SEATTLE -The bargains are big when the largest aerospace library and archive on the West Coast has a book sale. This annual event offers low prices on thousands of books, magazines, posters and memorabilia — [Read More]
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From 10-4pm on Saturday November 6, come celebrate the Chesapeake’s oyster at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s (CBMM) OysterFest in St. Michaels. The event features live music, oysters and other food, children’s activities, boat rides, [Read More]
Join The Mariners’ Museum on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 7 P.M. for an evening program with award-winning Civil War author John Waugh. Author of The Class of 1846 (1994) and Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle [Read More]
From court dress to couture, the objects in Material World, on view from April 22, 2011, to February 5, 2012, will feature extravagant ornamentation of textiles and personal adornment from cultures around the world while [Read More]
Streets of Bournemouth a new online virtual museum covering the history of Bournmouth has been launched. Bournemouth Council and Bournemouth University created the websitesite with a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The museum traces [Read More]
October’s Target Free Thursday Nights – the Walker Art Center’s free-admission evenings – are highlighted by Student Open House: Street Level, on October 14, from 5-9 pm, an evening featuring art-making activities, DJs from Radio [Read More]
The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art presents Visions of Paradise: Art & The Power of Faith, open through Nov. 7, 2010. Expressions of faith are a source of creative inspiration. Artists have explored themes within [Read More]
This fall, visitors to the Houston Museum of Natural Science can discover the true story—one more powerful than fiction—when Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship opens on [Read More]
Long before the word “robot” existed and before computers were commonly used, humans dreamed of mechanical people. Characters such as Frankenstein’s monster, the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz, C-3PO and Mr. Data have [Read More]
The Bowes museum has brought together two important art and textile pieces which are to be displayed side by side at the museum for the first time. The Adam Jacquard woven textile is a key [Read More]
Antony Gormley is among the most celebrated sculptors working today. Over the last twenty-five years Gormley has revitalized the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory [Read More]
The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces the appointment of Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell as the new Burton and Deedee McMurtry Curator of Drawings, Prints, and Photographs. Mitchell begins her duties in November, which include [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presents One Life: Katharine Graham open October 1, through May 30, 2011. Newspaper publisher Katharine Graham (1917–2001) led an extraordinary life in extraordinary times. Born into privilege, she was catapulted [Read More]
A new energy-efficient lighting system from GE Lighting and Janmar Lighting installed throughout the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington State shines a brighter-than-ever spotlight on the varied beauty of the museum’s 3,500-piece art collection, which [Read More]
The Baldwin County Heritage Museum presents Treasures from the SS Republic®. Developed exclusively for the Baldwin County Heritage Museum, Odyssey’s Shipwreck and Treasure Exhibit is an extraordinary experience for the entire family. Shipwreck! Treasures from [Read More]
Bruce Metro, Head of Preparation at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will retire at the end of September following 31 years at the Getty. Metro joined the Getty Museum in 1979 and, over the course [Read More]
October 1st, 2010 marks a transformative moment for The Mint Museum. The debut of the new Mint Museum Uptown – one year prior to the institution’s 75th anniversary – will bring together the Mint Museum [Read More]
Join British ceramicist and author Edmund de Waal at the J. Paul Getty Museum on Tuesday, October 5, as he explores the ascent and decline of a Jewish dynasty and the survival of objects, in [Read More]