This exhibition, open, Thursday 23rd September, 2010 – Monday 3rd January, 2011, is the latest in an ongoing series mounted by the Wallace Collection which features selections from celebrated collections of French drawings. The holdings […]
Daily Archives: September 23, 2010
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The exhibition Beasts on Parchment: Picturing Animals in Medieval Manuscripts, open November 6, 2010–February 15, 2011, looks at the ways in which medieval people perceived animals. Dragons Battling (detail) Book of Hours, Rouen, ca. 1480, […]
Plastic pollution in the oceans 13 October, 7pm Royal Geographical Society Our throw away society is polluting large areas of the world’s oceans with plastics, threatening marine life and food chains. How did it get […]
The Science Museum of Minnesota will show an exhibition of King Tut artifacts – Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, from Feb. 18 to Sept. 5 2011. Experience the riches of royal life […]
The New Bedford Whaling Museum presents Charmed by the Sea: One Hundred Fifty Years and more of Yachting on Buzzards Bay, opening on September 25, 2010 during a major weekend rendezvous of the Cruising Club […]
The New Bedford Whaling Museum will host the 35th Annual Whaling History Sympoisium on Sat, Oct 16 to Sun, Oct 17, 2010 @ All Museum. Founded in 1975, The Whaling History Symposium is the world’s […]
The Montrose Museum is closed for refurbishment and accessibility work. The museum is expected to reopen next weekend, with a new exhibition, Montrose and the Battle of Britain. The museum holds significant Neolithic and bronze […]
The Museum of the Earth, opens Half Shell: How and Why We Study Evolution on Friday, September 24, 6:30 p.m. – 8: 30 p.m. Tickets $10 Learn about all different kinds of bivalves – clams, […]
On Friday, October 15, the Museum of American Finance will unveil the display of an 18-karat solid gold Monopoly set covered with hundreds of precious gemstones, on loan from the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of […]
With graceful eyelashes, long flaxen hair and serene expression, the “Beauty of Xiaohe” seems to have just softly fallen to sleep-yet she last closed her eyes nearly 4,000 years ago. She was found, and excavated, […]
A cacophony of stuffed animals dramatically spot-lit onto a wall to form a portrait silhouette of the late fashion icon Isabella Blow has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery. It goes on display at […]
The Centre Pompidou presents a retrospective exhibition Arman, one of the leading figures of post-war art. pen open through January 10 2011. Arman, “The day after pompei’s syndrome”, 1984 © coll. Marianne et Pierre Nahon […]
Visitors from around the globe have trekked to Springfield, Illinois the past five years to see the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. During the month of October 2010, the Museum is making it easier for the […]
SEATTLE – On Oct. 2 at The Museum of Flight, author Joy Dunkerley will present a lecture and book signing about the pioneering French airline, Aérospostale. Aéropostale was the world’s first intercontinental carrier and a […]
Penn Museum and Penn Medicine Research Collaboration Yields First Promising Evidence for Efficacy of Medicinal Compounds Once Employed by Our Ancestors New biomolecular archaeological evidence backed up by increasingly sophisticated scientific testing techniques are uncovering […]
On Thursday, August 26, sixteen Maine museums, historical organizations, and their supporters came together in an unprecedented collaboration to save an important collection of Maine artifacts, seventeen rare, 19th-century hand-painted banners commissioned by the Maine […]
The Portland Museum of Art, Board of Trustees has announced that the proceeds from the major gift of $3 million given to the Museum from the family of Emily Eaton Moore will be allocated as […]
For the Claude Monet (1840-1926) exhibition at the Grand Palais from September 22, Orange is proud to be partnering the Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN) association on its “Digital Monet” project. Orange would like to […]