Join in the fun in historic Wethersfield, as the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum gets ready to bring in the new season. This September, enjoy homemade donuts and cider along with some history and activities reflecting 18th century [Read More]
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London Transport Museum will be holding its fifth annual Covent Garden Dinner and Auction on the 28th September 2010 at the Royal Opera House. Last year’s event raised over £130,000 towards the upkeep of the [Read More]
The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum will present Tales of Witchcraft and Tombstones – Saturday, October 16, 23 and 30 and Sunday, October 17, 24 and 31.. Everyone knows about the Salem Witchcraft trials but we hardly hear [Read More]
Walker-Commissioned Work is a Monumental Jazz/Film Retelling of the Frankenstein Myth Two master innovators–jazz trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison–collaborate on Spark of Being, a monumental retelling of the Frankenstein myth. The Grammy-nominated [Read More]
LOS ANGELES – The Ray Charles Memorial Library will officially open on September 23, 2010, the 80th anniversary of the birth of the iconic American entertainer, it was announced by Valerie Ervin, President of The [Read More]
Plastic pollution in the oceans 13 October, 7pm Royal Geographical Society Our throw away society is polluting large areas of the world’s oceans with plastics, threatening marine life and food chains. How did it get [Read More]
The New Bedford Whaling Museum presents Charmed by the Sea: One Hundred Fifty Years and more of Yachting on Buzzards Bay, opening on September 25, 2010 during a major weekend rendezvous of the Cruising Club [Read More]
The New Bedford Whaling Museum will host the 35th Annual Whaling History Sympoisium on Sat, Oct 16 to Sun, Oct 17, 2010 @ All Museum. Founded in 1975, The Whaling History Symposium is the world’s [Read More]
The Montrose Museum is closed for refurbishment and accessibility work. The museum is expected to reopen next weekend, with a new exhibition, Montrose and the Battle of Britain. The museum holds significant Neolithic and bronze [Read More]
On Friday, October 15, the Museum of American Finance will unveil the display of an 18-karat solid gold Monopoly set covered with hundreds of precious gemstones, on loan from the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of [Read More]
Visitors from around the globe have trekked to Springfield, Illinois the past five years to see the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. During the month of October 2010, the Museum is making it easier for the [Read More]
On Thursday, August 26, sixteen Maine museums, historical organizations, and their supporters came together in an unprecedented collaboration to save an important collection of Maine artifacts, seventeen rare, 19th-century hand-painted banners commissioned by the Maine [Read More]
The Portland Museum of Art, Board of Trustees has announced that the proceeds from the major gift of $3 million given to the Museum from the family of Emily Eaton Moore will be allocated as [Read More]
For the Claude Monet (1840-1926) exhibition at the Grand Palais from September 22, Orange is proud to be partnering the Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN) association on its “Digital Monet” project. Orange would like to [Read More]
The Grand Opening of the Glazer Children’s Museum is set for Saturday, September 25th, 2010. Announced during a special VIP reception at Imagination 2010 – the museum’s annual fundraising gala which this year grossed over [Read More]
The Ashmolean Museum has welcomed it’s one millionth visitor, since reopening in November 2009. Mrs. Thomas came to the Ashmolean with her daughter, Laura Rolf, to see the new exhibition THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND ITALY. She [Read More]
National Museums Scotland has developed two programmes of activity, one for Primary schools and one for Secondary schools. The programme will coincide with the start of the new academic year. Highlights include the new cross-curricular [Read More]
The Glenside Hospital Museum in Bristol is to be officially reopened on 22 September The museum is currently undergoing a refurbishment although the museum is still open and there are temporary exhibits on show. The [Read More]