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]
Museum News
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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]
The Casey Cares Foundation is proud to announce that the Baltimore B & O Railroad Museum has chosen the Casey Cares Foundation to be their charity of choice from now through 2011. Each year the [Read More]
Next month, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s glorious Chrysanthemums in the Courtyard display showcases single-stem Japanese style chrysanthemums, continuing a century-plus-old tradition of horticulture at the Gardner Museum, a year-round destination for enthusiasts of landscape [Read More]
Renowned Latino filmmakers, actors and crew will converge on The Tech Museum for the premiere of five poignant dramas and intriguing documentaries to be screened as part of the 2010 San Jose Mariachi and Mexican [Read More]
This retrospective exhibition at the Hunter Museum of American Art, open through October 24, 2010, presents contemporary glass sculptor, Stephen Rolfe Powell, featuring selections of the artist’s work from the last 20 years. Powell, who [Read More]
Experience some of the best American studio glass as part of the special exhibition Jellies: Living Art. This unusual exhibition, on view at the Tennessee Aquarium, features jellyfish–some of nature’s most ethereal creatures–alongside breathtaking glass [Read More]
On Saturday, September 25, 2010, the Ava Gardner Museum will participate in the sixth annual Museum Day, presented by Toyota on behalf of the redesigned 2011 Avalon. The Ava Gardner Museum will join participating museums [Read More]
Constantino Arias (1920‐1991) was a free‐lance photographer whose photos provide a rare and what is probably the most complete black and white picture of Havana society in the 1940s and 50s. On September 16, the [Read More]
The Riverside Museum Project is a £74m project which will see the creation of a new home for Glasgow’s Museum of Transport and the relocation of its collections to a new purpose built building on [Read More]
BOSTON, MA – The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced today that it has received—since July 1, 2010—several major gifts totaling more than $33.6 million. This includes the recent gift of $10 million from [Read More]
NEW YORK, NY and SAN BRUNO, CA – The Guggenheim and YouTube, in collaboration with HP and Intel, announced today the shortlist for YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. Selected from more than 23,000 [Read More]