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Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

Museums: Akron Art Museum Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art BMW Welt Boston Children’s Museum Expansion and Renovation The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art New Museum of Contemporary Art Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Phoenix Art Museum Expansion 2007 Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art Prado Museum Seattle Art Museum Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

Museums: Akron Art Museum Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art BMW Welt Boston Children’s Museum Expansion and Renovation The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art New Museum of Contemporary Art Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Phoenix Art Museum Expansion 2007 Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art Prado Museum Seattle Art Museum Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Prado Museum Expansion

Museums: Akron Art Museum Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art BMW Welt Boston Children’s Museum Expansion and Renovation The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art New Museum of Contemporary Art Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Phoenix Art Museum Expansion 2007 Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art Prado Museum Seattle Art Museum Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

New Museum of Contemporary Art

Museums: Akron Art Museum Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art BMW Welt Boston Children’s Museum Expansion and Renovation The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art New Museum of Contemporary Art Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Phoenix Art Museum Expansion 2007 Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art Prado Museum Seattle Art Museum Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum

Museums: Akron Art Museum Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art BMW Welt Boston Children’s Museum Expansion and Renovation The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art New Museum of Contemporary Art Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Phoenix Art Museum Expansion 2007 Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art Prado Museum Seattle Art Museum Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Phoenix Art Museum Expansion

Museums: Akron Art Museum Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art BMW Welt Boston Children’s Museum Expansion and Renovation The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art New Museum of Contemporary Art Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Phoenix Art Museum Expansion 2007 Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art Prado Museum Seattle Art Museum Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing

Museums: Akron Art Museum Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art BMW Welt Boston Children’s Museum Expansion and Renovation The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art New Museum of Contemporary Art Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Phoenix Art Museum Expansion 2007 Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art Prado Museum Seattle Art Museum Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Akron Art Museum

Museums: Akron Art Museum Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art BMW Welt Boston Children’s Museum Expansion and Renovation The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art New Museum of Contemporary Art Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Phoenix Art Museum Expansion 2007 Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art Prado Museum Seattle Art Museum Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Museums: Akron Art Museum Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art BMW Welt Boston Children’s Museum Expansion and Renovation The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art New Museum of Contemporary Art Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Phoenix Art Museum Expansion 2007 Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art Prado Museum Seattle Art Museum Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Museums: Akron Art Museum Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art BMW Welt Boston Children’s Museum Expansion and Renovation The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art New Museum of Contemporary Art Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Phoenix Art Museum Expansion 2007 Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art Prado Museum Seattle Art Museum Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

Dior museum celebrates dandies

Weekend fashion special: the Dior family home, now a museum, on France's Normandy coast at Granville , this week opened an exhibition celebrating dandyism in all its manifestations.

Dior museum celebrates dandies

Legendary dandy Oscar Wilde once declared "One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art," a sentiment endorsed by designer Christian Dior, who acknowledged dandyism as a significant influence on his fashion.

Royal Ontario Museum to give away 1,200 free tickets monthly

Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum is giving away $1.3-million in free tickets to people who might not otherwise be able to afford admission. A new program, announced on Sunday by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, will distribute 1,200 free tickets every month to at-risk youth, seniors on fixed incomes, aboriginal people, abused women and physically or mentally disabled people. The program also provides family passes to new Canadians and gives post-secondary students free admission to the museum on Tuesdays. The Royal Ontario Museum's Community Access Network, or ROM CAN, is supported by United Way Toronto and the Institute for Canadian Citizenship. "The ROM strongly supports the principle of Museum access for everyone," said museum CEO and director William Thorsell, pictured, in a statement.

- Re-branding at Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum

The Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum will be re-named The Natural History Museum at Tring, completing the next step in the development of the Natural History Museum’s overall brand. In addition to the new name, the museum has also undergone a facelift to bring all signage and branding in line with the wider brand identity, whilst still acknowledging the museum’s history. Admission is free.

The international language of art Director of Toronto's Bata Shoe Museum discusses relevance of organization

The Bata Shoe Museum experience arrives in Florence. Emanuele Lepri, who hails from Florence, is the Director of the Toronto Bata Shoe Museum, and he recently spoke to cultural experts and workers of the Region of Tuscany at a conference in Florence called “Il Museo multiculturale. L’esperienza del Bata Shoe Museum (“A Multicultural Museum. The Bata Shoe Museum Experience.”

Los Angeles Premier Museum, The Worlds Famous Artistic Collection

The museums are some of the most valued and memorable parts of the vacation experience. There is, however, one museum that rises above the rest. It is the museum that other museums strive to be, the star of the museum front. It is only appropriate that the star of all museums would be located within the city of the stars, Los Angeles California. The museum itself is the J. Paul Getty Museum. http://juble.com/

JAARS Museum of the Alphabet Contributes to the National Museum of the Language Opening

WAXHAW, N.C. - The National Museum of Language will open its doors tomorrow in College Park, Maryland and visitors will see displays from Waxhaw, N.C.’s Museum of the Alphabet. Dr. Amelia Murdoch, president of the National Museum of Language (N

Autry Gained Control of the Southwest Museum Using A Misleading Merger Balance Sheet, Concludes Study Released by the Friends of the Southwest Museum

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A study released today by the Friends of the Southwest Museum Coalition concludes that in Merger Agreement documents signed on behalf of the Autry Western Heritage Museum in March 2003, Jackie Autry, the widow of singing cowboy Gene Autry, and other officers gave a misleading balance sheet to the Board of the Southwest Museum that showed the Autry had 'current assets' exceeding $100 million when in reality the Autry had a $98 million Pledge to contribute, payable upon the death of Mrs. Autry.

Autry Gained Control of the Southwest Museum Using A Misleading Merger Balance Sheet, Concludes Study Released by the Friends of the Southwest Museum Coalition

LOS ANGELES (Business Wire) -- A study released today by the Friends of the Southwest Museum Coalition concludes that in Merger Agreement documents signed on behalf of the Autry Western Heritage Museum in March 2003, Jackie Autry, the widow of singing cowboy Gene Autry, and other officers gave a misleading balance sheet to the Board of the Southwest Museum that showed the Autry had "current assets" exceeding $100 million when in reality the Autry had a $98 million Pledge to contribute, payable upon the death of Mrs. Autry.

Museum War: Greece Wants Marbles Back

The 2,500-year-old Caryatid statues are displayed in the New Acropolis Museum in Athens on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. The second statue from the left is a copy of an original held in the British Museum, London. Next week, officials expect to complete a three-month operation to transfer more than 300 sculptures from an old museum on the Acropolis, some 400 meters away. The new glass and concrete Acropolis museum, designed by architect Bernard Tschumi and built at a cost of euros 129 million (US$189 million), is expected to open by the end of this year (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)

Museum admits real-life Indiana Jones handed over a dud 'relic' 130 years ago

As Indiana Jones gets set to hit cinema screens with a new death-defying adventure in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a Paris museum acknowledged yesterday its star exhibit crystal skull was not what it was cracked up to be. One of only a dozen such skulls known to exist worldwide, the Quai Branly museum's piece was acquired in 1878 from an Indiana Jones-type explorer, Alphonse Pinart, as an Aztec masterpiece believed to be hundreds of years old. Yesterday the museum admitted it was probably made in the 19th century. Over the past decade experts had voiced growing doubts over the Aztec origin of the crystal skulls, one of which is in the British Museum, another at Washington's Smithsonian Institute. Fashioned in clear quartz crystal and 11 centimetres high, the Paris skull is marked by grooves and perforations that "reveal the use of je

Stolen treasures returned to Iraq's museum

A museum employee carries a recovered artifact to be displayed at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad April 27, 2008. More than 700 artifacts that were stolen during the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime were turned over by the Syrian authorities to the museum, a museum official said. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

The Tech Museum Awards Honors Muhammad Yunus With 2008 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tech Museum Awards, a signature program of The Tech Museum of Innovation (The Tech), today announced that Professor Muhammad Yunus, pioneer of microcredit and founder of Grameen Bank, is the recipient of the 2008 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award, sponsored by Applied Materials NASDAQ: AMAT. Yunus will accept this distinguished honor during the annual Tech Museum Awards Gala on November 12, where he and 25 innovators from around the world will be celebrated for applying technology to solve the most urgent issues facing humanity. The Tech Museum Awards program is presented by Applied Materials, whose Chairman, Jim Morgan, was the inspiration for the prestigious Global Humanitarian Award.

Media Alert: Field Museum Sends a ''Global Warning''

(Business Wire)-- The Field Museum: -0- *T What: A leading institution in scientific research and conservation, The Field Museum invites the public to A Global Warning: Understanding Climate Change, presented by The Gary C. Comer Family. The free symposium will feature a keynote address on climate change policy by Senator Tim Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund. A round table discussion moderated by WGN radio personality John Williams will follow. Panelists include Senator Wirth; Dr. Ray Pierrehumbert, Louis Block Professor in Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago; and Dr. Doug Stotz, Conservation Ecologist, Environmental and Conservation Programs, The Field Museum. Following the symposium, attendees will be invited to view The Field Museum's new contemporary art exhibition Melting Ice / A Hot Topic:

Harley-Davidson(R) Museum Rolls out Invitation to Adventure

Harley-Davidson is inviting people worldwide to become a part of the Harley-Davidson Museum family through its new Membership program. Opening its doors in July 2008, the Harley-Davidson Museum is offering several membership levels, and those who join the Museum by June 1, 2008 will be invited to a pre-grand opening preview of the Museum, subject to capacity. All who have signed up in 2008 will forever be known as "Founding Members."

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