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Museums at Night Report: Gavin Turk, pyramid power and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
24 Hour Museum - May 16, 2015 - 8:00pm
Artist Gavin Turk's occult new sculptures are among the after-hours attractions in the West country. Mark Sheerin explores the power of pyramids.
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The Fine Art Society celebrates the lost art of British Twentieth Century Murals
24 Hour Museum - February 13, 2014 - 8:00pm
The Fine Art Society in London is hosting a major exhibition bringing together many of the important murals and decorative cycles undertaken in Britain between 1910 and 1970.
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George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life at the Royal Academy
24 Hour Museum - October 14, 2013 - 8:00pm
George Bellows' paintings explored the dark and dismal corners of human existence to reveal the gritty reality that lay at the heart of 20th century American life, says Ruth Hazard.
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Museum of London Archaeologists say volcano killed thousands of medieval Londoners
24 Hour Museum - August 5, 2013 - 8:00pm
Museum of London archaeologists say medieval remains found in mass burial pits during an excavation at Spitalfields ten years ago died as a result of a volcanic eruption.
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Heritage Lottery Fund unveils small grants programme to help commemorate First World War
24 Hour Museum - 1 hour 1 min ago
The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced details of a new £6 million small grants programme for smaller community projects marking the Centenary of the First World War.
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Earth and Moon seen from nearly a billion miles away!
Science Buzz - Science Museum of Minnesota [and Best of the Web] - July 20, 2013 - 11:51pm
Earth and Moon: Does this make my planet look small? (enlarge photo by clicking on it - then you'll see the Moon, too.)Courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute During the Apollo lunar missions in the late 60s and early 70s, many of the astronauts remarked at how small Earth seemed from the Moon. On this anniversary of his first steps on the lunar surface, I wonder what Neil Armstrong would have thought of this remarkable photograph taken yesterday by the Cassini spacecraft? In the center of a field of stars sits planet Earth and the Moon taken from more than 898,000,000 miles away!
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Anniversary of first Moon landing
Science Buzz - Science Museum of Minnesota [and Best of the Web] - July 20, 2013 - 11:22am
The LEM, the Earth, and the Moon: Astronaut Michael Collins captured this photograph of the lunar excursion module, the Moon, and the Earth from Columbia, the orbiting command module, during the historic Apollo 11 mission.Courtesy NASAForty-four years ago today, I was laying on the beach at Park Point in Duluth, Minnesota when those famous words, "The Eagle has landed" came over my little transistor radio, signaling Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's successful landing of their spacecraft on the Moon. That evening, I was working my shift at a local restaurant, busing tables. The manager (thankfully) had placed a television in the dining area so patrons (and I) could watch as Armstrong made his monumental first steps on the lunar surface. The rest, of course, is history.
LINKS
Apollo 11 mission
PBS - Race to the Moon
Moon landing not a hoax
National Park status for lunar landings (A great idea!)
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Good time for an astronomical photobomb!
Science Buzz - Science Museum of Minnesota [and Best of the Web] - July 19, 2013 - 5:03pm
Artists conception of big photo opCourtesy NASA/JPL-CaltechHey, everybody. Heads up! Today (July 19, 2013), at approximately 4:27 CDT the Cassini spacecraft, which is 898 million miles away, will take a snapshot from the other side of Saturn that will include not only the ringed planet but our very own planet Earth. The photo op will last for about 15 minutes. Perfect time for a photobomb don't you think?
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Meet Heritage Crew!
Science Buzz - Science Museum of Minnesota [and Best of the Web] - July 19, 2013 - 2:39pm
The Kitty Andersen Youth Science Center
KAYSC LogoCourtesy KAYSC has a new crew on the block! The Heritage Crew is going to be working in the Archeology department in the museum and will be working out at an archeological dig site called Sheffield Site. They'll be digging up artifacts belonging to the Oneota along the St. Croix River. In August, they will also excavate the sites and process the artifacts back at the museum. Currently, they are learning about the different types of stone used at the site that the Oneota used for stone tools (lithics), the pottery at the site, and bones (faunal material). Most of the material dates to around 2000 years old. Follow us on Facebook at The Sheffield Site!
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Katie Paterson to talk at Turner Contemporary before meteorite returns to outer space
24 Hour Museum - July 19, 2013 - 12:00am
Known for her intergalactic interventions, Katie Paterson - a star of the gallery's current Curiosity exhibition - will be describing her magic in Kent later this month.
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Cockney Heritage Festival in Tower Hamlets aims to prove culture is not brown bread
24 Hour Museum - July 19, 2013 - 12:00am
Pie and mash, jellied eels, Cockney Rejects, tea dances and a reading by a landlord-turned-writer as the inaugural Cockney Heritage Festival aims to dispel media reports of the untimely demise of the East Ender.
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Ian Brown, Bobby Gillespie, DMC and friends open Adidas Spezial show in London
24 Hour Museum - July 19, 2013 - 12:00am
Stars including Ian Brown, Bobby Gillespie, Maverick Sabre and DMC opened a show at Hoxton Gallery featuring the shoes of Eminem and Public Enemy.
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Lyons Teashops Lithographs and Dependent Rational Animals at Eastbourne Towner
24 Hour Museum - July 19, 2013 - 12:00am
In a previous age of austerity, Edward Bawden, John Piper, John Nash, LS Lowry responded with lithographs. Their works are accompanied by a gallery installation at Towner.
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Unseen Enemy tells the story of IEDs at the National Army Museum
24 Hour Museum - July 19, 2013 - 12:00am
With unprecedented access to the men and women who search for IEDs in Afghanistan, an interactive display tells the stories of personnel risking their lives.
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Learn your personal risk factors for getting bit by mosquitoes
Science Buzz - Science Museum of Minnesota [and Best of the Web] - July 18, 2013 - 2:08pm
Mosquito: Researchers have tracked several traits that make people be more susceptible to mosquito bites. How do you rate?Courtesy JJ HarrisonWith all the rain we've had this summer, the conditions are prime for creating large mosquito populations. And researchers have now figured out certain factors – like blood type – that can make people be more tasty targets for the little buzzers. Question, do you think mosquitoes prefer to strike beer drinkers? Click here to find the answer to that, and other factors that can impact your appeal to mosquitoes.
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Corn hand-pollination in the Three Sisters Garden
Science Buzz - Science Museum of Minnesota [and Best of the Web] - July 18, 2013 - 1:47pm
Come out this afternoon to the Three Sisters Garden in the Big Back Yard to see and learn about how we are learning to increase the genetic diversity and vigor of our precious collection of American Indian heirloom corn varieties! We will have some guest coming to teach us how to transfer the pollen from one corn plant to fertilize the silk on another corn plant of the same variety. This is a time-consuming process that we will need to keep a close eye on all summer as the different varieties flower at different times. This help control any possible cross pollination with nearby varieties but also ensures that we don't have any cross-pollination with any corn grown up to two miles away - corn pollen can travel that far!
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Celebrating Nam June Paik's Birthday
Eye Level from the Smithsonian American Art Museum - July 18, 2013 - 10:00am
Takeshi Murata
The artwork and ideas of Nam June Paik were a major influence on late twentieth-century art and continue to inspire a new generation of artists. Each year, the museum celebrates Paik's birthday on July 20 with a talk by a contemporary artist who was influenced by his work. This year, we welcome digital video artist Takeshi Murata, who will share how his interests have been shaped by Paik's innovative work. Murata manipulates animation, digital video, and appropriated footage to create complex and visually compelling works. He exploits the distortions and glitches that result from digital compression to create flowing layers of color and form that appear almost painterly in style. Murata was one of the first artists to employ this technique, which is known as "datamoshing." If you find the concept confusing, check out Murata's 2005 Monster Movie, recently acquired by the museum for the permanent collection, in which the artist transforms a section of an old B-movie into a swirling, hypnotic dance of color. Want to know more? Join us on Saturday at 6 p.m. for his talk! There will be Paik cake. (@PaikBot will be tweeting, too.)
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Culture24's top ten summer 2013 heritage steam railway tips for family fun
24 Hour Museum - July 18, 2013 - 12:00am
A trip across the tracks on a steam railway engine is always a treat on a sunny day. Powering from the Severn Valley to Snowdonia and beyond, we pick a few to enjoy.
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Andy Murray donates Centre Court winning kit to Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
24 Hour Museum - July 18, 2013 - 12:00am
Andy Murray has gifted the kit he wore during his momentous Mens' Singles Championship 2013 victory to the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum.
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Clare Woods explores the relationship between people and landscape at Harewood House
24 Hour Museum - July 18, 2013 - 12:00am
A quartet of monumental lithographs dominate the latest contemporary art exhibition at Harewood House where Clare Woods' beautiful abstract figurative landscapes are displayed.
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