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$10 million renovation for Fort Lewis museum
Fort Lewis :: WA :: USA | 29 minutes ago
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Norman Schwarzkopf drove when he was Fort Lewis' top officer or any of the other thousands of relics on display at the Fort Lewis Military Museum, you're going to have to wait a while. Wash. — If you've always wanted to check out the huge metal head and...
Tags: Fort Lewis Military Museum, Camp Lewis, million renovation, Myles Grant, Iraq, Fort Lewis, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., Fort Lewis Museum, Museum, Saddam Hussein, Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
History in the making: British Museum objects to tell tale of humankind
London :: United Kingdom | about 4 hours ago
Credibility The British Museum and the BBC today announced what they called an unprecedented partnership for a project that cannot be said to lack ambition: they want to help to construct a history of the world using objects collected from 2 million years of human...
Tags: BBC BBC Radio, United Kingdom, London, Neil MacGregor, Mark Damazer, A History of the World in 100 Objects, BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour, Museology, British Museum, BBC, Sutton Hoo, Museum, BBC Radio, Grade I listed buildings in London, Entertainment Culture
Architecture Review: Matching Architecture to the Art in a New Miami Museum
Basel :: Switzerland | 1 day ago
Credibility One institution after another has embarked on vast new building projects over the last decade, and in nearly every case the museum and its architects struggled to figure out the right balance between architectural expression and the need to showcase art.
Tags: Miami Art Museum, New Miami, art museums, art world, Switzerland, Basel, Walker Art Center, Schaulager, Museum, Herzog & de Meuron, Art museum, Tate Modern, Hospitality Recreation
Museo Alameda in financial straits
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility As the Museo Alameda prepared to mount the highest-profile exhibit in its brief history this summer, behind the scenes museum officials were struggling to keep the doors open...More than $200,000 in donations pledged to the museum hadn't been received.
Tags: Museo Alameda, Guillermo Nicolas, Margarita Flores, Henry Muñoz III, market square, Julián Castro, San Antonio, Alameda California, Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Saturday Read: Loot, by Sharon Waxman
Greece :: NY :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility The subheading of Loot, by Sharon Waxman, is “The battle over the stolen treasures of the ancient world,” which gives you a pretty good idea of the content. For any of you who have visited big museums such as the Met in New York or The British Museum,...
Tags: Greece, Museology, Museum, Sharon Waxman, War Conflict, Hospitality Recreation
Brit Billy Bragg sings for Ottawa workers
Although he didn't know the words to "Solidarity Forever" British folk singer Billy Bragg sang labour songs for the striking workers outside Ottawa's National museum today. Undeterred by a driving rain, the bumbershoot -bearing Bragg belted out some...
Tags: labour, strike, folk, Billy Bragg, Ottawa, museum, PSAC, songs, solidarity, billie bragg, causes, Canada, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, War, Neil Young, Labor, Bragg, Public Service Alliance of Canada, Brit Billy Bragg
Free museum entry for Aucklanders (Newstalk ZB)
Auckland :: New Zealand | 5 days ago
Credibility Aucklanders will be able to visit the Auckland Museum for free starting December 4. In exchange, the voluntary admission fee will be doubled to 10 dollars for people from outside the region. Museum director Dr Vanda Vitali says the free entry will encourage...
Tags: New Zealand, Auckland, Hospitality Recreation, Fee, Museum
Museums: Nov. 19
Nassau :: Bahamas | 6 days ago
Credibility 402 Pine Ave., Anna Maria The Anna Maria Historical Museum, built in 1920 as an icehouse, features displays of life on a barrier island from 1890 to 1950. Visit the famous old island jail, “no doors, no windows, no roof, no bars” and tour Belle Haven...
Tags: Family Heritage House Museum, PETERSBURG Florida, South Florida Museum, anna maria, br labelbw, Florida Holocaust Museum, Bahamas, Nassau, Bradenton Florida, Sarasota Florida, Anna Maria Island, Museum, Planetaria, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Sweden returns Maori remains to New Zealand
Stockholm :: Sweden | 7 days ago
Credibility Swedish museum officials returned the remains of five indigenous Maori people to New Zealand on Wednesday as part of a broader move in Europe to repatriate remains taken from burial grounds. Museum officials said they handed over three skeleton parts,...
Tags: Maori, New Zealand, Sweden, Stockholm, National museum, Museum, Gothenburg, Mￄﾁori, Repatriation, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Clubs, Mￄﾁori culture, Wellington Region
Dallas Museum of Nature & Science to break ground on Victory Park site today
Dallas :: TX :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility The Dallas Morning News aselk@dallasnews.com The bird diorama doubles as a minerals gallery – the eagles curtained off, meteorites hauled out in their place. The collections manager shares office space in the basement with a coyote skeleton, three gigantic...
Tags: Small, victory park, breaks ground, dallas museums, Dallas, Dinosaur, Perot Museum of Nature & Science, Alamosaurus, Museum
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