North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh presemts Real to Reel. The Making of Gone with the Wind an exhibition opening Friday, Aug. 31. Showcasing authentic memorabilia — costumes, screen tests, scene props, a script, [Read More]
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A groundbreaking exhibition that unites masterpieces of Chinese sculpture from the famed sixth-century cave temples at Xiangtangshan with the first-ever digitized reconstructions of their original setting opens on September 11, 2012, at the Institute for [Read More]
Neues Museum presents In the Light of Amarna. 100 Years of the Find of Nefertiti, an exhibition on view Fri 7 December 2012 – Sat 13 April 2013. Bust of Queen Nefertiti To mark the [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is adding Benjamin Franklin’s three-piece silk suit, worn on his diplomatic trip to France in 1778 that resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Alliance, to its [Read More]
Political History Curators Larry Bird and Harry Rubenstein of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will wind their way through the crowds at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, not to find a better [Read More]
Fuller Craft Museum presents A Taste for Spoons from the Collection of Nora and Norman Stevens, an exhibition on view August 18, 2012 – November 4, 2012. Kristin Le Vier, ID,2011. Compressed maple Wood carvers [Read More]
Chrysler Museum of Art presents The Natural Beauty of Tiffany: Selections from the Chrysler Museum, an exhibition on view August 18 to December 30, 2012. Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), one of America’s best known businessmen [Read More]
The Chora Church known today as Kariye Museum, hosts a remarkable collection of Byzantine mosaics and frescoes. The church is situated near the Adrianople Gate (Edirnekapı), in Istanbul. Chora Museum iPhone app The church contains [Read More]
Columbus Museum presents Gateway to the Past. Georgia’s Leake Site, an exhibition on view through September 23, 2012. he Leake site, a Native American archaeological site located along the Etowah River near Cartersville, Georgia, contains [Read More]
The 36–map collection, acquired in 1969 by Harry Ransom from the New York antiquarian dealer Hans P. Kraus, features a wide range of individual maps of Europe and America, atlases, a rare set of large [Read More]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has agreed to purchase the “The Fox and the Grapes” mahogany dressing table that has been on loan to the Museum for 36 years. “The Fox and the Grapes” High [Read More]
Jewish Museum announces an Exhibition of Rare Illuminated Manuscripts from England’s Bodleian Library at Oxford University, on view from September 14, 2012 through February 3, 2013. This exhibition will feature over 60 works – Hebrew, [Read More]
Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired two antiquities objects, “Portrait Head of Drusus Minor” becomes the most important Roman marble sculpture in the museum’s renowned antiquities collection and Maya “Vessel with Battle Scene” showcases the [Read More]
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery presents Nomads and Networks. The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan, on view through Nov. 12, the exhibition dispels the notion that nomadic societies were less developed than sedentary ones. More [Read More]
The National Museum of Ireland presents ASGARD. The conserved 1914 Howth gun running vessel at the Collins Barracks in Dublin, in a permanent exhibition opens to the public from Thursday 9th August 2012. The yacht [Read More]
843 heritage objects have been returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul with the assistance of the British Museum with help from the Ministry of Defence. The objects include items made in 3 [Read More]
The Rijksmuseum has acquired a sculpture of a screaming child created by Hendrick de Keyser (1565-1621), who is considered one of the foremost 17th-century Dutch sculptors. The sculpture, which adds a key new dimension to [Read More]
Merseyside Maritime Museum presents letters written on board Titanic, which have been hidden away for a century, are part of a new display in the exhibition Titanic and Liverpool: the untold story about the Titanic’s [Read More]