This conference aims to tackle key questions around the museum as an institutional entity and contemporary art as an art historical category. Speakers will provide an overview of developments across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, [Read More]
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The Fort Worth Stockyards Museum is carrying out interior renovation to it’s 1902 Exchange Building, the home of the Stockyards Museum. The work started February 7th, 2011. The Museum has been re-arranged while the work [Read More]
The Canada Aviation and Space Museum has opened it’s new multimedia and learning centre. This space is more than the sum of its parts. It is a state of the art Theatre, lecture hall, event [Read More]
Imperial War Museum North will be shedding new light on the role played by women at sea during the Second World War as it launches a new film to mark International Women’s Day on Tuesday [Read More]
The Massachusetts General Hospital has begun construction of a landmark museum of medical innovation, scheduled to be completed in late 2011. Following several years of planning and coordination led by the MGH History Committee, the [Read More]
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum has received a $90,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s American Art Renewal Fund (AARF). The museum will use the money to fund the position of assistant curator and to [Read More]
Almost three years after disaster struck the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML), plans have been finalized for the historic relocation of the flood damaged building currently located at 30 Sixteenth Ave. SW. [Read More]
The Reno County Museum has announced plans to visit the smaller communities in Reno County and establishing small, temporary exhibits highlighting items unique to those towns. Museum Collections Through exhibits and programs, the Museum uses [Read More]
The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History presents Black Mesa an exhibit Opening March 5. Oklahoma boasts the fourth highest biodiversity of any of the 50 United States. The Sam Noble Museum’s Hall of [Read More]
The Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum has just soft launched HipHopHoF.TV and HipHopHoFMuseum.com community website. The site will be the home of the Hip Hop Hall of Fame, and feature its own Hip Hop [Read More]
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is to display James Naismith’s Original Rules of Basket Ball on March 5 – May 29, 2011. In the winter of 1891, James Naismith, a young college physical education teacher [Read More]
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen presents Thomas Struth – Photographs 1978 to 2010. Exhibition open: February 26 – June 19, 2011. Düsseldorf and Berlin based artist Thomas Struth is among the major representatives of the German photo scene. [Read More]
The Goethe-Institut New York is pleased to announce the inauguration of MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, at 38 Ludlow Street, the downtown satellite space for contemporary art of the Goethe-Institut New York. This residency program [Read More]
Motorless flight celebrated, Museum unveils Steve Fossett’s record setting “Perlan I” glider with debut of permanent exhibit The world of silent flight is celebrated at Soaring Expo 2011, held March 5-6 at The Museum of [Read More]
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has launched a Web-based interactive 9/11 timeline that creates a unique multimedia landscape using images, audio and video to chronicle the events of the day. The timeline tells [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels is offering its first two-day Boater Safety Course for 2011 on April 12 & 13. The course will be held from 6 to 10 pm each [Read More]
The former Fresno Metropolitan Museum may reopen as a children’s museum after First 5 Fresno County agreed to provide $50,000 in seed money for a museum study, according to a report by the Fresnobee. “When [Read More]
Emerson commits $5 million toward $145 million campaign Donation marks largest corporate cash gift to the Museum The Saint Louis Art Museum announced that longtime corporate supporter Emerson increased its commitment to The Campaign for [Read More]