California Association of Museums

Museums in the News 9/12/07


Grant funds stimulated archaeology digs at Hemet museum
By: Steve Fetrandt, Riverside Press Enterprise, September 10, 2007
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_grants09.1cf46a9.html

Old stone cottages come tumbling down [condemned and unprotected historical buildings along Route 66 torn down]
By: Tatiana Prophet, Victorville Daily Press, September 10, 2007
http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/down_2759___article.html/property_judkins.html

Event celebrates ocean conservation in two languages
By: Sunita Vijayan, The Salinas Californian, September 9, 2007
http://thecalifornian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070909/NEWS01/70909009/1002

Museum director named to state board: Rachel Bergman is the curator of the Yolo County Museum
Daily Democrat, September 9, 2007
http://www.dailydemocrat.com/ci_6845643

Ripon's veterans will have a museum all their own
By: Inga Miller, Modesto Bee, September 8, 2007
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/62394.html

$22 million renovation on hold: The debate over the decrepit structure is delaying work on a city-owned RV park. [status of a possible historic house debated]
By: Aaron Burgin, Riverside Press-Enterprise, September 8, 2007
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_selsinore08.408beb0.html

'This is a museum first': A recent report called the Smithsonian gift shops underperforming and poorly run, so the museum is considering outsourcing them. But the folks doing the job now say they're being unfairly compared to commercial retailers. [Text from a radio interview]
By: Jeremy Hobson, Marketplace, September 6, 2007
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/09/06/AM200709063.html

Free for All: More midsize museums are eliminating admission fees
By: Brennen Jensen, Chronicle of Philanthropy, September 6, 2007
http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v19/i22/22002301.htm

MDW putting water museum to good use
By: Bob Pratte, Riverside Press Enterprise, September 6, 2007
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_H_hbob07.3e7c5be.html

Who owns the past? [Editorial on NAGPRA’s limited success]
By: Corbin Collins, San Francisco Chronicle, September 5, 2007
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/05/ED8ARUT6D.DTL

Museums can't compete: They're increasingly losing out to wealthy private collectors who can afford to acquire expensive works.
By: Lee Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rosenbaum4sep04,0,7124279.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

At S.F.'s de Young Museum, fashion exhibitions upset fine art fans
By: Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, September 2, 2007
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/02/MNSMRQ8I5.DTL&hw=Museum&sn=001&sc=1000

Audit paints 'troubling picture' of Children's Museum: The Children's Museum needs a better plan for raising funds, L.A. city controller says.
By: Francisco Vara-Orta, Los Angeles Times, August 30, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-museum30aug30,0,2738679.story?coll=la-home-local

Museum may get a reprieve [Preservation of the Big Bear Historical Museum]
By: Kathy Portie, Big Bear Grizzly, August 30, 2007
http://www.bigbeargrizzly.net/articles/2007/08/30/news/museum.txt

You Can Play the Record, but Don't Touch [How the Library of Congress “plays” old records without touching them]
By: Nell Boyce, National Public Radio, August 29, 2007
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11851842

MOCA's Chinese future: In 2026, the museum will acquire the recent artwork just purchased by East West Bank.
By: Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times, August 29, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-et-moca29aug29,1,4484345.story?coll=la-news-a_section

The Broad view of L.A.: Eli Broad has used wealth and power to set an ambitious agenda for change in Los Angeles [Making Los Angeles into a cultural icon]
By: Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times, August 26, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-op-newton26aug26,1,1889414.story?coll=la-news-a_section&ctrack=5&cset=true

Sites Seek to Bring Past Into the Future [How history sites are incorporating multimedia into interpretation]
By: Bentley Boyd, Newport News Va. Daily Press, August 12, 2007
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-00733sy0aug12,0,5283781.story


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