Archives For Museums

MFA-featured artist from India found dead in cardboard box

12/15/2015 — Leave a comment

Hema Upadhyay’s death is being considered a murder

Hema Upadhyay’s art worked to depict life in Mumbai, India.

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R.I.P. Ron Bouchard

12/11/2015 — Leave a comment

Fitchburg auto racing legend Ron Bouchard dies at 67

Ron Bouchard stands next to a car at the RB Racing Museum at his Chrysler-Dodge dealership in Fitchburg in September. Mr.

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Scotland Yard’s Crime Museum Opens to Public for First Time in 140 Years

11/22/2015 — Leave a comment

Scotland Yard’s “black museum” — a repository for some of British crime’s most morbid artifacts — has opened to the public for the first time in 140 years

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Horror Museum Plan For ‘The Shining’ Hotel

10/24/2015 — Leave a comment

The Stanley Hotel in the Rockies hopes to raise $24m for the attraction, which is backed by actors Elijah Wood and Simon Pegg. 

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15-year-old catches math error at the Museum of Science

07/06/2015 — Leave a comment

While visiting from Virginia, Joseph Rosenfeld found an equation error in a permanent exhibit

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015, AND THEREAFTER- In this June 23, 2015 photo, John Handley High School sophomore Joseph Rosenfeld, poses for a photo at the school in Winchester, Va. Rosenfeld discovered a decades-old math error that had gone unnoticed at the Museum of Science in Boston during a visit in June. (Jeff Taylor/The Winchester Star via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

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For All You Dr. Seuss Lovers: Dr. Seuss museum planned in his Massachusetts hometown

03/20/2015 — Leave a comment

The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum is scheduled to open June 2016

Dr. Seuss

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Native American Corner (09/08/14)

09/08/2014 — Leave a comment

1. Sovereign Means Sovereign! U.S. Must Stop Interfering With Tribal Nations

2. Native Vote Counts More in ’14 According to the Math

3. Native and Indigenous Conferences to Be Held in Muscogee (Creek) Nation

4. Kumeyaay Nation Wins Repatriation Case; Appeal Pending

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5. Salaita Firing Is ‘Israeli Attack on Palestine Coming to Our Campus’

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students protest the firing of
Dr. Steven Salaita on August 26.

6. Vibrant Photos From the 68th Annual Labor Day Shinnecock Powwow

7. United Tribes International Powwow Captures Its Theme ‘We Are All Related’

Greg Pollert, United Tribes News
Junior Boy’s Traditional dancers at United Tribes International Powwow

8. Summer Super Moon Trio Finale Brings Harvest Moon’s Bonanza of Light

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9. This Artist Will Endure 8 Hours of Abuse, Simply Because He’s Native

10. EPA Climate Justice Blog: Climate Justice through Resiliency and

Renewable Energy in a Post-Industrial City

11. Family Farmer Native American History Museum

12. The Mohawk Tribe

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Revamped Mt. Washington museum displays extreme weather

06/14/2014 — Leave a comment

Extreme Mount Washington shows world’s harshest weather

 

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