The Stepping Stones Museum for Children re-opened on Saturday, November 20. The new State-of-the-art Multimedia Gallery catapults Stepping Stones onto a global stage. With a 33′ x 12′ immersive screen and an open floorplan, it [Read More]
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The Art Gallery of Ontario has opened Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts opens to the public. The Canadian exclusive, organized by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, features over 200 works spanning three centuries [Read More]
The Corning Museum of Glass hosts it’s Annual Studio Glass Sale December 4 and 5, 2010 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., at The Studio For one-of-a-kind glass pieces, The Studio offers an annual sale of [Read More]
The Frazier International History Museum announces “Holidays Around the World” November, 26th 2010 9:00 am – January, 2nd 2011 5:00 pm. Beginning November 26 in conjunction with Light Up Louisville, the Frazier Museum will be [Read More]
The Frazier International History Museum presents “The Good. The Bad. The Cuddly.” A new exhibit at the Frazier International History Museum that’s all about toys and the movies, open through Mar 27,2011. See a vast [Read More]
The Charles Dickens Museum has secured funding of £2m from the Heritage Lottery Fund for Great Expectations, a major redevelopment project to radically change and increase display areas and improve the overall visitor experience at [Read More]
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde to Premiere in San Francisco and Travel to Paris and New York in 2011–2012. The Steins are responsible [Read More]
The archives of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is proud to announce the acquisition of the Lloyd H. New Papers. New’s widow, Aysen New of Santa Fe, New Mexico, generously donated the collection [Read More]
The Jewish Museum will present A Hanukkah Project: Daniel Libeskind’s Line of Fire from November 19, 2010 through January 30, 2011. Daniel Libeskind, an international figure in architecture and urban design, has created a bold [Read More]
Three major sculptural installations related to Hanukkah will be on view in the contemporary gallery of Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, The Jewish Museum’s permanent exhibition, from November 19, 2010 to January 30, 2011. [Read More]
Following a fire at the Connecticut River Museum (CRM), Steamboat Warehouse building and dock, on August 13, 2010, the main floor galleries and Museum Shop are open. Other exhibits are temporarily closed, due to smoke [Read More]
Roberson Museum and Science Center announces its annual Home for the Holidays display, November 26 – January 2. This year Roberson’s theme is “A Magical Time of Year.” Community members and local business organizations are [Read More]
The Nordic Heritage Museum Nordic announces Lights Film Festival on January 7 – 9, 2011. A partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), the festival will feature contemporary, award-winning feature-length and short films from [Read More]
The Nordic Heritage Museum invites everyone to begin the holiday season at this year’s YULEFEST on Saturday and Sunday, November 20 and 21, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. This popular Nordic Christmas celebration offers [Read More]
The Rijksmuseum will celebrate Christmas 2010 with two exceptional acquisitions that highlight the birth of Christ. It recently acquired an extremely rare silver ‘prayer nut’, containing miniature carvings only millimetres in size and depicting the [Read More]
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum presents A Little House Christmas: An Exhibit, open November 20 – January 2, 2011. Twenty trees decorated in the traditions of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family. The [Read More]
The Melton Carnegie Museum re-opened on Saturday 13th November folowing a major building project which has created a new stae-of-the-art gallery, study area and community space for museum acrtivities, schools, volunteers and community groups. The [Read More]
The New York Public Library (NYPL) announced that Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a scholar of African-American history from Indiana University, has been selected as the next Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black [Read More]