In 2008, the museum launched a re-designed website which enables users to browse the museum's permanent collection.

Since October 2008, the museum's Director General has been Diane Lees.

The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, entrusted Tillmans with the role of a guest curator in 2008, inviting him to present a personal choice of works by Isa Genzken, Roberto Matta, and Ellsworth Kelly from the museum's collection.

Allée des peupliers de Moret ( The Lane of Poplars at Moret ) has been stolen three times from the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice-once in 1978 when on loan in Marseilles ( recovered a few days later in the city's sewers ), again in 1998 ( when the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years with two accomplices ) and finally in August 2007 ( on 4 June 2008 French police recovered it and three other stolen paintings from a van in Marseilles ).

The museum's alliance acquired a Russian Buran space shuttle in 2004 which opened as a walk-in exhibition at the Technikmuseum Speyer on October 3, 2008.

On June 4, 2008, the world's first museum exhibits developed using this open source method opened in the museum's own Virtual Test Zone gallery.

In 2008, curator Edna Russman announced that a third of the Coptic art held in the museum's collection — second-largest in North America — is fake.

In March 2008, the museum's new building was named one of the architectural seven wonders by Conde Nast Traveler.

In April 2008, the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant of £ 3. 7 million towards a major refurbishment of the building and the museum's collections.

An MAN articulated trolleybus from Metro's fleet, retired in 2007, was acquired by the Illinois Railway Museum in 2008 and now operates occasionally on the museum's trolley bus line.

12 July 2008 marked Britain's first trolleybus extension for many decades through the creation of a loop along the Back Road, linking in with the existing overhead wiring near to the museum's entrance.

Set to open in New York City on May 7, 2008, the Sports Museum of America will showcase both the Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame and US Lacrosse in its Hall of Halls Gallery ( along with providing an annual donation ) in return for sharing some of the museum's valuable lacrosse artifacts and their support of the creation of the Nation's first all-sports museum experience.

The 2008 Iceland national handball team's contribution to the museum's collection

In 2008, the museum's tower was given a major restoration.

In April 2008, the museum's new building was named one of the architectural New Seven Wonders of the World by Conde Nast Traveler.

Parts of the museum's collections have travelled worldwide, including Canada in 2008, the United States in 1959 in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution and in 2005, an Ancient Greek solid gold drinking cup left Greece for the first time and traveled to the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and the Melbourne Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Australia.

A catalog of the museum, as well as other pages describing the museum's collections and civic activities, was formatted and presented with Wiki software in the year 2008.

* 2008 – A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.

In early 2008, Paramount partnered with Los Angeles-based developer FanRocket to make short scenes taken from its film library available to users on Facebook.

In 2008, Warner Bros. absorbed New Line Cinema, as a result, Warner added the New Line Cinema film and television library to its collection.

The Baen Free Library is a digital library of the science fiction and fantasy publishing house Baen Books where ( as of December 2008 ) 112 full books can be downloaded free in a number of formats, without copy protection.

As of 1 January 2008, there are 83, 324 items in the library database at Ilimmarfik.

The rise in Lenkiewicz's popularity was shown in a 2008 auction of his personal collection of his own works, the auction of his paintings and library raised £ 2. 1million.

* Dewey Readmore Books, library cat in Spencer, Iowa, and subject of 2008 non-fiction book

The 2008 Referendum also failed and the library is currently looking for other ways to expand.

The local library added a branch in Camargo in October, 2008.

" In fiscal year 2008, the town of Brimfield spent 0. 98 % ($ 79, 593 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 21 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Chester spent 1. 04 % ($ 28, 512 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 22 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of East Longmeadow spent 1. 4 % ($ 584, 361 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 38 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Granville spent 0. 68 % ($ 31, 979 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 18 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Southwick spent 2. 03 % ($ 316, 544 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 33 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Tolland spent 0. 97 % ($ 10, 271 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 22 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Wales spent 1. 28 % ($ 45, 480 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 24 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Brookfield spent 1. 49 % ($ 106, 066 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 35 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Charlton spent 1. 73 % ($ 306, 971 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 24 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the city of Gardner spent 1. 84 % ($ 734, 164 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 35 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Hardwick spent 1. 58 % ($ 64, 023 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 24 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Lancaster spent 1. 74 % ($ 259, 465 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 36 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Leicester spent 0. 57 % ($ 145, 270 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 13 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Mendon spent 1. 66 % ($ 187, 825 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 32 per person.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Millville spent 0. 78 % ($ 36, 100 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 12 per person.