Museum Articles, Blogs & Headlines September 2007
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The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, scheduled to open September 23, today announced the launch of its new Web site, available at www.arkellmuseum.org.
In Confederacy's former capital, museums offer two Civil War views
Pioneer Press
BY NATASHA ROBINSON Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. - More than 140 years after Civil War cannons fell silent, two museums in Richmond are...
Financial boost for museums
Cambridge Evening News
MORE than £320,000 has been given to two of Cambridge's top museums to improve disabled access and the display of historic collections...
Museums get money for makeovers
BBC News
Six museums in the South are among 43 to benefit from a £4m grant to enrich the visitor experience...
Persistence pays off in WWII museum
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Traveling across the nation and around the world for auctions, Dean Kruse enjoys visiting museums...
PEORIA: Governor’s cuts impact local museums, parks, and zoo
Peoria Journal Star
PEORIA —Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s recent budget cuts means less money will go to the area’s museums, parks and zoo next year...
But where are the exhibitions?
The Star Online
Armed with decades of experience in the art world and countless visits to world-renowned museums, our writer checks out the newly refurbished National Art Gallery...
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Did Pollock paint them? It's the public's turn to decide
Boston Globe
After months of debate by art historians and scientists over their authenticity, two dozen controversial drip paintings went on display for the first time yesterday, allowing the public to confront the mystery of whether they were painted by abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock...
Danish artist Olafur Eliasson gets first American exhibition
San Francisco Chronicle
Among contemporary artists, Olafur Eliasson enjoys an enviable reputation for never repeating himself. He works in whatever medium suits his purposes, from water, in liquid, solid and vapor form, to light, steel and architecture. On Saturday, the San...
Bigger folk art museum reopens at Williamsburg
Detroit Free Press
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- Colonial Williamsburg is more than costumed interpreters in tricorn hats making speeches about revolution or craftsmen demonstrating silversmithing and other trades. The restored 18th-Century capital of Virginia also features the nation's first folk art museum, now in a new, more prominent and roomier home...
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The best of everything
Chicago Sun-Times
A perennial challenge for art museums with substantial permanent collections is how to show them off in an era when temporary exhibitions, especially of the touring (and preferably blockbuster) variety, are what make the turnstiles spin...
History society dedicates museum
Louisville Courier-Journal
The Floyd County Historical Society Padgett Museum was dedicated in downtown New Albany yesterday, and participants used the occasion to call for revitalization and landmark preservation...
Vt. war museum honors blacks
Boston Globe
POWNAL, Vt. - Down a dirt driveway, in one of the whitest states in the nation, is a museum dedicated to the experiences of black servicemen and women during World War II...
Children's museum meets goal
Boston Globe
With a few days left in its monthlong campaign, the Children's Metamorphosis Museum in Derry, N.H., announced Wednesday that it will stay open...
Moravian Museum exhibit chronicles Lafayette stay
The Morning Call
The Marquis de Lafayette's 27 days as a Lehigh Valley patient is dissected in a new Moravian Museum of Bethlehem exhibition about how the city, and the Moravian Brethren in particular, helped run a Revolutionary War hospital in 1777-1778...
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Hot talk cools off teapot museum
The News & Observer
As many as 6,000 teapots are sitting in the northwestern mountain community of Sparta without a museum to exhibit them...
Motorcyclists raise money for slavery museum project CRUISING FOR CHARITY
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
Motorcyclist group holds Freedom Ride to benefit planned U.S. National Slavery Museum in Fredericksburg...
Museum pays tribute to 40 years of the Big Mac
The Naperville Sun
NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa. -- Cleveland has its Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to celebrate the likes of Mick Jagger and the Beatles. Washington has its Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum to highlight such milestones as man on the moon...
SW Colorado Museum Houses 100 Years Of Car History
CBS4 Denver
Nestled in the majestic beauty of western Colorado is a museum showcasing 100 years of American Automotive history...
Tenn. Museum Curator Charged With Theft
WSMV Nashville
A curator with the Tennessee State Museum and his great aunt are charged with theft in Alabama...
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Museum to break ground
Monroe County Clarion
Ceremonial ground will be broken at 10 a.m. Friday for the History Museum of Monroe County's long-awaited, 3,708 square foot facility...
Online look into the past allows fresh view on museum’s future
icWales
As the National Museum of Wales puts many exhibits currently not on display available to see online, Catherine Jones wonders about the extent of the virtual world we’re living in...
Women in Construction honor Figge Museum
Quad-City Times
The Figge Art Museum has earned the Lorraine B. Wright Distinguished Award of Excellence from the Quad-City Chapter 50 of the National Association of Women in Construction. Ceremonies were held Aug. 16 at St. Ambrose University, Davenport...
Museum exhibit explores history of Labor Day
The Monroe Evening News
Area residents searching for the true meaning of Labor Day can get a small refresher course at the Monroe County Labor History Museum starting today. The museum at 41 W. Front St. has a new exhibit focusing on the history of Labor Day...
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