CINCINNATI, OHIO (AP).- A fossilized nest of eggs laid by an unknown species of dinosaur is part of an exhibit that makes its world premiere Friday at an Ohio museum. The exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center will feature fossils found by Chinese pal…
Ground Broken on Frank Gehry’s $81 Million Underground Utility Space at Philadelphia Art Museum
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- It’s not typical for a loading dock to be the celebrated subject of a groundbreaking ceremony, but Frank Gehry is not your typical architect. Gehry joined more than 100 dignitaries, philanthropists and art aficionados Tuesday at th…
SMU’s Meadows and Prado Museum Officials Sign Partnership Agreement in Madrid
MADRID.- This past week. 46 Dallasites, including Mayor Tom Leppert, gathered in Madrid to witness the official signing of a partnership agreement between the The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University and the Prado Museum in Madrid. The signi…
100-Year-Old Pennsylvania Museum Time Capsule Found Spoiled
PITTSBURGH (AP).- Western Pennsylvania officials were hoping for a grand unveiling of a century-old time capsule over the weekend, but they say both the capsule and their plans were spoiled. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says the copper container was …
Tut-Tut: Security Problems Seen in Most of Egypt’s Museums
CAIRO (AP).- The Egyptian Museum houses some of the world’s prized antiquities, including the gold mask of King Tut that draws millions of tourists a year. But it also has an outdated video surveillance system that doesn’t work around the clock and gua…
Tut-Tut: Security Problems Seen in Most of Egypt’s Museums
CAIRO (AP).- The Egyptian Museum houses some of the world’s prized antiquities, including the gold mask of King Tut that draws millions of tourists a year. But it also has an outdated video surveillance system that doesn’t work around the clock and gua…
Long Wait Over: After a Seven-Year Facelift Cairo Islamic Art Museum Reopens
CAIRO (REUTERS).- The world’s biggest museum of Islamic art will reopen in Cairo in coming weeks after a seven-year facelift, museum officials said on Wednesday. Tourists flock by the millions to the Pyramids at Giza and the Temples of Luxor dating ba…
New Zealand’s Canterbury Museum Thaws 100-Year-Old Scotch
WELLINGTON (AP).- A crate of Scotch whisky that has been frozen in Antarctic ice for more than a century is being slowly thawed by New Zealand museum officials — for analysis, not to be tasted. The crate of whisky was recovered earlier this year &…
Law Enforcement Museum Announces Acquisition of J. Edgar Hoover Estate
WASHINGTON, DC.- When the National Law
Enforcement
Museum opens in Washington, DC, in 2013, it will house one of the most
extensive
collections of objects related to the life and work of long-time FBI
Director J.
Edgar Hoover, Museum offic…
Law Enforcement Museum Announces Acquisition of J. Edgar Hoover Estate
WASHINGTON, DC.- When the National Law Enforcement Museum opens in Washington, DC, in 2013, it will house one of the most extensive collections of objects related to the life and work of long-time FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Museum officials announce…