Museums have been encouraged to work in partnership lately. So the news that 70s US rockers Cheap Trick have decided to open a museum/restaurant combo in Chicago is the way forward for these institutions.
Inspired by this I went into the attic to find my cardboard box of vinyl rock and I believe I have come up with the future for bands that no longer attract the younger listener and therefore...
In the long tradition of ship museums the US battleship Iowa is to become a museum in Los Angeles.
The UK has many warship museums (HMS Victory, the Mary Rose, HMS Warrior and HMS Belfast). The USA has a growing number as well. The latest is the Iowa; which, although even older than me, was still an operating warship until relatively recently. Thus controversy has inevitably followed the decisi...
CALABASAS, California - Kate Gosselin and Steven Tyler visited the town of Calabasas where back in 1805, the explorers Lewis and Clark reportedly spent an entire evening gang whooping-it-up with their Shoshoni Indian guide Sacajawea of the American d...
The Queen and Prince Philip have moved home to Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress 'The Tower of London'. The decision has been taken because of the recent riots in the capital. The plan now is for Buckingham Palace to become a new London museum.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden's richest woman Elin Nordegren who came about her $342 million from her divorce settlement from Tiger Woods aka "Dick With Feet" has laid down the ground rules to her new boyfriend one of Sweden's richest bachelor's James "...
Lottery funding has been secured to create the world's first Zebra Crossing Museum in Oldham, near Manchester.
"We think the time is right to examine the history of the Zebra Crossing," said curator, Trevor Lichtenstein. "This is a very interestin...
Sofa, Iowa - folks in this river city town were delighted when a consultant suggested a children's museum as a way to draw people away from more popular Iowa tourist destinations.
An editorial in the local paper even suggested that the museum cou...
LONDON - The curator for London's premier Wax Museum has just issued a press release regarding their latest wax figure.
Tickety Boo News has reported the shocking story that the wax figure of American reality show participant Heidi Montag, unlike...
LIVERPOOL - Sir Paul McCartney flew into his home town of Liverpool to visit the Magical Mystery Strawberry Rain Museum which houses hundreds of Beatles memorabilia, relics, and artifacts.
McCartney had heard about the museum being broken into on...
LIVERPOOL - The curator of the Beatles Magical Mystery Strawberry Rain Museum Bickerton T. Featherstone has reported that overnight thieves broke into the museum and made off with some valuable Beatles memorabilia, artifacts, mementos, and relics.
A former brothel in Taiwan has been turned into a Museum with exhibits reminding visitors of the previous facilities provided at the building.
This idea has been examined by the Coalition Government with the clever trick of reversing the process b...
Museums are removing human skull and skeleton displays and covering up mummies for fear of insulting minority religious groups.
And now museum chiefs are warning that the institutions face complete closure as they will have nothing to show.
Pro...
Washington, D.C. - Due to the downturn in the economy, the Smithsonian Institution is knee-deep in red ink and has had to make some drastic changes to the way it does business in order to keep the multiple museums it oversees running on a daily basis...
The Arizona Times Picayune has received numerous inquiries from residents of Area 52 concerning a construction project taking place there. Our ace investigative reporter was sent to the site.
We have now learned that a Retired-Gentleman-in-Arizon...
The legendary Abbey Road studios may be preserved after all owing to the last minute intervention of a Turkish businessman and entrepreneur.
The studios, where the Beatles recorded the legendary album of the same name are to be sold by owners EMI...
Art Historians with the New York Museum of Modern Art have discovered that the strange, almost alien looking paintings of the late Pablo Picasso were not any sort of impressionism or abstract or of any other style. They were, in fact, portraits of a...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City was the scene of an unfortunate accident last week. An art student slipped and fell into the very valuable Picasso painting The Actor, causing damage to the canvas.
"Everybody now thinks I'm a k...
An intrepid Spoof reporter had just returned yesterday from a Chicago Museum where scientists had found some evidence that Sue, the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, may have died eons ago of a throat infection.
The industrious reporter, who loves d...