SEATTLE – Sunday, Nov. 11, is the 100th anniversary of the end of World War 1, and the Museum celebrates the day with patriotic music, ceremony, a special WWI lecture and free admission for U.S. veterans and active U.S. military. The Museum will join thousands of other institutions across North America and Europe commemorating the […]
SEATTLE – The Museum’s Space Expo 2018 includes evening receptions Nov. 2-3 with NASA photographer Michael Soluri and Mars Society co-founder Dr. Robert Zubrin. These informal ticketed events allow an insider’s look at NASA spaceflight operations and the exploration of Mars. Each event is $15 general admission/$10 for Museum Members. Friday, Nov. 2 5:30- 9 […]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. recently announced its Apprentice for a Day Shipyard Programs, taking place now through April 2019. Programs take place on weekends and select weekdays, and include a variety of programs for every interest and age. Programs include Timber Frame Raising; Electronic Navigation for Non-Technical People; Boating Essentials; […]
Participants in the topical, interactive series for academic year 2018‒19 include artists Rina Banerjee and Isaac Julien, curator and author Helen Molesworth, and Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art Adam Weinberg Providence, RI…The Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) at Brown University today announced a dynamic roster of presenters in the upcoming […]
On Sunday, Nov. 4 from 2-4 pm, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting a Maryland’s Four Centuries Project seminar featuring Maryland Dove Captain Will Gates presenting research and development for a new replica of Maryland’s first ship. The seminar is one of four in a series hosted around the State, and is free and […]
In partnership with the Frederick Douglass Honor Society and the Talbot County Free Library, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting Dr. David Blight on Saturday, November 10 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm for a talk on his newly released Frederick Douglass biography. Admission is free, but limited to 120 ticket holders, with advanced tickets […]
SEATTLE – On Nov. 2-3, the Museum’s Space Expo 2018 combines the arts and rocket science to explore and interpret space exploration. The event includes evening receptions and lectures, and offers a full day of space-related lectures, VR experiences and performance art with guests from NASA, Mars Society, San Francisco-based Media Art Xploration, and the […]
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University is presenting a special exhibition of more than 100 photographs by Danny Lyon (b. 1942) drawn from the Gallery’s collection and four films on loan from the artist. Danny Lyon: The Only Thing I Saw Worth Leaving complements the Brown Arts Initiative’s “On Protest, Art & Activism” […]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., is offering two chances to get involved with its restoration of Delaware this December. From 10am–4pm Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1–2 and Dec. 8–9, participants are invited to join Shipyard Programs Manager Jenn Kuhn in lofting the 1912 river tug. Guests can take part in one […]
The Mississippi Museum of Art’s Center for Art & Public Exchange (CAPE) is pleased to debut the results of a summer 2018 residency with New York-based contemporary artist Jeffrey Gibson, who is currently featured in the Museum’s exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer. An in-process edit of Gibson’s new video artwork, titled WonderLust, will be […]
SEATTLE – Oct. 28 is the time for kids to trick or treat through the Museum of Fright, when each gallery of aviation or space becomes a spooky Halloween place. The Aviation Learning Center will be transformed into Frankenstein’s Lab, the always mysterious Blackbird spyplane will loom over an obstacle course, while the Personal Courage […]
CINCINNATI – A collection of paleontologists from around the world recently published the results of their research shedding light on the development of one of the largest dinosaurs. The research paper, published in Scientific Reports, examined a specimen from the collections of Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC). This small skull is from a sauropod (long-necked herbivorous […]
