Saturday, March 12, the Illinois State Museum will host the 13th annual Junior Collectors Day. Collectors between the ages of 8 and 15 are encouraged to share their collection with others and learn techniques for [Read More]
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Works by contemporary Latino and Native artists draw on traditional Catholic iconography to contemplate the heritage of Spanish colonialism The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) presents Contemporary Coda, a companion installation to Splendors of Faith/Scars [Read More]
The Wisconsin Maritime Museum, 75 Maritime Drive, will host “Kahlenberg Industries’ Sound of Success” at 1:30 p.m. Saturday February 12. Erick Kahlenberg, the company’s vice president, will share a collection of stories about his family’s [Read More]
The exhibit Textiles In White: The Language of Clothing focuses on white textiles from the Nevada State Museum and Nevada Historical Society collections. The exhibit showcases a variety of white clothing, textiles and accessories from [Read More]
Brown University will officially open the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Feb. 10, 2011. The interdisciplinary arts center will foster innovation, research, collaboration, creativity, and education among the arts, humanities, and [Read More]
The Maryhill Museum of Art Presents Process and Presence: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft on view March 15 – July 4. Portland’s Museum of Contemporary Craft (MoCC) is home to more than 1,000 [Read More]
A contemporary jazz concert to benefit research and patient services at Scripps Cancer Center is set for Friday, March 11 from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. aboard the USS Midway Museum, alongside Navy Pier in [Read More]
Event displays hundreds of models from realistic planes to fantastic spaceships The annual NorthWest Scale Modelers Show returns to The Museum of Flight Feb. 19 and 20 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is [Read More]
The Nanaimo Museum presents Literary Luminaries on February 26, 2011. As part of National Heritage week the Nanaimo Museum once again is hosting twelve local authors with a range of writing styles. They will speak [Read More]
A generous donation was received in January by the Nanaimo Museum from the Jim Pattison Foundation. The cheque for $10 000 will be very valuable to us for future gallery and exhibit development. Mr. Pattison [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has recently acquired the Van Halen “Frank 2” guitar played and made famous by Eddie Van Halen through a partnership donation with Fender Musical Instruments. It was made [Read More]
The Maine State Museum in Augusta marks the 300th anniversary of one of Maine’s most storied nautical disasters with a new exhibit of objects recovered from the underwater wreck site of the British merchant ship, [Read More]
In a special ceremony, actress Farrah Fawcett’s nephew, Greg Walls, and actor Ryan O’Neal donated objects from the private collection of her estate to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The donation includes the [Read More]
Thomas d’Aquino, Chair of the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, announced the appointment of Sylvie Clermont Madely as Director of the National Gallery of Canada Foundation. The Foundation’s Board of Directors selected Ms. Madely for [Read More]
Three New York master luthiers, renowned for their hand-carved stringed instruments—particularly their archtop guitars, which have been sought after by many of the most important guitarists of the last century—will be the subject of Guitar [Read More]
Paul Ruddock has been elected to the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum’s Chairman. The election took place at the January 11 [Read More]
The Museum of Flight celebrates the 60th annual National Engineers Week with the Puget Sound Engineering Council Engineering Fair and the popular, Younger Member Forum of the American Society of Civil Engineers Popsicle Stick Bridge [Read More]
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology presents the 30th annual Chinese New Year Celebration Saturday, February 12, 2011, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm! This PECO World Culture Day features music and [Read More]