Museums

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• Review of a Year Museums Wont Soon Forget

  
  mediabistro.com: UnBeige — Authority: 488
  Well, as the old saying goes, if you cant beat em, join em. After reading this brief report about the Orange County Museum of Art deciding to postpone a Richard Diebenkorn exhibit for the second time this year , due to its not being able to handle the many hundreds of thousands of dollars it would cost to put it ...
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• Silents on the National Film Registry

  
  The Bioscope — Authority: 120
  The Great Train Robbery (1903), as featured in Precious Images (1986), one of the twenty-five films added to the National Film Registry As is traditional at this time of year, the announcement has been made of twenty-five further films being added to the National Film Registry . Each year the Librarian of Congress ...
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• German Scientists Developed New Sensors to Protect Valuable Paintings in Transit

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 571
  A lot of care and proper planning is involved when valuable paintings are shipped or loaned to museums via long distances. Despite the utmost care, the safety for the paintings is often endangered as adhesives and other chemicals within the crates sometimes break down. This causes fumes, which lead to damaging the ...
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• 1/7/10: Aquarium of the Bay: Free Admission to SF Residents | Pier 39

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 496
  Celebrating its recent transition to nonprofit status, Aquarium of the Bay is kicking off the New Year by hosting free days for San Francisco residents, January 4-7, 2010. San Francisco residents who show valid identification will have the $15.95 admission fee waved be granted access to the Aquarium and introduced to ...
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• 1/4/10: Aquarium of the Bay: Free Admission to SF Residents | Pier 39

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 496
  Celebrating its recent transition to nonprofit status, Aquarium of the Bay is kicking off the New Year by hosting free days for San Francisco residents, January 4-7, 2010. San Francisco residents who show valid identification will have the $15.95 admission fee waved be granted access to the Aquarium and introduced to ...
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• 1/3/10: Lighthouses of the San Francisco Bay | Marin

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 496
  Following the discovery of gold in 1848, the Bay Area experienced one of the most explosive population expansions in modern history. During the latter half of that century, the men and women of the lighthouse service, aided by their light and fog signals, directed hundreds of ships to safe passage through the Golden ...
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• 1/3/10: Free Hot Dog Day | Inner Richomnd

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 496
  The Frankenart Mart is a quirky shoebox-sized art gallery in the Inner Richmond. Not only do they have curious one-of-a-kind interactive art exhibits, but once a month there’s free hot dogs all day. Sunday, January 3rd is the first Hot Dog Day of 2010. See strange exhibits like Grandma’s Slideshow, eat your ...
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• Teddy Bear Museums

  
  Announced Articles & Press Releases — Authority: 151
  Since teddy bears have been around for about 100 years it is reasonable to assume, in all that time, some of them have been well loved and it is time for them to retire. Since there is no ‘old-folks home’ for teddy bears they are given to collectors, or a museum to sit comfortably and [...]
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• Top 10 Most Fascinating Museum Exhibitions of 2009

  
  The Steel Closet — Authority: 137
  :\ Straight from the mouths of LA Times .
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• Irish Epic Poem in 33 Cantos (Part 12)

  
  From Bath to Cork with Baby Grace — Authority: 127
  CANTO IV (continued) " Excuse me, this is the ALMIGHTY speaking. I sent you to save me, as Wotan sent his will before me. You are my last roll of the dice. I warn you against the seduction of chattering classes with their lower interest rates and balancing banks. I weaponed you with poetic tools. Didn’t I appoint ...
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• Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum

  
  Do Something! Blog — Authority: 109
  A local must-see is the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum ( 4 0 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley ).  The sweeping views from this hilltop location adjacent to Wood Ranch is reason enough to stop by.  But the museum is really enjoyable and quite interesting for all ages.  There is a ton of memorabilia ...
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• Architectural Craziness: Guggenheim Lets Architects Experiment With Its Insides

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 693
  Click the image above to view the full photogallery. For an exhibition opening in February called Contemplating the Void , the Guggenheim asked over 200 artists, architects and designers to "imagine their dream interventions" in the museums spiral space. Shocker: The results are kind of wacky! BLDG BLOG has ...
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• Tomorrow: Bug Day @ the Academy of Natural Sciences

  
  Things to Do in Philadelphia: uwishunu Philly — Authority: 145
  Photos courtesy the Academy of Natural Sciences Tomorrow, the Academy of Natural Sciences is hosting Bug Day, a celebration in honor of creepy crawlers everywhere. The Academy’s naturalists and animal handlers will be walking the halls of the museum, carrying insects with them, offering up a rare chance to get ...
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• The Library of Congress Deems Miss Piggy a "...[Work] of Enduring Importance..."

  
  MamaPop.com — Authority: 538
  Each year since 1989, the Librarian of Congress, in accordance with the Film Preservation Act, selects 25 films for the National Film Registry that are deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" enough to preserve for all time. What makes this list interesting is that the films dont have to be good ...
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• Millard Fillmore’s birthday, January 7 – How will you celebrate in 2010?

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 476
  In honor of Millard Fillmore’s birthday on January 7, I’ll post a collection of images of Fillmore and his administration that I’ve come across over the past year.  Though photography was invented in 1837, and though Fillmore was thought to be a handsome man, not many images of our 13th president survive on the ...
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• Decade in Review

  
  Blog from Battery Place — Authority: 120
  Whether you believe that the decade ends in one day or in a year and one day, who can resist the opportunity to review the past 10 years? We’ll leave the big picture stuff to the experts while we focus on the past 10 at MJH. · 1999: Expansion plans for new wing announced. · 2000: David G. Marwell joins the staff ...
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• Monster Mash: Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons see sales fall; Michael Jackson museum still on; SuBo teams with Andrea Bocelli

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 718
  -- Losing their luster? : Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons saw sales of some of their artwork fall 50% in the last year. ( Bloomberg ) -- Official word : The planned museum dedicated to Michael Jackson in his hometown of Gary, Ind., is still officially on, despite rumors that construction has been canceled. ( Northwest ...
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• Photo of the Day: Classic Racecars at the Simeone Foundation Museum

  
  Things to Do in Philadelphia: uwishunu Philly — Authority: 145
  Within the walls of the newly opened Simeone Foundation Museum — the only museum of its kind in North America — youll find 60 of the worlds rarest and most famous race cars, dating back to 1909. Pictured here is a 1938 Alfa Romeo, winner of the Mille Miglia. (Photo by M. Hurst) Simeone Foundation Museum ...
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• Make a New Year’s Resolution to Get Cultured

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 430
  In this piece included in the Renwick Craft Invitational 2009—closing on January 3—artist Christyl Boger pairs an inflatable pool toy with the nude figure of a woman. Photo by Gene Young With the new year almost here, we’re rounding up a list of exhibitions that close shortly after the calendar turns. So make ...
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• The Second Cup: A Facebook Christmas

  
  TechRepublican.com - — Authority: 474
  As 2009 draws to a close, we here at TechRepublican would like to wish you happy #NYE festivities. Top Moments in Tech/Politics of the Decade Irrevocably, politics changed in the past 10 years because of technology in general and the Internet in particular. So here, in no particular order, are the decades top ...
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