Museum Articles, Blogs & Headlines — January 2008
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France experiments with free admission to museums
ABS-CBNNEWS.com
PARIS - French national museums including the Louvre in Paris will let in many visitors free in the coming months, in an experiment intended to open up high culture to a wider public...
Cultural explosion? : Planned museums create potential for economic impact
NWAnews.com
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — It’s easy to get swept up in the excitement around the growing collection of artwork Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is assembling...
National Museums Liverpool Ushers in Capital of Culture Year
Art Daily
LIVERPOOL, UK.- Liverpool’s reign as Capital of Culture is finally underway and to celebrate National Museums Liverpool is offering a fantastic variety of things to see and do in this momentous year...
Waterbury woman charged in painting thefts, faces more charges
Republican-American
SOUTHBURY -- Police here have arrested the Waterbury woman accused of stealing paintings and artifacts from numerous museums, schools and churches in Greater Waterbury and Northwest Connecticut...
Boise Art Museum recognized by American Association of Museums
The Idaho Statesman
The American Association of Museums (AAM) recently awarded Boise Art Museum (BAM) a re-accreditation...
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New museums defying stereotypes
Chicago Tribune
It appears to float above a city of soldiers, looming over the sandy firing ranges and drop zones of Ft. Bragg unlike any other building in downtown Fayetteville...
Old Master paintings coming to Muscarelle
The Virginia Gazette
"Painting the Italian Landscape: Views from the Uffizi" will open at the Muscarelle Museum of Art on the College of William & Mary in January. The exhibit will feature five centuries of Old Master paintings from one of the world's greatest art museums...
Michael Goldberg, 83, Abstract Expressionist, Is Dead
New York Times
Mr. Goldberg was an abstract painter of the New York School whose vibrant works are in major museums and private collection...
From Plein Air to Avant-Garde
Princeton Packet
The Zimmerli celebrates its gift of the largest collection of Hungarian art in the U.S...
Czech museum hosts bagpipe concert
The Gazette
Czech-American bagpiper Michael Cwach and Czech violinist and folk dancer Alice Janatova brought their "Call of Dudy" tour to the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library Sunday afternoon.The duo played and sang traditional Czech folk songs, as well as giving a presentation on the history of Czech bagpipes, before a screening of "Call of Dudy: Bohemian Bagpipes Across Borders," a documentary...
Natural History Museum Can You Dig It?
Cocke County Online
NEWPORT-Make no bones about it, the ETSU and General Shale Brick Natural History Museum and Visitor Center at the Gray Fossil Site combines history and education to give visitors a unique experience...
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$48,500 portrait for Indian museum director
New York Daily News
Bad enough that the director of the National Museum of the American Indian spent $48,500 of the museum's money on a portrait of himself, but he didn't even use an Indian artist...
Bogota opens 'museum of laziness'
BBC News
A museum dedicated to laziness opens in Colombia's capital, Bogota, drawing big crowds...
Hot ticket: 'Joan Miró: Fantastic Universe,' San Jose Museum of Art
San Jose Mercury News
'Joan Miró: Fantastic Universe,' San Jose Museum of Art Now that the holidays are over, are you ready for a little me time? Then head over to the San Jose Museum of Art and lose yourself in an exhibit of approximately 60 works by Joan Miró...
Plans for Victoria museum approved
Times of Malta
Two pre-war altar canvases which previously hung at St George's Basilica will be on display at the museum. The Malta Evironment and Planning Authority has just given the green light to the construction of a museum of archaeology and Christian art in Victoria...
Americana museum welcomes new order
The Virginian-Pilot
MURFREESBORO The Brady C. Jefcoat Museum, which opened in 1997 and now boasts more than 13,000 items on display, is ringing in the New Year with two new buildings and a new director. The 85-year-old former Murfreesboro High School has housed the collection of Americana...
New leader will navigate maritime museum
The Palm Beach Post
With a strong curatorial background and a career spanning nearly 30 years, Sheila Stewart-Leach is the new captain at the helm of the Maritime and Yachting Museum of Florida in Stuart...
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Construction of Westchester Children's Museum delayed
The Journal News
RYE - Plans to complete construction of Westchester County's first children's museum in a Playland building have been pushed back to the end of 2010...
Sam Rayburn Museum receives grant to help enhance interpretation
Sherman Herald Democrat
BONHAM — The Sam Rayburn House Museum recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for consultation on how to expand and enhance current interpretation...
Museum designer seeks public's input
Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil
SIDNEY - The Fremont County Historical Society has selected a designer for a new rodeo museum, and the public is invited to meet him and share their ideas...
Director of Swope Art Museum steps down
Terre Haute Tribune Star
David Vollmer, director of the Sheldon Swope Art Museum, confirmed Saturday that he has tendered his resignation from that position in favor of one in Houston...
Bishop Ford Honored At DuSable Museum
CBS 2 Chicago
The late Bishop Louis Henry Ford already has his name attached to a Chicago area expressway. Soon, there will be an exhibit at the DuSable Museum of African American History...
Eisenhower site debuts virtual museum on the Web
The Evening Sun
When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met President Dwight Eisenhower in 1959, he presented the president with a case of Russian wines. This is just one of about 300 artifacts visitors can learn about in a virtual museum created by staff at the Eisenhower National Historic Site...
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Park Place Motors Pledges $250K to LeMay - AMERICA'S CAR MUSEUM
The Auto Channel
(Tacoma, WA) - The LeMay- America's Car Museum(r) is pleased to announce the pledge of $250,000 from The Bingham Family and Park Place Motors of Bellevue, Washington...
Family foundation donates $50,000 to veterans museum
The Oshkosh Northwestern
The John E. Kuenzl Foundation announced Friday that it has donated $50,000 to Oshkoshs Fields of Honor Military Veterans Museum...
Malta's mummified dinosaur heading to Texas museum
El Paso Times
GREAT FALLS, Mont.—A mummified dinosaur discovered on the Hi-Line is heading to the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, where it will be studied and displayed for more than a year...
Museum Center gets $1M gift
The Cincinnati Enquirer
A $1.5 million gift to Cincinnati Museum Center will bring the center’s endowment fund to more than $20 million and will provide tuition for school children in West Union to attend the science camp near the Edge of Appalachia nature preserve...
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