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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Massive fossilized Walrus penis bone sold for $8,000 |
| Published: August 27, 2007, 5:49 am |
| Tags: Walrus, Penis Bone, Museums |
| Believe It or Not museums. So, it won t be in someone s home but probably in museums for public display. Anyway, this massive penis bone was expected to fetch around $16,000. via Strange.Commongate |
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| Anyone heard of The Unicorn Museum? |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 2:22 pm |
| Tags: Crackhouse, Unicorns, Cryptozoology, Parody, Museums |
| Check this out. Here’s a museum that really wants to be where Ham’s crackhouse (Creation “Museum”) is at! Hope you like Unicorns. |
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| The Heart of Brooklyn Sputters |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 4:57 pm |
| Tags: Real Estate, Brooklyn, Museums Cultural Institutions |
| The reason why you see the Heart of Brooklyn trolley crossing Grand Army Plaza with hardly anybody in it is because there is hardly anybody in it. A new report (PDF) by the Center for an Urban Future paints the hourly weekend service connecting Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and other cultural institutions nearby as something close |
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| Places We Never Visit Dept.: Spy Museum Wants You to Know It's Got Sex, Too! |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 12:27 pm |
| Tags: Ads, Advertisements, Museums, Places We Never Visit Dept, Spy Museum |
| Most DC residents think of the International Spy Museum as either that place where my nieces and nephews go while I’m taking a break from their visit, or the expensive one. The museum, perhaps chastened by its you know — for kids! reputation, has launched a sexy, not-at-all-exploitive new ad campaign (shown above, shot yesterday at |
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| Places We Never Visit Dept.: Spy Museum Wants You to Know It's Got Sex, Too! |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 12:27 pm |
| Tags: Ads, Advertisements, Museums, Places We Never Visit Dept, Spy Museum |
| Most DC residents think of the International Spy Museum as either that place where my nieces and nephews go while I’m taking a break from their visit, or the expensive one. The museum, perhaps... |
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| Visit Pine Bluffs' Texas Trail Museum |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 1:25 pm |
| Tags: Wyoming History, Laramie County, Museums |
| Anthony J. Sacco sent us some new brochures for the Texas Trail Museum of Laramie County, located in Pine Bluffs. Great-looking brochure for a museum that's gone through a series of recent upgrades. The museum opened in 1996 in an old building that once housed the town's power plant and fire hall. It now boasts a four-and-one-half-acre complex, |
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| Gambling in Wyoming nixed a long time ago |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 1:15 pm |
| Tags: Wyoming History, Museums |
| The Wyoming State Museum lecture series continues with Women, Churches and the Battle over Gambling in Harry Hynds' Wyoming, a discussion by Dr. William Moore, September 13, at 7 p.m., in the Multi-Purpose Room. Historians have generally downplayed the influence of churches and religion in early Wyoming. While debating extensively the |
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| Museums and children |
| Published: September 10, 2007, 6:20 am |
| Tags: American Museum Of Natural History, Americanmuseumofnaturalhistory, Amnh, Baby Bjorn, Babybjorn, Bathroom, Big Apply, Bigapply, Bottle, Breastmilk, Children, Culture, Elevators, Exhibit, Five Month Old, Fivemonthold, Kids, Maclaren, Meltdown, Mercer, Museums, Mythical Creatur |
| months, Infant / First year, Museums, Adventures in Parenting, Outings, Joggers/Strollers/Trailers, Making a Difference Yesterday I took Mercer to the American Museum of Natural History. My friend, a former New Yorker born and raised in the Big Apple said, "You took the baby to the AMNH on A Sunday afternoon???? Meaning, there were about a |
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| "Forbidden Art" at UW Art Museum |
| Published: September 12, 2007, 3:09 pm |
| Tags: University Of Wyoming, Artists, Arts Education, Museums, Exhibit |
| Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde opens Saturday, Sept. 15. An art talk, brown bag lunch and open forum will take place Saturday, with a separate gallery walk and art talk on Monday, Sept. 17, at the UW Art Museum in Laramie. From the purges of the Stalinist era to the time before Glasnost, artists creating art that was outside the |
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| Think of the Children? Whose Children? |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 1:15 pm |
| Tags: Museums |
| blocks from Michigan Avenue museums (MOCP, Spertus) and Grant Park's giant playground. The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum is struggling to find donors, and the City is inclined to help them. Why not expand the property to accommodate both institutions? And a quick survey of the Department of Buildings' list of vacant properties turns up |
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| Meteorite For Sale! |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 5:29 pm |
| Tags: Museums |
| The Willamette Meteorite may have landed in Oregon in 1902, but the 15.5-ton rock has resided in NYC for the past 101 years. The American Museum of Natural History acquired it in 1906 and it's been on display there ever since. Now a 28-lb chunk of that meteorite is about to be on the auction block, with an expected price tag of $1.3 million |
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| Essex Street Market Slopes Fully Realized |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 6:11 pm |
| Tags: Manhattan Lower East Side, Museums Cultural |
| British artist Mike Nelson has completed his transformation of the Essex Street Market's Building D on the Lower East Side, and let's just say the disused building south of Delancey Street has never looked so ... granular. The Loho 10002 blog stopped by the temporary installation, called A Psychic Vacancy, and here's a report:A maze of rooms, |
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| Spin the wheel for Depot Museum |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 1:05 pm |
| Tags: Fund Raiser, Laramie County, Museums |
| From a press release from the Cheyenne Depot Museum: Midas Auto Service Centers and the Cheyenne Depot Museum are teaming up to bring another night of gambling and gaming fun to Cheyenne -- Casino Night at the Depot. This event will be held on Friday, Sept. 28, 6-10 p.m. in the lobby of the Cheyenne Depot. Tickets are $25 at the door and include |
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| Symbol and City @ National Building Museum |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 4:45 pm |
| Tags: Museums |
| Written by DCist contributor Morgan Hargrave It is entirely possible that the only people who visit the National Building Museum are intrepid tourists who have strayed from the Mall, or perhaps those only there to count the ridiculous number of columns in the Great Hall. It would be a shame if this were actually true, since the NBM has plenty |
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| Diana's wedding dress arrives Down Under |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 10:12 pm |
| Tags: Arts Entertainment, Fashion, Libraries Museums Galleries, Royalty, Australia, Nsw, Sydney 2000, United Kingdom |
| The wedding dress once worn by Princess Diana has arrived in Australia. |
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