The Museum of Science Boston presents RACE: Are We So Different? on exhibit January 16 through May 15, 2011. Developed by the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota and sponsored [Read More]
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The Crocker Art Museum and the First 5 Sacramento Commission are pleased to announce that the Museum has been awarded a First 5 Sacramento Commission grant of $566,040. This grant will support the development and [Read More]
The Reading Public Museum will close its Second Floor Galleries to the public on January 24, 2011, immediately after the ending of the current exhibition, Tiffany Lamps: Articles of Utility, Objects of Art. The galleries [Read More]
The Crocker Art Museum will open its doors on four Monday holidays this year: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day. Open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Museum [Read More]
Feb. 21-23, 2011 21st Annual MS Coast History Week! 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Biloxi Community Center – Admission is free! May 28-29, 2011 Billy Creel Memorial Gulf Coast Wooden Boat Show! 10 [Read More]
The Adirondack Museum presents Night Vision: The Wildlife Photography of Hobart Vosburg Roberts on view MAY 27 — OCTOBER 17, 2011. Roberts will introduce the pioneering work of this Adirondack photographer. Roberts (1874-1959) was one [Read More]
The Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art Presents ITALIAN MASTER DRAWINGS From the Northwood University Tamassy Collection on view Jan. 15 – April 10, 2011. Italian drawings specifically selected to complement the museums [Read More]
The Adirondack Community Trust — Evergreen Fund has awarded a grant in the amount of $500 to the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, New York. The funds will be used in general support of [Read More]
Blue Mountain Lake, NY — The library of the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, New York has acquired the archives of a major Adirondack architectural firm that include the most important collection of historic [Read More]
The Ava Gardner Collection was begun by Dr. Tom Banks and was donated to the Town of Smithfield after his death in 1989. Since that time, the collection has grown through donations from other collectors, [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History announced the winners of its “Race to the Museum” initiative: the 1929 Miller race car with 43 percent of the vote and the 1948 Tucker sedan with 23 [Read More]
The Smithsonian Latino Center will present the pioneering New York-based poet Sandra María Esteves Jan. 15 and 16 at 2 p.m. in the National Museum of the American Indian’s Rasmuson Theater. The presentation is part [Read More]
Black History Month at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) offers an engaging and wide-ranging line up of events inspired by the current exhibition Position As Desired/Exploring African Canadian Identity: Photographs from the Wedge Collection. Presented [Read More]
The Baltimore Museum of Art announces African-American History Month Family Day: Maryland Icons Sunday, February 6, 1–5 p.m. (Snow Date: Sunday, February 27, 1–5 p.m.) FREE Storytellers and dance/musical groups take the stage during the [Read More]
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts presents a FREE Lecture: Bulgarian Illustrator Iassen Ghiuselev on Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 2 pm Mr. Ghiuselev was the winner of the 1994 Illustrator of the Year Award [Read More]
“MacMillan is coming!” More than 50 years ago these words announced an exciting event in communities across the country: famed Arctic explorer Donald B. MacMillan would be in town with his motion pictures to tell [Read More]
The British Columbia Museum of Anthropology has canceled ‘The Forgotten Project’. MOA’s intention was to open doors for discussion about difficult issues that have a continuing and powerful resonance in Vancouver. Our decision to host [Read More]
To help mark the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, and Caroline Kennedy, President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, today unveiled [Read More]