The National Museum of Commercial Aviation is planning a new Museum Campus comprised of several buildings, built in phases over a number of years. The main building will be a themed terminal covering the major [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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For Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen an extraordinarily successful year has drawn to a close. More than 320,000 people visited the 30-plus presentations that the museum organised in its own building and on location. The museum [Read More]
Free Winter Weekdays from January 3 through February 4, 2011. The museum invites everyone to take advantage of free admission every weekday, all day long—from Monday, January 3 through Friday, February 4, 2011, including late [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is displaying nine photographs of President John F. Kennedy and his family taken by Richard Avedon for Harpers Bazaar. The photos will be on view until Feb. 28. [Read More]
As part of it’s Collecting Initiative the Smithsonian National Museum of American History will acquire a skateboard deck ridden by renowned skateboarder Tony Hawk following the closing ceremony this evening at the Quiksilver All 80s [Read More]
One of the oldest surviving gondolas from Venice is now on view on the mezzanine of the East Building at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. It will complement the exhibition Venice: Canaletto and His [Read More]
Mayor Gavin Newsom, City Attorney Dennis Herrera, City Controller Ben Rosenfield, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu and the Asian Art Museum Foundation, the private fundraising arm of the Asian Art Museum, today announced a [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art presents the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning, widely considered to be among the most important and prolific artists of [Read More]
The San Diego Museum Council announce that its heavily discounted and sought-after event, Museum Month, is back this February 2011. During the entire month of February, individuals can pick up a free Museum Month Pass [Read More]
The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army is the most successful exhibition presented by the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in the decade since Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids (2000). From the exhibition’s [Read More]
One of the coral reefs in Carnegie Science Center’s SeaScape exhibit has thrived so well that it has outgrown its aquarium tank. Dave Sobal, aquarium animal coordinator at the Science Center, has been in contact [Read More]
The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents PLATFORM 5: Bartow + Metzgar, Stratimentation: Investigations of a Metamorphic Landscape, on view through April 24, 2011. Bartow + Metzgar’s collaborative art practice is an experimental engagement with [Read More]
The Elliott Museum presents its collection of baseball memorabilia including the Mr. Joseph DePaolo collection of thirty-five baseballs signed by Hall of Famers and those destined to be inducted. For over four decades, The Elliott [Read More]
The New Bedford Art Museum presents In the Landscape: Four Painters — Four Seasons on view through 1.16.2011. In the Landscape: 4 Painters — 4 Seasons is the result of setting four superb painters free [Read More]
The Pensacola Museum of Art, in commemoration of National Youth Art month and in partnership with the Escambia County School System, will present Youth Art Focus, on Jan 7th – Feb 27th, 2011. This exhibition [Read More]
The New Bedford Art Museum presents Neil Alexander: Photographic Landscapes; Five Seasons — Louisiana and Massachusetts, currently on view through Jan 16. Neil Alexander continues the theme of seasons, time and cycles of change in [Read More]
The Tullie House Museum presents The Eagles Have Landed an exhibition on view 29th January 2011 – 13th March 2011. In 69AD the Roman World acquired a new Emperor. His name was Vespasian. His face [Read More]
For a limited time—now through January 31—visitors to the Portland Art Museum will have a unique opportunity to view four major canvases by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The four paintings are hung in close [Read More]