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]
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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]
The Brunel Institute officially opened its doors on November 29. The Brunel Institute sits alongside Brunel’s ss Great Britain, the great Victorian engineer’s masterpiece and only surviving ship – now at the heart of a [Read More]
The Everhart Museum is to present “With bullets singing all around me”: Regional Stories of the Civil War open February 4 – July 17, 2011. The American Civil War was a defining moment for a [Read More]
The Air Force announced Dec. 2, 2010, the assignment of Senior Executive Service member and retired Air Force Lt. Gen. John “Jack” L. Hudson as Director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, [Read More]
The Corning Museum of Glass, in America’s “Crystal City,” celebrates the holiday season with a glass wonderland of giant glittering ornament trees, hands-on holiday-themed glassmaking and special events. Through January 2, 2011, visitors to the [Read More]
From winter 2010 the Museum will begin the redevelopment of its Egyptian galleries housed in Charles Cockerell’s Grade -1 listed Beaumont Street Building. Leading the project will be the award-winning practice Rick Mather Architects, who [Read More]
The newest addition to the National Naval Aviation Museum, Hangar Bay One, adds 55,000 square feet of exhibit space to a facility that is already one of the largest of its kind in the world. [Read More]
The Museum of Discovery was awarded a grant of $9.2 million by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation! The grant will enable the Museum to construct a street-level entrance on President Clinton Avenue and to redesign [Read More]
Fort Nelson is currently undergoing a £3.5M development of its galleries and fortifications, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The newly developed site is scheduled for completion in 2011. Existing galleries and fortifications will remain [Read More]
Joan Rosenbaum, who has led The Jewish Museum since 1981, creating its innovative identity as a museum of art and culture and doubling the size of its home at Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street, has [Read More]
New Herzog & de Meuron‐designed museum will open to the public in 2013 Following years of planning and anticipation, Miami Art Museum has broken ground for its new Herzog & de Meuron-designed facility in Downtown [Read More]
The Royal Armouries Museum, Fort Nelson presents Festive Fun at the Fort on 21 December 2010. Enjoy traditional Punch & Judy shows and Christmas craft activities – make yourself a unique greetings card or tree [Read More]
This interactive study day, on 4 December 2010 will examine the process of interpreting pieces recovered from battlefield sites and especially how to tap in to the wealth of expert knowledge in the field of [Read More]
Bank of America Weekend Family Workshop Saturn V: Rocket to the Moon! Saturdays and Sundays, Feb 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Learn about the Saturn V–the rocket [Read More]
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, presents one of the most important private collections of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts and printed books in the exhibition A Journey through Jewish Worlds: Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts [Read More]
The Phillips Collection’s official App is now available for free download to iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch in the App Store and iTunes. The App provides instant access to the nearly 3,000 works of modern [Read More]