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museum stories: 35 news summaries

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 Zut Alors! 
 French 
 Attack 
 Big Macs 
 at Louvre 

Wake up and smell the French fries, Mona Lisa

Oct 5, 09 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - News that a McDonald's will open just yards from the entrance of the Louvre museum has sent lovers of French culture into conniptions. “This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odors in the context of a museum,” sniffed one art historian who works... More »

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McDonald's • France • museum • The Louvre

WATCH IT

 Only Footage 
 of Anne Frank 
 Hits YouTube 

Film of neighbor's wedding in 1941 was given to Holocaust victim's family in the 50s

Oct 2, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Anne Frank House has posted the only surviving video of the young diarist and Holocaust victim on YouTube. “The footage is very moving and very unique because these are the only moving images of Anne Frank,” a museum representative tells the Guardian. The film, of an... More »

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YouTube • Holocaust • museum • Netherlands • Amsterdam • World War II • Holland • Anne Frank • diary • footage • Otto Frank

Nation's Top Museums
Free Tomorrow

Smithsonian Museum Day offers free online passes  for 1,200 sites

Sep 25, 09 3:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Admission to over 1,200 museums across America will be free tomorrow as part of the Smithsonian's annual "Museum Day." The event is aimed at promoting culture and removing  "any  economic barrier" keeping people from enjoying museums, a Smithsonian exec tells USA Today. Museum-goers will need a ... More »

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museum • museums • Smithsonian • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame • Smithsonian Institute

Dutch Museum's 'Moon Rock' an Out-of-This-World Fake

Gift from NASA is just petrified wood, tests reveal

Aug 28, 09 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - A “moon rock” exhibited at the Dutch national museum is actually petrified wood, the BBC reports. The three Apollo 11 astronauts gave the object to former PM Willem Drees on a tour following their 1969 moon mission; NASA shared similar artifacts with more than 100 other countries. The purported... More »

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NASA • museum • Netherlands • moon • Holland • hoax • moon rock • Rijksmuseum • petrified wood

 Lizzie Borden's 
 Hometown 
 Museum Wins 
 Rights to Name 

Fall River bed and breakfast keeps accused murderer's brand local

Aug 25, 09 5:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lizzie Borden would be so proud. Merchandise bearing her name is now the exclusive property of her hometown Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast in Fall River, Mass., the Boston Globe reports. The B&B prevailed before the US Patent and Trademark Office in securing the rights to the infamous spinster’... More »

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murder • museum • merchandise • Patent and Trademark Office • patent • license

(Newser) - Herb and Dorothy Vogel had just modest incomes—he was a postal clerk, she a librarian—but over four decades they acquired more than 3,600 drawings, paintings, and collages from America's leading artists. They collected so much that they had to stuff works under their bed. But now the... More »

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art museum • art • modern art • museum • collecting • art collector • art donations

(Newser) - Pez is suing a California store and museum over an 8-foot-tall dispenser custom-made for the establishment—and thus not sanctioned by the Austrian candy-maker, the San Jose Mercury News reports. “From a branding perspective, I think Pez should embrace the Dosses and the museum, instead of trying to attack... More »

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California • museum • Austria • Bay Area • statue • memorabilia • civil lawsuits • candy company • PEZ • dispenser

 Broke Up Recently? 
 Museum Wants the Remnants 

Exhibit features everything from photos to prosthetics

Jun 23, 09 4:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Not sure what to do with all those old love letters from your ex? Burning them seems too risky; keeping them, too sentimental. Why not put them on permanent display? The Museum of Broken Relationships allows you to do just that, BlackBook reports. Started as an art project in Croatia,... More »

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museum • love • romance • relationship • ex-boyfriends • Jay-ZTV • ex-girlfriends

 Holocaust Museum 
 Shooter Is White 
 Supremacist; 
 Guard Killed 



His rambling site has racist, anti-Semitic rants

Jun 10, 09 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - White supremacist James Von Brunn is the injured suspect in today’s shooting of a National Holocaust Museum security guard, police tell the Washington Post. The guard has since died of his injuries at a local hospital, sources tell WJLA-TV. On his anti-Semitic website, von Brunn, 88, claims he served... More »

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crime • Washington DC • museum • shooting • anti-Semitism • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn

 Show 
 Spotlights 
 Avedon's 
 Melancholy 
 Fashion 
 Genius 

Major retrospective looks at photographer's legacy

May 14, 09 9:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - For 60 years Richard Avedon was the quintessential fashion photographer, and his black-and-white images established an ideal of beauty for a generation. Now, 5 years after his death, the International Center of Photography in New York is mounting a retrospective of Avedon’s fashion work. For Times critic Cathy Horyn,... More »

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fashion • museum • photography • Vogue • photographers • Harper's Bazaar • Jay-ZTV • International Center of Photography • Richard Avedon • Diana Vreeland

Glossies

In Recession, Sewage Tour, Offbeat Destinations Thrive

Offbeat local museums, tours see record demand

May 10, 09 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - With fancy island getaways now out of most people's price range, alternative attractions are gaining ground, Newsweek reports. Local families have begun flocking to Louisiana's oil rig museum, San Francisco's sewage-plant tour, and Ireland's Famine Museum, perhaps in a spirit of "things are bad, but at least they're not... More »

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prison • tourism • museum • oil rig • economy • sewage plant

Egg From Darwin Voyage Comes to Light

Naturalist signed—and cracked—relic from Beagle excursion

Apr 10, 09 9:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The only egg known to have survived from Charles Darwin's round-the-world voyage on the Beagle has surfaced in Cambridge University's zoology museum, the BBC reports. A volunteer sorting through the museum's vast egg collection found the egg—from an ostrich-like bird in Uruguay—and realized it bore the naturalist's signature.... More »

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museum • Charles Darwin • egg • Cambridge University • HMS Beagle

 Macabre Tourists Flock 
 to Mummy Museum 

Mexican exhibit includes 56 fully preserved corpses

Mar 18, 09 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Mexican museum tells the story of the local mining industry with an unusual exhibit: 56 mummified corpses. The bodies, from as early as the mid-1800s, were removed from crypts that had been tightly sealed, allowing the bodies to dry intact. Elsewhere mummies might be considered freaky, but in Guanajuato,... More »

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mining • Mexico • museum • death • mummy • Guanajuato

Museum Tells Brazil's Story
in 10,000 Voices

Oral history project offers unadulterated look at sprawling nation

Mar 16, 09 9:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most historical museums focus on the rich and powerful, but in sprawling Sao Paulo, an uncommon museum tells the story of Brazil from the perspective of more than 10,000 ordinary citizens. The Museum of the Person gathers the stories of a barber, a coconut breaker, a convicted felon, and... More »

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Brazil • museum • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • Sao Paulo • oral history

 Looted Iraq Museum 
 Partially Reopens 

PM backs controversial move; much of building still shut

Feb 24, 09 12:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Iraq’s National Museum reopened yesterday for the first time since its 2003 looting made it a symbol of post-invasion bedlam, the New York Times reports. But with only eight of 26 rooms functional, its reopening symbolizes as much the long road ahead as it does Iraqi reconstruction thus far,... More »

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Iraq • Nouri al-Maliki • museum • looting • Iraq war • invasion

Nonprofits Look to Change Rules on Endowments

Meltdown forces tough choice: present survival or future value?

Feb 11, 09 7:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Nonprofits reeling from the market meltdown's impact on their investments are pushing to be allowed to tap endowment funds, many of which are off-limits because they've lost value, reports the Wall Street Journal. At issue is the balance between surviving the current crisis and spending funds that can never... More »

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philanthropy • higher education • museum • college • university • charity • nonprofit • Brandeis • endowment • financial crisis

 Iraq Prepares 
 Grim Saddam 
 Museum 

Anniversary of leader's execution commemorated

Dec 30, 08 1:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Two years ago today Saddam Hussein breathed his last, but Iraq is taking steps to ensure the dictator isn't forgotten, reports Reuters. Soon, the country will open a dark museum full of artifacts from Saddam’s reign, including the torture devices he employed, the chair he was tried in, and... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • torture • museum • execution


 Troubled LA Museum 
 Wins $30M Bailout 

MoCA warms to Eli Broad amid reports that director has resigned

Dec 19, 08 7:27 AM CST
(Newser) - LA's troubled Museum of Contemporary Art is moving toward a bailout deal with Eli Broad, reports the Los Angeles Times. The billionaire real estate investor and art collector offered MoCA a $30 million donation contingent on improved performance, which board members favored over a merger with the Los Angeles County... More »

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art museum • contemporary art • Eli Broad • art • museum • Los Angeles • Los Angeles County Museum of Art • bailout • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

 For Sale: Space Shuttle, $42M 

NASA seeking museums to purchase spacecraft after retirement

Dec 18, 08 2:58 AM CST
(Newser) - NASA is taking the unprecedented step of offering to sell the three space shuttles to museums when the workhorse vehicles are retired some time after 2010, reports the Orlando Sentinel. The space agency is seeking at least $42 million—including $6 million for shipping and handling, and the cost of... More »

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NASA • museum • space shuttle • Kennedy Space Center • Smithsonian • Orion • Ares I • Air and Space Museum

 Ambitious Director
 Revives the Louvre

Henri Loyrette has global ambitions that grate traditionalists

Jul 29, 08 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - France's publicly funded museums once eschewed the big-money efforts that are common in American art institutions. Not anymore. BusinessWeek profiles Henri Loyrette, the ambitious director of the Louvre in Paris, who has coaxed major corporations to pony up cash, rented out its galleries for the filming of The Da Vinci ... More »

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art museum • France • art • museum • Paris • Abu Dhabi • The Louvre • Henri Loyrette

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