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]
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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]
On Thursday 26th August 2010, The National Museum of Ireland – Country Life welcomed its one millionth visitor. That visitor was Bernadette Ferreira, aged 3 years, who was visiting with her parents, Bernadette and Libanio, [Read More]
The Wallingford Museum has delayed the build of it’s timber-framed Annexe, which was originally planned for this summer, to raise additional funds. The project had already been delayed until 2011, but now the projected cost [Read More]
Spokane, WA – The MAC’s new 100 Curious Things exhibit opens September 1 highlighting Spokane’s rough-and-ready history including Stagecoaches, Tramways, Newspaper Empires, Extravagant Architecture and Colorful Characters. Designed for everyone, this exhibition introduces the MAC’s [Read More]
New Installation Features Recent Acquisitions of Canonical Bronzes by Pietro Cipriani and Jean-Désiré Ringel d’Illzach LOS ANGELES – The J. Paul Getty Museum has reopend its suite of sculpture and decorative arts galleries in the [Read More]
AUSTIN, Texas – More than 600 individuals from 44 states and 13 countries have contributed to the effort to raise $30,000 to preserve five original costumes from “Gone With The Wind” (1939). The costumes are [Read More]
As autumn approaches the nation’s capital and the school year begins, the National Gallery of Art offers a number of activities and programs for young visitors. The Gallery’s Film Program for Children and Teens promises [Read More]
Fall 2010 • German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann—Corinth—Slevogt September 12—December 5, 2010 Drawing from Nature: Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth, and Slevogt September 12—December 5, 2010 • Cai Guo-Qiang Commission for the Ting Tsung and Wei [Read More]
Primo will provide Finland’s libraries, museums, research institutes and archives with a unified gateway to a wealth of scholarly and cultural resources Ex Libris® Group, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, [Read More]
Washington, DC – The National Gallery of Art presents its 69th season of the longest-running free concert series in the nation’s capital from September 26, 2010, through June 26, 2011. Twenty-six of the 42 concerts [Read More]