The Preview Site Reaches Milestone Less than One Year After Opening to Provide the Public With a Preview of the National Tribute Being Built in Honor of the nearly 3,000 People Killed on September 11, [Read More]
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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum announced that The New York Says Thank You Foundation (NYSTY) has donated The National 9/11 Flag to the museum collection in time for the 10th anniversary of the [Read More]
The 2010 Port of San Diego Festival of Sail, hosted by the Maritime Museum of San Diego, will transform the North Embarcadero on San Diego Bay into a nautical theme park. More than twenty tall [Read More]
Dewsbury Museum has reopened after a £700,000 refurbishment. New additions include the Discovering Dewsbury gallery along with local history exhibitions and the 1940s classroom which has been refurbished, the toy gallery has moved to a [Read More]
“Inventing the 21st Century: Celebrating British Ingenuity” Open 6 September – 28 November 2010 Free / Folio Society Gallery In celebration of British ingenuity, “Inventing the 21st Century” will uncover the stories behind 15 of [Read More]
The epic story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Endurance expedition is an incredible real life tale of survival The exhibition features about 150 compelling photographs of the expedition’s ordeal taken by ship photographer Frank Hurley, [Read More]
Watpac’s Construction division has been awarded the refurbishment and construction contract for the $53 million Museum of Contemporary Art redevelopment (MCA) in Sydney. Watpac representatives and dignitaries attended the building site today as the first [Read More]
A double celebration in The Bowes Museum’s new Reading Room marked a dedication ceremony and the launch of a book about the founders. The room, created in a part of the high central dome formerly [Read More]
$1 Million Gift Puts Museum Within Reach of its $26.6 Million Overall Capital Campaign Goal The Cellular South Foundation, the corporate philanthropic arm of the nation’s largest privately owned wireless communications provider, today announced a [Read More]
While attending today’s Woodward Light Rail press conference along with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Governor Jennifer Granholm at Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), Mayor Dave Bing went the extra mile to acknowledge [Read More]
FORT WORTH, Texas – Museum Director Ron Tyler announces that the Amon Carter Museum has modified its name: the longtime institution is now known as the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Amon Carter Museum [Read More]
Cruise Nights at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum – fifth annual series. 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4 (Jeep® Night) and Aug. 18 (Classic Cruiser Night) at Walter P. Chrysler Museum, One Chrysler Dr., [Read More]
The Bramah Tea & Coffee Museum is expected to reopen after Borough & Bankside Community Council grant planning permission for a new building. The museum has been shut down since January 2008. The Bramah Museum, [Read More]
Plans for a Sea City Museum in Southampton have been given a massive boost after the scheme scooped a £4.6million grant. Southampton City Council is planning to build a new £15 million museum which will [Read More]
Portland, Ore., – Through a collaborative effort from the Sanyo North America Corporation (SANYO), InSpec Group (InSpec), and Portland General Electric (PGE), the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) has installed a solar canopy [Read More]
In the year which commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, the National Gallery is launching an online resource dedicated to the history of the National Gallery during the Second World War. A [Read More]
The Yorkshire Museum reopens on 1 August 2010 following a nine-month £2million refurbishment project. Five new galleries will showcase some of Britain’s finest archaeological treasures and many rare animals, birds and fossils, in exciting new [Read More]
The City of West Hollywood, in collaboration with the Museum of Neon Art, will launch “On Route – 66 Lights,” a citywide celebration of the impressive range of neon signage in West Hollywood. The sprawling [Read More]