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Museum's annual gala to celebrate Florida's French connection
Florida Times-Union
Maggie.FitzRoy@jacksonville.com Slated for Nov. 3, the 32nd annual fundraising gala at the Beaches Museum & History Park will have a French theme in honor of the 450th anniversary of the landing of French explorer Jean Ribault. "France Meets Florida" [more]
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Art museum thanks donors
Toledo Blade
Esteemed benefactors of the Toledo Museum of Art were thanked with a grand soiree Oct. 13. The Centenary Celebration of Museum Leadership took place in the museum on Monroe Street, where it has been located since 1912, after being founded in 1901 ... [more]
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Enterprise and Nimitz-class carriers won't be museums
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA
The veterans learned in March that making a museum out of the aircraft carrier, the largest in the U.S. fleet and the first to be powered by nuclear reactors, isn't an option. More recently they they learned that a more modest effort to preserve the [more]
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Riverfront museum, Cat center welcome first visitors
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL,USA
Seven members of the Wilkinson family made the 40-mile trek from Putnam to visit the Peoria Riverfront Museum when it opened to the public for the first time Saturday morning. Papa wanted to be here the first day it opened, said Sarah Wilkinson of [more]
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Museum shows off presidential items
Topeka Capital Journal - Topeka,KS,USA
A display case in the "Hail to the Chief" exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History shows off memorabilia from the political career of President Dwight Eisenhower, who grew up in Abilene. Back | Next. John Usher and his wife wore this formal attire to [more]
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Saturday, October 20
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The Fitchburg Art Museum has its own rich history. It opened in 1927 after a gift from Eleanor Norcross, a Fitchburg native who spent most of her life in Paris working as an artist. Drawing on the support of a few families, the museum developed a sma [more]
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Saturday, October 20
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA
Archibald also has an annual $33,000 housing allowance, a museum-paid minivan and yearly retirement payments worth about $89,000 last year alone. He gets six weeks of leave each year for historical research and writing, which comes on top of four [more]
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Saturday, October 20
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Six new art museum directors stand for a group portrait. From left: Wyona Lynch-McWhite, executive director of the Fruitlands Museum; Paul Ha, director of MIT's List Visual Arts Center; Christopher Bedford, the director of the Rose Art Museum at ... [more]
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Saturday, October 20
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parties
Museum of Fine Arts Admission is free to everyone on Wednesdays after 4 p.m., and always free to children 17 and under. The MFA also offers a host of free midweek events ranging from drawing sessions to specialized gallery talks, such as The Hardang [more]
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Saturday, October 20
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Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA
A bit of fall drizzle didn't keep people from coming out for the Port Huron Museum's first Hoptoberfest fundraiser on Friday night. With seasonal brews in hand, roughly 160 adults braved the drizzle to tour the Huron Lightship, Thomas Edison Depot an [more]
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Saturday, October 20
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Fox News
In a communique from INAH, museum director Alfredo Marin Gutierrez said that the identity of these people is not known with any certainty, but one of the legends surrounding them says they were "benefactors of the convent, people who donated money to [more]
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Saturday, October 20
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MLive.com - MI,USA
MLive.com The landmark exhibition of 150 items, including the dress Princess Diana wore for her 1981 wedding to Prince Charles, by itself drew more than 97,600 visitors, helping attract over 318,000 visits and bringing the roster of museum members to [more]
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Saturday, October 20
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The Republic
DENVER Before Vincent van Gogh painted "Sunflowers" or "The Starry Night," he worked as a teacher and hoped to become a minister. After he was told he didn't have the skills to be a preacher, he turned to art. The story of how one of the most ... [more]
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Saturday, October 20
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USA Today - McLean,VA,United States
Our nation has constructed a national museum for each of our military services except the U.S. Army, America's oldest and largest service. Fourteen generations of Americans have served in the U.S. Army since 1775. Thirty million men and women have .. [more]
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Saturday, October 20
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Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
"Border Crossing," by Luis Jimenez, portrays the difficulties of attempting to cross the Rio Grande into the United States. The image was created as a tribute to his father, who illegally crossed the border with his mother. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO ... [more]
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