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]
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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]
St Fagans National History Museum presents Childhood in Wales on view Mar 2 2011. For many, childhood signifies a magical time filled with fun and excitement, when friendships are forged and happy memories created. For [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art has acquired a complete version of A Fire in My Belly (1986–87) by David Wojnarowicz—both its original 13-minute version and a 7-minute excerpt made by the artist—announced MoMA Director Glenn [Read More]
The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC), will debut a new online exhibit at museum.tv, “We’ll be Right Back: 60 years of Television Commercials” on January 12, 2011. The online exhibit has been culled from the [Read More]
The Mint Museum announces the 2011 program schedule for its First Fridays and Let’s Get Reel series. First Fridays is an ongoing evening event series held the first Friday of every month at the new [Read More]
The Figge Art Museum presents Crossing the Mississippi: The Quad Cities, the Railroad and Art on view The arrival of the railroad in the mid-nineteenth century sparked a period of tremendous economic growth that transformed [Read More]
North Somerset Museum is closing temporarily from 17-29 January to enable essential building maintenance to be carried out and a new boiler installed. The work has been intentionally planned for what is traditionally the quietest [Read More]
The Figge Art Museum’s Board of Trustees is seeking candidates for the position of Executive Director. The Executive Director provides vision, leadership and direction for the organization and is responsible for the overall development, programming [Read More]