$1 Million Gift Puts Museum Within Reach of its $26.6 Million Overall Capital Campaign Goal The Cellular South Foundation, the corporate philanthropic arm of the nation’s largest privately owned wireless communications provider, today announced a [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
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Museum Adds New Leadership with Expertise to Support Growth and Transformation – Yves Béhar to Become Museum’s Third Artist Trustee At its May meeting, the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern [Read More]
A rare medieval roof finial has been found in London’s River Thames by the Museum of London during a survey. The object, which dates from the late 12th Century or 13th Century, is in the [Read More]
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents The Tribe and the Hermit by Montreal designer Michel Rouleau in the Design Lab, open through November 14, 201 . Six tent‐chairs are arranged in a circle on [Read More]
The Shangdong Tianyu Museum of Nature in east China, has set a record for being the largest dinosaur museum in the world. The Museum, which opened in 2004 and is devoted to dinosaur and other [Read More]
Wells Fargo Free First Thursday Thursday, Sept. 2, 5-9 p.m. Once a month, the Museum stays open late-for free! Enjoy the Museum’s Great Gallery, Personal Courage Wing, Space: Exploring the New Frontier exhibit and more [Read More]
On 16 September 2010 the Ashmolean launches its first major art exhibition in one of the country’s newest and most important temporary exhibition centres. The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy brings together over 140 pictures from the [Read More]
While attending today’s Woodward Light Rail press conference along with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Governor Jennifer Granholm at Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), Mayor Dave Bing went the extra mile to acknowledge [Read More]
The Florence Griswold Museum Presents an Exhibition Connecticut Treasures: Works from Private Collections, open through September 19 , 2010. Much of the state’s rich artistic heritage is privately held; these works have been cherished and [Read More]
FORT WORTH, Texas – Museum Director Ron Tyler announces that the Amon Carter Museum has modified its name: the longtime institution is now known as the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Amon Carter Museum [Read More]
Cruise Nights at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum – fifth annual series. 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4 (Jeep® Night) and Aug. 18 (Classic Cruiser Night) at Walter P. Chrysler Museum, One Chrysler Dr., [Read More]
Haunting images of love, attraction, alienation, death, and other universal human experiences in the work of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944) will be presented in a fascinating exhibition of nearly 60 of his most important [Read More]
The Bramah Tea & Coffee Museum is expected to reopen after Borough & Bankside Community Council grant planning permission for a new building. The museum has been shut down since January 2008. The Bramah Museum, [Read More]
The Farnsworth Art Museum presents the first annual Arnold Newman Prize Winner exhibition. The 2010 show will feature the work of Brooklyn-based photographer Emily Schiffer who has been selected as the winner of the 2010 [Read More]
Plans for a Sea City Museum in Southampton have been given a massive boost after the scheme scooped a £4.6million grant. Southampton City Council is planning to build a new £15 million museum which will [Read More]
Portland, Ore., – Through a collaborative effort from the Sanyo North America Corporation (SANYO), InSpec Group (InSpec), and Portland General Electric (PGE), the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) has installed a solar canopy [Read More]
VANCOUVER, BC – In the first exhibition of drawings ever to travel from the distinguished collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, the Vancouver Art Gallery brings together nearly 100 artworks by celebrated 19th century French [Read More]
The Aspen Art Museum presents an exhibition of work by Marlo Pascual, the third Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence. Exhibition on view through Oct 3 2010. Pascual combines glamorous photographs of women [Read More]