges scrapped five
Government News Network
Nearly 30 million extra visits to England's national museums and galleries have been made, five years after entry charges were scrapped, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced...
Sackler Gallery Sets Record as Multitudes Flock To Bible Exhibit
Washington Post
The display of rare early Scripture at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is drawing record crowds, even prompting long lines with 40-minute waits...
National Museum celebrates reopening with month-long festival
Channel NewsAsia
SINGAPORE: The National Museum is celebrating its reopening with a month-long festival starting on 2nd December. To kick off the Opening Festival, the National Museum will get a shower of blessing by UK group Avanti Display...
Rebirth for judicial center, museum
Rocky Mountain News
A plan is gathering momentum to build two new high-profile state-owned buildings in downtown Denver - the Colorado Judicial Center and the Colorado History Museum...
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