The British Museum will be hosting the Antiques Roadshow in a special event on Thursday 2 September, 09.0 16.30 in the Museum Forecourt, Free entry, just drop in. Bring along your family heirlooms and household [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
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Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have created the first frozen bank for Hawaiian corals in an attempt to protect them from [Read More]
The Museum has embarked on an exciting journey that will bring the joys of nature and science to millions of people. The new Perot Museum of Nature and Science in downtown Dallas will inspire all [Read More]
“Americans Now,” drawn from the National Portrait Gallery’s collection, features portraits of outstanding individuals in the realms of science, business, government and the arts. The exhibition opens Aug. 20 and will be on view through [Read More]
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts celebrates its tenth year and continues to gain prominence as a major center for art exhibitions with the 2011 Ingram Gallery exhibition schedule that includes the Frist-organized Vishnu: [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg presents Transcending Vision: American Impressionism 1870–1940 From the Bank of America Collection, open August 28, 2010–January 9, 2011. This exhibition features stunning American Impressionist paintings and is bracketed [Read More]
NEWPORT BEACH, CA – The Orange County Museum of Art announced the artists participating in the upcoming 2010 California Biennial. The Biennial exhibitions are a cornerstone of OCMA’s program and highly anticipated by art enthusiasts [Read More]
Brooklyn, NY – Beginning Wednesday, October 6, the Brooklyn Museum will open to the public eight additional hours a week, including remaining open until 10 p.m. every Thursday and Friday. When the new schedule goes [Read More]
The Kathryn, a Chesapeake Bay skipjack built at Crisfield, Maryland in 1901, was launched back in the waters on August 18, 2010 after two weeks of maintenance work at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) [Read More]
The State Museum of Pennsylvania has again been accredited by the American Association of Museums, or AAM, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, or PHMC, announced today. Accreditation is the highest national recognition for a [Read More]
The Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, opens at the Natural History Museum, London 22 October 2010 – 11 March 2011, 10.00 – 17.50 daily. About the competition Now in its 46th year, [Read More]
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has just announced that it has awarded the Museum £725,000 for the year 2010-11, from its competitive ‘core funding’ stream for university museums. The award will continue for [Read More]
From October 22, 2010, through January 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition New Work: R. H. Quaytman. Organized by Apsara DiQuinzio, SFMOMA assistant curator of painting and [Read More]
The National Museum of Women in the Arts announces Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color, the first major retrospective surveying Jones’ diverse subjects and styles, on view October 9, 2010, through January 9, [Read More]
The nation’s oldest existing Civil War memorial arrived at its new home Wednesday, the Frazier International History Museum. Known as the “Bloedner Monument,” the 3,500-pound limestone memorial is of exceptional national and historical significance, especially [Read More]
Portland, Maine – On Saturday, September 11 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., the Portland Museum of Art’s front patio will be the launch site for artist Andrea Zittel’s new project, The Group Formerly Known [Read More]
San Francisco, CA – The Contemporary Jewish Museum presents an exhibition of rarely seen Old Master paintings entitled Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker. Reclaimed reveals the extraordinary legacy of Jacques Goudstikker, a [Read More]
Pasadena, CA – The Norton Simon Museum announce the rare loan of Raphael’s The Small Cowper Madonna, c. 1505, from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. On view November 5, 2010–January 24, 2011. [Read More]