SEATTLE – Celebrating NASA’s 60 anniversary-Oct. 1-the agency’s Chief Historian, Bill Barry, will be at the Museum on Oct. 6 with a presentation that looks back, looks forward, and shares little-known stories about pushing the [Read More]
Monthly Archives: September 2018
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Florence, Italy – The recently restored statue of Aphrodite housed in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (National Archeological Museum/the Museum) in Florence, Italy, was unveiled in a public celebration on September 11, 2018. Funded by Friends [Read More]
Celebrate the U.S. debut of Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day, described by The New York Times as “a loose journey of self-discovery that can be read in mythological or biographical terms or, often, both [Read More]
SEATTLE – Daring doggies will run and leap full speed ahead in the Museum’s Aviation Pavilion as powerful pooches take over during three high-flying performances of dog athletics on Sept. 29 at 2, 2:45 and [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s 18-acre waterfront campus now boasts an apiary garden, located next to the historic Mitchell House on CBMM’s Fogg’s Landing, thanks to the hard work of St. Michaels student and Boy [Read More]
CINCINNATI, OH – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is now accepting applications for the 2019 Youth Docent program sponsored by and in collaboration with the Cincinnati Chapter of the Links, Incorporated. The program provides [Read More]
CINCINNATI, OH — The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will open its doors free of charge to all Museum Day ticketholders on Saturday, September 22, 2018, as part of Smithsonian magazine’s 14th annual Museum Day, [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., recently held an ice cream social for docent and greeter volunteers to kick-off the fall tour season. Fourteen new volunteers recently completed a five-week-long training course, [Read More]
A portfolio of fine art photographic prints of George Washington’s Headquarters has been acquired by Morristown and Morris Township Library for their North Jersey History and Genealogy Center. The photographs were selected from a collection [Read More]
[ANNAPOLIS, MD] – Norwegian Viking ship, Draken Harald Hårfagre (Draken), today announced St. Michaels, Maryland as the next stop official stop on its Expedition America: East Coast Tour 2018 presented by Highland Park Single Malt [Read More]
The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) has been awarded a $275,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant was given in support of the MMA’s reinstallation of its permanent collection and [Read More]
BALTIMORE, MD – The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents an exhibition of dazzling mixed-media works by artist Ebony G. Patterson. On view October 10, 2018–April 7, 2019, Ebony G. Patterson: …for little whispers… features [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting a two-day Introduction to Rigging workshop on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13 & 14, when participants will join CBMM Shipwright Apprentice Sam Hilgartner to learn more about the [Read More]
BALTIMORE, MD – The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents a special exhibition of recent works by inventive artist collaborators Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin. On view from October 7, 2018, to January 6, 2019, [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation are inviting the public to see and climb aboard the skipjack Stanley Norman during her Oct. 15-18 stay at CBMM in St. Michaels, Md. On [Read More]
The Brown Arts Initiative (BAI), together with its member departments and programs, today announced highlights of its much-anticipated fall 2018 season of programming, featuring influential artists, curators, filmmakers, musicians and poets. In addition, on November [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and the Living Classroom Foundation are inviting the public to climb aboard the pungy schooner Lady Maryland during her Oct. 21-25 stay in St. Michaels, Md. On Sun., Oct. 21, [Read More]
SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight offers free admission on Saturday, Sept. 22, with the presentation of a Smithsonian Museum Day ticket. The Museum Day ticket provides free admission for two people, and is only [Read More]