CINCINNATI – The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is excited to announce the hiring of Dr. Ashley Jordan as Senior Director of Development. Dr. Jordan will lead the Freedom Center’s fundraising, donor cultivation and philanthropic [Read More]
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Committed to making meaningful systemic change, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Board of Governors approved today the formation of a Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI) Committee. The DEAI Committee will provide the internal guidance [Read More]
Get in the Halloween spirit this year by joining the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum for a new virtual program, Wunderkammer: Exploring CBMM’s Cabinets of Curiosities. Cabinets of Curiosities, fondly known in German as Wunderkammers, have [Read More]
Beginning on Oct. 7, and continuing each Wednesday throughout the month of October, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will host a series of mixed level sunset yoga classes on its waterfront campus in St. Michaels, [Read More]
As the new school year begins, so have after-school sessions of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s free Rising Tide Program. Presented both virtually and in-person, this program is open to students in grades six–nine. From [Read More]
Lone Pine, CA – Hollywood has been shooting in the Eastern Sierra since 1920 and this year the glorious Alabama Hills of Lone Pine, California are the backdrop for The Lone Pine Film Festival’s “Western [Read More]
At 2pm on Wednesday, Sept. 30, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the launch of the historic buyboat Winnie Estelle with an illustrated talk. After shipping fish and oysters purchased [Read More]
On Monday, September 21, The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) is presenting a livestreamed concert at 6 p.m. from its living room to yours. Jazz: The Living Room Session features acclaimed jazz vocalist Akua Allrich [Read More]
The New Museum is planning to reopen on September 15, having been closed for six-months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To celebrate the reopening, admission will be free to all visitors, through Sunday, September 27. [Read More]
From August 21 through September 20, Museum of the Moving Image will present Michael Almereyda Here and Now, a recent career retrospective featuring four of the director’s most memorable 21st-century visions — William Eggelston in [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., is hosting another session of its virtual tool-sharpening workshop on Saturday, Sept. 19, from 10am–noon. The workshop will focus on gouges and other oddly shaped edge [Read More]
The UK Government has published guidance outlining how museums, galleries, heritage attractions and historic buildings can reopen to the public, during the ongoing Corvid 19 pandemic. Guidance for the heritage sector has been published by [Read More]
The The Baltimore Museum of Arts web-based app has been updated and now includes a self-guided tour of the grounds around the Museum. The tour features audio commentary from the museum’s curators on nine works [Read More]
Preservation Maryland and the Maryland Historical Trust’s joint Heritage Fund grant program will provide nearly $50,000 in essential funding across nine cultural groups in Maryland during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The selected projects were determined [Read More]
BALTIMORE, MD – While The Baltimore Museum of Art’s (BMA) building is still closed to the public, there is now more for visitors to see, do, and eat outside the museum. Beginning Wednesday, August 5, [Read More]
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) has reopened its doors in accordance with public health recommendations and guidance. This follows Governor Charlie Baker’s declaration that Massachusetts will embark on Phase 3 of its reopening. Museum members, [Read More]
BALTIMORE, MD – The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has announced the addition of six new trustees to its board. They include Denise Galambos, Lisa Harris Jones, Elizabeth Hurwitz, Sherrilyn Ifill, Stuart O. Simms, and [Read More]
John Canning & Co. earned the 2020 Preservation Connecticut Award of Merit for the work completed at the Mahogany Suite at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. John Canning & Co. restored [Read More]