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 [Read More]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
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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, [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
The Grand Opening of the Glazer Children’s Museum is set for Saturday, September 25th, 2010. Announced during a special VIP reception at Imagination 2010 – the museum’s annual fundraising gala which this year grossed over [Read More]
After more than four years of renovation and extension work, the Museum of Modern Art of Lille Métropole (Villeneuve d’Ascq) will be reopening to the public on 25 September 2010 under a new name: the [Read More]
The Weserburg Museum of Modern Art presents an exhibition of Götz Diergarten Photographs, open through 30.10.2010. Through his photographs, Götz Diergarten encourages us to look at the familiar things in our surroundings with greater sensitivity. [Read More]
The Ashmolean Museum has welcomed it’s one millionth visitor, since reopening in November 2009. Mrs. Thomas came to the Ashmolean with her daughter, Laura Rolf, to see the new exhibition THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND ITALY. She [Read More]
National Museums Scotland has developed two programmes of activity, one for Primary schools and one for Secondary schools. The programme will coincide with the start of the new academic year. Highlights include the new cross-curricular [Read More]
Recent work by Christopher Bucklow, Ellen Carey, Jonathan Lewis, Mariah Robertson and Jason Salavon. Guest curator: Lisa Kurzner PITTSBURGH, Pa – Silver Eye Center for Photography is pleased to announce Spectra: New Abstract Photography, an [Read More]
The Cape Cod Museum of Art presents Red an exhibition of objects from the CCMA collection that use the color red within the context of the piece. What is it about the color red that [Read More]
The Cape Cod Museum of Art presents THE ART OF CAPE COD – 200 YEARS, open through January 2, 2011. Artists have come to the Cape Cod region since the early 19th century. Beginning with [Read More]