A new mission-based, alternate reality or “big” game, called Pheon, will debut in September at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A variation on the classic game Capture the Flag, Pheon is a competition to obtain [Read More]
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Museum Waives Admission Fees Through September 2010 The Phillips Collection reopens Saturday, September 4 after closing due to a renovation-related fire on the roof of the Phillips House. The Phillips House will remain closed for [Read More]
This year, the National Museums is a partner to the IFA, the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show. Visitors to the Museum of Photography and Helmut Newton Foundation, the New National Gallery and the Sammlung [Read More]
This week, the American Association of Museums (AAM) announced that the Chippewa Valley Museum, open all year in Eau Claire’s Carson Park, has been re-accredited for the next ten years. This is big news in [Read More]
On the weekend of October 8-10 the Museum will host a three day show of models and miniatures featuring trains, automobiles, dollhouse miniatures, miniature books and artwork, dioramas, and much more. There will be a [Read More]
The Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon has been working with Wessex Archeology; and English Heritage; on a German Dornier bomber that was shot down in the Battle of Britain in 1940. It will go [Read More]
The Holburne Museum is thrilled to announce that it has received a grant of £86,000 from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, from the Museum and Heritage Collections strand, for the conservation of its founding collection which [Read More]
On Thursday, September 2, the museum will be hosting a Tailgate Party beginning at 6 p.m. The event will feature Hamburgers and brauts served by Hy-Vee of Grand Island Music provided by the Grand Island [Read More]
On Wednesday, September 15, the Museum of American Finance will open “America’s First IPO,” an exhibit on the country’s first public company, the Bank of North America, and the origins of the US stock market [Read More]
The 2010 Glass Art Festival is a community-wide event sponsored by the MAC, the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley, the local hub of heritage, history, culture, and art. Open September 1-26. The [Read More]
Cross-Cultural Influences in Glassmaking in the 18th and 19th Centuries The Corning Museum of Glass opens East Meets West on November 18, 2010. The exhibition explores the cultural exchanges of glass techniques and styles between [Read More]
The West Point Museum has achieved accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM). The American Association of Museums has been bringing museums together since 1906, helping to develop standards and best practices, gathering and [Read More]
Often found on calendars, cookie tins and Christmas cards, Currier & Ives images strike a nostalgic chord in many people. The exhibition features sixty-four prints from the collection of the Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum [Read More]
The new Wandsworth Museum will be re-opening to the public on 3rd September 2010, after £2m was pledged to save it. Funding to Wandsworth Museum was cut by local councillors in 2007 following a shortfall [Read More]
On loan from the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Las Artes de México will be on view at the UMFA through September 26, 2010, and will be complemented by three exceptional companion exhibitions inspired by [Read More]
Imperial War Museum London opens the Lord Ashcroft Gallery, its first major permanent gallery for ten years, on 12 November 2010. The new gallery, paid for by a £5million donation from Lord Ashcroft, KCMG, will [Read More]
On September 29th, 2010, The GRAMMY Museum will welcome one of music’s great renaissance men, Alan Parsons, to the Clive Davis Theater for the Museum’s celebrated “An Evening With” program. Parsons started his career as [Read More]
Up on the rail of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD for maintenance work, the Skipjack Thomas Clyde gets its bottom power-washed by Jimmy Murphy in preparation for this year’s oyster harvest and [Read More]