Museum Articles, Blogs & Headlines: July 2008
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Historic home museums run low of cash / Even keeping the lights on is a challenge
San Francisco Chronicle
Mark Twain, Edith Wharton and other boldfaced names among the dead have something in common with living Americans in these hard financial times: Their homes are in jeopardy. For scores of historic house museums, simply keeping the lights on has become a...
Skin tight: Human body exhibits grow in popularity
FOX 16 Little Rock
Exhibits featuring human cadavers have become "staggeringly popular," though viewers in some museums have no assurance that the perfectly preserved bodies once belonged to people who willingly agreed to one...
Aborigine remains return home
ic Lanarkshire
An Aboriginal "smoking ceremony" has marked the end of a decade-long campaign for the return of human remains from a Scottish museum collection. National Museums Scotland (NMS) handed over six Aboriginal skulls, while the University of Edinburgh returned a fragment of bone from a woman's ear.
China's Legacy: Let a Million Museums Bloom
New York Times
Most art is an unsettled category in China and museums have complicated uses...
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
Arts Journal
San Francisco Chronicle critic Kenneth Baker absotively tees off on Dale Chihuly and John Buchanan, the director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco...
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A czars collection comes to Oshkosh museum
The Oshkosh Northwestern
Behind the closed doors of the Oshkosh Public Museum await the treasures of a czar. Starting last Sunday, five representatives of major Russian museums have been setting up 150 artifacts from the reign of Czar Alexander II for the museums The Czar and the President exhibit that opens Saturday. Its been amazing, said Nadezda Zubanova, a curator from the State Historical Museum of Russia, through ...
New Issues in the Communication of Museums Debated During Two Days in Venice
Art Daily
The theme this year was Communications Strategies: How to make an impact. VENICE...
Taxidermy To Keep Rare Animals ‘Alive’
BruDirect.com
Bandar Seri Begawan - A taxidermy demonstration to restore rare animals for display or research was yesterday held at the Seria Oil and Gas Discovery Centre as part of a five-day roadshow aimed at creating awareness on the Brunei Museums Department Acts...
Bequest of 18 masterpieces unveiled
Guardian Unlimited
Arts & entertainment: £100m gift to the public includes work by Monet, Degas, Freud and Gainsborough...
Kung fu legend Bruce Lee's home to be a museum
IANS via Yahoo! India News
The billionaire owner of the Hong Kong home, where kung fu legend Bruce Lee spent his last years, confirmed Monday that he would give the building to be turned into a museum...
Wax Hitler to return to museum after head repairs
Reuters via Yahoo! News
A waxwork of Adolf Hitler will return to Berlin's new Madame Tussauds as soon as experts have restored the head ripped off by a demonstrator on its opening day, the museum said on Monday...
Land for museum will come at healthy price
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The proposed National Health Museum has a couple of basic ground rules as it searches for a home in downtown Atlanta. It wants to be close to Centennial Olympic Park, and it needs a footprint of at least 50,000 square feet, a little more than an acre. Several sites where there's now parking along Centennial Olympic Park Drive fit the bill. They're all a short walk from the American Cancer ...
Game over: struggling UK basketball museum closes
KOB-TV Albuquerque
(AP) LEXINGTON, Ky. - The University of Kentucky Basketball Museum has shut its doors due to falling attendance and financial problems. The museum, located in the Lexington Center near the entrance to Rupp Arena, has struggled to find an audience since opening in 1999...
AF museum gets copter used in Vietnam, Iraq
Dayton Daily News
A combat helicopter that was used on a 1970 mission to rescue American prisoners of war in North Vietnam and made its final combat flight this year in Iraq is now on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force...
Carcar opens museum in first year as city
Sun Star
THE unveiling of Carcar museum is the most fitting way to celebrate the city's first charter day anniversary, Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, the occasion's honored guest, said...
Museum to break ground
Mississippi Business Journal
JACKSON — Mississippi Children's Museum (MCM) plans to hold a groundbreaking ceremony August 8 with the museum opening in early 2010 at LeFleur's Bluff State Park. More than $18.5 million has been committed to the museum's capital campaign for the 40,000-square-foot...
Supporters Save National WWI Museum Eternal Flame for Another Year
Centre Daily Times
The eternal flame at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial will no longer be extinguished after July 4, thanks to an individual and business grassroots fundraising campaign. The flame that burns atop the 217-foot Liberty Memorial tower was to be extinguished due to budget cuts unless $45,000 (the annual flame operating costs) in private donations was raised. Pioneer Services, a ...
National Museum galleries reopen after revamp
icWales
FOUR new galleries of Welsh art have opened in the National Museum of Wales...
Police: Stockholm museum fire may be arson
UPI
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 6 (UPI) -- Arson may be the cause of a fire that broke out in the Biological Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, police say...
British double-decker museum seeks to move from Coombs
Nanaimo Daily News
A rare collection of British buses stored in Coombs needs a new home. Billed as the largest collection of its kind in the world, the 16 vintage, double-decker buses hailing from England have entertained visitors during the six years they've been featured in Coombs as The Old Doubledecker Museum...
British Museum Staff Strike
Arts Journal
British Museum staff are striking for four hours over what they say is a "totally inadequate" pay rise...
Shaker headstones to be moved from prison to museum
Journal Inquirer
ENFIELD — No longer will three Shaker headstones serve as part of a walkway at Carl Robinson Correctional Institution, officials say. The grave markers, remnants of the only Shaker community in Connecticut, soon will find themselves relocated to the Martha A. Parsons House Museum...
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