MIAMI – Following years of planning and widespread anticipation surrounding the transformation of Miami’s Bicentennial Park into a new Museum Park, work crews have begun an environmental remediation process that will prepare eight acres of [Read More]
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The British Library has acquired a significant collection of letters sent by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath to Olwyn Hughes, Ted Hughes’ sister Announced at the sixth International Ted Hughes Conference at Pembroke College, Cambridge, [Read More]
SALEM, MA – The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) has joined with the Salem Athenaeum to display the original Massachusetts Bay Charter. The Charter that brought Massachusetts into being will be on view at PEM from [Read More]
As part of downtown Wenatchee’s Taste of the Harvest Festival, the Wenatchee Valley Museum will again host a Fruit Label Swap Meet on Saturday, September 18. All are welcome to buy, sell, trade or just [Read More]
The Journey Museum’s Family Fun Day on Sunday, September 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. will be “Pannin’ for Gold.” The event will feature the showing of a film about the history of the gold [Read More]
The first Museum of Tolerance International Film Festival will be held Nov. 13-18 in Los Angeles, with Clint Eastwood to receive the top honor, the museum announced ton Tuesday. Flms from around the world that [Read More]
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem announced that since reopening on July 26, it welcomed more than 138,000 visitors to its renewed campus, in the first month. The transformed Museum features new galleries, orientation facilities, and public [Read More]
Work is underway to build a new gallery level for the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and to renovate spaces created during the building’s original 1971 construction. Designed by architect Rand Elliott, this newest [Read More]
The Oxfordshire Museum will present an exhibition, Soldiers Of Oxfordshire: Part-Time Defenders – 100 years on, 24 October – 15 November 2010. One hundred years ago the British Army was reorganised and the Territorial Army [Read More]
It Sprang from the River! Everyday Objects with Maritime Secrets, an original, engaging, and interactive exhibit featuring great maritime inventions, discoveries, and ideas that have crossed over into everyday life – including the ever-popular Slinky® [Read More]
“Arts of Ancient China: A 5,000 Year Legacy,” featuring nearly 75 sets of objects from the Neolithic period (circa 3000 B.C.) to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911 A.D.), is the newest permanent exhibit at Bowers Museum [Read More]
The Bruce Museum will present a family-focused event on the museum grounds, Sunday, October 17, 2010 — 3:00 pm – 6:00 p.m.. In addition to being a fun and activity-filled afternoon, the event will provide [Read More]
The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, showcases the delight and wonder of the circus in Circus! Art and Science Under the Big Top, the new exhibition opening on Saturday, September 25, 2010, on view through [Read More]
The Western Discovery Museum opens Monday, September 13, 2010, at 4:30 p.m. The Western Discovery Museum (WDM) is located in Arizona’s newest incorporated Town of Tusayan located near the south entrance at Grand Canyon National [Read More]
Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover has made a £25million donation to The British Museum, the largest donation to UK arts in 25 years. The donation will go towards the Museum’s £135m exhibition space for major [Read More]
The Hanoi Museum is to open on October 6. Work on the museum started in May 2008 and it is designed in the shape of an inverted pyramid spread. Ngo Thi Thanh Hang, deputy chairman [Read More]
MONTGOMERY – An exhibit exploring the philosophies of Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Daisaku Ikeda will be on display at Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum. “Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace” [Read More]
The exhibition on view in Presentation House at the North Vancouver Museum, January 23, 2011 – August, 2011, examines the entwined histories of native and non-native activists in British Columbia through the lens of one [Read More]