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Mark Twain Museum planning centennial celebration
Hannibal.net
Cindy Lovell, executive director of the Mark Twain Museum, holds an acknowledgement cirtificate from the State of Missouri. The Mark Twain Museum will celebrate it's 100th Anniversary in May. Dominic Genetti/Courier-Post By Dominic Genetti There will ...
First waiver request for Hannibal sidewalk assessment tabled as city considers ...Quincy Herald Whig

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NYC Metropolitan Museum plans renovation of 5th Avenue plaza and fountains
Washington Post
NEW YORK ? New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced plans to redesign its Fifth Avenue plaza. The renovation calls for new fountains which will be repositioned closer to the museum's entrance. The four-block-long outdoor plaza will get ...
Met Aims to Build Itself a Museum-Quality PlazaNew York Times
David Koch Pledges $60 Million to Upgrade Met Museum's PlazaSan Francisco Chronicle
David Koch Pledges $60 Million to Upgrade Met Museum's Plaza in New YorkBloomberg
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Atlanta Journal Constitution

DC wax museum adds Harriet Tubman to collection
Atlanta Journal Constitution
AP WASHINGTON ? Descendants of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman have unveiled a wax statue of the woman who led hundreds of slaves to freedom at The President's Gallery by Madame Tussauds in Washington. A wax likeness of the renowned abolitionist and ...

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Ford's Theatre opens new museum, education center in DC to study Abraham ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON ? The theater where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated is preparing to open a new museum and education center in downtown Washington to explore the 16th president's life and lasting legacy. The Ford's Theatre Center for Education ...
Ford's Theatre Center Celebrates Grand OpeningNBC4 Washington

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Walter P. Chrysler Museum Launches New Web Site
Sacramento Bee
8, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- The nonprofit Walter P. Chrysler Museum, in Auburn Hills, Mich., has launched a bold, new Web site at www.wpchryslermuseum.org. The site features significantly improved navigation, beginning with home page tabs and links from ...

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Walter P. Chrysler Museum Launches New Web Site
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The nonprofit Walter P. Chrysler Museum, in Auburn Hills, Mich., has launched a bold, new Web site at www.wpchryslermuseum.org . The site features significantly ...

Houston Museum Chooses Architect for Expansion Plan
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is planning a new building on a two-acre site.

NYC Met Museum plans plaza, fountain renovation
New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced plans to redesign its Fifth Avenue plaza.

St. Louis tries new approach in museum expansion
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - The St. Louis Art Museum is rearranging galleries by theme rather than time period, seeking to make them more accessible to visitors as part of a $162 million expansion. Galleries that once covered the 18th Century, for example, now focus on "The Modern Body" with nudes from different eras, or "The American Scene." It's an approach already in use at the Detroit Institute of ...

OLIN Designs Metropolitan Museum a New Fifth Avenue Plaza
The Fifth Avenue plaza in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is to get a makeover, its first since 1968.

David Koch Pledges $60 Million to Upgrade Met Museum?s Plaza in New York
New York?s Metropolitan Museum of Art announced plans for a redesign of the plaza outside of its Fifth Avenue facade, financed with a $60 million gift from David Koch, a museum trustee.

David Koch Pledges $60 Million to Upgrade Met Museum?s Plaza
New York?s Metropolitan Museum of Art announced plans for a redesign of the plaza outside of its Fifth Avenue facade, financed with a $60 million gift from David Koch, a museum trustee.

Mark Twain Museum planning centennial celebration
Cindy Lovell, executive director of the Mark Twain Museum, holds an acknowledgement cirtificate from the State of Missouri. The Mark Twain Museum will celebrate it's 100th Anniversary in May. Dominic Genetti/Courier-Post

Museum to talk in visitors' language
Sources said minimum 25 audio devices would be available at the counter of the museum, which would be available to the visitors at a pre-determined rate. The audio feed will include sound effects, music and commentary in MP3 format.

Wedgwood Museum closure condemned by Unesco
Museum listed as one of UK's top 20 cultural assets due to be sold off to pay £134m pension deficit after high court ruling The head of a Unesco committee that shortlisted a British museum as one of the UK's top 20 cultural assets has condemned a high court judgment that is forcing it to close. The Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent is to be broken up and sold to pay off a £134m pension deficit ...