Museum Articles, Blogs & Headlines — May 2007
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BofA promotion boosts museums
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
In celebration of National Museum Month, Bank of America today launched the tenth season of Museums on Us, a program that enables anyone with a Bank of America credit or check card or MBNA credit card the opportunity to visit any of 86 cultural institutions on both coasts for free during May...
Egypt will ask museums abroad to temporarily send back artifacts
Seattle Times
Egypt said Sunday it would seek the temporary return of some of its most precious artifacts from museums abroad, including the Rosetta Stone...
Nearly 100,000 Historical Sites Dot Saudi Landscape
Arab News
JEDDAH, 2 May 2007 — Saudi Arabia is replete with archaeological sites dating back to thousands of years, according to Dr. Mohammed Al-Ruwaished, deputy minister of education for antiquities and museums...
Indy 500 Speedway museum is year-round portal to auto racing history
USA Today
For more than 50 years, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum has shared the history of automobile racing with the nearly 250,000 visitors who pass through each year a third of them during May, when the 2 1/2-mile track gears up for the annual Indianapolis 500...
Hutchinson visitors have a new, unique museum to tour. The Kansas Underground Salt Museum takes tourists 650 feet into ...
WIBW-TV Topeka
The museum is opening for preview tours, but the grand opening will be held in 2008. That's because many exhibits and the gift shop are still under construction. But there's still plenty to see and learn, including a history of local salt mining...
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Supervisors OK Grijalva-Canoa Ranch 'living museum'
Tucson Citizen
A master plan to develop a cultural, archaeological and historical "living museum" at the 4,800-acre Grijalva-Canoa Ranch 37 miles south of Tucson was approved by the Pima County Board of Supervisors Tuesday...
Museum Sets Up Office
Southwest Times Record
A temporary office has been set up for the U.S. Marshals Service National Museum director to get fundraising and other efforts on track for the project....
Oshkosh Public Museum OKs revamped expansion design plans
The Oshkosh Northwestern
Oshkosh Public Museum board members Monday approved a revamped design for a proposed expansion of the museum that scales back the architectural impact on the historic building to avoid overshadowing the Sawyer Home...
Work starts on waterfront museum
BBC News
Work on the £50m Museum of Liverpool is getting underway after more than five years of planning...
Currency stolen from bank museum
Fort Frances Times
Someone has helped themselves to a few choice specimens from the Bank of Canada’s currency museum, newly-released documents show. Red-faced bank officials are short about $16,700 following the unsolved theft at the central bank’s popular tourist attraction...
Students give anthropology museum at USU new look
Herald Journal
Utah State University’s anthropology museum has a new look courtesy of 26 undergraduate students, who gave its exhibits a complete redesign. “Everyone worked so hard, but it was fun,” said Rebekah Blackner, who was enrolled in the Introduction to Museum Studies class that undertook the project...
Johnson Museum site plans revealed
News 10 Now Syracuse
Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is expanding. The school revealed site plans for a new wing Monday...
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