The Windermere Steamboat Museum & Historic Boat Collection, situated on the shores of Lake Windermere, has successfully passed the first round of a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) bid. The HLF has endorsed the outline proposal, [Read More]
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Surpassing attendance expectations, M.C. Escher: Impossible Realities has drawn record crowds to the Akron Art Museum. As the last of only two venues in the United States to show this once-in-a-lifetime loan from Athens, Greece, [Read More]
Three museums will participate in the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) Art Museum Day by offering free admission. Seattle Art Museum will offer free admission to the Seattle Art Museum Downtown and the Seattle [Read More]
Derrick Cartwright is resigning as SAM’s Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director effective June 30, 2011. Mr. Cartwright was named the museum’s director in May 2009. “This was a difficult decision for me but I feel the [Read More]
The grand reopening of a suite of 15 dramatic New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia will take place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the election of business and civic leader Daniel Brodsky, a Trustee of the institution since 2001, as its next Chairman of the Board. Mr. Brodsky will officially assume the [Read More]
The American Independence Museum host an Art & Antique Appraisal to benefit the Museum on Saturday, 14 May 2011 at Exeter Town Hall, 7 Front Street, Exeter, NH Professional appraisers from prestigious Winston Art Group, [Read More]
Join the chase and follow clues which lead you around the incredible hidden museums & collections at University College London, hunting out intriguing objects and specimens in store. There are prizes to be won by [Read More]
First African-American military pilots in May 29 panel SEATTLE – Three of the first African-American pilots in the U.S. military will share their experiences during a panel discussion at The Museum of Flight on [Read More]
After several months of research and exploration, the Peoria Riverfront Museum Board voted Thursday to partner with international immersive theater specialist Global Immersion to provide the technical solution for the museum’s Giant Screen Digital Theater [Read More]
The Walters Art Museum presents Setting Sail: Drawings of the Sea from the Walters Collection, on view June 18–September 11, 2011. Eugène Isabey, Fishing Boats, 1862, watercolor heightened with white on paper, acquired by William [Read More]
The Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. announced its acceptance of a $10 million pledge from the Lockheed Martin Corporation. The pledge, which is the single largest dollar gift the Foundation has ever received, will be [Read More]
The Nordic Heritage Museum presents Vessels of the Heart: Fairbanks at Arabia / Cushing and Salmenhaara at Alfred, on viewthrough May 22, 2011. Vessels of the Heart reveals a rich dialogue between artists in Finland [Read More]
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art announces that it has received a $75,000 Picturing America School Collaboration Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Only nine such grants were awarded nationwide, [Read More]
Learn and experience the wonders of the incredible and complex flying machine known as the helicopter during Family Day from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on May 21 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. [Read More]
The San Antonio Museum of Art announced today that Dr. Katherine Luber has been appointed Kelso Director of the Museum effective July 2011. The announcement is the culmination of a national search to replace former [Read More]
The Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust announced today that James Cuno, recognized both nationally and internationally as a noted museum leader and scholar and an accomplished leader in the field of [Read More]
The Merseyside Maritime Museum will showcase Albert Einstein’s landing card, on temporary display from 10 May 2011. The museum has recently acquired this landing card marking Albert Einstein’s visit to England in May 1933. Landing [Read More]