Museum Articles, Blogs & Headlines — November 2006
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The recovery of war loot is now a multi-million dollar business in which lawyers, auction houses and possibly even...
Art Newspaper - Nov 30
NEW YORK/LONDON. Just three days before Christie’s was expecting to sell Picasso’s Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto for up to $60m at its auction of impressionist and modern art in New York last month, it was forced to withdraw the painting from auction...
V&A to scrap academic reproduction fees
Art Newspaper - Nov 30
london. In a move which could transform art publishing, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (V&A) is to drop charges for the reproduction of images in scholarly books and magazines. Reproduction costs now often make it difficult to publish specialist art historical...
Art museum sells 6 of its paintings at N.Y. auction
Seattle Times - Nov 30
In a New York auction Wednesday that brought record prices for paintings by Edward Hopper and Norman Rockwell, the Seattle Art Museum sold...
Museum starts adopt-an-artifact program
USA Today - Nov 29
What do a T-Rex skull, two stuffed elephants and a meteorite from Australia have in common? They are among the more than 20 popular exhibits included in an adopt-an-artifact program begun this month by Chicago's Field Museum...
Items from Afghanistan's museum in exile to head home
CBC - Nov 26
The 1,300 artifacts housed in the Afghanistan Museum in Exile, located in Switzerland, will be heading to the Kabul Museum in the new year...
Airforce vets gird for battle against Canadian War Museum officials
Canada.com - Nov 26
CALGARY -- Calgary airforce veterans are leading a national outcry against the Canadian War Museum for what they say is an offensive and inaccurate description of their role in the Second World War...
The Five Rules For A Thriving Museum
Time Magazine - Nov 26
Fuelled by a new savvy for marketing and brand-building, it's boom time for Europe's top museums. A guide to luring crowds...
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Lowry council leaves museum body
BBC News - Nov 25
A council threatened with action over its sale of a LS Lowry painting, resigns from the Museums Association...
Gloomy picture on purchases for museums
Financial Times - Nov 25
Britain's museums and galleries have fallen along way behind their international counterparts when it comes to acquiring new works for their collections, according to figures released yesterday by the Art...
Nation's first World War I museum to open
USA Today - Nov 24
The nation's first museum dedicated exclusively to World War I opens Dec. 2 as an expansion of the 1926 Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Mo. The new 30,000-square-foot National World War I Museum is underneath the memorial, a 217-foot tower that previously had two adjoining small museums...
Museums and galleries paint a picture of poverty
Daily Telegraph - Nov 23
Britain's major museums and art galleries can no longer compete against foreign rivals to buy important works of art because the Government is starving them of funds, according to a study by The Art Fund...
$1M gift to boost museum fortunes
St. Petersburg Times - Nov 22
ST. PETERSBURG - Longtime community leaders Beth Houghton and Scott Wagman and their families have donated $1-million to Great Explorations, the Children's Museum, the largest single contribution in the organization's 20-year history...
Art Museums Ask Congress to Rethink Limits on Fractional Giving
Bloomberg.com - Nov 15
Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has displayed Willem de Kooning's ``Untitled VII'' at least four times since 1984, while owning just 10 percent of the painting...
Historical cities of Dwarka, Patan to get two musuems
Yahoo! India News - Nov 15
Government also planning to modernise all 14 existing museums in North Gujarat and Saurashtra regions IN an attempt to showcase the rich cultural treasures and heritage of the Gujarat, the State Government's Department of Museums has decided to set up two museums at the historical cities of Dwarka...
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Museum to tell of city's dark side
Liverpool Echo - Nov 15
THE new £65m waterfront museum of Liverpool will be the biography of the city. Dr David Fleming, director of National Museums Liverpool, told a launch reception for the project that it would also reveal a "darker side"...
Discovery Museum opens new 'AgMazing' exhibit
Daily Vidette - Nov 15
On Friday, Nov. 24 at 10 a.m., the Children's Discovery Museum in downtown Normal will host a ribbon cutting of their newest addition to the center. After several years of planning, the exhibit spotlights the agriculture world, complete with a variety of relatable hands-on...
Supervisors decry museum location
Fairfax Times - Nov 15
Though the Army Historical Foundation is planning to open the doors of the National Museum of the United States Army in 2013, that does not mean county officials are happy about it...
Children's Museum eyes Origins site
Tucson Citizen - Nov 14
Then there were four. The Tucson Children's Museum wants to move from its 100-year-old location at 200 S. Sixth Ave. and become the fourth museum planned for the Tucson Origins complex on the west bank of the Santa Cruz River, south of West Congress...
C-47 Finds Permanent Home In Local Museum
CBS 13 Sacramento - Nov 14
A very special C-47 is about to fly to a new Northern California home. The C-47 lived for decades at the Nut Tree Airport in Vacaville. Its new home will be a few miles away at Travis Air Museum...
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Thousands pay their respects at the Military Museums of Calgary
CFCN.ca - Nov 12
The largest Remembrance Day ceremony in Calgary was at the Military Museums...
Detroit Museum Sued for Damaging 'Malcolm X' Manuscript
Insurance Journal - Nov 12
The owner of 15 unpublished pages of the original manuscript for "The Autobiography of Malcolm X'' have sued a Detroit museum for damaging the papers during the years they...
OU Museum director stepping down
NewsChannel 10 Amarillo - Nov 12
NORMAN, Okla. The director of the Fred Jones Junior Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma is stepping down to take a position at the Taft Museum of Art...
Stephen Bates is given a sneak preview of the world's first Creationist museum
Guardian Unlimited - Nov 12
Stephen Bates visits the world's first Creationist museum and asks, was there really a T-Rex in the Bible...
Tribe receives grant to make museum reality
The Shawano Leader - Nov 09
The dream of a cultural museum for the Menominee Indian Reservation will soon become a reality. The tribe recently learned that they will receive a $600,000 grant to build the facility, which will cost about $1 million. The tribal legislature, during a May meeting, had pledged a match of $400,000...
Athens: New Alfred Nobel museum
AP via Yahoo! News - Nov 09
The Greek capital hardly springs immediately to mind as the home for a shrine to the 19th century Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel...
Aviation museum founder Wingler resigns post
Pantagraph - Nov 09
BLOOMINGTON -- Board members at the Prairie Aviation Museum are scrambling to replace its former president after museum founder Norm Wingler resigned...
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The Ancient Americas: A New Permanent Exhibition at The Field Museum
Elite TV - Nov 09
The Ancient Americas, The Field Museum's innovative new exhibition, is an exploration of the challenges that human beings everywhere have faced for millennia...
Collections and staff return to restored Zane Grey Museum
The Narrowsburg River Reporter - Nov 09
LACKAWAXEN, PA — Museum contents, collections and staff members returned to the Zane Grey Museum last week, after a long absence due to the facility’s closing following heavy flooding in June. The museum has remained closed since, and is scheduled to reopen on Memorial Day, 2007...
U.Va. Art Museum: three new exhibits
Cavalier Daily Online - Nov 09
Get a tour of some of the world's cultures without leaving the familiarity of Rugby Road -- check out the University of Virginia Art Museum. Many students are unaware that the University even has an art museum...
Audit: 'Lack of planning' for civil rights museum
Greensboro News-Record - Nov 09
The State Auditor has released a report criticizing a nonprofit agency's planning of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum two days after voters rejected a bond related to the downtown Greensboro project...
Crete archaeological museum closes
AP via Yahoo! News - Nov 08
The archaeological museum of Iraklio on Crete will close for repairs on Nov. 13, the culture ministry said...
Qatar Islamic Museum set to open by 2007-end
Gulf Times - Nov 08
The Qatar Islamic Museum is expected to be opened by the end of 2007, it was announced yesterday. The announcement came after the board of the Qatar Museum Authority (QMA) held its first meeting, which was chaired by HE Sheikha Mayassa bint Hamad al-Thani, the chairperson of the QMA...
Great Interest In Mevlana Museum In Konya
TurkishPress.com - Nov 08
KONYA - The number of Turkish people and foreign tourists who visited the Mevlana Museum in central Anatolia city of Konya reached 1 million 109 thousand in January-October period...
Taibeh architect to design Palestinian culture museum
Haaretz Daily - Nov 08
"We chose Abdelqader, an Arab architect whose work deals intelligently with both Arab culture and contemporary architecture, and who uses his architecture to explore Palestinian culture," says artist Said Abu Shakra, who initiated the museum and is among the founders of the contemporary art gallery...
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Marine Corps Museum opens in Virginia
AP via Yahoo! News - Nov 08
From the highway, the National Museum of the Marine Corps beckons to visitors, its 210-foot-tall steel spire cutting through the sky, evoking the historic flag-raising at Iwo Jima...
CEO Brown leaving Bishop Museum
BizJournals - Nov 01
William Brown has resigned as president and CEO of Bishop Museum to take over as president of The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia...
Rocky Flats museum could be open by 2009
Rocky Mountain News - Nov 01
Backers of a proposed museum on the site of the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant have begun collecting artifacts to fill the space, including a ''resistance'' teepee...
Museum Recalls Hero of 'The Rape of Nanjing'
NPR - Nov 01
A new museum has just opened in Nanjing, China, commemorating the actions of a German businessman who saved lives during the 1937 Japanese invasion of the city. Known as the "Rape of Nanjing," the Japanese are believed to have killed 300,000 Chinese...
Whitney Museum Launches Learning@Whitney
Art Daily - Nov 01
Learning@Whitney. NEW YORK.- This fall, the Whitney Museum of American Art has launched Learning@Whitney, a new educational website comprised of images, information, learning resources, and interactive tools for teachers, teens, children, families, Museum...
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