The Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin presents Schahname. Heroic Times. A Thousand Years of the Persian ‘Book of Kings’ on view Sat 19 March – Sun 19 June 2011, Pergamonmuseum. In 2010 the world [Read More]
Museum News
The Model Guild of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, the North American Steamboat Modeler’s Association (NASMA) and the Washington Ship Model Society are sponsoring the 7th Maritime Model Expo on Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, [Read More]
The Chard Museum is at present closed for the winter and will reopen on Monday 18 April 2011. The Museum & Heritage Centre exhibitions have been expanded and improved steadily over the years and contain [Read More]
The Pacific Tsunami Museum will host it’s 9th Annual Story Festival on Sunday, April 17, 2011. The theme this year is “I Grew up on Piopio St.” It is that little bit of a street [Read More]
With the exhibition Appeal for an Alternative / Aufruf zur Alternative the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen establishes the Schmela Haus as an arena for testing out experimental and interdisciplinary projects. The reactivation of this icon of modernist [Read More]
The Mississippi Museum of Art presents Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Freedom Riders on view March 19–June 12, 2011. It has been fifty years since the historic summer of 1961 when hundreds of [Read More]
A group of artists has painted a wall mural of Laupahoehoe peninsula prior to 1946. Laupahoehoe, Pacific Tsunami Museum The artistic creation was designed and painted by Elfie Wilkins and two of her students, Lena [Read More]
The Corning Museum of Glass will present an unprecedented survey of work by the groundbreaking female artist Toots Zynsky. A pioneer of the studio glass movement, Zynsky draws from the traditions of painting, sculpture and [Read More]
Swiss Institute presents Karlheinz Weinberger Intimate Stranger on view now until March 26, 2011. Swiss Institute proudly presents the first institutional exhibition of vintage prints by the late Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006). An unsung pioneer of [Read More]
The Japan Society Gallery presents Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, an exhibition introducing American audiences to a new wave of Japanese artists who challenge their country’s long love affair [Read More]
The Roanoke Canal Museum & Trail announces “The Roanoke Valley in the 1960s” 3-Day Event. The Roanoke Valley in the 1960s is a 3-day event explaining how the wild, revolutionary 1960s affected small-town America like [Read More]
The Attleboro Arts Museum presents India American Experience: The Work of Photographer Mahendra Paul along with The Art of the Sari. Exhibition dates: June 9 – 17, 2011. The Museum’s India American Experience exhibition is [Read More]
The Geffrye Museum presents At Home in Japan – beyond the minimal house, open Tuesday 22 March to Monday 29 August 2011. Susan Andrews View from a living room onto a domestic garden in Nara, [Read More]
BBC One’s ever popular Sunday evening programme Antiques Roadshow will be filming for its 34th series at Yorkshire Museum & Gardens, York, on Thursday, 28 July, 2011. The doors open at 9.30 am and close [Read More]
The archive of the Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin, New Zealand is closed while a $38m building redevelopment is completed. During the redevelopment the museum is open with a very much reduced exhibition programme in [Read More]
The Yorkshire Museum has been nominated for the long list for The Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries, 2011. The purpose of this annual prize is to recognise and stimulate originality and excellence in [Read More]
The NC Transportation Museum hosts Spring Kick Off 2011 on March 19th. The Spring Kick Off will include a few special touches, including steam over Spencer – as the Flagg 75 Steam Engine Caboose Train [Read More]
Bristols British Empire and Commonwealth Museum (BECM) is closed in preparation for a planned relocation to London. The award winning British Empire & Commonwealth Museum is the first major institution in the United Kingdom to [Read More]