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Museum: An open window to Baldwin Park's past
Patch.com
The local museum offers a trip back in time but few residents are taking it. By Carlos Aviles Pedro Rodriguez walks by the Baldwin Park Historical Museum. "I think more people should come here and know about this" / Don Pedro Rodríguez camina frente [more]
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Navigate the Louvre with the 3DS
Escapist Magazine - Durham,NC,USA
For the one of the world's most famous art museums, audio guides are out and 3D handhelds are in. Anyone who's ever been to the Louvre can tell you that it is a massive museum. Trying to see everything in one day is futile; trying to actually ... [more]
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Funding boost for Museum
Brockville Recorder and Times
By STEVE PETTIBONE THE RECORDER AND TIMES With a fresh operating grant in hand and an ambitious archival project underway, there is a flurry of activity at the Brockville Museum as 2011 winds down. On Thursday, Leeds-Grenville MPP Steve Clark present [more]
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Rights museum left in lurch
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
The sweeping front entrance of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights at The Forks is a work in progress. OTTAWA -- The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is now without a board chairman as the institution grapples not only with cost overruns but also .. [more]
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Glazer Children's Museum's "Let it Snow"
ABC Action News - Tampa,FL,USA
The Glazer Children's Museum is hsoting a "Let it Snow" weekend with many different frosty releated activities. Al Najjar, President of The Glazer Children's Museum stopped by our studios to demonstrate making snow treats with liquid nitrogen. ... [more]
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Colleges, museum, companies rush to buy .xxx domains
Pakistan Dawn - Karachi,Pakistan
SAN FRANSISCO: Colleges, museums and well-known groups have rushed to grab online addresses in the .xxx domain to prevent porn purveyors from using their names in the internet's new red light district. Public sales of .xxx addresses began last week [more]
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Make Newark Museum's Holiday Programs Your Family Tradition
Patch.com
By Carol Selman The Newark Museum's Ballantine House parlor is decorated and set for a Christmas Eve tea. The Christmas tree has authentic Victorian ornaments. Touring "Christmas in the Ballantine House: Feasting with Family and Friends," is part of [more]
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At the museums
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
A good way to accomplish this is to head to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, Steuben County, which is showing an exhibit of more than 90 dollhouses and other miniatures. These include tiny ships, trains, planes and military figures. ... [more]
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Museum of Aviation Honors Tuskegee Airmen
13wmaz - GA,USA
People came out to the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins on Friday for a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating their new Tuskegee Airman exhibit. Leroy Eley was a member of the trailblazing group. He says he wished the new exhibit came sooner. ... [more]
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West Deptford students hold wax museum
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA
On Friday, they displayed what they had learned in a special wax museum presentation. They didn't realize that Santa Claus isn't the same everywhere, Maska said. There's more than just what we do in the United States. ... [more]
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11 hours ago.
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Children's museum breaks ground in Isabella County
Midland Daily News - Midland,MI,USA
By Lisa Satayut A groundbreaking ceremony for the soon-to-be Mt. Pleasant Discovery Museum attracted a large crowd Friday morning at the Remus Road location adjacent to the Morey Courts and the ICE Arena. "This is a byproduct of multiple lives ... [more]
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Scrapbook memories find home in space museum
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA
He recently donated them to the US Space Walk of Fame Museum in Titusville. By Craig Bailey and Tim Walters Posted Dec. 17, 2011 Robert Bergman of Madison, Wisc., looks at one of the scrapbooks he made covering the entire space shuttle program. ... [more]
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Johnston's Jottings: Basehor Museum highlights area's rich history
Leavenworth Times - Leavenworth,KS,USA
The Baeshor Museum is charming. It uses the theme of The Wizard of Oz to take visitors through the various exhibits. There is even a room where visitors step up on a porch where they see Dorothy and Toto cowering as the winds blow fiercely. ... [more]
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Google teams up with Science Museum for new exhibitions
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
Google is supporting two exhibitions exploring the history of computing at the Science Museum in London. By Hugh Langley The exhibitions, funded by Google, will open to the public over the next three years with a view to stimulating interest in ... [more]
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Crystal Bridges Museum puts Arkansas on the map
Today's THV - Little Rock,AR,USA
LITTLE ROCK (KTHV) - The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is putting Arkansas on the map. It's been a little more than a month since the grand opening in Bentonville and state tourism leaders say the crowds continue to come from all over. ... [more]
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Longtime Cleveland Museum of Art Board Member Michael Horvitz steps down
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
Plain Dealer By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer View full sizeJohn Kuntz, The Plain DealerMichael Horvitz at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2009. Horvitz has helped lead the museum for 20 years and has donated more than $5 million to its $350 million e [more]
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Dennita Sewell: Museum curator gives Phoenix international fashion cred
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
As Phoenix Art Museum's fashion curator, Sewell has drawn Vogue editors and Women's Wear Daily and Vanity Fair writers to take note of the Valley - once known more for designer Stetsons than haute couture. This spring, she created a buzz with "Fashio [more]
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New museum introduces patrons to Clyfford Still
Our Colorado News
Precisely designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture to display the dramatic works of abstract impressionist Clyfford Still, Denver's new museum that bears Still's name opened in November. The museum is nestled against the Denver Art ... [more]
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Pizarro: San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum drawing on South Bay fan base
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
By Sal Pizarro The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco is making its first foray into the South Bay with a fundraising event Sunday, but it's not entirely unfamiliar with the area. Four South Bay residents have longtime connections to the museum sinc [more]
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Canadian War Museum, caterer owed money by Hoedown organizers
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
By Tony Lofaro December 16, 2011 9:06 PM The Canadian War Museum and a national food catering company have joined a list of suppliers owed money by Concert International Inc., organizers of Capital Hoedown, the country music festival scheduled to tak [more]
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Honolulu Museum of Art name change to cost $50k
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The Honolulu Museum of Art estimates it will cost approximately $50000 to order new signage, brochures, and other museum materials. The transition from the Honolulu Academy of Arts to the new name was announced on Dec. 7 after a nearly unanimous vote [more]
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Hoboken Historical Museum to hold crafts fair, end auction this weekend
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA
The Hoboken Historical Museum plans a Holiday Craft Fair tomorrow and Sunday. The fair will feature gifts made by local artsans, including jewelry, knitware, cards and prints as well as pottery. The craft fair runs from noon to 5 pm, at the museum at [more]
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F.I.T. Museum's Exhibition Not 'Great' Anymore, in Name at Least
New York Magazine - New York,NY,USA
By Alex Rees The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology opened a new exhibition last month showcasing design highlights from their extensive fashion/costume archive. Curated alphabetically, the exhibit presented looks from 50 designers working [more]
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Downtown Museums Have a Range of Shows Open Over the Holidays
LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA
A trio of T. rex specimens is the highlight of the Natural History Museum's 14000-square-foot Dinosaur Hall. The NHM is one of the many museums open during the holidays. DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - The holidays can be a stressful time, what with worries . [more]
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Atlanta's High Museum and the Louvre Enter New Collaboration
GlobalAtlanta
The High Museum of Art and the musée du Louvre have agreed to collaborate on a four-year project devoted to producing programming and annual installations of American and European art. The last collaboration between the two museums took place from .. [more]
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Friday, December 16
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New York Times (blog) By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER A miniature handwritten magazine created by Charlotte Brontë when she was 14 years old was sold to a Paris museum for nearly £700000, or $1.1 million, at an auction at Sotheby's in London on Thursday. ... [more]
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Friday, December 16
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Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?
Not unlike the sudden thunderstorms that rumbled across the city this week, something initially seemed wonderfully random about Jason Moran's solo show at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater Thursday night. In a one-off West Coast appearance as [more]
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Friday, December 16
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Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
Sheldon Steele was recently named executive director of the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, which is a museum for antique cars. About the Who's what, where Your guide to personnel changes in Massachusets. Does your company have a new hire wor [more]
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Friday, December 16
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Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Half the proceeds would go into an art acquisition fund for nonprofit museums. A man looks at 'L'Aubade' by Pablo Picasso on display at Sotheby's during a preview of their Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York, October 28, 2011. ... [more]
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Friday, December 16
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American ...
Part of the credit for that can go to holders of huge art-image databases like the J. Paul Getty Museum, which provided Google several months ago with access to several hundred images from its collection, becoming the first museum to do so. ... [more]
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Friday, December 16
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Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
New York Midway through the Museum of Modern Art's enormous Willem de Kooning exhibition, the curator's effort at sobriety, balance and perspective breaks down. Lined up on one wall, side by side, like a platoon of drunken and painted harlots, ... [more]
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Friday, December 16
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UC Davis (press release) - Davis,CA,USA
The University of California, Davis, has received a $10 million gift to name a new art museum that will serve as a teaching and cultural resource for the region and provide opportunities to share the university's artistic legacy, enhance its fine art [more]
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Friday, December 16
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BBC Sport - UK
The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry has welcomed its millionth visitor since reopening just over three years ago. Amelia Mansell, from Stratford upon Avon, received a gift voucher for the museum shop, a family membership and a framed copy of [more]
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Friday, December 16
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YNN Austin
Thursday, the National Mounted Warfare Foundation announced plans to build a museum outside the gates of Fort Hood. According to plans, the museum will be between 85000 and 100000 square feet in size. The space will allow the consolidation of the ... [more]
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Friday, December 16
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Christian Science Monitor - USA
Israel's parliament appears likely to pass a law funding Israeli museums in the West Bank the latest settler effort to promote a creeping annexation of the disputed territory. By Ben Lynfield, Correspondent / December 16, 2011 As Rachel Slonim show [more]
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