American museum-goers will have the rare opportunity to view a complete triptych by Renaissance master Maerten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), one of the most admired Netherlandish painters of the 16th century, when his dramatic Ecce Homo [Read More]
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Baltimore—The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has granted the Walters Art Museum $265,000 for a three-year project to digitize, catalog and distribute 113 illuminated medieval manuscripts from Flanders, present-day northeastern France and Belgium. This [Read More]
An object of global historical and cultural significance, received by explorer Captain James Cook from a Canadian First Nation during his final voyage (1776-1779), is being donated to the University of British Columbia’s Museum of [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is preparing to welcome the goddess Juno, who will make the Museum her final stop on a more than century-long journey from Rome. Measuring 13 feet tall and [Read More]
A Faberge notebook in which Queen Victoria recorded guests who attended her Diamond Jubilee celebrations is to go on display in the exhibition Treasures from The Queen’s Palaces at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse [Read More]
The State Library of Victoria presents Love and Devotion. from Persia and beyond, an exhibition on view Friday 9 March 2012 – Sunday 1 July 2012. The marriage of Yusuf and Zulaykha (detail), from Yusuf [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Byzantium and Islam Age of Transition, an exhibition on view March 14–July 8, 2012. Pyxis with Vine Scrolls and Birds (cat. no. 120B), Syria (?), 7th–8th century. Ivory and [Read More]
The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm has acquired Hedvig Elisabet Charlotta by Johan Tobias Sergel. Johan Tobias Sergel, Duchess Hedvig Elisabet Charlotta. Clay. Photo: Bodil Karlsson/Nationalmuseum. When Johan Tobias Sergel was recalled to Sweden from Rome by [Read More]
Research findings on a 200-300-year-old skull found in a wall in Coeymans – the subject of recent news accounts – will be one of the topics discussed during a series of free weekly lectures on [Read More]
The Museum Of Fine Arts Houston presents Egyptomania, an exhibition on view March 18 through July 29, 2012. The fascination for Egypt has been repeatedly rejuvenated. Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign (1798-1801), the opening of the Suez [Read More]
The Museum of the Coastal Bend at Victoria College presents an Archeology Fair on Saturday,, March 22. The Museum of the Coastal Bend showcases the rich multi-cultural heritage of the mid-coastal region of Texas. The [Read More]
Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin presents The King James Bible. Its History and Influence, an exhibition on view FEBRUARY 28 – JULY 29, 2012. Four hundred years after its first [Read More]
Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art presents Beauty and Belief. Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture, an exhibition on view February 24, 2012 to September 29, 2012. As the premier art museum in [Read More]
The Field Museum in Chicago presents Genghis Khan, an exhibition on view Feb. 24 through Sept. 3, 2012). Genghis Khan showcases the largest single collection of 13th century Mongolian artifacts ever assembled, and takes visitors [Read More]
The University of Richmond Museums presents Ti-Ameny-Net: An Ancient Mummy, An Egyptian Woman, and Modern Science, an exhibition on view from February 23 to June 29, 2012, in the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from [Read More]
Installation of Cincinnati Museum Center’s newest blockbuster exhibition A Day in Pompeii continues today in preparation for its March 2 public opening. Exhibit staff, Italian artifact couriers and art handlers are carefully uncrating, inspecting and [Read More]
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford presents The Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades, in an exhibition on view from Wednesday 15 February, 2012. The collection of 450 objects, formed by Sir Alan Barlow [Read More]
The Field Museum presents Opening the Vaults. Mummies, an exhibition on view February 17 and running through April 22, 2012. Opening the Vaults: Mummies is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the public to view over 20 [Read More]