This year, the National Museums is a partner to the IFA, the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show. Visitors to the Museum of Photography and Helmut Newton Foundation, the New National Gallery and the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg will receive attractive special admission rates (price of day ticket to IFA: €11.00 valid between 3 and 8 September 2010). Coupons are available at the museum ticket offices. The IFA will be held for the 50th time in its history from 3 to 8 ... Read More

At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, 1 September 2010, Michael Eissenhauer, Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, was delighted to be able to greet Harald Fuchs (48), from near Erlangen, as the millionth visitor to the Neues Museum and handed him the weighty volume ‘Neues Museum’, published by Nicolai Verlag Berlin, as well as a bouquet of flowers. Harald Fuchs was accompanied by his daughter, Claudia (8). They were on their way home from a holiday at the Baltic Sea. ... Read More

This week, the American Association of Museums (AAM) announced that the Chippewa Valley Museum, open all year in Eau Claire’s Carson Park, has been re-accredited for the next ten years. This is big news in the museum world. “AAM accreditation is indicative of overall excellence, in everything a museum does,” said AAM president Ford W. Bell. “It has been said that museums are the repositories of civilization; as an accredited institution, the Chippewa Valley Museum ... Read More

Honolulu, HI – Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor, recently named one of America’s Top 10 aviation attractions by TripAdvisor, has announced the signing of the lease on the Ford Island Aerological Control Tower and Observation Deck, heralding the beginning of the long awaited and badly needed Tower restoration and stabilization project. The Tower stood guard over Ford Island on the day of the Imperial Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. For nearly seven decades ... Read More

On the weekend of October 8-10 the Museum will host a three day show of models and miniatures featuring trains, automobiles, dollhouse miniatures, miniature books and artwork, dioramas, and much more. There will be a drawing for the Grand Prize of a fully finished Princess Anne Dollhouse (Retail Cost $649), professionally decorated and ready to accept furniture, with a $100 gift certificate from Hobby Building Supplies (www.miniatures.com). The draw will be held at 4:00pm on Sunday, ... Read More

The Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon has been working with Wessex Archeology; and English Heritage; on a German Dornier bomber that was shot down in the Battle of Britain in 1940. It will go on display at the museum once it has been recovered and restoration work is carried out.. The Dornier 17 was found by archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology at Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast, two years ago. Sidescan geophysical sonar survey showed that the Dornier 17, known as ‘The Flying ... Read More

“Cycling for Kids & Art” Museum Launches Grass Roots Campaign for New Art Space for Children Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor has embarked on a major campaign to create a new Art Space for Children. The museum invites all of Long Island to join in this exciting venture. The existing building on the museum campus will be expanded and transformed to become an entirely new facility designed by the internationally-renowned New York firm, Lee H. Skolnick ... Read More

The Holburne Museum is thrilled to announce that it has received a grant of £86,000 from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, from the Museum and Heritage Collections strand, for the conservation of its founding collection which will be newly displayed when the Museum re-opens its doors free of charge on Saturday 14 May next year. The Museum, founded in 1882 as Bath’s first public art museum, is currently closed for a development project of restoration and extension and the grant will ... Read More

On 14 September the Dulwich Picture Gallery will unveil a new, permanent sculpture in its grounds. Walking the Dog by acclaimed artist Peter Randall-Page is being presented to the Gallery to mark its 2011 bicentenary. It is the first contemporary sculpture to be acquired for Dulwich – the UK’s first public art gallery. Peter Randall-Page has gained an international reputation through his sculpture, drawings and prints. Novelist, historian and academic Marina Warner has ... Read More

The Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane presents a solo exhibition of key works from the past five years by leading Sydney based Malaysian artist Simryn Gill, open through October 17. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said ‘Simryn Gill: Gathering’ included major works created since 2005, as well as photographs, collections, books and jewellery made from paper and found objects. ‘We are thrilled that Queensland audiences will have an opportunity to engage with Gill’s ... Read More

From 8 October 2010 to 16 January 2011, the Van Gogh Museum will be presenting Illusions of reality: Naturalist painting, photography and cinema, 1875-1918. The exhibition, curated by guest curator Gabriel P. Weisberg, Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota, gives an overview of Naturalist painting in relation to photography and film, with work by artists including Léon Lhermitte and Jules Bastien-Lepage (France), Albert Edelfelt (Finland), Károly Ferenczy (Hungary), ... Read More

Tate Liverpool announce the appointment of Gavin Delahunty to the position of Head of Exhibitions and Displays. Gavin is currently Curator at mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art). He will join the gallery in November 2010 and succeeds Peter Gorschlüter, who has taken up the position of Deputy Director at MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst) in Frankfurt. Gavin will work alongside Tate Liverpool Director Christoph Grunenberg to lead the programme of the Gallery. He stated, “I am ... Read More

The Demuth Museum’s forthcoming exhibition will present a unique examination of the friendship and art work of Charles Demuth (1883-1935) and Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986). Although their artistic styles were clearly independent, these two artists supported each other in their own creations of the new American modernism in the early twentieth century. While Demuth and O’Keeffe socialized in the same circles in New York City, including their mutual connection with the gallerist ... Read More

On Thursday, September 2, the museum will be hosting a Tailgate Party beginning at 6 p.m. The event will feature Hamburgers and brauts served by Hy-Vee of Grand Island Music provided by the Grand Island Senior High Marching Band and cheerleaders who will march along Stuhr’s circular drive playing fight songs A presentation by “Big Red Wrap-Up” co-host Adrian Fiala and special appearances by former Husker walk-ons Three screenings of the documentary “Walk Ons: Husker’s Edge” ... Read More

On Wednesday, September 15, the Museum of American Finance will open “America’s First IPO,” an exhibit on the country’s first public company, the Bank of North America, and the origins of the US stock market featuring some of the nation’s most important founding financial documents. The exhibit will occupy a new 1,500 sq. ft. gallery on the Grand Mezzanine level of the Museum’s home at 48 Wall Street. “America’s First IPO” will include such unique pieces of American ... Read More