Museums

In the Lab: Results from mummy scans from Cairo Museum

Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Los Angeles Times (Thomas H. Maugh II) With photos. CT scans of Egyptian mummies, some as much as 3,500 years old, shows evidence of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, which is normally thought of as a disease caused by modern lifestyles, researchers said today. "Atherosclerosis is ubiquitous among modern-day humans and, despite differences in ancient and modern lifestyles, we found...

Lichfield’s Johnson Birthplace Museum to host Christmas event

The Lichfield Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Lichfield will be transported back in time as part of a special festive celebration. The Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum will host Christmas Light Night on November 26. The event will allow visitors to step back into Georgian Lichfield with a late night costumed Museum opening including craft activities and Christmas decoration workshops for adults and children, as well [...]

What is a museum supposed to be?

Hrag Vartanian (Free subscription) | yesterday

As the New Museum controversy rages on, people are finally asking questions that we should periodically be asking of our arts institutions. The reason they haven’t come up before was probably because for the last six years we were all too busy watching the art market swallow the art world. Well, now is as good a [...]

Liverpool News: Former boxing champ John Conteh loans memorabilia to Liverpool museum

Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | yesterday

FORMER World boxing champ John Conteh is lending items from his glittering career, including title belts and gloves, to the new Museum of Liverpool.

The Museum Gala at AMNH

May December (Free subscription) | yesterday

Last night we went to The Museum Gala at the American Museum of Natural History . I have fond memories of visiting this museum when I was a kid; it's always great fun to back as a grown-up. Cocktail hour in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda: The dinosaur skeletons are as giant as I remembered: All smiles with Chappy during cocktails: Many cast members of Saturday Night Live were at the benefit: Dinner...

Historic scavenger hunt wraps up museum’s 50th anniversary year

Kootenay Rockies - News (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Revelstoke Museum & Archives will be hosting a social evening to wrap up their 50th anniversary year this Friday, Nov. 20.

Israel Museum Receives $1 Million to Established the Shpilman International Prize

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | yesterday

JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, today announced that it has established the Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography, which provides photographers and scholars with the support needed to pursue new ideas and work in the medium. The first of its kind, the prize is awarded for the creation of new rather than the recognition of previously completed work. It will be presented...

• Israel Museum Receives $1 Million to Support New International Photography Prize - Artdaily

John Conteh’s title belt to go on display at Museum of Liverpool

Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday

FORMER World boxing champ John Conteh is lending memorabilia from his glittering career to the new Museum of Liverpool.

ECHO Entertainment News: John Conteh’s title belt to go on display at Museum of Liverpool

Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday

FORMER World boxing champ John Conteh is lending memorabilia from his glittering career to the new Museum of Liverpool.

Getty Villa Museum opens Exhibition Featuring J. Paul Getty's Antiquities

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | yesterday

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Celebrating 70 years of collecting, Collector’s Choice: J. Paul Getty and His Antiquities, on view from November 18, 2009 through February 8, 2010, at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, presents seldom-seen works of art that captured J. Paul Getty’s eye and inspired the creation of a museum modeled on an ancient Roman villa. Favored objects and personal memorabilia...

• Getty Museum Opens Exhibition Featuring J. Paul Getty's Antiquities - Artdaily

Brooklyn Museum opens Exhibition of Body Part Fragments of Egyptian Sculpture

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | yesterday

BROOKLYN, NY.- Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets features thirty-five representations of individual body parts from the Brooklyn Museum’s ancient Egyptian collection, many of which will be displayed for the first time. This special exhibition will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from November 19, 2009, through October 2, 2011. This exhibition uses objects created as distinct...

• Brooklyn Museum Opens Special Exhibition of Body Part Fragments of Egyptian Sculpture - Artdaily

Honda CRX Drag Racers Inducted Into NHRA Motorsports Museum's Hall of Fame

Straightline (Free subscription) | yesterday

If you own and love a sport compact, Ed and Ron Bergenholtz are names you should know. Starting in the late 1990s, Bergenholtz Racing ran this Honda CRX in drag-race competition. It was no weakling, as its turbocharged B18 motor produced...

Inside Art: Bronzino Is Given His Museum Moment

New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

In January, a 16th-century draftsman finally gets his due at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exhibitions Philadelphia. Love Letters, from Poet John Keats to Fanny Brawne. The Rosenback Museum & Library. The Curated Object

The Curated Object (Free subscription) | yesterday

John Keats (1795-1821), autograph letter signed to Fanny Brawne, Kentish Town, 5 July 1820 tour: Love Letters For those in the City of Brotherly Love.... a romance, quite modern..... Love Letters, from Poet John Keats to Fanny Brawne October 9-December...

Indonesia: Front yard of Museum Nasional Indonesia, Jacarta

360 Cities (Free subscription) | yesterday

Panoramic photo by Min Heo . This Museum was officially opened in 1868 and became known as Gedung Gajah (Elephant House) or Gedung Arca (House of Statues). It was called Gedung Gajah on account of the bronze elephant statue in the front yard donated by King Chulalongkorn from Thailand in 1871. (You can see the statue in this picture) It was also called Gedung Arca because a great variety of statues...

From data and integration to smarter operations: Performance management at Dorel

t-admin | 16/11/2009

In a global, yet struggling economy, consumer product manufacturers can’t afford lackluster performance. They have to get the job done faster and still maintain a high level of quality. Competition, shifting buyer loyalties and increasingly complex supply chains add to the challenge. When timing and quality control are paramount, organizations need to be able to plan, analyze and measure results. So

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