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TN to establish butterfly park, insect museum

As part of tourism promotion activities, the Tamil Nadu Government will establish a butterfly park and an insect museum at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at suburban Vandalur.

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

Great Park Board Adopts Outdoor Performing Arts and Cultural Event Series

IRVINE, Calif., April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Orange County Great Park Corporation Board today approved the themes and programs for the Great Park Summer 2008, an outdoor performing arts and cultural event series that will kick-off the opening of the 27.5-acre Great Park Preview Park. The first community event, "Festival of Flight," debuts the summer programs beginning July 12, 2008. The event will mark the Great Park's third anniversary with special exhibits, activities and performances. A series of programs will take place between July and October and will include night flights on the Great Park Balloon, musical and dance performances, a homecoming for El Toro Oral History Interviewees and special events for children and teens.

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

New Kids' Museum Sets Grand Opening for October

The Please Touch Museum, currently occupying 11,000 square feet at 210 N. 21st St., will make its debut at its new location on October 18, officials of the Philadelphia arts facility just announced. The museum's new 38,000-square-foot digs will be in Fairmount Park at historic Memorial Hall, which is being converted at a cost of $88 million. Developed in 1876 as the Fine Arts Gallery for the city's Centennial Exhibition, the architecturally significant structure come full circle; since 1876, it has been the address of the original Philadelphia Museum of Art, a community recreation center, the office of the Fairmount Park Commission, and the Philadelphia Police Department's Accident Investigation Unit. Construction activity will add a 9,000-square-foot space to the property to serve as exhibition space for the celebrated 84-year-old Dentze

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. (Business Wire) -- 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.

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.

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