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]
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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]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) is hosting one of the nation’s largest gatherings of small boats and unique watercraft at the 28th Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival from 10am to 5pm on Saturday, October 2. [Read More]
The Putnam County Museum, Greencastle, Indiana, has announced the publication and release of its second book, Peeler Pottery; A Retrospective, by Marj Peeler, et al. The 342 page book tells the story of Richard and [Read More]
Online internet users can now use Google Earth to explore the 9/11 Memorial and Museum within the context of the surrounding landscape of lower Manhattan. National September 11 Memorial at Night Google Earth, a satellite [Read More]
Taking Place, open through 9 Jan 2011, reintroduces the Stedelijk Museum by addressing its history, the spatial and temporal conditions of the unfinished building and the ways in which artists use, occupy and animate museum [Read More]
Bethel, NY – On Saturday, September 25, 2010, The Museum at Bethel Woods will participate in the sixth annual Museum Day, presented by Toyota on behalf of the redesigned 2011 Avalon. The Museum at Bethel [Read More]
Just two days before the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, The National World War II Museum in New Orleans has announced major new funding to build a new destination attraction as part of the Museum’s [Read More]
The Mercer Museum is currently undergoing a $12 M construction project to provide expanded exhibition space including a new 3,500 square foot changing exhibit gallery, and a new 1,000 square foot Multi-flex Learning Center, upgraded [Read More]