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A New York City gallery has auctioned over 200 rare postage stamps to raise $3.2 million for the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C.
The Botticelli had happily hung in the North Carolina Museum of Art for more than a quarter-century, moving only a few feet over the years.
Italy is opening its first national museum for contemporary arts and architecture in a bid to shed its image as merely a keeper of a glorious artistic past.
In a Nov. 9 story about a new national museum honoring excellence in scholastic sports, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Allyson Felix was an Olympic gold medal swimmer. Felix is an Olympic gold medal sprinter.
A new national museum honoring excellence in scholastic sports is going up in eastern Pennsylvania, spotlighting the high school exploits of pro superstars like LeBron James but also cheering former top athletes who excelled away from the playing field.
Actors Tom Hanks, Patricia Clarkson and James Cromwell walked the red carpet Thursday before a private screening of the Hanks-produced war film "Beyond All Boundaries" held at the World War II Museum in New Orleans.
The Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine is hiring the longtime director of a Maryland museum to take its top spot.
Officials at a prison hospital say chronic medical problems are complicating a psychiatric evaluation for the 89-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a guard at Washington's Holocaust museum.
Actor Tom Hanks says viewers are in for a realistic "wartime experience" when the new film he produced, "Beyond All Boundaries," opens at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Friday.
A fledging museum devoted to the pursuit of peace is hoping its mission is just what President Barack Obama is looking for when he decides what to do with the $1.4 million cash award that comes with his Nobel Peace Prize.
The director of the Miami Art Museum has resigned, effective immediately.
The U.S. violin virtuoso Joshua Bell helped raise funds Wednesday for a Jewish History museum in Poland with a charity concert at Warsaw's Opera House.
A hospital rabbi who comforted the family of a security guard killed at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has been fired for speaking and writing about the experience.
Berlin's Neues Museum, boasting ancient treasures such as a famous bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti and a magnificent Bronze Age golden hat, is finally reopening to the public after standing for decades as a bomb-damaged shell.
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum will honor photographer Annie Leibovitz as the 2010 recipient in its Women of Distinction series.
Walt Disney's relatives greeted the first wave of visitors as a new museum designed to showcase the personal world of the legendary animator opened Thursday.
An 89-year-old white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has arrived at a North Carolina prison for an evaluation of whether he's competent to stand trial.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will house one of the world's great contemporary art collections after forming a partnership with Gap Inc. founders Don and Doris Fisher to house the couple's some 1,100 works.
The National Postal Museum has received an $8 million donation to build a new street-level gallery in Washington, D.C.
It’s official: With the sun now crossing the celestial equator, fall has arrived. It’s time to say goodbye to trashy beach reads and monsters at the multiplex and say hello again to, shall we say, more cultured travel activities.
If you can’t get free admission to a museum, a park, or some sort of walking tour, music performance or a national park on Saturday, Sept. 26, then you’re just not trying.
The Kentucky Derby Museum will remain closed for the rest of the year as the tourist attraction showcasing the world's most famous horse race tries to recover from flood damage.
An animal rights group wants to rent a prison building the state plans to close and turn it into the nation's first chicken empathy museum. A People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals official sent a letter Monday to Gov. Tim Kaine asking to rent the Botetourt Correctional Center building in Troutville.
The thrill is gone at many attractions across the country as recession-mired tourists stay home, but in Indianola, Miss., a favorite son is packing 'em in at the B.B. King Museum.
An 89-year-old white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was ordered to remain in jail Wednesday after prosecutors said the frail man was still dangerous because he had "no true friends" and "nothing to lose."
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indian heroine's letter unearthedA previously undiscovered letter written by one of India's best known female rebels against British colonial rule has been found by academics. The letter was written by Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, shortly before the Indian mutiny - or first war of independence - in 1857.
Hubble Telescope instruments on display at National Air and Space Museum Two instruments that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from failure in 1993 were recently returned to Earth and are going on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
Sweden returns skulls to HawaiiSweden has returned 22 skulls taken from indigenous cemeteries in Hawaii in the 19th Century, in a solemn ceremony at Stockholm's antiquities museum.
Hitler house sale alarms localsSome historians have suggested turning the building into a museum. However Mr Skiba vigorously opposes the idea, saying it would encourage people from all over the world to visit the site.
Scientists challenge Tsavo lions' appetite for humansFor more than 80 years, the man-eating Tsavo lions have been one of the Field Museum's top tourist draws. Now a study released Monday suggests the Tsavo lions' taste for human flesh may have been exaggerated.
Is this the foot-long preserved penis of Rasputin? This is the somewhat disturbing prize specimen in Russia's first ever museum of sex and erotica - the preserved 12inch penis of legendary lover and mystic Grigori Rasputin.
Edward G. Udell, Sr., community consultant with the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum in Houston, Texas has been selected for the second year in a row as a Diversity Scholar with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
In late 2007 and early 2008, there was community rejoicing. A community eyesore, an old historic armory, had been purchased by the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum. Some funds had been allocated by foundations; corporate leaders pledged to give support.
You can now make a $5 donation to the 9/11 Memorial through a new text to donate program. By texting the message "WTC" to the phone# 25383 you can make a $5 donation.
Fake Dutch 'moon rock' revealedA treasured piece at the Dutch national museum, a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing, is nothing more than petrified wood, curators say.
BY Christina Boyle DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Updated Wednesday, August 26th 2009, 4:46 PM Visitors to Ground Zero can now get a peek at the rebuilding of the sacred site after a new exhibit opened Wednesday in lower Manhattan.
By AMY WESTFELDT (AP) – August 18, 2009 NEW YORK — Tourists coming to ground zero to see the Sept. 11 memorial often peer through a fenced-off construction site for a glimpse and ask street vendors when it will be built.
Lifeboat from pirate kidnapping arrives at Florida museum The lifeboat's two broken-out windows and a short, diagonal row of three bullet holes tell the story.
Museum believes it has found the worst album covers ever Who doesn't love a little bad art from time to time?
Art of forgery: Britain's National Gallery to stage exhibition dedicated exclusively to fakes, mistakes and their discoveriesThe exhibition called "Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries", to be staged next June, will feature the infamous Holbein forgery, called A Man with a Skull, as well as a painting that was originally acquired by the gallery as a work by Rembrandt, called An Old Man in …
I thought Pez was cool until todayPez candies are not usually something you would associate with faceless corporate lawsuits, but thanks to a recent suit filed in San Francisco last month, now you can!
Rediscover René Magritte museum opens in Brussels Take a look inside the Musée Magritte, a major new art gallery in Brussels dedicated to Belgium's famous surrealist son, René Magritte.
Naples' Surging Modern Art SceneItaly's southern city offers an eclectic array of contemporary galleries and modern museums sure to impress art aficionados.
Stolen Mongolian crown found at police station after 20 years A decorative Mongolian silver crown stolen in 1984 from a Stockholm museum has been found on the premises of the Swedish Police Service, where it has spent more than twenty years in accidental storage.
Literary Dublin: James Joyce, Writers Museum, Dublin Literary Pub Crawl - TravelMuseLiterary Dublin. From James Joyce's Dublin, to a literary pub crawl to the Dublin Writers Museum, visit some of the Dublin attractions devoted to the written word.
Irish Enchantment: Dublin's Top Attractions - TravelMuseHistorical landmarks, world-class museums, incomparable pubs and abundant shopping are just a few of the draws in this capital city.
Huffington Post Steve Rosenbaum For most New Yorkers the current World Trade Center site generates a stream of complex emotions. Anger, Fear, Sadness, and mostly a strange nostalgia for the days when the the world wasn't divided into 'before' and 'after' 9/11.
Decades-Old Letter Found In Museum Wall - Construction Worker Find's Note Written In 1920s (Video)----Video: You will not hear the anchor talking in the beginning. When the anchor goes to the tape, then the audio kicks in.---- BOSTON -- There are an estimated 20,000 time capsules buried in the United States, but 90 percent of them are lost.
Child porn on museum suspect's computer, FBI says - CNN.comWASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI says it found child pornography on a computer used by the man charged with the fatal shooting of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum June 10.
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