MuseumPublicity.com » Museum News http://museumpublicity.com Museum Publicity Announcements News and Information Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:32:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 CBMM’s Lesher to speak at National Maritime Heritage Conference http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/cbmm%e2%80%99s-lesher-to-speak-at-national-maritime-heritage-conference/ http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/cbmm%e2%80%99s-lesher-to-speak-at-national-maritime-heritage-conference/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:24:17 +0000 admin http://museumpublicity.com/?p=7170 Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s (CBMM) Chief Curator Pete Lesher will be participating as a panelist at the 9th National Maritime Heritage Conference, to be held in Baltimore September 15–19. The focus of the conference is “The Maritime Nexus: Re-connecting Landsmen with Their Seagoing Heritage.” The conference is sponsored by the National Maritime Historical Society, Naval Historical Foundation, Historic Ships of Baltimore and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.   As ... Read More

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]]> http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/cbmm%e2%80%99s-lesher-to-speak-at-national-maritime-heritage-conference/feed/ 0 African American Civil War Museum Ground Breaking Ceremony http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/african-american-civil-war-museum-ground-breaking-ceremony/ http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/african-american-civil-war-museum-ground-breaking-ceremony/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:44:30 +0000 admin http://museumpublicity.com/?p=7163 On September 1, 2010 the African American Civil War Museum celebrated the beginning of construction on the permanent home for the museum. The ceremony on the grounds of the Grimke Building, 1925 Vermont Ave. NW, began at 9 am and featured representatives from the community, the government and the board of directors. The architect builders and curators were on hand to present displays outlining what the new home for the African American Civil War Museum will look like. Frank Smith, ... Read More

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]]> http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/african-american-civil-war-museum-ground-breaking-ceremony/feed/ 0 Tate Britain Presents Clunie Reid and James Richards as Part of its Art Now Programme http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/tate-britain-presents-clunie-reid-and-james-richards-as-part-of-its-art-now-programme/ http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/tate-britain-presents-clunie-reid-and-james-richards-as-part-of-its-art-now-programme/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:44:59 +0000 admin http://museumpublicity.com/?p=7111 Tate Britain features the work of Clunie Reid and James Richards as part of the Art Now programme of contemporary displays. Open throughSunday 12 September 2010. Reid and Richards create installation and video collages that explore the immersive nature of visual culture. They weave together imagery from found sources including advertising, magazines, cinema and the internet, and interject elements of the personal into otherwise banal material. Both artists subtly manipulate some images ... Read More

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]]> http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/tate-britain-presents-clunie-reid-and-james-richards-as-part-of-its-art-now-programme/feed/ 0 The National September 11 Memorial & Museum and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Plant First Trees on the Memorial Plaza at the World Trade Center Site http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/the-national-september-11-memorial-museum-and-port-authority-of-new-york-and-new-jersey-plant-first-trees-on-the-memorial-plaza-at-the-world-trade-center-site/ http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/the-national-september-11-memorial-museum-and-port-authority-of-new-york-and-new-jersey-plant-first-trees-on-the-memorial-plaza-at-the-world-trade-center-site/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:33:34 +0000 admin http://museumpublicity.com/?p=7051 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni announced the arrival and planting of the first trees on the Memorial Plaza at the World Trade Center site. The Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor) trees planted are the first of approximately 400 planned for the Memorial Plaza, which features a complex soil supported paving surface and a unique cistern system designed to sustain the urban forest. The trees were carried ... Read More

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]]> http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/the-national-september-11-memorial-museum-and-port-authority-of-new-york-and-new-jersey-plant-first-trees-on-the-memorial-plaza-at-the-world-trade-center-site/feed/ 0 Carved Gemstones Exhibition Opens at the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/carved-gemstones-exhibition-opens-at-the-harry-oppenheimer-diamond-museum/ http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/carved-gemstones-exhibition-opens-at-the-harry-oppenheimer-diamond-museum/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:14:39 +0000 admin http://museumpublicity.com/?p=7087 An exhibition of Carved Gemstones from Idar-Oberstein exhibition has opened at the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum in Ramat Gan, Israel’s diamond center. Those present at the opening ceremony included Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israel’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, Tzvi Bar, Mayor of Ramat Gan, Avi Paz, President of the Israel Diamond Exchange, Peter Prugel, Deputy German Ambassador to Israel, Dieter Hahn, Chairman of the German Foundation and the Idar-Oberstein Diamond and ... Read More

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]]> http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/carved-gemstones-exhibition-opens-at-the-harry-oppenheimer-diamond-museum/feed/ 0 Jane Addams Hull House Museum Reopens After Renovation http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/jane-addams-hull-house-reopens-after-renovation/ http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/jane-addams-hull-house-reopens-after-renovation/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:57:01 +0000 admin http://museumpublicity.com/?p=7084 The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is reopening on September 8th after an $800,000 makeover. The museum serves as a dynamic memorial to social reformer Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and her colleagues whose work changed the lives of their immigrant neighbors as well as national and international public policy. The Museum preserves and develops the original Hull-House site for the interpretation and continuation of the historic settlement house ... Read More

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]]> http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/jane-addams-hull-house-reopens-after-renovation/feed/ 0 Festive Christmas Market At The Bowes Museum http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/festive-christmas-market-at-the-bowes-museum/ http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/festive-christmas-market-at-the-bowes-museum/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:36:29 +0000 admin http://museumpublicity.com/?p=7022 Pitches for The Bowes Museum’s annual Christmas Market are up for grabs as the Barnard Castle treasure house looks to grow the popular event, both in size and reputation. Verity Naseby, the Museum’s Wedding and Events Officer, has already fielded a good number of enquiries from potential stallholders, and she is keen to increase the number and the wide variety of quality crafters and producers who already attend the event, which has become a favourite in the Teesdale ... Read More

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]]> http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/08/festive-christmas-market-at-the-bowes-museum/feed/ 0 Wye Financial & Trust sponsors Concours d’Elegance dinner to benefit CBMM http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/07/wye-financial-trust-sponsors-concours-d%e2%80%99elegance-dinner%c2%a0to-benefit%c2%a0cbmm/ http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/07/wye-financial-trust-sponsors-concours-d%e2%80%99elegance-dinner%c2%a0to-benefit%c2%a0cbmm/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:56:22 +0000 admin http://museumpublicity.com/?p=7053 Wye Financial & Trust will sponsor the fundraising dinner of the Fourth Annual St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance, to be held September 24-26 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, Maryland. The event is a weekend of activities celebrating rare and classic automobiles from 1900-1942, vintage wooden boats from the same era, art, and fashion. All proceeds benefit CBMM.   Wye Financial & Trust is a division of CNB, and a member of Shore Bancshares family of ... Read More

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]]> http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/07/wye-financial-trust-sponsors-concours-d%e2%80%99elegance-dinner%c2%a0to-benefit%c2%a0cbmm/feed/ 0 New Reading Room Opening Its Doors As The Bowes Museum Marks Heritage Open Days http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/07/new-reading-room-as-the-bowes-museum-marks-heritage-open-days/ http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/07/new-reading-room-as-the-bowes-museum-marks-heritage-open-days/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:45:22 +0000 admin http://museumpublicity.com/?p=7027 The Bowes Museum’s newly created Reference Library and Archives Reading Room will be opening its doors to show off its hidden treasures to residents and visitors free of charge on Sunday 12 September. Organised by archivist Judith Phillips, the activities form part of Heritage Open Days, a national annual event supported by English Heritage. The Bowes Museum This new facility, dedicated to the Museum’s former chairman of the Board of Trustees The Viscount Eccles, will be open ... Read More

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]]> http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/07/new-reading-room-as-the-bowes-museum-marks-heritage-open-days/feed/ 0 Audio Archive Charting Modern Women MP’s Opens at the British Library http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/07/audio-archive-charting-modern-women-mps-opens-at-the-british-library/ http://museumpublicity.com/2010/09/07/audio-archive-charting-modern-women-mps-opens-at-the-british-library/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:34:16 +0000 admin http://museumpublicity.com/?p=7015 An audio archive charting modern women MP’s representation in Westminster opened to the public on 6 September 2010 at the British Library. In the 82 interviews, women MPs from across all political parties were asked what they thought of changes in the sitting hours of the Commons, all-women short-lists, the Suffragettes, how poorly the media treated them (commenting on their clothes and hair styles) and what they thought of being called ‘Blair’s Babes’. The ... Read More

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