The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City will begin installing new, permanent exhibits that will interpret the contribution of railroads to the history of Nevada and transform the museum’s interior. This installation is the [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2011
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The Denver Museum of Nature & Science presents a new photo exhibition The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict, which shows us the river that has defined the landscape and the water issues of the West. [Read More]
The Smithsonian is hosting this public forum to discuss the complex roles, responsibilities and constraints of organizing and presenting exhibitions in public institutions. The Tuesday evening session will focus in part on the National Portrait [Read More]
The Ateneum Art Museum presents Illusions of Reality – Naturalist painting, photography and cinema 1875-1918 on view through 15.05.2011. Ateneum in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam will present a major exhibition entitled [Read More]
The Art Fund has announced plans to increase funding for museums and galleries to buy and show art by over 50% by 2014. Responding to the severe financial pressures facing most institutions, the Art Fund [Read More]
The Queens Museum of Art has broken ground on an expansion project that will double the museum’s size by 2013. The Grimshaw design offers a refined solution to the limitations of the current New York [Read More]
The Wallingford Museum has abandoned it’s planned £500,000 extension project, after 177 funding applications failed, reports the Herald Series. “The volunteer-run museum in Flint House, High Street, had raised more than £60,000 for the new [Read More]
Unveiling the New Speed: A Model of the Future allows visitors to explore the Museum’s Master Plan as it embarks on the largest capital project ever undertaken by an arts and culture institution in Kentucky. [Read More]
The Victoria & Albert Museum presents Figures and Fictions: South African Photography Exhibition. Open 12 April – 17 July 2011. Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography highlights the work of 17 South African photographers, [Read More]
The European Commission announced that the Neues Museum is the winner of the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award. The ‘Emerging Architect Special Mention’ award goes to Ramon [Read More]
The Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents Alfredo Jaar The Marx Lounge. On view 17 April–5 June 2011. For The Marx Lounge by Alfredo Jaar, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam has been transformed into a reading room [Read More]
Museum thanks the community and celebrates Space Gallery SEATTLE – Admission will be free at The Museum of Flight on Saturday, April 16. Museum President and CEO Doug King said today that Saturday will be [Read More]
Kunsthalle Bern presents the first solo-project in Switzerland of MadeIn Company (China), and an exhibition based on souvenirs of renowned Swiss artist Olivier Mosset. Open 9 April–19 June 2011 . Since 2009 Shanghai-based artist Xu [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents a Video: Human Nature, contemporary art from the collection on view through July 4th, 2011. The exhibition Human Nature features selections from the permanent collection of contemporary [Read More]
Exhibit showcases the amazing engineering and science behind the spacesuit through photographs and X-rays In 1961 President John F. Kennedy stated the United States would land a man on the Moon and return him safely [Read More]
The Hyde Collection announced that its prized Christ with Arms Folded by Rembrandt van Rijn will be on display in the Louvre in Paris beginning April 18, 2011 as part of a landmark exhibition titled [Read More]
The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí has presented it’s latest acquisition of Salvador Dalí Work in the Loggias Room at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí presented its latest acquisition of work by the [Read More]
The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons presents Lost Museums: Nature and medicine on show through 2 July. Discover a lost world of cabinets of curiosity and grand exhibitions at the Royal College [Read More]