From the Daily Press

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.

The renovation is scheduled to open Saturday after several delays prevented it from opening as expected on Memorial Day weekend.

The Virginian-Pilot reported Sunday that a coastal Sahara desert habitat will be one of the new things to see. Scorpions, cobras and hedgehogs will be on display.

A Red Sea aquarium and Flores Island exhibit will also be on display–along with the much-awaited Komodo dragons.

By Michelle Krupa, The Times-Picayune

“Spearheaded by a pair of Mayor Ray Nagin’s close allies, the Center for Entertainment and the Creative Industry, dubbed CECI, would reinvent the Municipal Auditorium, still shuttered since Hurricane Katrina, as a structure that combines traditional stages with digital production facilities, a merchandise distribution center, a culinary school, a jazz museum and offices for nonprofit and commercial start-ups in entertainment-related fields.”

From the Morning Sun

“The proposed Mt. Pleasant Discovery Museum is still a dream, but the dream could be a little closer to reality.

Organizers of the children’s museum announced last week the start of a capital campaign. The group that began with four mothers and an idea says that to make the project a reality, it wants to raise $3 million.”

By John Pope
The Times-Picayune
November 05, 2009

In its first move across Andrew Higgins Drive, the National World War II Museum on Friday is dedicating a massive $60 million building where visitors can travel forward and backward in time.

BY KIE RELYEA
THE BELLINGHAM HERALD

BELLINGHAM – When the Lightcatcher Building opens to the public Nov. 14, visitors will be able to stand in the open courtyard and stare up at the gently curved glass wall that gives the new addition to the Whatcom Museum its name.

By Meghan Packer

Posted November 2, 2009

Voters Will Decide On Natural Science Center Bond

“Greensboro, NC — When voters head to the polls Tuesday, they’ll have a chance to vote for more than a mayor and city council members. They can also choose whether to support a $20 million bond referedum for the Natural Science Center.”

Science Learning Center in the works

By: alisonb@spokesman.com
The Spokesman Review
November 2, 2009

A North Idaho nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting science and technology education plans to build a 20,000-square-foot science center in Rathdrum…

Miami Science Museum envisioned as a natural wonder

Posted on Monday, 09.28.09
BY ANDRES VIGLUCCI
The opening target is 2014. The new facility would make the Miami Science Museum one of the very few in the country to have both an aquarium and a …

Children’s museum site dedicated

By AMANDA O’TOOLE World Correspondent
Published: 9/28/2009
Tulsa World
Ruth Cavins, the executive director of the Stillwater Children’s Museum, talked about how the organization has grown to serve more than just the city and …

By The Associated Press

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Plans for the future National Museum of Forest Service History will be unveiled in Missoula on Tuesday, and officials say construction of the $12 million facility could begin within a year.

The first Forest Service district office was opened in Missoula in 1908 and eventually became the headquarters for Forest Service Region 1. Tom Tidwell, a former Region 1 supervisor who now heads the Forest Service, will present the plans.

The museum will be built on 36 acres about a mile west of Missoula International Airport. So far, more than $3.2 million has been raised to buy the site, on building design and on conceptual planning. Another $8 million must be raised to complete construction and to exhibit displays.

Features are expected to include a 3-D theater, an authentic ranger cabin and fire lookout, as well as a memorial tree grove. The museum is expected to house more than 40,000 exhibits, covering the history of the Forest Service and the lands and communities it influenced.

Information from: Missoulian, http://www.missoulian.com
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.