As the nation begins to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announces its plans for a major exhibition of photographs opening in October 2012 along [Read More]
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The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City will begin installing new, permanent exhibits that will interpret the contribution of railroads to the history of Nevada and transform the museum’s interior. This installation is the [Read More]
The Smithsonian is hosting this public forum to discuss the complex roles, responsibilities and constraints of organizing and presenting exhibitions in public institutions. The Tuesday evening session will focus in part on the National Portrait [Read More]
The Art Fund has announced plans to increase funding for museums and galleries to buy and show art by over 50% by 2014. Responding to the severe financial pressures facing most institutions, the Art Fund [Read More]
The Queens Museum of Art has broken ground on an expansion project that will double the museum’s size by 2013. The Grimshaw design offers a refined solution to the limitations of the current New York [Read More]
The Wallingford Museum has abandoned it’s planned £500,000 extension project, after 177 funding applications failed, reports the Herald Series. “The volunteer-run museum in Flint House, High Street, had raised more than £60,000 for the new [Read More]
Unveiling the New Speed: A Model of the Future allows visitors to explore the Museum’s Master Plan as it embarks on the largest capital project ever undertaken by an arts and culture institution in Kentucky. [Read More]
The Victoria & Albert Museum presents Figures and Fictions: South African Photography Exhibition. Open 12 April – 17 July 2011. Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography highlights the work of 17 South African photographers, [Read More]
The European Commission announced that the Neues Museum is the winner of the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award. The ‘Emerging Architect Special Mention’ award goes to Ramon [Read More]
Museum thanks the community and celebrates Space Gallery SEATTLE – Admission will be free at The Museum of Flight on Saturday, April 16. Museum President and CEO Doug King said today that Saturday will be [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents a Video: Human Nature, contemporary art from the collection on view through July 4th, 2011. The exhibition Human Nature features selections from the permanent collection of contemporary [Read More]
The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons presents Lost Museums: Nature and medicine on show through 2 July. Discover a lost world of cabinets of curiosity and grand exhibitions at the Royal College [Read More]
MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts presents UNIVERSO RIETVELD architecture art design, Open to the public: 14 April–10 July 2011. MAXXI pays tribute to the Dutch master, his world and his influences on [Read More]
MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts announces A new service: the MAXXI Architecture Archives Centre. The Archive Centre opens on 14 April. In the large study hall with its innovative design by Zaha [Read More]
Sense and the City, a new exhibition at London Transport Museum, will explore how people in the past imagined the London of the future and how new technology will influence city living over the next [Read More]
The Buffalo Museum of Science is hosting a Book Drive, April 11-17. Donate new or gently used books during regular museum hours and receive a voucher for a FREE 3D film at the Museum. All [Read More]
The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) has announced the launch of its new website. The new website, timed to coincide with the museum’s reinstallation project, Reflections on a Museum, ushers in a new era [Read More]
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg presents Gerwald Rockenschaub: multidial 16 April–4 September 2011. After interventions by Olafur Eliasson (2004), Douglas Gordon (2007) and James Turrell (2009), Gerwald Rockenschaub’s multidial continues the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg’s series of large hall projects. [Read More]