Read more museum stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2232/museum.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:21:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70936/zut-alors-french-attack-big-macs-at-louvre.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNews that a McDonald's will open just yards from the entrance of the Louvre museum has sent lovers of French culture into conniptions. “This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odors in the context of a museum,” sniffed one art historian who works at the...http://www.newser.com/story/70936/zut-alors-french-attack-big-macs-at-louvre.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 05 Oct 2009 3:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70840/only-footage-of-anne-frank-hits-youtube.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Anne Frank House has posted the only surviving video of the young diarist and Holocaust victim on YouTube. “The footage is very moving and very unique because these are the only moving images of Anne Frank,” a museum representative tells the Guardian . The film, of an Amsterdam neighbor’s wedding,...http://www.newser.com/story/70840/only-footage-of-anne-frank-hits-youtube.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 02 Oct 2009 10:55:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70260/nations-top-museums-free-tomorrow.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAdmission to over 1,200 museums across America will be free tomorrow as part of the Smithsonian's annual "Museum Day." The event is aimed at promoting culture and removing "any economic barrier" keeping people from enjoying museums, a Smithsonian exec tells USA Today . Museum-goers will need a Museum Day admission...http://www.newser.com/story/70260/nations-top-museums-free-tomorrow.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 25 Sep 2009 3:06:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68056/dutch-museums-moon-rock-an-out-of-this-world-fake.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA “moon rock” exhibited at the Dutch national museum is actually petrified wood, the BBC reports. The three Apollo 11 astronauts gave the object to former PM Willem Drees on a tour following their 1969 moon mission; NASA shared similar artifacts with more than 100 other countries. The purported moon...http://www.newser.com/story/68056/dutch-museums-moon-rock-an-out-of-this-world-fake.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 28 Aug 2009 15:10:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67758/lizzie-bordens-hometown-museum-wins-rights-to-name.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLizzie Borden would be so proud. Merchandise bearing her name is now the exclusive property of her hometown Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast in Fall River, Mass., the Boston Globe reports. The B&B prevailed before the US Patent and Trademark Office in securing the rights to the infamous spinster’s name....http://www.newser.com/story/67758/lizzie-bordens-hometown-museum-wins-rights-to-name.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Aug 2009 17:32:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67182/collectors-give-50-artworks-each-to-50-states.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHerb and Dorothy Vogel had just modest incomes—he was a postal clerk, she a librarian—but over four decades they acquired more than 3,600 drawings, paintings, and collages from America's leading artists. They collected so much that they had to stuff works under their bed. But now the...http://www.newser.com/story/67182/collectors-give-50-artworks-each-to-50-states.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 18 Aug 2009 9:14:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64475/pez-sues-calif-museum-over-outsized-dispenser.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPez is suing a California store and museum over an 8-foot-tall dispenser custom-made for the establishment—and thus not sanctioned by the Austrian candy-maker, the San Jose Mercury News reports. “From a branding perspective, I think Pez should embrace the Dosses and the museum, instead of trying to attack them,...http://www.newser.com/story/64475/pez-sues-calif-museum-over-outsized-dispenser.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Jul 2009 14:34:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62609/broke-up-recently-museum-wants-the-remnants.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNot sure what to do with all those old love letters from your ex? Burning them seems too risky; keeping them, too sentimental. Why not put them on permanent display? The Museum of Broken Relationships allows you to do just that, BlackBook reports. Started as an art project in Croatia,...http://www.newser.com/story/62609/broke-up-recently-museum-wants-the-remnants.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 23 Jun 2009 16:18:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61530/holocaust-museum-shooter-is-white-supremacist-guard-killed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhite supremacist James Von Brunn is the injured suspect in today’s shooting of a National Holocaust Museum security guard, police tell the Washington Post . The guard has since died of his injuries at a local hospital, sources tell WJLA-TV. On his anti-Semitic website, von Brunn, 88, claims he served in...http://www.newser.com/story/61530/holocaust-museum-shooter-is-white-supremacist-guard-killed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 10 Jun 2009 14:48:59 CDT