Communal Scroll Table protects priceless scrolls and is exhibit’s main showpiece CINCINNATI – Installation is underway for Cincinnati Museum Center’s newest blockbuster exhibition,Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times, which opens to the [Read More]
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Frick Art & Historical Center announces A Kind of Alchemy. Medieval Persian Ceramics, an exhibition on view February 23, 2013–June 16, 2013. This exhibition provides a beautiful and fascinating look at the diversity of ceramics [Read More]
In the Artifact Lab: Conserving Egyptian Mummies is an evolving collaborative project between the Museum’s Conservation Department and its Egyptian Section. Molly Gleeson, principal project conservator, focuses her work on the cleaning, restoration, and preservation [Read More]
Princeton University Art Museum presents City of Gold. Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus, an exhibition on view October 20, 2012 – Sunday, January 20, 2013. Jug with Eros and Female: Cypriot, 4th century B.C.E [Read More]
The Kansas Museum of History in Topeka presents Hail to the Chief an exhibition marking the 2012 presidential election, on view through February 24, 2013. Presidents featured prominently in the display are: Abraham Lincoln Ulysses [Read More]
Portland Art Museum presents The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece, an exhibition on view through anuary 6, 2013. The Body Beautiful In Ancient Greece features more than 120 priceless objects from the British Museum’s famed [Read More]
Carnegie Museum of Art presents Inventing the Modern World. Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939, an exhibition on view October 13, 2012–February 24, 2013. John Bettridge and Co.; Pianoforte and stool, c. 1867, gilded [Read More]
The Science Museum of Minnesota presents Lost Egypt. Ancient Secrets, Modern Science, an exhibition on view October 13 through Tuesday, January 1, 2012. Lost Egypt explores how modern technology and scientific techniques have revealed a [Read More]
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opens Turkmen Jewelry from the Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf Collection, an exhibition on view October 9, 2012–February 24, 2013. Teapot shaped ornament. Late 19th-early 20th century. Silver, [Read More]
The National Museum of American History will loan its pair of the famous Ruby Slippers Judy Garland wore in the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz for six weeks. The slippers will reunite with [Read More]
LACMA presents Daily Pleasures. French Ceramics From the MaryLou Boone Collection, an exhibition on view October 6, 2012–March 31, 2013. Narcissus Scene Cup and Saucer Set, 1746, Vincennes Porcelain, Vincennes, France, soft-paste porcelain, The Huntington [Read More]
National Gallery of Art, Washington presents Shock of the News, an exhibition on view September 23, 2012–January 27, 2013. Raoul Hausmann, Salomo Friedländer (Mynona), 1919. Newspaper, woodcut and journal clippings on silver Japanese paper, 25.5 [Read More]
British Museum announces Life and death. Pompeii and Herculaneum, an exhibition on view 28 March – 29 September 2013. Portrait of baker Terentius Neo and his wife. Pompeii, AD 55–79. © DeAgostini/SuperStock. This exhibition will [Read More]
George Washington’s original copy of the Acts of Congress will once again find a home at Mount Vernon, the first president’s beloved Virginia estate. The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association emerged as the winning bidder in [Read More]
California African American Museum presents African American Military Portraits from the American Civil War. Selected Images from the Library of Congress Collections, an exhibition on view September 13th – January 20th, 2013. Commemorating the 150th [Read More]
Museum of Arts and Design in New York City presents Doris Duke’s Shangri La. Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art on view from September 7, 2012 through January 6, 2013, showcasing a selection of objects of [Read More]
Snite Museum of Art presents Father Lindesmith’s Collection: History Into Art and Anthropology, an exhibition on view September 2 – December 2, 2012. Amache (also known as Elk Woman and Sky Woman) American, Cheyenne/Suhtai, ca. [Read More]
Penn Museum (the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) announces a landmark agreement with the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism for an indefinite term loan to the Republic of Turkey of a [Read More]