Museum Articles, Blogs & Headlines — March 2008
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China opens more museums to public free of charge
People's Daily
Thirty-three Museums in Beijing, 20 museums in the northwestern Gansu Province and nine museums in the southern Guangdong Province started to open to visitors for free on Friday. Earlier, some museums...
Local museums could be victims of state budget crunch
Northwest Florida Daily News
Local museums could be among the victims of what Florida legislators are calling the “worst budget situation in 32 years.” An e-mail went out mid-week urging museum supporters to petition lawmakers to preserve cultural and historical grants that are in danger of not being funded. “If you value local museums and preserving our local history, we need your help,” ...
Museums exhibit high-tech appeal
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Paintings and sculptures long stored away are finding a new audience as museums strive for mass appeal with high-tech Web sites packed with video, podcasts and interactive elements...
Mesa cashing in on museums' success
East Valley Tribune
Mesa’s two museums have earned far above what they expected this year, and plan to have a large enough surplus next year to return more than $60,000 to city coffers...
Nova Scotia government increases funding to 67 community museums
Times & Transcript
Community museums across Nova Scotia are getting an additional $670,000 in funding from the province...
National Gallery's New Chief Talks Straight About Museums
Arts Journal
Nicholas Penny: "The increasing importance of exhibitions within museums and galleries is beginning to change the fundamental purpose of those institutions. Even if I were against all temporary exhibitions, which I'm certainly not, it's now a question of to what extent you control it...
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Nazi records given to Holocaust museums
AP via Yahoo! News
Digital copies bearing the names of some 3.5 million people displaced after World War II have been provided to Holocaust memorial groups and museums in the United States, Israel and Poland by a recently opened archive of Nazi-era documents...
A New Breed of Car Museum Comes to Europe
TheStreet.com
Daimler Benz and BMW have opened hip, exciting, new museums dedicated to the automobile...
Top administrator for museum body
Gulf Times
Staff Reporter ROGER Mandle, a renowned arts educator and museum administrator, is to join the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) as its executive director, a source quoting the QMA board of trustees said...
Day of the remains
The Australian
Demands for repatriation of human remains have forced museums to confront skeletons in the closet...
Mummy mystery in Alberta
CNews
The unearthing of a mystery animal mummy on an eastern Alberta farm has sparked the interest of one of the province's top museums...
In Pictures: Artful Innovators
Forbes
Innovating at the boundaries: What happens when artists enter the research lab...
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Sports, music halls fare better with Senate
Macon Telegraph
Just days after a House bill proposed to cut in half the state funding to the Georgia music and sports halls of fame, the Georgia Senate's budget-writing committee Thursday recommended more modest cuts to the Macon museums' budgets...
N.Y. museum dedicated to the dirty work
The Philadelphia Inquirer
NEW YORK - The soon-to-be-unveiled museum devoted to the sanitation workers of New York - do not call them garbagemen - will prompt smart alecks to wonder: Are they just cranking out museums for anybody these days? When do meter maids get a turn? Hey, how about a wing of the Smithsonian for those dudes who wave in jets at the airport...
Debate over Budapest museum overshadowed by terrorist threat
JTA
The courtyard of Budapest´s new Holocaust Memorial Center. Security is being stepped up for the opening of Budapest’s new Holocaust museum after the discovery of a terrorist plot apparently intended to blow it up...
Navy Destroyer Could Call NLR Museum Home
KARK Little Rock
Reported by: S. Burnette. KARK 4 News The Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum in North Little Rock is a step closer to acquiring an old Navy destroyer ship...
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Dillinger museum reopens Friday
The Times of Northwest Indiana
HAMMOND | As if on cue with the recent filming of Public Enemies in the region, the John Dillinger Museum near the Lake County Convention and Visitors Bureau in Hammond reopened Friday after the resolution of a seven-year lawsuit...
Museum says data of patrons was public
Boston Globe
The Museum of Science has notified 140 patrons that their names, credit card numbers, and other personal information were exposed on the museum's website because of a contractor's error, but officials said there has been no evidence of fraud or identity theft...
Sierra Leone: Museum Workers On Strike
AllAfrica.com
Workers of the Sierra Leone Museum have gone on strike. The workers accuse authorities of withholding eleven months backlog salaries...
Museum tackles diseases, climate change and much more
The Salt Lake Tribune
WASHINGTON - For those who find the vast array of high-tech hardware that fills the National Air and Space Museum overwhelming - not to mention the constant hordes that fill the cavernous expanse - a more serene and equally informative scientific experience is available less than a mile away at the largely undiscovered Marian Koshland Science Museum...
Port Authority OKs pact for running museum ship
The Toledo Blade
The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority yesterday approved an agreement with the city of Toledo and Boyer/Riverfront Inc. for management of the Willis B. Boyer museum ship...
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Pakistan to figure in Cold War museum
The Pakistan Link
WASHINGTON: Gary Powers Junior, son of the U-2 pilot who took off from Peshawar in 1960 on a spying mission and was shot down over the Soviet Union, is setting up a Cold War museum in the Northern Virginia town of Lorton...
Darryl Starbirds National Rod & Custom Car Hall of Fame Museum
Grove Sun Daily
The Hall of Fame Museum opened it doors for the 14th season on March 5th. The feature car this year will be the “Voodoo Spider” built by Elden Titus. It is a completely hand built all metal car...
Fort Benning soldiers immortalized in plaster for museum
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Designers and sculptors from StudioEIS in Brooklyn, New York are casting 40 life-size figures at the Columbus Airport Hotel this week as part of a series of displays at the new National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center at Patriot Park...
Region's $22.7 M history museum will embrace crossroads theme
Kitchener/Waterloo Record
WATERLOO REGION (Mar 28, 2008) -- The spot where Waterloo Region's settlement road converges with the old rail line will be home to a $22.7-million regional museum...
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A grateful museum says goodbye to a treasured director
Fernandina Beach News-Leader
The Nassau County Commission named March 25 as Carmen Godwin Day. For the many volunteers at the Amelia Museum of History and a grateful community, every day for the last six years has been Carmen Godwin Day...
Museum plans to be unveiled at hearings
The Arizona Republic
Plans for a $60 million Scottsdale Museum of the West will face public scrutiny for the first time early next month with a pair of meetings...
Last doughboy to attend Memorial Day ceremonies at WWI museum in KC
The Kansas City Star
The last doughboy has accepted an invitation to attend Memorial Day ceremonies at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial...
Museum's 'Cupid' once belonged to Hitler
UPI
Research has revealed that the Renaissance painting "Cupid Complaining to Venus" at Britain's National Gallery once belonged to Adolf Hitler, officials said...
Ex-Navy shipping magnate donates £20million to National Maritime Museum
Daily Mail
An Israeli billionaire who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War has given £20million to the National Maritime Museum. The donation by Sammy Ofer, 86, is thought to be the biggest single gift by any individual to a British cultural institution...
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Currier Museum holds grand reopening March 30
Bedford Journal
MANCHESTER — The long awaited reopening of the Currier Museum of Art will take place on Sunday, March 30, after almost two years of expansion, the grand reopening day will begin at 11 a.m. with a ribbon cutting presided over by Gov. John Lynch, Dr. Susan Lynch and Mayor Frank Guinta, and will include music, art-making and other activities all day...
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