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]
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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]
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and Nickelodeon are partnering to create a new interactive exhibit for preschoolers based on the hit television series Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go! The exhibit, Dora and Diego [Read More]
The New Fort Collins Discovery Museum, a partnership between the existing Discovery Science Center and Fort Collins Museum, announces a $2,000,000 capital gift from Bohemian Foundation for exciting and highly engaging music and music related [Read More]
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has announced the availability of the powerful, Explore 9/11 App on the App Store. 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels joined by the media and interactive design firms Local [Read More]
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum and The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey have installed two historic Twin Tower‚ tridents into their permanent location at the 9/11 Memorial Museum. The pair [Read More]
Tug Huntington’s Pilot House arrives at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD to become part of an upcoming exhibit on maritime transportation. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company (NNS) Apprentice Alumnus [Read More]
Complimenting MAH’s exhibition highlighting papermaking, It’s in the Pulp: The Art of Papermaking in Santa Cruz, MAH presents a solo exhibition of the work of America artist Joseph Zirker. Zirker developed, and holds patents for, [Read More]
With Congress officially designating September 12–18 Arts In Education week (HR275), The Phillips Collection announces a new partnership with D.C. Public Schools to enhance teaching and learning through the visual arts. The museum is partnering [Read More]
Home alone: end domestic slavery: An exhibition at the International Slavery Museum open from 10 September 2010. Domestic work is one of the oldest occupations in the world and currently represents 10% of employment in [Read More]
The Museum of the Confederacy is set to break ground on it’s new Appomattox site on September. 23. The project is expected to be completed in spring 2012 on the 11,700-square-foot museum housing Civil War [Read More]
The Board of Trustees of the Finger Lakes Museum has adopted a resolution to select Keuka Lake State Park as the future home of the Finger Lakes Cultural & Natural History Museum. The Site Selection [Read More]
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s (CBMM) Chief Curator Pete Lesher will be participating as a panelist at the 9th National Maritime Heritage Conference, to be held in Baltimore September 15–19. The focus of the conference is “The Maritime [Read More]
On September 1, 2010 the African American Civil War Museum celebrated the beginning of construction on the permanent home for the museum. The ceremony on the grounds of the Grimke Building, 1925 Vermont Ave. NW, [Read More]
Tate Britain features the work of Clunie Reid and James Richards as part of the Art Now programme of contemporary displays. Open through Sunday 12 September 2010. Reid and Richards create installation and video collages [Read More]
9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni announced the arrival and planting of the first trees on the Memorial Plaza at the World [Read More]