Status Information about Museums in the Affected Area This is a list of museums and museum-related organizations in the affected area (the cordoned-off area below 14th street).
Resources and Volunteer Opportunities Information for museums and individuals wishing to offer resources and/or services to affected institutions and museums requesting assistance.
Disaster Recovery Information and Resources
Links to disaster recovery-related Web sites.
Additional Information about the New York City and the Pentagon Disasters
Reports from Museums Not in the Affected Area
Expressions of Support and Sympathy from Around the World
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Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer Special Collections Librarian/Archivist
Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive Hyde Park, NY 12538 (845) 451-1757 c_crawfo@culinary.edu
From: Michele Pagan michele_johnpagan@yahoo.com Subject:
Workshop on fire recovery--addendum
The Washington Conservation Guild would like to solicit additional tips/ contacts/ suggestions for speakers, with direct experience in the current disasters at the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon, for the upcoming Burn/Recovery Workshop, on October 30th, in Rockville MD. (See Conservation DistList Instance: 15:14 Friday, August 3, 2001 for complete details)
Please contact, separately
Michele Pagan WCG OUtreach Coordinator michele_pagan@yahoo.com
White supremacist accused of targeting D.C. museum
By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff, 9/20/2001
A white supremacist charged with plotting to blow up local Jewish or African-American landmarks was also allegedly targeting the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, according to federal officials. Leo V. Felton, 30, who was charged in June with stockpiling bombmaking materials inside his apartment in Boston's North End, faced new charges yesterday for allegedly robbing a Boston bank and plotting to rob an armored car to finance neo-Nazi activities. The new charges also alleged he had targeted the Washington Holocaust museum. ''Last week's acts of terrorism on the United States show how deadly hatred can be,'' said US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan in a prepared statement during his first day on the job. ''The actions of a few individuals can gravely affect the lives of many innocent people.''
The original indictment, returned in June, charges Felton and his girlfriend, Erica Chase, with plotting to blow up the landmarks to ignite a ''racial war.'' Sullivan said it was fortunate that Felton and Chase, 21, had been arrested before they could carry out their alleged plans to attack sites associated with the Jewish and African-American communities, including the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge and the New England Holocaust Memorial near Faneuil Hall. New counts added to an indictment returned earlier against Felton and Chase charge Felton with robbing the Citizen's Bank on Boylston Street last Feb. 21. The indictment alleges that Felton stood guard outside with a gun while Thomas Struss handed a bank teller a note demanding money and fled with $1,128. Felton is also charged with plotting with Struss, who he had met when the two were in a New Jersey prison together, to rob an armored truck. The plot was foiled, according to the indictment, when Struss was arrested by police in Mantua Township, N.J., on Feb. 27 while allegedly stealing a car to be used in the heist.
Felton and another accomplice, identified only as ''Conan,'' allegedly planned to stage the armored truck robbery in Gloucester County, N.J., and Felton had ordered Struss to steal the car, according to the indictment. Lenore M. Glaser, Felton's court-appointed attorney, declined to comment on the charges, saying she had yet to see the superseding indictment. But, Glaser said, ''It is particularly dangerous in these times to recklessly use the word terrorist. As Americans, we cherish our legal system, which protects the innocent and which does not criminalize ideas. Leo Felton asserts his innocence and asks that the public not pass judgment until the evidence is heard at trial.'' The bombing plot was uncovered after a Boston police officer arrested Felton and Chase last April when they allegedly tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill at a Dunkin' Donuts in East Boston. The Secret Service and FBI joined the case and discovered a notebook in the couple's Salem Street apartment with recipes for An-al and ANFO, the same mixture of fertilizer and fuel oil that was used by Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Investigators also interviewed an associate of the couple, who said Felton had purchased 50 pounds of ammonium nitrate, the same fertilizer used by McVeigh. The Globe reported in June that investigators suspected Felton was financing his neo-Nazi activities by robbing banks and printing counterfeit money. http://www.boston.com/
LONDON. The curator of an exhibition about the art and life of the surrealist photographer and lover of Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, has found out less than a month before the exhibition opening that a contract between the Dora Maar Estate and Thames & Hudson publishers prevents the exhibition catalogue from being sold in shops outside the exhibition’s three venues. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7393
SENATORIAL PULLING POWER
PARIS. In 1983, the 500th anniversary year of Raphael’s birth, the Italian government decided, on the grounds that the artist’s works were too fragile to move, that there would be no single blockbusting loan exhibition to honour the artist. Instead, there were local shows centred on works in permanent collections. Now, the French senate has made the Italian authorities change their minds. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7392
THE GUGGENHEIM DOES IT AGAIN
LONDON. A deal has been brokered between the Guggenheim Foundation and the Banca del Gottardo, based in Lugano, Switzerland. Under the terms of the agreement, the Swiss bank will provide “considerable”, but as yet undisclosed, sums of money to fund the Guggenheim’s expansion plans in Venice. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7391
HOW AN AUCTION HOUSE ACTS WHEN A BUYER DEFAULTS
NEW YORK. The man holding paddle number 562 ran up a bill of $1,013,605 at Sotheby's Art of the Americas sale. This collector has refused to settle his invoice devastating many conisgners. Sotheby's has taken legal action. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7390
FALLINGWATER TO BE SAVED FROM COLLAPSE
BEAR RUN, PENNSYLVANIA. Fallingwater, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous modernist buildings, is to be saved from collapse at a cost of $11.5 million. It was built in 1937 over a rushing stream in Pennsylvania as home for department store owner Edgar Kaufman. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7374
LOUVRE DISPLAYS ITS LATER NORTHERN ART
PARIS. Six new rooms designed by the architect I.M. Pei in the Musée du Louvre are now open. They contain some 140 paintings of the German, Flemish, Dutch, Russian and Scandinavian schools from the 18th to the early 19th centuries which have been brought out of store or recently acquired. The new display, which has cost FFr8 million ($1.1 million), follows the 1993 opening of rooms for the display of Dutch and Flemish 15th-, 16th- and 17th-century paintings. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7373
NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA RECIEVES LARGEST EVER BEQUEST
CANBERRA. Orde Poynton, a British doctor who settled in Australia after World War II, has left Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia a bequest of over A$13 million ($6.8 million), the largest in the museum’s history. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7372
WORLD’S OLDEST PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION TO GO BRADFORD
LONDON. The Royal Photographic Society (RPS) and the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (NMPFT), announced an “agreement in principle” to re-house the Royal Photographic Society’s Collection—the oldest in existence, begun in 1853, and among the top 10 photography collections world-wide—at the NMPFT’s brand new research facility, “Insight”, whose official opening takes place later this year. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7371