One of the world’s foremost collections of decorated Jewish marriage contracts (ketubbot) is held by The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. Thirty of the finest will be on display at [Read More]
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The McKissick Museum presents From Snapshot to Civic Action: Creating Healthy Environments through Community Engagement on view now through arch 26, 2011. From Snapshot to Civic Action features photographs and corresponding stories from Columbia’s Waverly [Read More]
Celebrate the Persian New Year on Sunday, March 13 at 11:00 am with a full day of activities throughout LACMA’s campus, including live music, film, dance performances, and a traditional Nowruz display called Haft Sîn. [Read More]
Miami Art Museum presents Mark Dion’s complete South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, a large-scale installation that focuses on the Everglades and human attempts to control the South Florida ecosystem. The installation will be on view [Read More]
A Kingfisher Fort Headdress is reunited with members of Alaska’s Tlingit tribe The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts returned a Kingfisher Fort Headdress (late 19th – early 20th century) to the Lúkaaxh.ádi clan of the [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is currently performing a specialized conservation treatment to ensure the long-term preservation of Thomas Jefferson’s bible, a small handmade book that provides an intimate view of Jefferson’s private [Read More]
The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh presents Ragnar Kjartansson: Song through September 4, 2011. Ragnar Kjartansson: Song at Carnegie Museum of Art is Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s first solo museum exhibition in the United [Read More]
The Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has recently discovered color, three-dimensional photographs of the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. The photographs by Frederick Eugene Ives (1856–1937) [Read More]
The Sitka Historical Society and Museum announced the hiring of Jacqueline E. Fernandez as new Curator of Collections and Exhibits. Ms. Fernandez has an advanced museum studies degree from Tufts University in Massachusetts, and completed [Read More]
The Museum of Liverpool will open to the public on Tuesday 19 July 2011. This is a significant date as it is exactly 100 years after the museum’s iconic neighbour the Royal Liver Building opened [Read More]
Dan Cherry and Nguyen Hong My talk of “My Enemy, My Friend – A Story of Reconciliation from the Vietnam War” SEATTLE – Two Vietnam War fighter pilots who once flew combat against each other, [Read More]
The African Art Museum has received a $3 Million contribution from the Ford Foundation. With support through the Ford Foundation’s Supporting Diverse Arts Spaces initiative, the Museum for African Art will complete construction of its [Read More]
His Excellency, the Former General Secretary of the UN, Kofi Annan, visited the Museum of Islamic Art on Tuesday 1st March 2011 as part of his state visit to Qatar. His Excellency toured the exhibition [Read More]
Under the patronage of Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani, Chairperson of Qatar Museums Authority, a new exhibition of exquisite photos and panoramic shots of Doha curated by renowned photographer Maher Attar [Read More]
The Georgia Museum of Art presents Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art on view through MARCH 28, 2011. The Georgia Museum of Art Seventy-two works by 67 black artists [Read More]
‘There, I Fixed It’ stands for an attitude, a way of looking at materials and problems that is at the same time bold and unexpected. These problems can be small and trivial, but also large [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels has expanded its “A Rising Tide in the Heart of the Chesapeake” exhibit, now on display in the Museum’s Steamboat Gallery. The special exhibit runs through [Read More]
On Tuesday, April 5, the Museum of American Finance will open “Alexander Hamilton: Lineage and Legacy,” a retrospective of Hamilton’s life that traces the extraordinary history of one of the nation’s most complex founding fathers. [Read More]