The Cincinnati Museum Center is offering a Holiday Membership Offer! Now through January 2, 2011, buy one membership at full price and get a second and third half off! Available at Cincinnati Museum Center or [Read More]
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TV crew in Seattle to investigate World War II propaganda leaflet SEATTLE, On December 13 a crew from the popular PBS summer TV series, “History Detectives,” will visit a Museum of Flight aircraft restoration facility [Read More]
Anne Hawley, Norma Jean Calderwood Director, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum announced the appointment of landscape scholar and educator Charles Waldheim, principal, Urban Agency as the Museum’s new consulting Curator of Landscape, effective January 2011. Rooted [Read More]
National Museums Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University have joined forces to share expertise and develop links. A formal partnership has been signed which will see both organisations working closer together on cultural programmes. Hope has [Read More]
The program last night at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) saw over 150 people come together at the museum to view the documentary Handmade Nation and hear the filmmaker, Faythe Levine, discuss the handmade/maker movement [Read More]
The Wellcome Collection is to present High Society: Drugs in Victorian Britain on February 11-12 2011. This event will open with a Friday evening of traditional Victorian entertainment, a performance of the extraordinary Magic Lantern- [Read More]
The Swedish American Museum presents Dalsland goes West on viwe through Jan. 30, 2011. The Museum will partner with the Dalsland Art Association and the Society of Artists in Dalsland for a special exhibit titled [Read More]
The American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia presents a special temporary exhibit about the New Sweden colony now on display at the Swedish American Museum. Open through Jan. 30, 2011. This exhibit titled Colony to [Read More]
The Arizona Historical Advisory Commission, Arizona Centennial Commission, and Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records will host Centennial Commemoration of Arizona’s Constitutional Convention. One hundred years ago, delegates adjourned Sine Die Arizona’s Constitutional Convention. [Read More]
The Model Guild of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD will host a weekend model-building workshop from 6 to 9pm Friday, February 25 and 9 to 5pm Saturday and Sunday, February 26 and 27. [Read More]
Pohns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library presents the exhibition “Edward S. Curtis: Photogravures from The North American Indian,” which will run through March 27. In a project that spanned 23 years, The North American [Read More]
The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries announced the acquisition of a unique collection of 280 rare books and manuscripts relating to the history of scientific discovery from the late 15th to the 20th centuries. Made [Read More]
The Cape Cod Museum of Art presents Harry Holl Sculpture and Clay Studio Exhibition – December 18 – January 9. This exhibition will display the work created by the artists/teachers, and selected students of the [Read More]
The Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art presents Wild Delmarva: The Photography of Kevin Fleming open January 28 – April 10, 2011, Reception: January 28, 5-7p.m. The work of award-winning nature photographer Kevin Fleming is presented [Read More]
The opening of the St. Augustine Pirate and Treasure Museum has been delayed to December 8, while construction is finished. Pat Croce’s St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum relives the Golden Age of Piracy in [Read More]
The People’s History Museum has announced funding cut’s. Following the announcement last week by the Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) the museum will see its funding reduced by about 15% from 2011/12 across [Read More]
The Anacortes History Museum celebrates the holidays and the hundred-year birthday of the Carnegie building on December 8th. The fun starts at 6:30PM – enjoy refreshments along with a special classical guitar performance, a unique [Read More]
Two new exhibits at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s Money Museum examine the use of currency throughout U.S. history and the changes affecting the Bank’s Protection Department since the 1920s. The Money Museum’s [Read More]