MUSEUMS IN THE NEWS

 

December 6-21, 2005

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Executives find profit in nonprofit work
By: Marshall Loeb, The Oklahoman, December 18, 2005
http://www.newsok.com/xml/rss/1708033/

Documents Give View of Curator's Ties to Smuggler
By: Livia Borghese and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, December 17, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gettytrial17dec17,1,5044333.story?coll=la-headlines-world

Americans Don't Want Gifts Used for Purposes They Haven't Approved, New Poll Finds
By: Harvy Lipman, The Chronicle for Philanthropy, December 16, 2005
http://philanthropy.com/free/update/2005/12/2005121601.htm

Museum honors flying piece of history
By: Rebekah Gordon, San Mateo County Times, December 16, 2005
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_3315065

Bidding for aquarium heads into final stretch
By: Emily Fancher, The Examiner, December 15, 2005
http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/12/16/news/20051216_ne07_aquarium.txt

Getty will get Long Beach Museum tapes
By: Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times, December 15, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-wk-quick15.2dec15,1,6841263.story?coll=la-news-environment

New director at Centro Cultural de la Raza inherits longstanding strife
By: Kinsee Morlan, San Diego City Beat, December 14, 2005
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=3859

Funding a snag for Fairfield museum plans
By: Jason Massad, The Reporter, December 14, 2005
http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_3308272

James Dean Museum To Close at End December
By: Associated Press, The San Francisco Chronicle, December 13, 2005
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/12/13/entertainment/e074817S49.DTL&type=art

Downtown Museum and Film Archive Architect Sought By Richard Brenneman
By: Associated Press, Berkeley Daily Planet, December 13, 2005
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=12-09-05&storyID=22914

Bowers Museum of Cultural Arts get $1 million gift
By: Richard Chang, The Orange County Register, December 12, 2005
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/homepage/article_885727.php

Lawmakers Expected to Battle Over Charity Measures
By: Grant Williams, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, December 12, 2005
http://www.philanthropy.com/free/update/2005/12/2005121201.htm

RISE from the dead!
By: Peggy Lowe, The Orange County Register, December 12, 2005
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/money/homepage/article_885046..php

Art museum names education director
By: Associated Press, The Monterey Herald, December 12, 2005
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/13388638.htm

Whitmore home adding a museum
By: Adam Ashton, The Modesto Bee, December 12, 2005
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/11579806p-12312488c.html

Historic ship now in hands of Naval Museum
By: Nathan Rushton, The Eureka Reporter, December 11, 2005
http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=6409

Lowe's raises funds for preservation
By: Associated Press, Charlotte Business Journal, December 9, 2005
http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2005/12/05/daily50.html?jst=b_ln_hl

Living Desert CEO elected head of world zoo group
By: K. Kaufmann, The Desert Sun, December 9, 2005
http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051209/UPDATE/512090360

Big Children's Museum in SLO coming up short
By: Leslie Griffy, The Tribune, December 9, 2005
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/13368265.htm

Navy's last 2 battleships may become museums
By: Drew Brown, The Mercury News, December 9, 2005
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/13372162.htm

Temporary Closure Planned for Chaffee Zoo
By: Associated Press, ABC30.com, December 7, 2005
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=local&id=3703367

Black-Oriented Museums Are Lacking Black Donors
By: Darryl Fears, The Washington Post, December 6, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/05/AR2005120502181.html

Museum of Craft and Folk Art opens new home
By: Tiffany Maleshfski, The Examiner, December 6, 2005
http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/12/07/entertainment/20051207_en01_art.txt



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