The Oklahoma City Museum of Art has again achieved accreditation by the American Association of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition for a museum. Accreditation signifies excellence to the museum community, to governments, funders, outside [Read More]
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The National Galleries of Scotland is delighted to announce the launch of their first ever iPhone app. Created for the major summer exhibition Impressionist Gardens, it is now free to download from the iTunes store. [Read More]
The International Slavery Museum has coordinated the establishment of a new initiative called the Federation of International Human Rights Museums (FIHRM). The federation enables museums who deal with sensitive and controversial subjects such as transatlantic [Read More]
For more than 30 years Guillermo Kuitca has forged a distinctive path as an artist, creating visually compelling works that reflect his intense and often ambivalent relationship to his primary medium: painting. “Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, [Read More]
PROVIDENCE, RI — On September 24, The RISD Museum will reveal its latest major renovation and reinstallation: the ancient, medieval, and early Renaissance galleries. These spaces, located in the 1926 Radeke Building, have been fully [Read More]
Sunday, September 19, 2010, at 3:00 p.m. – “Strings of the Black Sea: A Celebration of Lutes & Fiddles from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Crimea, and Turkey” Presented in collaboration with the Center for Traditional Music and [Read More]
If artist Aaron Kramer could have it his way, there would be no waste! “Trash is the failure of imagination,” is his philosophy while he embraces commonly discarded objects as his inspiration. Open through September [Read More]
To celebrate its 2-year anniversary HawaiiGaga.com is giving away 15 pairs of Bishop Museum tickets through an online contest. The contest asks participants to explore HawaiiGaga.com to uncover the answers to a series of trivia [Read More]
The Museum has embarked on an exciting journey that will bring the joys of nature and science to millions of people. The new Perot Museum of Nature and Science in downtown Dallas will inspire all [Read More]
Brooklyn, NY – Beginning Wednesday, October 6, the Brooklyn Museum will open to the public eight additional hours a week, including remaining open until 10 p.m. every Thursday and Friday. When the new schedule goes [Read More]
The Kathryn, a Chesapeake Bay skipjack built at Crisfield, Maryland in 1901, was launched back in the waters on August 18, 2010 after two weeks of maintenance work at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) [Read More]
The State Museum of Pennsylvania has again been accredited by the American Association of Museums, or AAM, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, or PHMC, announced today. Accreditation is the highest national recognition for a [Read More]
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has just announced that it has awarded the Museum £725,000 for the year 2010-11, from its competitive ‘core funding’ stream for university museums. The award will continue for [Read More]
The nation’s oldest existing Civil War memorial arrived at its new home Wednesday, the Frazier International History Museum. Known as the “Bloedner Monument,” the 3,500-pound limestone memorial is of exceptional national and historical significance, especially [Read More]
Following a successful regional trial in Sheffield, the British Library is launching an interactive survey, UK SoundMap, to cover the whole of the United Kingdom. The survey will map and preserve the sounds of the [Read More]
The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art presents Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion open through December 31, 2010. The purpose of Tibetan Portrait is to heighten visitor’s awarenss of Tibet, a mountainous region of [Read More]
Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices, open 12 November 2010 – 3 April 2011 is the first ever exhibition exploring the English language from Anglo-Saxon runes to modern day rap. Driven by developments in religion, [Read More]
The Powerhouse Museum presents a new exhibition, open 11 September – 28 November 2010, celebrating the history, music, performance and creativity of one of the world’s greatest Rock’n’Roll bands, AC/DC. Featuring original material never before [Read More]