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2005 Oct 15 |
The new $202 million M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, designed by Swiss architects Pierre Meuron and Jacques Herzog, officially opened in Golden Gate park. Links: SF, Museums 
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2005 Oct 17 |
It was reported that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $15 million for the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, the world's largest institution dedicated to preserving Information Age artifacts. Links: Computer, Donation, SF Bay Area, Museums
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2005 Nov 18 |
In Pennsylvania an oil painting by Jackson Pollock and a silkscreen by Andy Warhol were stolen from the Everhart Museum by thieves who shattered a glass door in the back of the building. The thieves had disappeared by the time police arrived, four minutes after the alarm sounded at 2:30 a.m. Links: Artist, Pennsylvania, Museums, Robbery
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2005 Nov 18 |
The SF Fine Arts Museums board named John E. Buchanon Jr., director of the Portland Art Museum, to succeed Harry Parker as director effective Feb 1, 2006. Links: USA, SF, Oregon, Museums
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2005 Dec 16 |
Italian prosecutors showed a court thank you notes and other correspondence that they contended proved a former curator at the J. Paul Getty museum knew artifacts were being illegally acquired. Links: Italy, USA, California, Museums
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2006 Jan 12 |
The Beat Museum, a tribute to the literary generation that helped inspire the 1960s counterculture, opened in San Francisco. The museum, founded by Jerry Cimino, was formerly housed in Monterey, California. Links: USA, SF, Museums
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2006 Feb 28 |
In Gas City, Indiana, a museum chronicling the short life of James Dean closed after struggling financially since its opening in 2004. David Loehr said he would soon be setting up a small display in the National Automotive & Truck Museum in Auburn. Links: USA, Indiana, Museums
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2006 May 2 |
In Norway 3 key suspects were convicted in the theft of the Edvard Munch masterpieces "The Scream" and "Madonna" and sentenced to between four and eight years in prison. The works were snatched by masked gunmen from the Munch Museum in Oslo in August 2004. They are still missing. Links: Norway, Museums, Robbery
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2006 May 16 |
After months of intense pressure, the director of Los Angeles' J. Paul Getty Museum agreed to recommend to the museum's board to return ancient artifacts in its collections that Greece claims were illegally spirited out of the country. Links: California, Greece, Museums
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2006 Jun 10 |
James Cameron (92), who survived an attempted lynching and went on to found America's Black Holocaust Museum, died in Milwaukee. Links: USA, Black History, Museums
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2006 Jun 20 |
In France Pres. Chirac inaugurated the new, $293 million Musee du Quai Branly, designed by Jean Nouvel. Links: France, Museums
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2006 Jul 8 |
The Guggenheim Foundation announced it had commissioned American architect Frank Gehry to build a new branch of the Guggenheim modern and contemporary art museum in Abu Dhabi. The $400 million structure was planned as a showpiece for Saadiyat Island’s Culture District. Links: Architect, Museums, Abu Dhabi
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2006 Jul 31 |
Russian officials said more than 220 pieces, including jewelry and enameled objects worth about $5 million, stolen from the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, were not insured. The theft was discovered after a routine inventory check that began in October 2005 and was completed at the end of July. Links: Russia, Museums, Robbery
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2006 Aug 5 |
Interfax news said Russian police have detained the husband of a museum curator and a 2nd person suspected of stealing hundreds of artworks from St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum. Links: Russia, Museums, Robbery
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2006 Sep 6 |
Philadelphia’s Art Commission voted 6-2 to move a 2,000-pound bronze statue of Rocky Balboa, commissioned by actor Sylvester Stallone, out of storage and onto a street-level pedestal near the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Links: USA, Pennsylvania, Museums
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2006 Oct 7 |
In Colorado the new 146,000-square-foot Denver Art Museum opened to the public. It was designed by Daniel Libeskind. Links: USA, Colorado, Architect, Museums
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2006 Oct 27 |
The old US Mint in SF held a ceremonial minting of silver coins. A portion of the proceeds of sales from silver dollars and $5 gold pieces will help turn the 132-year-old structure into a history museum. Links: USA, Money, SF, Museums
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2006 Dec 2 |
The National World War I Museum opened in Kansas City, Missouri. The $26.5 million museum at the Liberty Memorial joined the ranks of The National World War II Museum in New Orleans and other definitive repositories for key events in history. Links: USA, Missouri, Museums
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2006 Dec 10 |
Boston opened its new $41 million Institute of Contemporary Art, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro architects. Links: USA, Massachusetts, Museums
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2006 |
Richard Serra created his monumental sculpture “Band.” In 2007 Eli Broad, real estate magnate, gave $10 million to have it installed at the Broad Contemporary Art Museum in Los Angeles. Links: Artist, USA, California, Donation, Museums
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2007 Feb 8 |
The Museum for African Art unveiled plans for a new home in Manhattan, becoming the first major addition to New York's Museum Mile in 50 years. Links: USA, NYC, Africa, Museums
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2007 Mar 6 |
France and the United Arab Emirates signed an agreement to open a branch of the Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, despite criticism that the French government is peddling the country's artistic treasures. Links: UAE, France, Museums
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2007 Mar 17 |
In southern Afghanistan a suicide bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed a child and wounded a NATO soldier and three other people. More than 1,400 artifacts, protected from looters and the Taliban since 1999 at a museum-in-exile in Switzerland, were returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan. In western Afghanistan a two-hour clash between suspected Taliban militants and police left two officers dead. Taliban guerrillas chopped noses and ears of at least five truck drivers in eastern Afghanistan as punishment for transporting supplies to US-led troops. Links: Suicide, Mayhem, Afghan, Museums
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2007 Mar 26 |
The Smithsonian Institute said secretary Lawrence J. Smith (65) had resigned over the weekend amid criticism about his spending. An audit had found over $90,000 in unauthorized expenses and charges of over $1.1 million for the use of his home for official functions. Smith had served for over 7 years as secretary and was the 1st businessman to run the museum and research complex. Links: USA, DC, Museums
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2007 Aug 8 |
In SF Donald Fisher (78) and his wife Doris, founders of Gap (a chain of clothing stores), announced plans to build the Contemporary Art Museum of the Presidio. Links: USA, SF, Museums
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2007 Sep 18 |
In Italy local authorities said Milan central railway station's notorious Platform 21, which witnessed the deportation of hundreds of Jews in 1943-45, will host the city's first Holocaust memorial. The museum will open in two years' time and occupy 6,000 square meters of the underground rail network. Links: Italy, Holocaust, Museums
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2007 Oct 6 |
The Stirling Prize, Britain's most prestigious architecture prize, was awarded to Germany's Museum of Modern Literature. The classically influenced building designed by David Chipperfield Architects, opened last year in Marbach, southwest Germany. Links: Britain, Germany, Architect, Museums
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2007 Oct 7 |
In Paris, France, intruders, apparently drunk, broke into the Orsay Museum through a back door and punched a hole in "Le Pont d'Argenteuil," a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Links: France, Museums
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2007 Dec 20 |
In Sao Paulo, Brazil, thieves homed in on two paintings, the Portrait of Suzanne Bloch” by Pablo Picasso and “O Lavrador de Cafe” by Candido Portinari (1903-1962), in the first successful heist in the 60-year history of Brazil's premier modern art museum. In Jan, 2007, police recovered the paintings and had 2 suspects under arrest. Links: Brazil, Museums, Robbery
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2008 Feb 10 |
In Switzerland armed robbers stole paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth $163.2 million from the E.G. Buehrle Collection in Zurich, one of Europe's finest private museums for Impressionist and post-Impressionist art. 2 of the paintings were recovered in an abandoned car on Feb 18. Links: Switzerland, Museums, Robbery
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2008 Mar 28 |
A commerce ministry official said Egypt is to suspend rice exports for six months to try to meet the demands of its own people hit by soaring food prices. Hundreds of residents of the ancient city of Luxor clashed with riot police during a protest against government attempts to move them to make room for an open-air museum free of modern buildings. Links: Egypt, Food, Museums
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2008 Apr 11 |
In Rwanda a grenade thrown by an unknown attacker killed a policeman guarding the Gisozi genocide museum in Kigali, in a rare attack in the central African nation still mourning the 1994 ethnic slaughter. Links: Rwanda, Museums
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2008 May 31 |
In El Cerrito, Ca., the new Playland-Not-at-the-Beach museum opened at 10979 San Pablo Ave. It featured relics from San Francisco’s former Playland-at-the-Beach, which was bulldozed in 1972, including one of the 278 remaining Laughing Sals. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Museums
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2008 Jun 8 |
The new $47.5 million SF Contemporary Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind, opened on Jessie Square next to St. Patrick’s Church on Mission St. It was created in the former 1907 PG&E power station designed by Willis Polk. Links: USA, Jews, SF, Museums
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2008 Jun 11 |
The government of Lithuania approved construction of a new museum in Vilnius. The joint project between Lithuania, the Guggenheim and the State Hermitage Museum in Russia, will be designed by Iraq-born Zaha Hadid (b.1950) and is to open in 2013. Links: Lithuania, Museums
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2008 Jun 12 |
In Brazil 3 armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art and 2 other paintings in a rapid strike in which they bypassed more valuable works. By August 18 police recovered all of the paintings and arrested 3 suspects. Links: Brazil, Museums, Robbery
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2008 Jul 16 |
In France the first stone was laid at the Louvre's new Arts of Islam gallery, the first major modern architectural addition to the museum since its famed glass pyramid was built in the 1980s. Links: France, Islam, Museums
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2008 Jul 17 |
A survey team member said a Russian government audit has revealed that up to 50,000 pieces are missing from the country’s museums, everything from Pre-Revolutionary medals and weapons to precious works of art. Links: Russia, Museums
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2008 Oct 17 |
Harvard Univ. announced a gift of $45 million and 31 major works of art from 1936 alumna Emily Rauh Pulitzer for the Harvard Art Museum. It was the largest gift in the history of the museum. Links: USA, Massachusetts, Donation, Museums
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2008 Nov 22 |
Qatar unveiled its new Museum of Islamic Art, designed by I.M. Pei. By 2012 the MIA was considered to be one of the half-dozen best in the world. Links: Qatar, Architect, Museums
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2008 Dec 12 |
In Chile admirers of former dictator Augusto Pinochet inaugurated a museum in his honor, a move they hope will burnish the image of a man reviled by much of the world. Links: Chile, Museums
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2009 Feb 23 |
Iraq's restored National Museum was formally dedicated, nearly six years after looters carried away priceless antiquities and treasures in the chaos following the US-led invasion. Iraq's Interior Ministry said it has arrested a Shiite police gang accused of killing the Sunni vice president's sister. 3 US soldiers and an interpreter were killed during fighting north of Baghdad. Links: Iraq, USA, Museums
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2009 |
The Crystal Bridges Museum for American Art, designed by Moshe Safdie, was scheduled to open in Bentonville, Ark. Links: USA, Arkansas, Architect, Museums
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