The Enemy Within: Terror in America – 1776 to Today, the only museum exhibition to provide historical perspective on acts of terror that have taken place on American soil. The Enemy Within will be open [Read More]
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On Monday, September 13, 2010 , the Dorcheat Historical Museum hosted its second fundraising event since the 2008 opening of the parish museum. “This fundraiser was a huge success, raising over $20,000.” Louise Snook, board [Read More]
On Wednesday, September 15, the Maryland Dove arrived at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, Maryland, and will stay through Sunday, September 19. Local school groups will be touring the ship through [Read More]
The British Library today opens its newly refurbished and expanded Learning Centre. Funded entirely through private donations, the Harry M Weinrebe Learning Centre will offer pupils and teachers cutting-edge facilities to support digital literacy skills [Read More]
The Harbor History Museum, (formerly the Gig Harbor Peninsula History Museum) will host a Grand Opening on Grand Opening September 18, at 2010 9:30 AM. At the new museum you will find top-rate exhibitions, larger [Read More]
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced today that Rod Bigelow will join its senior management team as deputy director, operations and administration, effective October 1. Bigelow has most recently served as interim executive director [Read More]
Warner Bros. Entertainment has made a $5 million donation to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to establish a new theater to present the history of American film. The gift will enable the museum [Read More]
The retail experience at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will be shaped by local hardwoods, local craftsmen and an award-winning local architect, Marlon Blackwell. Blackwell’s design proposal for the Museum Store interior centers on [Read More]
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]
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]