The New York State Museum, a program of the New York State Education Department’s Office of Cultural Education, has received an Award of Merit from the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH) for [Read More]
Antiquities
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Chrysler Museum of Art opens The Allure of Ancient Egypt an exhibition on view AUG 17, 2013. This selection of hand-carved hieroglyphs, jewelry, funerary sculptures, not to mention photographs and paintings of the great monuments, [Read More]
Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere present Terracotta Army and Treasures of the First Emperors of China an exhibition on view from 14 June to 1 December 2013. Sometimes termed the eighth wonder of the world, the [Read More]
Colby College Museum of Art presents American Weathervanes from a Distinguished Maine Collection an exhibition on view July 13, 2013 – June 8, 2014. The wind is our most immediate predictor of weather, an endlessly [Read More]
National Museums Scotland present Mary, Queen of Scots an exhibition on view through 17 November. Arguably the most famous and controversial figure in Scottish history, Mary Stewart has become something of an enigma. Intrigue and [Read More]
British Museum announce Beyond El Dorado: Power and Gold in Ancient Colombia an exhibition on view 17 October 2013 – 23 March 2014. The exhibition features over 200 fascinating objects from Museo del Oro, Bogotá, [Read More]
Some 500 of the 1400 participants of the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee made the journey from Phnom Penh to Siam Reap and visited the Terrace of the Elephants at Angkor Thom ahead [Read More]
Tyler Museum of Art unveils presents Deco Japan. Shaping Art & Culture, 1920–1945 an exhibition on view through October 20, 2013. Between the two World Wars, when 20th-Century modernism established a firm hold in the [Read More]
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762–1796) on September 21, 2013, to January 5, 2014. This exhibition [Read More]
La Masseuse (The Masseuse), a sculpture by Edgar Degas has found a permanent home at the Walker Art Gallery as part of the government’s Acceptance In Lieu (AIL) scheme, administered by Arts Council England. Once [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Brooklyn Museum will co-host a daylong program to help New York-area residents identify and preserve items of historical and cultural significance tucked away [Read More]
The National Museum of American History will feature a 19th-century fire pumper—a predecessor to the modern fire engine—at its Constitution Avenue entrance beginning June 27. It will be paired with a Conestoga wagon and tell [Read More]
Royal Ontario Museum presents Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World an exhibition on view June 22, 2013 until January 5, 2014. Exploring over 3,000 years of accomplishments of this ancient civilization to reveal the significance many still [Read More]
Metropolitan Museum of Art presents The Cyrus Cylinder–2,600-Year-Old Symbol of Tolerance—on View at Metropolitan Museum June 20–August 4, 2013. The Cyrus Cylinder—a 2,600-year-old inscribed clay document from Babylon in ancient Iraq and one of the [Read More]
The Bowers Museum presents The Tsars Cabinet an exhibition on view from June 8 until September 1, 2013, which highlights two hundred years of decorative arts under the Romanovs, from the time of Peter the [Read More]
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery presents Pharaoh: King of Egypt showing the splendour and power of the ancient kings and queens. This touring exhibition from the British Museum explores the time of the pharaohs through [Read More]
The Honolulu Museum of Art presents Lethal Beauty: Samurai Weapons and Armor an exhibition on view June 06, 2013 – August 18, 2013. Comprising approximately 63 works by more than 30 master craftsmen from the [Read More]
Knoxville McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee presents PUEBLO TO PUEBLO: THE LEGACY OF SOUTHWEST INDIAN POTTERY an exhibition on view September 8, 2013–January 5, 2014. Pueblo pottery of the Southwest is one of [Read More]