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From pinballmuseum.org:
Las Vegas is known for the unusual and offbeat. Places like the Liberace Museum, the Neon Museum, the Clown Factory, The Elvis Museum, the Barry Manilow Store, the Pinball Hall of Fame… Wait a second. The Pinball Hall of Fame? What exactly is that? Or more importantly, why is there a Pinball Hall of Fame?
The Pinball Hall of Fame is an attempt by the members of the Las Vegas Pinball Collectors Club to house and display the worlds largest pinball collection, open to the public. A not-for-profit corporation was established to further this cause. The games belong to one club member Tim Arnold, and range from 1950s up to 1990s pinball machines. Since it is a non-profit museum, older games from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are the prevelant, as this was the heyday of pinball. There are no ticket spitters here aka kiddie casinos or redemption. Its all pure pinball and a few arcade novelty games from the past. And since its a non-profit, excess revenues go to non-denominational charities.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on October 10, 2007 at 1:48 pm · Permalink
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From nytimes.com:
A nearly four-inch tear is visible to the right of the boat. I like how the Minister of Culture describes the intruders as leaving “various bits of filth” — she sounds totally repulsed…. Dr. Disney
Intruders broke into the Musée d’Orsay early Sunday and one of them damaged a work by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet, the latest in a series of acts of vandalism and thefts at cultural sites in France.
A nearly 4-inch tear is seen in renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet, “Le Pont d’Argenteuil,” at the Orsay Museum in Paris.
Christine Albanel, the minister of culture, said the intruders left a tear close to four inches long in the painting “The Argenteuil Bridge,” from 1874.
The break-in was “an attack against our memory and our heritage,” Ms. Albanel told French radio France Info. She said the intruders, believed to be four men and a woman, appeared drunk and “left various bits of filth” before “one of them stuck a fist into the magnificent masterpiece by Monet.”
The alarms sounded and museum personnel arrived quickly, but the intruders were able to flee, Ms. Albanel said. The painting can be restored, she said.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on October 9, 2007 at 9:34 am · Permalink
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From mercurynews.com:
The founders of the Gap retail clothing chain, Donald and Doris Fisher, announced plans Wednesday for a proposed 100,000-square-foot museum in San Francisco’s Presidio to show their contemporary art collection. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on August 9, 2007 at 1:23 pm · Permalink
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From dailypress.com:
The year-long celebration of Jamestowns 400th anniversary picked up a fresh shot of historical interest late last month with the opening of the second in a series of four sprawling exhibits exploring “The World of 1607.”
On view at Jamestown Settlement through mid-October, the eye-popping collection of period artifacts recreates the world of Capt. John Smith with more than 100 special loans from 22 museums, libraries and other institutions around the globe. Among the rarest of the objects in the show are several unusually early American Indian items —including two ball-headed war clubs, a beaded pouch and a hardwood bow — that were originally acquired by two English naturalists during the first half of the 1600s.
The exhibit also boasts several objects from the famed Cheapside Hoard — a buried cache of Elizabethan and Jacobean-period jewelry that was unearthed in London during a construction project in 1912. Among these treasures is a circa -1603 cameo portrait of Queen Elizabeth I — one of only 30 hardstone images of the monarch that survives from the time of her reign. — Mark St. John Erickson
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Posted by Dr. Disney on August 6, 2007 at 2:08 pm · Permalink
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From iht.com:
They even stole all four of the Teletubbies! - Dr. Disney
Many of Irelands wax heroes and villains have vanished, been decapitated or stripped naked in a raid that police are blaming on drug-fueled youths.
The National Wax Museum, which hopes to reopen this fall, says at least 50 of its 400 figures were stolen or wrecked in a south Dublin warehouse several weeks ago. Police say they suspect that a door was left unlocked and the warehouse used as an all-night venue for a “rave” party.
Among those stripped of their clothes were Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Charles de Gaulle, and rebel icons from Irelands war of independence with Britain. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on July 31, 2007 at 11:42 am · Permalink
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The giant Titum Arum has bloomed at the US Botanical Garden in Washington DC. The flower stinks like a rotting corpse and the smell is believed to attract carion beetles who pollinate it. (I couldn’t get the site to link, but I did get the picture.)
Posted by Dr. Disney on July 3, 2007 at 12:20 pm · Permalink
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From themoneytimes.com:
Holland, Mich. — Boxes full of educational films recently arrived at Michigans Holland Museum, but unfortunately the packages were originally expected 34 years ago.
Officials at the museum in Holland, Mich., said they were confused why last weeks postal delivery took more than three decades to reach its final destination, the Grand Rapids Mich. Press said Friday.
“We were just so curious,” museum archivist Deborah Postema-George said.
The films initially had been lent out in 1973 by the citys Netherlands Information Service, which the museum replaced, and apparently were lost in transit on their way back to the museum.
While the exact reason for the boxes sudden appearance remains a mystery, Holland Postmaster John Masuga postulated their re-emergence was thanks to a spring-cleaning effort.
Masuga told the Press someone likely had stored the boxes decades ago and only unearthed them while cleaning, prompting them to send the films to their rightful owners.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on June 25, 2007 at 5:13 pm · Permalink
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From go.com:
photo Ken Ham - founder of Creation Museum
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Adam is running into trouble in the Garden of Eden. In this case Adam is actor Eric Linden, who is shown in a brief video at the new Creation Museum in Columbus, Ohio.
It turns out Linden founded a sexually graphic Web site called Bedroom Acrobat. On finding that out, Museum officials have pulled the Garden of Eden clip that features Linden. They say theyre investigating reports that Linden participated in projects that arent in line with the museums, quote, “biblical standards and moral code.”
Linden tells the A-P hes no longer affiliated with Bedroom Acrobat and works as a professional model and actor. And he says he was proud to be Adam.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on June 8, 2007 at 12:08 pm · Permalink
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From thedailygreen.com:
Natural history museums are usually in the business of showing off the species lost or endangered by the modern world, but they themselves are showing some strains from the modern economy.
The not-for-profit institutions are running deep into the red — $300,000 on average.
At a time when multimedia displays like the Planet Earth series (not to mention Ben Stiller’s recent “Night at the Museum” flick, in which some of those creatures come to life) are garnering huge audiences, and the need for education about the loss of the world species and the state of the world’s environment at an all-time high, museums are struggling to maintain their niche.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on June 5, 2007 at 9:09 am · Permalink
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jta.org
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw will break ground June 26.
The $58 million museum is set to open between 2009 and 2010. It will showcase the 1,000-year history of Polish Jews, who comprised 10 percent of the country’s population before the Holocaust — more than in any other European nation.
The museum, which has a board of international experts, will focus on how Jews lived together with Poles for centuries, but will also confront head-on the subject of anti-Semitism.
The groundbreaking will include the signing of a construction act to be sealed in a glass-topped space below the ground, which will also hold fragments of the buildings and streets that were destroyed by the Nazis during the1943 Ghetto Uprising.
Posted by Dr. Disney on June 1, 2007 at 11:48 am · Permalink
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