Aerospace Museum

TRANSFORMATION Elliott: Early days of the Science Museum of Virginia

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 04 Jun 2016

While reading in the May 19 Weekend Section about the Science Museum of Virginia’s (SMV’s) new, approximately $10 million “Speed” exhibition, my thoughts flashed back some 45 years to spring 1971 — when the museum existed only on paper and, in mid-April, I became its first employee ... As the staff began to expand with the hiring of the museum’s first director, Dr....

Navy rescue revisited 50 years on (Royal Australian Navy)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Jun 2016

The last survivor of the 1966 sinking of dredge, WD Atlas has donated dramatic footage of the rescue operation to the Fleet Air Arm Museum ... Museum Director, Terry Hetherington, said that the video footage ensured Mr De Vries's colleagues and the Royal Australian Navy personnel involved in the rescue would be remembered ... Mr Hetherington said the video was an invaluable addition to the museum's archive....

What arts bosses in Australia earn, and how women get less

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 04 Jun 2016

The median base salary of the four female directors - Herron, Dolla Merrillees (Museum of Arts and Applied Science), Kim McKay (Australian Museum) and Elizabeth Ann Macgregor (Museum of Contemporary Art) - is around $270,000, according to figures collected from annual reports ... The visitors to the four institutions with male directors totalled 4.8 million, compared with 3.5 million for the four museums headed by women....

Chrysler Museum reopening to public for 1st time in years

Edit The Miami Herald 04 Jun 2016

Chrysler Museum in suburban Detroit is reopening to the public for several days a month for the first time in several years ... The Auburn Hills museum will feature a ......

Flooding in Europe Kills 7, Shuts Museums and Castles

Edit Chosun Ilbo 04 Jun 2016

Torrential rain and rising rivers that continue to sweep across Europe have killed at least seven people and forced the closing of the world's most visited museum ... of damage to higher parts of the museum. The Orsay Museum, on the left bank of the river, also will be closed....

Paris river continues to rise as city braces for evacuation

Edit Belfast Telegraph 04 Jun 2016

Across the French capital, museums, parks and cemeteries are being closed as the city braces for possible evacuations ... Authorities shut the Louvre museum, the national library, the Orsay museum and the Grand Palais, Paris' striking glass-and-steel topped exhibition centre ... The Louvre said the museum had not taken such precautions in its modern history - since its 1993 renovation at the very least....

River Seine up to its highest level, Paris museums close doors

Edit Dawn 04 Jun 2016

Paris’ world-famous Louvre and Orsay museums shut on Friday to retrieve priceless artworks from their basements, as the swollen River Seine neared its highest level in three decades ... In Paris, officials have erected emergency flood barriers along the Seine, whose banks are home to both the Louvre — the world’s most visited museum, with attractions including the Mona Lisa — and the Musee d’Orsay ... Museums prepare for the worst....

Review says it's mostly sunny for Florida tourism agency

Edit The Washington Times 04 Jun 2016

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - State officials have given a good review of Florida's tourism marketing agency and a second outfit that promotes the aerospace industry. Gov. Rick Scott earlier this year called for the reviews of both Visit Florida and Space Florida. Scott ordered the review of Visit Florida after ... ....

Killer gets 56 years to life in prison for strangling, carving up Gardena victim in 2009

Edit Daily Breeze 04 Jun 2016

A 28-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 56 years to life in state prison for brutally killing an aerospace parts inspector in Gardena, choking him with a telephone cord, carving his face with a Phillips screwdriver and shoving a T-shirt down his throat. Cameron Alex Cole, who formerly lived in Compton, turned and said, "I love you guys" to his family in Torrance Superior Court before sheriff's deputies led him away ... ....

US Air Force Nearly Doubles Contract for ‘Smart Bombs’ (VIDEO)

Edit Sputnik 04 Jun 2016

After the Air Force announced that its contract with Boeing had ballooned to $3.2 billion, nearly twice the amount of its last contract with the aerospace company, it released a video of the Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM ... ....

US Museum Prepared to Return Over a Dozen Rare Russian Icons to Moscow

Edit Sputnik 04 Jun 2016

The US based Museum of Russian Icons is prepared to return dozens of rare icons to Moscow at the request of the Russian government, museum curator and CEO Kent Russell told Sputnik ... ....

Yelp’s Summer Road Trip: St. Louis to Kansas City, MO (Yelp! Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Jun 2016

(Source. Yelp! Inc). Day 3. Miles covered. 251. Driving time. 3 hrs. 50 min. City Museum, St. Louis, MO. Photo by Yelper Phyllis O. Rise and shine! Throw on some knee pads and make your way to City Museum in the heart of downtown St. Louis. This engineer meets artist museum boasts a 10-story slide, salvaged bridges and two abandoned planes. Adult and kid-friendly. Katy Trail, Rocheport, Missouri....

Paris landmarks shut down amid worst flooding in decades

Edit New York Post 04 Jun 2016

Across the city, museums, parks and cemeteries were being closed as the city braced for possible evacuations ... Authorities shut the Louvre museum, the national library, the Orsay museum and the Grand Palais, Paris’ striking glass-and-steel topped exhibition center ... The Louvre said the museum had not taken such precautions in its modern history – since its 1993 renovation at the very least....

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