Museum Articles, Blogs & Headlines —October 2006
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Bushwhacker museum assessed
Nevada Daily Mail - Oct 31
A rainy day in Nevada did not deter Terry Ramsey, director of the Bushwhacker museum, and her visiting assessors from making the rounds. Ramsey had been taking the two women around the...
Marines museum tries to take you into the war zones
The News & Observer - Oct 31
Lance Cpl. Matthew Stephens, who returned to Camp Lejeune from Iraq just last month, figures that for the new National Museum of the Marine Corps to truly convey his experience in Ramadi, the exhibit hall would have to be the pitch black...
Modern West images at Houston Museum
AP via Yahoo! News - Oct 30
A stark black and white image of three country churches standing in a row on the plains of South Dakota is part of a new exhibit at Houston's Museum...
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Gates Gives $15 Million to Computer History Museum
Art Daily - Oct 30
Computer History Museum. MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA...
Huntington Museum of Art Announces Polan Family Gift
Art Daily - Oct 30
Dale Chihuly. HUNTINGTON, WV.- Following a short press conference at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, 2006, the Huntington Museum of Art presented a new, commissioned, site-specific glass sculpture by renowned artist Dale Chihuly...
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Sculpture, landscape nearly finished at Museum of Religious Arts
Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil - Oct 30
LOGAN - Founder Paul Lovell and a crew from the Museum of Religious Arts near Logan recently placed the figures for the museum's newest attraction...
Final day for Industrial Museum
BBC News - Oct 29
Bristol's Industrial Museum closes its doors after 28 years, making way for a new Museum of Bristol...
Snake is loose and hiding out in museum
Boston Globe - Oct 26
COHASSET -- The sign on the front door of Our World Children's Discovery Museum says it all: "Fithi is still having her grand adventure...
NLR Mayor Wants Funding to Move WWII Tug to River Museum
FOX 16 Little Rock - Oct 26
North Little Rock Mayor Patrick Hays is seeking $395,000 so a tugboat that survived the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor can be towed to the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum...
U.S. casino mogul donates $25 million to Israeli Holocaust Museum
Las Vegas Sun - Oct 26
U.S. casino mogul donates $25 million to Israeli Holocaust Museum JERUSALEM (AP) - American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has pledged $25 million to Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, the largest gift ever given to the museum...
When an art object vexes, nuke it
International Herald Tribune - Oct 25
Eager for precision in a field notorious for ambiguity and frustration, curators at top museums in Europe and the United States have long reached for the instruments of nuclear science to hit treasures of art ...
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Information on Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum
Boston Globe - Oct 25
WHAT: The Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum pays tribute to the actors and makeup artists who created some of the most classic horror characters such as Frankenstein's monster and the werewolf...
Anger over Lowry auction plan
BBC News - Oct 25
A council faces expulsion from the Museums Association over plans to sell a Lowry to tackle a budget...
Barry leaving museum behind
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Oct 25
THE chief executive of Coventry Transport Museum is retiring after shifting the tourist spot into top gear. Coventry Kid Barry Littlewood, aged 61, has been in the post since the museum...
Greensboro Children’s Museum director to leave
Greensboro News-Record - Oct 25
GREENSBORO — Tim Goetz, often described as the face of the Greensboro Children's Museum since its 1999 opening...
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Railroad museum celebrates expansion project
The Shelby County Reporter - Oct 24
The Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum in Calera will celebrate the expansion of its track and the opening of a new library next Sunday, Nov. 5 at 2 p.m. The Museum...
Museum examines Latino holiday in honor of the dead
San Francisco Chronicle - Oct 24
The Day of the Dead was alive and well at the Oakland Museum of California, where several thousand partygoers in skeleton shirts and other grim gear gathered Sunday to celebrate Dia de los Muertos. "I wish our museum...
Program For Art Museum Directors Launched
Art Daily - Oct 21
Directors Forum. NEW YORK.- The Art Museum Partnership announced the creation of a new annual Directors Forum for leaders of art museums...
U-S Marshals Service eyes Virginia as museum home
NewsChannel 10 Amarillo - Oct 21
STAUNTON, Va. A committee looking for a city to be home to a museum for the U-S Marshals Service has now toured Staunton, Virginia. The committee is also considering...
N.E. Quilt Museum director leaving post
Lowell Sun - Oct 21
LOWELL -- Jennifer Gilbert, executive director of the New England Quilt Museum, has announced her resignation. She will leave at the end of October to become director of development at the Mount Auburn Cemetery...
Florence's art treasures still caked in mud after 40 years
Daily Telegraph - Oct 21
Art restorers in Italy have launched a desperate appeal for money to help rescue hundreds of works of art still caked in mud from devastating floods in Florence...
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Lost Harvard Paintings Found After Three Decades
CBS 2 New York - Oct 21
Two paintings reported missing from Harvard University's collections more than three decades ago have been recovered and will be returned to Harvard, a spokesman said Friday. Both paintings were sold at an auction...
ASU museum offers peek at folk art
The Arizona Republic - Oct 20
Starting today, folk art fans in the Valley can get a sneak preview of an important collection donated to the Arizona State University Art Museum. Regalos Magnificos: Introducing Donations from the Collection of Peter P. Cecere features 22 pieces in clay, wood, paintings and textiles selected from 1,000 works the museum...
BRET ‘looking forward’ to moving into renovated Cartoon Museum
Boca Raton News - Oct 20
It may not happen for a year or more. But officials at Boca Raton Educational Television (BRET) are “looking forward” to moving into new office space in the renovated International Museum of Cartoon Art...
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Kent Bewley Moving Ahead With Plans To Convert Warehouse Into Car Museum
Greene County - Oct 20
Sun Photo by Bill Jones Greeneville business leader Kent Bewley is shown above standing across South Main Street from the former Bernard No. 2 Tobacco Warehouse, which he owns and plans to renovate to house an automobile museum...
UK museum urged to negotiate over Aboriginal remains
ABC via Yahoo! News - Oct 20
A British museum expert says he wants to "hang his head in shame" because the Britain's Natural History Museum is refusing to negotiate with the Tasmanian Aboriginal...
House ‘Falls’ on Roof of Austrian Museum
Turks.US - Oct 20
Erwin Wurm, one of Austria’s most successfully contemporary artists, has created an extraordinary work of art in Vienna. Wurm installed a house, which he named "House Attack," upside-down on the facade of the Museum of Modern Arts...
Swedish Natural History Museum & aMuze! Interactive Launch English Version of 'mission:CLIMATE'
The Auto Channel - Oct 20
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--The Swedish Museum of Natural History and aMuze! Interactive have launched the English version of their Interactive Climate Card and personal Climate Website...
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Marcia Tucker -- founded New Museum of Contemporary Art in N.Y.
San Francisco Chronicle - Oct 20
Marcia Tucker, a forceful curator who responded to being fired from the Whitney Museum of American Art by founding the New Museum of Contemporary Art, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Barbara. She was 66. Ms. Tucker learned several years ago that she...
HUAM Snags Asian Rarities
The Harvard Crimson - Oct 20
The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) have just acquired the Walter C. Sedgwick Collections of Japanese Buddhist sculpture and early Chinese ceramics, described in a HUAM press release as the most significant addition to Harvard’s Asian art collection...
Pantani museum to be opened
News 24 South Africa - Oct 20
A museum in memory of former Tour de France and Tour of Italy winner, Marco Pantani, will be opened to the public...
Mixed fortunes for Chinese inks
International Herald Tribune - Oct 20
The auction of the "Vermillion Pavillion Collection" at Sotheby's in Hong Kong this month may have signaled at least a selective revival of the market of 20th- century Chinese ink masters...
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Treasures come down from the mountain
International Herald Tribune - Oct 20
Now, many sacred treasures from the Greek Orthodox monastery on Mount Sinai in Egypt are to be shown for the first time abroad. The exhibition "Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai" will be on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum...
China's Palace Museum strives to become top world museum
People's Daily - Oct 19
The 600-year-old Forbidden City is striving to become one of the world's top museums...
£30,000 windfall for museum fight
BBC News - Oct 16
The campaign to save Fleetwood Museum receives a £30,000 boost from a local business...
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Struggle to avoid museum closure
BBC News - Oct 16
An MSP vows to fight plans to close the Scottish Lead Mining Museum next year due to lack of funds...
$32 Million Makeover For LBJ Museum
KXAN 36 Austin - Oct 16
It's the history of politics that's behind a $32 million makeover. The official groundbreaking starts Friday for the new LBJ Library and Museum Plaza and the Lady Bird Johnson...
Aviation Hall of Fame to induct four
Galveston County Daily News - Oct 15
GALVESTON – One of the nation’s leading aviation museums will honor four inductees for their contributions to the development, growth and preservation of aviation...
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Harvard Art Museums acquire key additions to Asian collection
Boston Globe - Oct 13
The Harvard University Art Museums are announcing today a major addition to their Asian art holdings. Harvard has acquired three Japanese Buddhist sculptures and more than 300 early Chinese ceramics from Walter C. Sedgwick , a San Francisco Bay area philanthropist...
Roswell businessman named to National Air and Space Museum board
BizJournals - Oct 11
President George W. Bush has named a prominent businessman from Roswell to the advisory board of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., says the office of U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici...
Man Who Wanted Utah War Museum Arrested
KUTV2 Salt Lake City - Oct 11
A man who tried to open a Korean War museum in Utah before taking his idea to other states is in jail in Nebraska for trespassing at a former museum...
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Boston Museum Project names board members and staff
BizJournals - Oct 11
Boston Museum Project, a new cultural and civic institution slated for the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, announced the addition of board members...
New Civil War museum evokes old divisions
Ashland Daily Tidings - Oct 11
RICHMOND, Va. — In some parts of the country, the Civil War is still being fought. And perhaps nowhere are the aftershocks and viewpoints as evident as in Richmond, where a new museum is attempting to tell the history of the war...
Airline museums, archivists preserve legacy of flight
USA Today - Oct 10
Little known to the public, the Delta Heritage Museum preserves the company's 77-year history in two of the airline's oldest hangars. Elsewhere, through bankruptcies, mergers and other financial turmoil, other airlines also preserve the legacy of commercial flight either in their own museums...
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U.S. Museums Cope with Art Tainted by Nazi Looting
NPR - Oct 10
More than 600,000 pieces of artwork are believed to have been looted from private European collections by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. Some of that art is in the United States. NPR's Guy Raz reports on the quandaries museums face as they investigate claims. Recently, Yale University reached a creative solution with an elderly man over a Courbet landscape...
Boeing X-45A UAVs To Be Inducted Into Smithsonian, USAF Museums
The Aero-News Network - Oct 04
Prototype Combat Vehicles Set Numerous Milestones After 64 flights and numerous firsts in autonomous combat aviation, two X-45A unmanned combat air vehicles are heading to two prominent aviation museums to be permanently displayed...
Museum director cracks the Domenico code
PhysOrg - Oct 04
A museum director's detective work is restoring a visionary 18th century Venetian artist to his rightful place in the history of art...
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I.M. Pei Returns to His Roots With Opening of Suzhou Museum
Bloomberg.com - Oct 04
Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei, better known as I.M. Pei, has brought his love of geometric design back to his family's hometown in China with the opening this week of the new Suzhou Museum...
New Daniel Libeskind museum wing opening
AP via Yahoo! News - Oct 03
Architect Daniel Libeskind has upstaged the Rockies with his new wing of the Denver Art Museum, as jagged as the nearby peaks that inspired...
Two Boeing-built UAV head to museums
St. Louis Business Journal - Oct 02
Two unmanned combat air vehicles designed and built by The Boeing Co. through partnerships are heading to new homes at two prominent aviation museums for permanent display...
Ebay plans to cooperate with museums worldwide to prevent illegal auction over Internet of valuable ancient artifacts
India Daily - Oct 02
Museums worldwide are concerned about illegal selling of ancient arts and artifacts. Ebay promised to ccoerate to make sure the sellers of these items have right to trade these item...
Museum doors close for renovation
BBC News - Oct 2
The Ulster Museum opens its doors to the public for the last time until 2009 as it closes for a £12m redevelopment...
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Former employee sues museum
Casper Star-Tribune - Oct 2
CODY -- A former employee of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center has filed a lawsuit against the museum and two managers, alleging violation of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act and sexual harassment...
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