The Lancaster Museum of Art will kick off the 2017 year with a special exhibition of a gift of art works from the collection of Timothy B. Stauffer. The exhibit will be on view at [Read More]
Monthly Archives: January 2017
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Snap a pic at your favorite museum on #MuseumSelfie Day January 18 CINCINNATI – The selfie. It’s something we’ve all done. You might it quickly and secretively, too ashamed to admit it. Or you might [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is offering a two-session Boating Essentials course on Saturday, February 18, from 9:00 a.m. to noon and continuing on Sunday, February 19, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Class participation is [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is offering a two-day chart navigation course which begins on Saturday, February 25, from 9:00 a.m. to noon, and concludes Sunday, February 26, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Participation is [Read More]
Free Admission and Family Programming at the Museum CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will celebrate the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today, January 16, beginning with the sold [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. will host the 2017 Teaching with Small Boats Alliance conference beginning Thursday, April 27 and continuing through Saturday, April 29, 2017. The three-day conference enables participating [Read More]
This spring, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. will open the very first exhibition to showcase the black-and-white Chesapeake-focused photography of Robert de Gast. This major exhibition, Robert de Gast’s Chesapeake, runs [Read More]
The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is pleased to announce the appointment of Hilary Lewis as the site’s Chief Curator & Creative Director starting January 17, 2017. Lewis has [Read More]
Liz LaCorte of Cordova, Md. has joined the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. as Director of Development. LaCorte is responsible for helping to further CBMM’s mission through management of CBMM’s membership and [Read More]
Free Admission and Family Programming at the Museum on Monday CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will celebrate the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 16, beginning [Read More]
Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic masterpiece is a sweeping medieval tale of Russia’s greatest icon painter, who became known as the father of modern iconography. Discussion to follow. Saturday, February 18, 12:00–5:00PM Members $15, Nonmembers $20. Advance [Read More]
Three scholars will speak about views of Mary’s life in different cultures. Reverend Chris Visminis will address Dormition and Assumption: Meanings for the End of Mary’s Life. The Eastern and Western view of the end [Read More]
“Holy Fools” practiced the most extreme form of asceticism: purifying the soul through self-denial and a rejection of worldly comforts. Museum Curator and CEO Kent Russell traces the origins of the Holy Fool from the [Read More]
Just in time for Easter, explore the art, symbolism and joy in creating pysanky, traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs. Experienced instructors Karen Brouillette and Susan Dow have taught many pysanky workshops together throughout New England. All [Read More]
Laura Garrity-Arquitt, Museum Registrar and organizer of Holy Fools to Wonderworkers, leads a tour of the exhibit, explaining the distinctions between martyrs, stylites, prophets, ascetics and other types of Orthodox saints, and how they are [Read More]
This award-winning film depicts a modern-day “holy fool” in a powerful story of faith and salvation. In a small monastery in Northern Russia lives an unusual man whose bizarre behavior confuses his fellow monks, while [Read More]
Pushkin Hills is the story of an unsuccessful writer and inveterate alcoholic who takes a summer job at the Pushkin Hills Preserve in hopes of regaining some balance in his life, only to experience a [Read More]
Having turned 100 years old, the National Park Service inaugurates its second century with a fine art photographic exhibit at Harvard’s Fruitlands Museum titled “Find Your Park: National Parks in New England,” which includes several [Read More]