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Story A majority of travelers choose to get their culture fix at these
museums. How many have you visited? Lyndsey Matthews, Travel + Leisure, November 2011 WORLD – “There’s a woman so captivating that millions travel just to
set eyes on her. Even if da Vinci’s Mona Lisa isn’t your type, you can’t
argue with the numbers: last year 8.5 million people streamed through the
Louvre, which houses her, making it the world’s most-visited museum. Artistic
masterpieces and scientific artifacts clearly interest travelers at least as
much as attractions like the Eiffel Tower (visited by 6.7 million). We dug
deeper to find out which 20 museums worldwide are considered must-sees worth
the price of admission. The Louvre Museum, ranked No. 1, benefits from broad
name recognition and an enviable art collection, but it also has the good
fortune of being located in France, which—along with the U.S.—drew the most
international tourists in 2010, according to the World Tourism Organization.
More than half of the 20 most-visited museums are located in Paris, D.C., or
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Stéphanie Morin, La Presse, 23 novembre 2011 GATINEAU-OTTAWA – “Les jours sont courts et froids, mais la plupart
des patinoires et des sentiers de ski de fond ne sont pas encore ouverts. Ne
restent que la télé et les jeux vidéo pour amuser les petits? Détrompez-vous,
la région de Gatineau-Ottawa compte de nombreux musées qui les fascineront
tout autant que leurs parents. En voici trois. Musée des enfants Défense de toucher quand on est au musée? Pas ici!
Ce musée est un vaste terrain de jeu pour petits touche-à-tout, où ils
peuvent manipuler des centaines d'objets, revêtir des costumes des quatre
coins du monde et collectionner les estampes dans leur passeport pour le tour
du monde. […] Musée canadien de la nature Après six ans de travaux de son magnifique édifice centenaire, le
musée a rouvert ses portes l'an dernier. Derrière la façade gothique Tudor
rénovée - coiffée désormais d'un lanternon de verre -, des espaces
d'exposition réaménagés servent d'écrin à l'imposante collection du plus
vieux musée national du Canada. […] Musée canadien de la guerre Des enfants dans un musée consacré aux grands conflits armés qui ont
marqué le Canada? Pourquoi pas. S'ils ont plus de 9 ou 10 ans - ou s'ils sont
fascinés par les chars d'assaut, les avions, les blindés... -, la visite
pourrait les passionner. …” Pushkin museum Italian treasures just a click away RT.com, Published: 23 November, 2011, 13:44, Edited: 23
November, 2011, 19:19 MOSCOW – “Moscow’s Pushkin
Museum of Fine Arts boasts a truly impressive collection of Italian
paintings. Now, one no longer needs leave the house in order to see them:
over 500 works, from Veronese to De Chirico, are available from the comfort
of your sofa. In a challenging multimedia project involving dozens of
scientists, years of work and some $135,000, the museum has placed its
Italian collection online. The website is available in three languages –
Russian, English and – naturalmente! Italian. Masterpieces from the 8th to
the 20th century were carefully photographed and digitalized to convey their
unique beauty and show every crack and detail. …” Future of Royal Alberta Museum’s Glenora site unknown Vicky Laliotis, West Edmonton Local, 23 November 2011 EDMONTON — “Now that federal funding to rebuild the Royal Alberta
Museum downtown has come through, heritage advocates have high hopes for
the current west Edmonton site. Edmonton Centre MP Laurie Hawn announced on
Nov. 16 that the federal government would put $122.5 million towards the
project on the condition that construction on the new site begins by November
of next year. A design-build contract was signed with Ledcor Design Group,
with plans for the provincial museum to take up residence just north of City
Hall by 2015 now in full swing. …” Smithsonian named one of the 10 best places to work in the
federal government in 2011 Recent News, artdaily.org, 21 November 2011 WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian Institution has been named one of the
10 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government. The rankings were released
today by the non-profit Partnership for Public Service headquartered in
Washington, D.C. This is the second year that the Smithsonian participated in
the survey. The Institution ranked fourth in the top 10, the same ranking as
last year. Employee satisfaction at the Smithsonian was 76 out of 100, 12
points higher than the overall Best Places to Work index score for the
federal government. “We’re delighted to be in the top 10 again, but it is no
surprise because our employees come to work with a can-do attitude and a
commitment to serve the public,” said Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough. “I
see it every day in many different ways and I’m proud of our passionate
people and all they do to make the Smithsonian a better place.” …” Heather Conway: Artful connecting with art Richard Blackwell, The Globe and Mail, 21 November 2011 TORONTO – “Heather Conway has been a top executive at high-profile
public companies including Toronto-Dominion Bank and Alliance Atlantis
Communications Inc. After a stint as CEO of public relations firm Edelman
Canada, she made a sharp shift out of the private sector, recently taking on
the newly created position of chief business officer at one of Canada’s
premier cultural institutions, the Art Gallery of Ontario. …” Abu Dhabi Art 2011: 50 prestigious and innovative galleries
participate in this year's edition Recent News, artdaily.org, 18 November 2011 DUBAI – “The third edition of Abu Dhabi Art, the leading platform for
international modern and contemporary art, has today launched its diverse
2011 programme on Saadiyat Island. Abu Dhabi Art 2011 will be housed in the
new UAE Pavilion which was designed by Foster + Partners as well as Manarat
Al Saadiyat, the Saadiyat Cultural District’s exhibition center, opened since
2009. The huge UAE Pavilion, originally designed for the Shanghai World Expo
2010 has been relocated in more than 24,000 individual parts and was inspired
by the golden sand dunes of the Emirates. Organised by Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC)
and the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage (ADACH), this
year’s expanded international programme includes a boutique art fair made up
of around 50 prestigious and innovative galleries as well as exhibitions,
film screenings, panel discussions and more. This year will also see a larger
design platform and workshops with leading practitioners, a family focused
‘Art Zone’ and an exclusive VIP Zone, the Majilis. …” Western professor leaves lifetime collection to Museum of
Nature Paul Mayne, Western News, 17 November 2011 LONDON, ON – “While it was simply a hobby for Frank Cook, the Canadian
Museum of Nature has cashed in with the amateur naturalist’s donation of
more than 1,500 plant specimens including rare and endangered species of
mosses. The University of Western Ontario professor emeritus (botany/biology)
amassed his collection over more than 35 years of fieldwork, starting around
1970. The 90-year-old Cook, who now lives on Barrie, taught plant physiology
at Western for 35 years prior to retiring in 1987. …” Marc Mayer: The National Gallery and Taxpayers’ Money Leah Sandals, Canadian Art, Nov 16 & 17 2011 OTTAWA – “Last week, National Gallery of Canada director Marc
Mayer gave free public talks in Toronto and Winnipeg on an often-controversial
topic in the arts: taxpayers’ money. In it, Mayer discussed misconceptions
that the general public and art insiders alike often have about art, artists,
art museums and the art economy. He also spoke about his wish to make art
more accessible to all Canadians. Here, in this condensed follow-up phone
interview, Mayer talks with Leah Sandals about the gallery’s budget (slated
this year at approximately $58 million), where it comes from, and what he’s
planning on doing with it in the future. …” Museums
National Museum of Scotland welcomes millionth visitor Staff thought it would take a year to reach the landmark number but it
has been just 119 days since the doors reopened. STV, 24 November 2011 10:47 GMT EDINBURGH – “The National Museum of Scotland has welcomed its
millionth visitor since it reopened four months ago. It has been just 119
days since the museum opened its doors to the public after a £47m renovation.
Staff thought it would take them a year to reach the milestone figure. The
millionth visitor was one of a group of nursery children from Stockbridge
Primary in Edinburgh. The attraction has seen a record number of visitors
through the doors since the refit. The highest figure it has ever seen was in
2007/08 when 833,324 people went to the museum. …” Knesset to vote on bill to allow state funding of West Bank
museums Bill to be brought before the Knesset for its first reading next week,
over the objections of representatives of the Justice Ministry and the Defense
Ministry. Jonathan Lis and Daniel Rauchwerger, Haaretz, Published 00:44
24.11.2011, Latest update 00:44 24.11.2011 WEST BANK/ISRAEL - “The Knesset Education and Culture Committee on
Wednesday approved a bill that would allow museums in West Bank settlements
to apply for state funding. The bill is to be brought before the Knesset for
its first reading next week, over the objections of representatives of the
Justice Ministry and the Defense Ministry. If the bill becomes law, 15
museums in various Jewish settlements, including Kiryat Arba, Ma'aleh Adumim
and Ariel could apply for funding. …” En
las entrañas del Museo Arqueológico Nacional María Cappa, El Mundo, 23 November 2011-11-24 MADRID, SPAIN – “Cuatro meses después de su cierre temporal, el Museo
Arqueológico Nacional (MAN) abre de nuevo sus puertas. Desde mañana y hasta
el 30 de diciembre ofrece un programa de visitas guiadas, previamente
concertadas, de 90 minutos de duración. Los visitantes podrán ser testigos de
la transición del proceso final de las obras civiles (arreglos en el
edificio) y museológicas (restauración de las obras de arte) a la primera
fase de la apertura definitiva del Arqueológico. A principios de 2012 se
prevé que esté lista la Exposición Permanente, que contará con las 200
mejores piezas de la colección del MAN. También estarán habilitadas dos
exposiciones: (…) Este artista ha realizado una serie fotográfica que refleja
todo el proceso de las obras de renovación, estructural y museográfica, desde
el comienzo. Su exposición supone un refuerzo visual de la visita, que
culmina con una videoinstalación también dirigida por Ballester.” Songtangzhai Museum rises from rubble Zhao Chenyan, China Daily, Updated: 2011-11-23 09:37 BEIJING – “Peacefully tucked away on tree-lined Guozijian Street in
Beijing, Songtangzhai Museum appears to be a tiny little antique without any
shiny modern decorations. Yet when you approach it, you will find every part
of it is engraved with brilliant but mostly unfamiliar traditional Chinese
culture. Located on Guozijian Street of Beijing, Songtangzhai Museum is
China's first folk carving museum that collects ancient relics of carvings
retrieved from the rubble of demolition sites across the capital of China,
and it also is called the "picked museum." Founded in October 2001,
Songtangzhai Museum exhibits thousands of collections mainly consisting of
folk items, such as elaborate gate piers, exquisite wooden doorways, and delicate
screens, which occupy a courtyard in Beijing. …” Bike museum in planning stages Nicholas Cole, Houston Chronicle, Published 05:46 p.m.,
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 HOUSTON – “More than 20 years ago Joy Boone, owner of Daniel Boone
Cycles, 5318 Crawford, had a vision to build a bicycle museum. This week she
took the first step to make it a reality. "I'm turning 75 years old this
year; so it's now or never," said Boone, who recently hosted a
fundraising event at the Hermann Park Garden Center, 1500 Hermann Drive, for
the newly formed Houston Bicycle Museum organization. …” Iconic Museum Hopes to Open in Kansas City Rob Low, Fox 4 Kansas City News, 9:58 pm, November 22, 2011 KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – “The best kept secret in Kansas City may be a
museum filled with the world’s largest collection of Advertising Icons.
Everything from human sized replicas of the Jolly Green Giant and the
Pillsbury Doughboy to the Gieco Lizard and Tony the Tiger. They are among
some three-thousand items that have been collected by a local group of
advertising executives. Two hundred of the most popular icons are housed in
an old firehouse in the Crossroads District. But they’re not on public
display, at least not yet. The Executive Director of the Advertising
Icon Museum, Howard Boasberg, says the museum needs to raise three to four
million dollars to pay for a bigger building and staff to put the entire
collection on display. …” Le fac-similé de la grotte Chauvet confié à Kléber Rossillon
Artclair, 22-11-2011 LYON – “Le conseil régional de Rhône-Alpes a annoncé lundi 21 novembre
le choix du gestionnaire de la future réplique de la grotte Chauvet. Il
s’agira de Kléber Rossillon, la société déjà à la tête du Musée de
Montmartre. Le site devrait ouvrir en 2014. Le conseil régional de
Rhône-Alpes a tranché, la future reproduction de la grotte Chauvet sera
exploitée par Kléber Rossillon. La société de gestion privée, créée en 1995, est
déjà opérateur du Musée de Montmartre depuis juin 2011, ainsi que du train de
Vivarais (Ardèche), du château-musée de Castelnaud et des jardins suspendus
de Marqueyssac (Dordogne). Selon l’AFP, elle était en concurrence avec deux
autres candidats et devait présenter un projet prenant en compte différents
critères, tels que « les investissements nécessaires pour la réalisation de
l’espace, l’adaptation de la politique tarifaire, la coopération avec les
acteurs locaux, la préservation de l’environnement ou encore la restauration
en circuit court ». …” China Civil Aviation Museum opens China Daily, Updated: 2011-11-22 17:13 BEIJING – “China Civil Aviation Museum, located in northeast Beijing
on a side road leading to Beijing Capital International Airport, opened on
Nov 21. With a total of 130 million yuan in funding, the museum houses a wide
array of both model and real planes covering different periods of China's
civil aviation history. Among them, there is the IL-14 aircraft that used to
shuttle the late Chinese leader Chairman Mao. …” Britain's first Gaelic museum is to open in Stornoway thanks
to lottery funding Jenni Davidson, Culture24, 22 November 2011 STORNOWAY, ISLE OF LEWIS, SCOTLAND – “The first museum in the UK to
use Gaelic as its first language is to open on the Isle of Lewis. The
Heritage Lottery Fund has announced that it is investing £4.6 million in a
new museum and visitor accommodation in Stornoway. It is hoped that the
museum will become a key destination and encourage tourism in the Western
Isles. The new museum will display the collections of Museum nan Eilean, as
well as supporting the work of more than 20 different heritage organisations
which have been collecting material relating to Gaelic communities during the
past 30 years and who now have unrivalled archives of photographs, documents
and memorabilia. …” General Assembly of ICCROM appoints new Director-General Recent News, artdaily.org, 22 November 2011 ROME – “ICCROM held its 27th General Assembly from 14-16 November 2011
at the FAO headquarters in Rome. During the packed three-day schedule,
delegates appointed Stefano De Caro of Italy as the new Director-General;
approved the organization’s programme and budget for cultural heritage
training activities for the next two years; welcomed Afghanistan, Iraq and
the United Arab Emirates to the list of Member States; and awarded the
prestigious ICCROM Award to Herb Stovel for his outstanding contribution to
the conservation profession. …” Marxism museum to be launched in China Xinhua English News, 2011-11-21 18:57:38 BEIJING – “The China Marxism Museum will open before the end of this
year, the museum's sponsor said on Monday. Sponsored by the Central
Compilation and Translation Bureau (CCTB), the museum will feature
collections of Marxist works that have been translated and published in China
over the last 100 years. …” Clyfford Still Museum in Denver reintroduces the life and
work of the American artist Recent News, artdaily.org, 21 November 2011 DENVER, CO – “The Clyfford Still Museum opened its doors to the public
on November 18, 2011, reintroducing the life and work of one of America’s
most significant yet least understood artists. The new museum, which houses
94% of Clyfford Still’s total creative output, allows the public to explore
the full trajectory of the artist’s 60-year career for the first time,
including his rarely seen figurative works from the 1930s, paintings from the
1960s and 1970s created after Still’s retreat from the commercial art world,
and the hundreds of works on paper that the artist created, often on a
near-daily basis. The museum’s collection of approximately 2,400 paintings,
drawings, prints, and sculptures, the majority of which have never been on
public display before, provides an unprecedented opportunity to reflect on
the full scope of Still’s legacy and his profound influence on American art.
…” [see also Ouverture
du Musée Clyfford Still à Denver, Artclair,
21 novembre 2011] La
ville de Nice accueillera un musée Arman Artclair, 21 novembre 2011 NICE/PARIS - “La veuve d’Arman a annoncé jeudi 17 novembre la création
prochaine à Nice d’un musée dédié à l’artiste. Une décision que les héritiers
du plasticien saluent. Ils protestent cependant contre la nouvelle
acquisition du Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de la ville. Le prêt de
l’une de ses œuvres, une voiture de sport dynamitée, aurait été acté sans
leur aval. …” Anger at Walmart heiress's $1.4bn gallery as art market
becomes focus for protests Crystal Bridges Museum for American Art is built at vast expense in
rural Bentonville as supermarket giant cuts benefits for workforce Edward Helmore, The Guardian – The Observer, 20 November 2011 UNITED STATES - “When Alice Walton, heiress to the Walmart supermarket
fortune and the 10th richest woman in the United States, opened a spectacular
fine art museum in her home town, she might have expected plaudits and
gratitude. It hasn't quite worked out that way. The long-awaited opening of
the Crystal Bridges Museum for American Art in Walton's home town of
Bentonville, Arkansas, has provoked mixed reactions. Some have celebrated the
unveiling of a significant new private art institution, but many have
criticised the decision to spend $1.4bn of company and family foundation
money as the retail colossus cuts back its workers' benefits. Protesters at
the museum have informally joined forces with the Occupy Wall Street camps
across the US and point to growing ties between the Occupy movement and established
trade unions. …” New museum dedicated to photography opens in city Anatolia News Agency, Hurriyet Daily News, Sunday, November 20,
2011 ISTANBUL – “Turkey’s first photography museum, the Istanbul
Photography Museum, opened Saturday in collaboration with the Fatih
Municipality and the Photography Friends Association. The museum, covering an
area of 1,000 square meters in Fatih’s Kadırga district, includes five
photography galleries, a photo archive and a library. …” Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum will fold Sale of building could liquidate debt, endow other projects Bernard Harris, Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era,
Updated Nov 18, 2011 23:04 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA – “When the Lancaster Quilt & Textile
Museum opened in 2004, organizers expected between 35,000 and 55,000 people
to come through the doors to see the famous Esprit Collection of Amish
quilts. That never happened. This year, only 8,500 have paid admission to the
37 N. Market St. museum. And it simply was not enough to keep operating. On
Friday afternoon, the Heritage Center of Lancaster County board announced the
museum will cease regular daily operations at the end of the year and the
building will be offered for sale. The museum will be opened to groups on a
reservation basis and for special events through the end of 2012. "It
was a flawed business model. It was the best of intents, but it never
worked," board President Sharron Nelson said of the quilt museum. ...” Award Unites Artists, Collectors and a Museum Reyhan Harmanci, The New York Times, 18 November 2011 SAN FRANCISCO – “They come in buses, 50 or so Bay Area contemporary
art collectors, consultants and enthusiasts, to visit 30 select emerging
artists every two years. For six Saturdays, the well-heeled lot traipses
through small studios and edgy galleries, looking at delicate line drawings
and sprawling sculptural installations alike, to meet the people they hope
will become the next generation of Bay Area visual art stars. “It’s the
ultimate backstage pass to the contemporary art world,” said Marianna Stark,
a San Francisco collector. “People sit enraptured when the artists and
curators talk.” The studio visits are just one part of an art tradition that
has helped bring together ambitious Bay Area artists, enthusiastic collectors
and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for the past 50 years under the
auspices of a museum auxiliary club of which Ms. Stark is a member, the
Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art. …” Get cultured for nothing and your art for free James Adams, From Saturday's Globe and Mail, Published Friday,
Nov. 18, 2011 7:10PM EST TORONTO – “Ask Samara Walbohm how she’s feeling today and she’ll
probably say what she said earlier this week: “Excited. Nervous. Scared.” In
fact, she’s probably been feeling that way since May when she and her
husband, Joe Shlesinger, signed a five-year lease on an L-shaped,
500-square-metre space down an alley near the eternally funky intersection of
Bloor West and Lansdowne. Positioned unprepossessingly between an auto-body
shop and a marble-fixtures retailer, the former warehouse/wine-fermentation
outlet with the “very Chelsea-20-years-ago kind of feel” is in the final,
hectic throes of a white-walled conversion into Scrap Metal – the name Ms.
Walbohm and Mr. Shlesinger are giving to what they hope – heck, believe –
will become one of Toronto’s most important venues for visual arts and
ancillary activities. Maybe even for Canada. It’s a non-commercial gallery
scheduled to open to the public Dec. 9. …” Daniel Grant, The Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2011 UNITED STATES - “When the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh opened in
1994, it showed only the artist's work, largely in chronological fashion.
However, "pretty early on," said Eric Shiner, the museum's current
director, "people realized that they didn't want this museum to be a
mausoleum but, rather, a vibrant place that is connected to what else is
going on in contemporary art. You don't want visitors to say, 'Now, I can
check that off the list. I don't need to go back.'" So the museum—which
continues to be a permanent display of Warhol's work, laid out chronologically
and thematically—reinvented itself by the late 1990s into an institution that
"tells the story of Warhol but also keeps his legacy" by showing
artwork by the artist's contemporaries and those influenced by him. …” What should we do with “our” antiquities? US museum directors wrestle
with the long-term consequences of artefacts acquired without watertight
provenance Erica Cooke, The Art
Newspaper, Issue 229, November 2011, Published online: 17 November 2011 UNITED STATES - “One year
on from the collapse of the five-year trial in Rome of Marion True, the
former antiquities curator of the Getty, the directors of US museums that
possess antiquities collections and the curators who are responsible for them
face a multitude of challenges, one of which is the potentially negative
publicity surrounding claims for the restitution of artefacts. …” Le
Liechtenstein museum de Vienne ferme ses portes au public Artclair, 17 novembre 2011 VIENNA - “Le prince Hans Adam II, propriétaire du Liechtenstein museum de
Vienne, a annoncé la fermeture au public de son établissement, à compter de
février 2012. Accueillant l’une des plus grandes collections privées du
monde, le musée souffre d’un manque de visiteurs : 45 000 par an au lieu des
300 000 espérés. Les collections permanentes resteront néanmoins accessibles
sur réservation. …” La
Fondation Van Gogh d’Arles se dote de nouveaux locaux Artclair, 17 novembre 2011 ARLES, FRANCE - “A Arles, la Fondation Van Gogh a lancé un vaste projet
de lieu d’exposition, dédié à la fois à l’artiste dont elle porte le nom et à
l’art contemporain. Installé dans un hôtel particulier du centre historique,
l’ouverture de ce nouvel espace est prévue au printemps 2013. …” 2012 The Travelling Chinese Museum Chinese Museum, November 2011 MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – “Is an excursion to the Chinese Museum out of
the question for your school? Now we can bring the Chinese Museum to you. The
Travelling Chinese Museum – presents an exciting program of cultural
experiences encompassing various areas of the curriculum to your classroom.
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