Articles in Museum News
UW Museology Grad Program Teams with The Museum of Flight with Education Programs
SEATTLE – On Thursday, December 1, The Museum of Flight will turn into a classroom for students in the University of Washington Museology program’s museum education course. As part of their coursework, students have designed and developed a series of innovative and interactive education programs to be premiered at The Museum of Flight during the monthly Wells Fargo Free First Thursday evening event. The Museum of Flight The students’ interactive programs cover a range of topics, including ... Read More
Cincinnati Museum Center offers great gift ideas this holiday season
They’ll love something unique from our gift shops, tickets to A Day in Pompeii opening in March, or a membership! CINCINNATI – On your next visit to Holiday Junction featuring the Duke Energy Holiday Trains, take the opportunity to get a little shopping done. At Cincinnati Museum Center, we have unique gift ideas for everyone on your list! For the little ones: You wear the toy. Your baby has the fun. The Bobo Glove is a rattle, teether, pull-toy and squeaker all in one! Take some of your fun from Duke ... Read More
Peer One Video Tour Injects New Perspectives and Interactions with the Walters Art Museum’s Permanent Collection
Tour launch date Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, with 2 p.m. presentation Baltimore – The Walters Art Museum announces Peer One, a video tour curated by staff member and artist Kari Altmann, using the museum’s new works of art website as a starting point. A group of contemporaries, including artists, curators and bloggers, will respond with videos to objects in the museum’s permanent collection. Altmann invited her online peers to participate and encouraged them to place the museum’s objects into a ... Read More
Hirshhorn Museum goes (RED) for World AIDS Day on December 1
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum represents Washington, D.C., as one of more than 80 iconic landmarks, including New York’s Empire State Building, the London Eye and the Sydney Opera House, that will join (RED), an initiative to fight the AIDS pandemic in Africa, in marking World AIDS Day on the evening of Dec. 1. The World AIDS Day campaign highlights the goal of ending mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015. The north and east facades of the Hirshhorn’s striking Gordon Bunshaft-designed building ... Read More
ChesAdventures begins January 14 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Featuring Chesapeake themed, hands-on activities and a take-home art project, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s (CBMM) ChesAdventures program for children four to nine years old begins on January 14 and continues on Saturday’s through February 25. The ChesAdventures program offers two hours of fun-filled and creative hands-on games, arts and crafts, and storytelling. Small classes and age-appropriate projects facilitate the learning process and offer kids a special place and opportunity for early ... Read More
BYU Museum of Art Presents Wide Open Spaces Exploring Painting Techniques that Capture the Grandeur of the American Southwest
The BYU Museum of Ar presents Wide-Open Spaces an exhibition on view through March 10, 2012. The exhibition presents 80 paintings by a variety of early 20th-century artists. This exhibition explores the artistic innovations in color, composition and technique developed by these artists to capture the grandeur of the region. It will include works drawn from the Museum of Art’s permanent collection as well as the Diane and Sam Stewart Art Collection, currently on loan to the museum. ... Read More
BBC and The British Museum Announce Shakespeare’s Restless World Radio Series
The BBC and British Museum have announced a 20-part series to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, looks at the world through the eyes of Shakespeare’s audience by exploring objects from that turbulent period. Neil MacGregor in the recording studio. Neil uses objects to explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the public and helped shape the works and considers what they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of Shakespearean England. Contributing ... Read More
Scottish National Portrait Gallery Reopens December 1st
The new renovated Scottish National Portrait Gallery (SNPG) re-opens on 1st December with 60 per cent more space and a new photography gallery. Scottish National Portrait Gallery A distinctive landmark on Edinburgh’s Queen Street, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery is a grand, neo-gothic building in red sandstone. The north- and east-facing sides feature an elaborate scheme of decorative sculptures. Poets, monarchs and statesmen watch over Queen Street and North St Andrew Street, while William Wallace and ... Read More
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Presents Tokyo Art Meeting (II) Architectural Environments for Tomorrow. New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo presents Tokyo Art Meeting (II) Architectural Environments for Tomorrow. New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art on view through 15 January 2012. Walter Niedermayr, “Rohbauten 72 | 2008.” Courtesy: Galerie Nordenhake Berlin/Stockholm; Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milano; Robert Miller Gallery, New York. The spread of computerization and urbanization since the beginning of the twenty-first century has given birth to new lifestyles and forms of public space. This ... Read More
The British Museum Invites Trustee Applications
The British Museum invite applications for three new Trustee positions. The deadline for applications is 2 December 2011. The British Museum was founded by Parliament in 1753 with the purpose of enabling citizens, of both Britain and the world, to understand the world. Great court Window The British Museum The British Museum holds the greatest collection representative of human cultural achievement, ancient and modern, in the world. The Museum is a space ‘not only for the ‘learned and curious’ but also ... Read More
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