Museum Articles, Blogs & Headlines — June 2007
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China says Japan protest at China war museums shows lack of courage
Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News
_ Demands by Japanese lawmakers that China remove anti-Japanese photos from Chinese war museums show their lack of courage to recognize Japan's past wrongdoings...
Museums urged to get rid of pictures on Japan’s past crimes
The Star Online
SOME Japanese parliamentarians will launch a league today asking China’s war museums to remove photos that show the atrocities committed by Japanese troops during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Kyodo News said...
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Museums challenged to exhibit more relevance, problem solving
Lawrence Journal-World
The diorama of animals on display on the first floor of the Natural History Museum at Kansas University isn’t exactly cutting-edge technology, but that’s OK with James Wabaunsee. “I’m old-fashioned, so I think it’s cool,” said Wabaunsee, a 36-year-old Topeka resident who took his nieces to the museum...
Newport Art Museum & Art Association awarded accreditation
Newport This Week
The Newport Art Museum & Art Association achieved accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM). This is the highest national recognition for a museum and it signifies excellence to the museum community, to governments, funders, outside agencies, and to the museum-goers...
Museums still waiting for federal funding plan
CTV.ca
Museums across Canada say they're still waiting for the federal government to recognize their desperate plight despite a promise to develop a new, improved museums policy...
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Getty Museum's Brand Faces Impasse in Italian Artifacts Dispute
Bloomberg.com
June 14 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Brand, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, has a problem that won't go away: a dispute with the Italian government over ancient artworks in the museum's collection. Once-promising negotiations have completely broken down...
Gigantic bird-like dinosaur stirs debate
USA Today
The dinosaur world's latest star had a toothless beak, waved feathered arms incapable of flight and may have hunted only plants. But if you met Gigantoraptor erlianensis in a Mongolian forest 70 million years ago, best to have given it a wide berth. At more than 16 feet tall and roughly 3,000 pounds, the beast could stand eyeball-to-eyeball with a tyrannosaur, Chinese researchers...
Holocaust museum council chair: Money, relevance key challenges
JTA
The chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council sees a wide range of new goals for the institution as it enters its second decade. Before you continue...
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Fort Sill breaks ground on Field Artillery Museum
KSWO Lawton-Wichita Falls
FORT SILL--After seven years of planning and fundraising, ground was broken on Fort Sill's Field Artillery Museum, which will allow the Post to put on display artifacts that have long been in storage...
Historical society seeks to open museum in Florissant
Northwest County Journal
Florissant is one of five locations being considered for a new museum housing part of the collection from the closed Museum of Western Jesuit Missions...
Open house to help fund new museum at lake
Lawrence Journal-World
Construction of a new 4,800-square-foot museum at Clinton Lake could begin this fall. A preliminary design will be on display during an open house and fundraiser this weekend at the Wakarusa River Valley and Heritage Museum in Bloomington Park at Clinton Lake. The approximately $400,000 museum would be built nearby, according to its director, Martha Parker...
Panel urging city to make loan to surf museum
San Diego Union-Tribune
OCEANSIDE – A city advisory panel is recommending that the Oceanside City Council lend the California Surf Museum money to move into and renovate the old Play Girl strip club...
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Attendance figures for museum questioned
Lawrence Journal-World
For years, the Natural History Museum at Kansas University has been billed as one of the state’s top tourist attractions, with an attendance of around 200,000 people per year. But the museum’s director, Leonard Krishtalka, acknowledged Wednesday that the number is an “urban legend” and said the actual number may be closer to between 50,000 and 70,000 people per year...
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