Motorless flight celebrated, Museum unveils Steve Fossett’s record setting “Perlan I” glider with debut of permanent exhibit The world of silent flight is celebrated at Soaring Expo 2011, held March 5-6 at The Museum of […]
Daily Archives: February 23, 2011
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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has launched a Web-based interactive 9/11 timeline that creates a unique multimedia landscape using images, audio and video to chronicle the events of the day. The timeline tells […]
The American Folk Art Museum is showing Perspectives: Forming the Figure on view through August 21, 2011. The idea of character is thematically relevant to a deeper exploration of traditional folk art and the work […]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels is offering its first two-day Boater Safety Course for 2011 on April 12 & 13. The course will be held from 6 to 10 pm each […]
The former Fresno Metropolitan Museum may reopen as a children’s museum after First 5 Fresno County agreed to provide $50,000 in seed money for a museum study, according to a report by the Fresnobee. “When […]
Emerson commits $5 million toward $145 million campaign Donation marks largest corporate cash gift to the Museum The Saint Louis Art Museum announced that longtime corporate supporter Emerson increased its commitment to The Campaign for […]
The Rice Hotel in Houston was the second stop of a planned five-city Texas visit that was to have finished at a fund-raiser dinner in Austin. The Kennedy assassination happened in Dallas the next day. […]
The Wright Museum of WWII History has announced the launch of its completely redesigned and upgraded website. Mark Foynes, the Executive Director of the Wright Museum, and Jim Fontaine, an Internet Architect and the owner […]
SculptureCenter presents Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture 1991-2009 Vide-Poche: Michele Abeles, Samuel Clagnaz, Isabelle Cornaro, Miles Huston, Charles Mayton, and Valerie Snobeck. On view until March 28, 2011. Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture 1991-2009 SculptureCenter is pleased […]
The Getty Museum presents Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia, open February 22—August 14, 2011. Cambodia is renowned for the extraordinary art produced during the Angkor period of the Khmer empire, […]
Sixth-Century Chinese Sculpture Combined with 3-D Imaging Technology Re-envisions Spectacular Cave Temples The Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art present “Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave […]
The Michigan State University Museum presents a special exhibition, “MASK: Secrets and Revelations,” on view now through January 22, 2012 in the Main Gallery, that will put many of its global collections on public display […]
The Schirn presents an extensive retrospective to German painter Eugen Schönebeck, featuring almost all of his surviving paintings and the most important drawings. On view through 15 May, 2011. Starting out with Tachist drawing, Schönebeck […]
The National Gallery presents Jan Gossaert’s Renaissance an exhibition on view 23 February – 30 May 2011 in the Sainsbury Wing. Jan Gossaert (active 1503; died 1532) was one of the most startling and versatile […]