The Electric Railway Museum in Coventry has been awarded Small Groups Award from the Heritage Railway Association (HRA). The award identifies the work done by Electric Railway Museum since its creation in 2008 as ‘an [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Attendance at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City jumped significantly in the 2011 calendar year, to 410,000 visitors. In 2010, 359,000 visitors came to the museum. The higher numbers are attributed to a [Read More]
The National Hellenic Museum has opened in Chicago it is the first and only major museum in the country dedicated to the Greek journey, from ancient times to the modern Greek American experience. Chicago has [Read More]
125,582 people and counting have seen the Duke Energy Holiday Trains in their new home CINCINNATI – The Duke Energy Holiday Trains opened for the 2011 holiday season on Nov. 5 in their new home [Read More]
SEATTLE On Jan. 11, an heroic airline captain will tell the story about how he and his crew successfully dealt with an in-flight emergency that could have been one of the biggest disasters in airline [Read More]
Electric Railway Museum announces a new arrival to its Coventry site. Laboratory 4, affectionately known as ‘Hastings Coach’, was the first vehicle to run with the Advanced Passenger Train Prototype’s suspension and tilt systems. A [Read More]
The Toledo Museum of Art Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Studio Glass Movement. Harvey Littleton (American, born 1922) Blue/Ruby Spray from the Crown Series. Colorless and colored barium potash glass, blown, with multiple cased overlays, [Read More]
The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) presents Made in America 1900-1950. Photographs from the NGC an exhibition on view until April 1, 2012. In the first five decades of the 20th century photography came into [Read More]
the Riverside Art Museum presents Julie Torres. Close Encounters an exhibition on view January 5th, 2012 – April 5th, 2012. Opening: January 5th, 2012 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Torres’ works are visually potent, portable [Read More]
The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) invites the public to see the Canadian première of The Clock, a masterful work by artist Christian Marclay. Christian Marclay. Still from The Clock, 2010. Single channel video with [Read More]
The Museum of European Cultures has re-opened in Berlin after two years of extensive renovation work and again is able to host exhibitions in Dahlem. Forthcoming highlights will include: – a permanent exhibition on the [Read More]
Tthe San Francisco Arts Commission voted unanimously to appoint Tom DeCaigny as the agency’s new Director of Cultural Affairs. A local consultant and the former executive director of the Performing Arts Workshop, DeCaigny will officially [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presents Aphrodite and the Gods of Love on view through February 20, 2012, in the Lois and Michael Torf Gallery. Head of Aphrodite (“The Bartlett Head” ), Greek, about [Read More]
The Sammlung Falckenberg presents seemingly poetic-surrealist images by US painter Ena Swanser and subversive-enigmatic works by Finnish artist Robert Lucander, in an exhibition on view through MARCH 25, 2012. The exhibition’s title of “Psycho” is [Read More]
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents Edo Pop. The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints on view through January 8, 2012. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) is home to one of the world’s great collections [Read More]
United States Senator Charles Schumer, Representative Jerrold Nadler, NYS Assembly Member Michael DenDekker and other New York City elected officials and civic leaders joined NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver at a ceremony presenting the title [Read More]
The Royal Academy presents Driven to Draw: Twentieth-century Drawings and Sketchbooks from the Royal Academy’s Collection on view through 12 February 2012. Sir Frank Brangwyn, R.A., Portrait of A.H. Mackmurdo, 1 May 1945. Red chalk [Read More]
More than 500 years ago, the now-desolate Inka city of Huánuco Pampa, located high up in the Andes Mountains in Peru, periodically bustled with tens of thousands of people. But despite its large palace, temples, [Read More]