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9/11 Memorial Museum considers $25 entry fee to Ground Zero, angers politicos and tourists

The Sept. 11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero is mulling a suggested admission price of up to $25 - or a mandatory $20 fee - a City Council committee was told Thursday.

The men with the golden guns: Mexican museum displays 'narco bling' weaponry confiscated from drug lords

This gleaming display of weaponry reveals the increasingly extravagant lifestyles of Mexican drug barons. The confiscated items, which include several guns and high-precision rifles lavishly decorated with gold, jewels and even religious symbols, feature in a Mexican military museum.

Chelsea Art Museum To Close To Avoid Foreclosure

The struggling economy is forcing the Chelsea Art Museum to shut its doors for the rest of August to avoid foreclosure.

Queens Assemblyman Michael DenDekker nudges NASA to land shuttle at Intrepid

NASA still hasn't decided where three retiring space shuttles will end up, but New York pols who want one for the Intrepid aren't taking a wait-and-see approach.

Jeffrey Deitch to Head L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art

CANDACE JACKSON The Wall Street Journal 01/11/2010
Tokyo's weirdest museums

Here are some of the Japanese capital's weirdest museums, which are hard to find in your ordinary guidebook.

Jeffrey Deitch to Head L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art

The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is expected to announce later today that Manhattan gallery director Jeffrey Deitch will take over as director, according to people close to the matter.

New York museum opens exhibit on credit crisis

Rebekah Kebede Reuters 03/25/2009
New York's Sept 11 museum to display hijacker perspective

A museum dedicated to the September 11 attacks will display written quotations drawn from "martyrdom" videos made by the hijackers, along with witness testimonials that will be screened to prevent sympathizers from praising the perpetrators, museum officials said on Thursday.

New York museum opens exhibit on credit crisis

The global economic crisis wears on, but the Museum of American Finance is already documenting its history in an exhibit that opened on Wednesday.

The Good Stuff in the Back Room

GERALDINE FABRIKANT New York Times 03/18/2009

New York’s Local Museums Feel the Pinch

ROBIN POGREBIN New York Times 03/18/2009
The Good Stuff in the Back Room

THE poet Clayton Eshleman recently asked the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to see the Mayan vessels that are in its extensive collection but not on public display. He couldn’t read the inscriptions on them from pictures on the museum Web site, he said.

New York’s Local Museums Feel the Pinch

THE Queens County Farm Museum has switched its animal feed to spent grains donated by the Brooklyn Brewery, and Flushing Town Hall, which presents arts and education programs, has taken its trolley tours of famous jazz sites off the road.


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