The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum has chosen April 19th, 2011, as the opportunity for it’s official “water breaking” ceremony signifying the beginning of construction on the new Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. [Read More]
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The Maryland Science Center will take visitors to the top of the world and back in time when The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest is now playingat theSt. John Properties IMAX Theater. Playing through 6/10/11. [Read More]
The Spencer Museum of Art presentss Glorious to View: The KU Campus Heritage Project, on view May 7 – September 16, 2011. Inspired by the Getty Foundation-funded Campus Heritage Project and the collective legacy of [Read More]
Nine historic sites and museums throughout Morris County are inviting the public to “Be Our Guest” on Sunday, May 15, from noon to 5 p.m. in celebration of National Tourism Week. Participating institutions will open [Read More]
The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum presents “Steelroots: Touching Earth & Sky,” a unique outdoor exhibition of 16 massive root forms, sculpted in steel by acclaimed Pennsylvania artist Steve Tobin. “Steelroots” opens April 16 and continues through [Read More]
The exhibition galleries and lobby of the National Academy Museum will be closed for renovations until September 2011. Funded by generous bequests from Eleanor D. Popper, a former student of the School, and author Geoffrey [Read More]
From 9 July 2011, Wales will have its own National Museum of Art, showcasing the full range of the nation’s world-class art collection under one roof at National Museum Cardiff. For the first time, the [Read More]
The Ukrainian Museum and the Children of Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund are commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster with the exhibition Inside Chornobyl The world’s worst nuclear disaster took place at the [Read More]
Ca Corner della Regina, thanks to the collaboration between Venice’s Fondazione Musei Civici and the Prada Foundation, is set to become an important new landmark in Venice’s cultural landscape. Venice’s Fondazione Musei Civici—which is in [Read More]
The Alaska Veterans Museum opened on April 17, 2011 in Anchorage. The Alaska Veterans Museum is focused on honoring the nation’s veterans and insuring that because of the sacrifices they made to defend America’s freedom, [Read More]
Badischer Kunstverein presents Atrium Babak Afrassiabi & Nasrin Tabatabai / Pages Two Archives, on view 21 April–19 June 2011. Since 2004, Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi have been working under the name Pages on joint [Read More]
The Parrish Art Museum Presents Julião Sarmento: Artists and Writers/House and Home, on viewA pril 17–June 11, 2011. The exhibition underscores the artist’s long engagement with the themes of language, writing, and a sense of [Read More]
The official handover of the largest gift in the museum’s recent history took place on Friday 15 April 2011 in the Frans Hals Museum. The Elisabeth van Thüringen Fund is donating eleven works of art [Read More]
Michael E. Shapiro, the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, announces today the appointment of Sarah Schleuning as the Museum’s new curator of decorative arts and design. Schleuning [Read More]
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, is the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. Bringing [Read More]
The committee for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s (CBMM) 14th Annual Boating Party – Dressing the Ship, has set the date for this year’s signature event for Saturday, September 10, 2011. The fundraising gala will [Read More]
Nina Simon, nationally renowned museum consultant and exhibit-design expert, is the new Executive Director of the Museum of Art & History (MAH) at the McPherson Center in Santa Cruz. After an extensive nationwide search, with [Read More]
George Washington’s home, Historic Mount Vernon, broke ground at a special ceremony on April 14 for a new $47 million presidential library. The groundbreaking program featured remarks by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, an [Read More]