The Highlanders Museum at Fort George in Scotland, has announced a new Whisky called “Cuidich ‘n Righ” was launched at an event at the Highlanders Museum on Saturday the 11th September 2010. The Regimental Museum [Read More]
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The Bolton Museum presents The story of Bolton in 25 objects, on Friday 26 November, 1pm to 1.30pm and 1.45pm to 2.15pm. A free, informal lunchtime talk with Matthew Constantine, Senior Manager of Collections. Using [Read More]
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) hosts its 38th Annual Thanksgiving Weekend Antiques Show on November 26th – 28th. Featuring dozens of top antique dealers from New England and across the United States, this year’s event [Read More]
Cryptologic historian Dr. David Kahn, has been honored at a ceremony at the National Security Agency’s (NSA) National Cryptologic Museum (NCM) for the contribution of his collection to the museum library. General Keith B. Alexander, [Read More]
The Clyfford Still Museum is under construction and scheduled to open in 2011 in the heart of Denver. Mock up exterior, October 27, 2010. Clyfford Still Museum Designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, [Read More]
The Bode Museum presents Treasures of Faith. Masterpieces from the Dom-Museum, Hildesheim, and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin, on view through Sun 30 September 2012. The most famous testaments to medieval church art [Read More]
The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is in the running for a $250,000 Pepsi Refresh Everything Grant during the month of November. If awarded, this grant will fund the ongoing restoration of the Becky [Read More]
The McKinley Presidential Library & Museum will begin celebrating the holiday season on Friday December 3 from 6:00-8:00 PM. Activities include special science and planetarium shows, crafts for kids, samples from the open hearth and [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is opening the doors of its new wing for the Art of the Americas on Saturday, November 20. The Art of the Americas Wing, as well as the [Read More]
JHM is celebrating Coshocton’s bicentennial with this exhibit, open through January 2, 2011, of antiques, personal keepsakes and Coshocton memorabilia belonging to Coshocton residents. The collections are eclectic, ranging from locally manufactured items such as [Read More]
The Wellcome Collection Museum presents High Society, open 11 November 2010 – 27 February 2011. With the illicit drug trade estimated by the UN at $320 billion (£200bn) a year and new drugs constantly appearing [Read More]
The report commissioned by National Museums Scotland and compiled by independent consultants Biggar Economics, projects that £58.1 million in Gross Value Added (GVA) per year will be generated for the Scottish economy, supporting over 2600 [Read More]
The People’s History Museum welcomed the Mayor of Nagasaki along with colleagues from the city to Manchester. Mr Tomihisa Taue together with Cllr Mark Hackett, the Lord Mayor of Manchester, visited the People’s History Museum [Read More]
The Board of Trustees of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art announces the appointment of Andrew J. Walker, Ph.D., as Director Designate. Walker begins January 31, 2011, and will officially become director on April [Read More]
The spring 2011 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, it was announced by the Museum today. The exhibition, on view from May 4 [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it would undertake a comprehensive, multi-year effort to redesign and rebuild the four-block-long outdoor plaza that fronts its landmark Fifth Avenue façade. The project will feature as one [Read More]
The Lyme Regis Museum presents Mary Anning and the Men of Science, on view now through spring 2011. Mary Anning (1799-1847) was a largely self-educated, working class woman from Lyme Regis who became the greatest [Read More]
On November 10, 1975, the 729-foot steamer Edmund Fitzgerald was lost in an infamous Lake Superior storm near Whitefish Point, Michigan with her entire crew of 29 men. The Fitzgerald’s story has become a popular [Read More]