Museums

Ashmolean Museum opens to public

BBC News (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

The UK's oldest public museum, the Ashmolean in Oxford, reopens after a £61m redevelopment to create 39 new galleries.

Canada’s Governor General to visit the New Acropolis Museum

Elginism (Free subscription) | yesterday

Michaelle Jean, Canada’s Governor General plans to make a visit to the New Acropolis Museum during a trip to Athens. From: Athens News Agency 11/02/2009 Canada’s Gov. General in Olympia The Governor General of Canada, Michaelle Jean, on Friday evening visited the “Art Matters” forum in Athens along with her Canadian filmmaker husband Jean-Daniel Lafond, with the focus on possible...

UN Secretary General visits the New Acropolis Museum

Elginism (Free subscription) | yesterday

Whist on a visit to Athens, Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General, will be shown around the New Acropolis Museum. From: Athens News Agency 11/02/2009 UN chief in Athens United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is due to arrive in Athens on Tuesday to take part in a conference focusing on Inter-faith dialogue. On Wednesday, Ban Ki Moon will address [...]

Metropolitan Museum to return Pharonic relief to Egypt

Elginism (Free subscription) | yesterday

In an unusual turn of events, New York’s Metropolitan Museum purchased a four thousand year old relief from a collector with the sole intention of returning it to Egypt. It is unclear from this article whether there was any other motive present that led to this peculiar transaction. From: Press TV (Iran) MET agrees to return Pharoanic relic [...]

Why you don’t have to like the New Acropolis Museum to support the return of the Elgin Marbles

Elginism (Free subscription) | yesterday

Anthony Snodgrass – Chair of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles responds to Simon Jenkins’s earlier article about the New Acropolis Museum. From: The Guardian Letters New home for the Parthenon marbles The Guardian, Tuesday 27 October 2009 I know that Simon Jenkins is fundamentally on the same side as I am, and I’m sure it [...]

The Morgan Library & Museum opens Exhibition on the Great - and Enduringly Popular - Novelist Jane Austen

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago

NEW YORK, NY.- The extraordinary life, work, and legacy of one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Jane Austen (1775–1817), are the focus of a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum from November 6, 2009, through March 14, 2010. Offering a close-up portrait of the iconic British author, whose popularity has surged over the last two decades with numerous motion picture...

The Whitney Museum Presents Thirty-Year Survey of Work by Roni Horn aka Roni Horn

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago

NEW YORK, NY.- Jointly organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Tate Modern, Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, the most comprehensive overview of Roni Horn’s work to date, integrates three decades of the American artist’s sculpture, photography, installations, drawings, and books. Opening on November 6, 2009, the exhibition remains on view through January 24, 2010. Following the Whitney’s...

Dezeen podcast: Airside at the Design Museum

dezeen (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago

Dezeen podcast: in this latest podcast collaboration with the Design Museum in London, Fred Deacon, Nat Hunter, Jamie Wleck and Malika Favre of London-based design agency Airside talk us through the history of the company and some of their recent projects.

Wisconsin man donates cheesehead hat signed by Obama to historical society for museum

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago

Mansfield Neblett told The Associated Press in an e-mail Friday he decided to donate the triangular, bright yellow hat to the Wisconsin Historical Society. Obama signed the hat Wednesday during a visit to a Madison middle school that Neblett's daughter attends.

Museums: Howard Carter's House opens

Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday

It is great news that the mud-brick home of Howard Carter on the West Bank at Luxor has now opened to the public as a museum, on an anniversary of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen. Thanks to Jane Akshar for the pre-opening updates . Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has provided a photo-story of the opening ceremony and the house itself which looks great. BBC News (Yolande Knell) The Egyptian...

Museum : Predynastic footed Bowl reproduction on sale at Met

Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) It is good to see that the famous footed bowl from the Metropolititan Museum of Arts has been made available for purchase from the Met's store as a reproduction for everyone to enjoy. Stan gives a description of the original vessel which belongs to the Naqada (pre Pharaonic) period of Egypt and dates to between 3900 and 3650 BC. Sadly it is unprovenanced. Egyptology...

Joy Division artefacts for Macc Museum

Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | yesterday

From Manchester District Music Archive : Macclesfield Museum is currently searching for interesting Joy Division artefacts for a proposed exhibition due to take place in May 2010. The Curator of the exhibition is Jon Savage. The museum would like to hear from anyone who may be interested in loaning unseen photos, live recordings or footage, flyers, posters or general rare memorabilia. If you think...

Fundraising not over yet for museum

pjstar.com Tri-County RSS (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

After nine years of planning, fundraising and planning for more fundraising, supporters of the Peoria Riverfront Museum have reached a significant milestone - they've cobbled together about enough money to begin construction. It's not, however, the end of fundraising. Peoria County Administrator Patrick Urich believes millions more must be raised to create a large enough endowment to keep the museum...

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum

DaithaiC (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago

Tonight: Beets, Crystal Stilts @ BK Museum (FREE); Multiverse Playground

Brooklyn Ski Club (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

There's a pretty killer event going down at the Brooklyn Museum today. First of all there's a free Todd P curated show with The Beets, Crystal Stilts, & Grass Widow at Brooklyn Museum. Bob Gruen is also going to be there speaking on a panel or something. They have tons of other shit happening for free at the museum as well.Then it's over to Third Ward for Multiverse Playground with Boy Crisis,

Peruna the Prohibition Tonic and the 50 Million Dollar Art Endowment Jim Linderman Dull Tool Dim Bulb

bestshill | 12/10/2009

Peruna was a prohibition tonic. Otherwise known as booze. It was 28% alcohol, that's a pretty stiff drink. At one time the elixir was banned on Native American reservations by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs for that very reason. It was claimed to cure nearly everything you can find on WebMD, but all it did was make you feel warm inside and slur your words. For a dollar a bottle. Peruna was at one

Lotussia Travel Launches New Multisport Adventure Tour Package to North Vietnam

lotramar | 12/09/2009

Lotussia Travel has just launched a new multisport adventure tour to the Northern area of Vietnam. The 11-day tour packages will include the two most important travel highlights of Vietnam are trekking through colorful local hill tribe villages of Lao Cai province and kayak paddling in the middle of Halong Bay world wonder. Start the journey first with a full day sightseeing tour of the capital, Hanoi

Download: NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN (2009), USA.

mr.cinema | 19/07/2009

Plot: Security preserve Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institute in orderliness to salvage Jedediah and Octavius, who retain accept been shipped to the museum over boo-boo. Hank Azaria - "Kah Mun Rah" Jon Bernthal - "Al Capone" Alain Chabat - "Napoleon" Jake Cherry - "Nick Daley" Samuel Patrick Chu - "Teenage Boy #1" Steve Coogan - "Octavius" Nick Dash - "Ulysses S Grant" Rick Dobran - "Neanderthal"...