Plastiki, the remarkable ocean-going yacht made from 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles, will be on view at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, for a full month after its arrival in Sydney today. The 18-metre [Read More]
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Penrith and Eden Museum will reopen after refurbishment Penrith and Eden Museum is temporarily closed as work is underway to make the venue more accessible to disabled visitors but also increase space for temporary exhibitions [Read More]
A little known American Indian archive will be unveiled at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) through October 24, 2010. Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century will [Read More]
Visit the special exhibition “Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor” at the RISD Museum. Explore how distant lands appear familiar and the familiar becomes unknown in photographs that capture timeless places, sacred sites, and the [Read More]
Poole Museum have unveiled four important artworks from Bournemouth and Poole College’s collection of modern art. The works on show are two bronze sculptures, Henry Moore’s “Mother and Child with Apple” and “Kathleen”, by Jacob [Read More]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.- As we simmer on hot summer days with temperatures in the nineties, do you ever wonder how people survived the summer heat before air-conditioning as we know it? Visit Reynolda House Museum of [Read More]
Chills and thrills will greet film-goers as Reynolda House Museum of American Art opens its fifth season of Cinema Under the Stars. “Hitchcock in Color” is co-presented by Reynolda House and the School of Filmmaking [Read More]
A sold-out crowd of more than 570 guests attended the inaugural Walter P. Chrysler Legacy Gala benefiting the nonprofit Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills, Mich. The event celebrated 85 years of Chrysler heritage [Read More]
Bellevue, WA – On July 17, 2010, more than 420 enthusiastic art aficionados, political officials, business leaders and community members gathered in celebration of Bellevue Arts Museum’s annual fundraiser, Artful Evening. A much anticipated Eastside [Read More]
One of the rarest and most highly prized minerals in the world is on display in a dazzling, comprehensive exhibition at The Field Museum (October 22 – March 6, 2011). Gold, the exhibition, explores the [Read More]
The Curt Miller Magic and Comedy Show arrives at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Aug. 16 – 29. Magician & Illusionist Curt Miller blends dazzling magic, audience interaction, and clean comedy into a theatrical [Read More]
Chautauqua Institution is partnering with Eastman Kodak Company and George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film for a week unlike any other offered in the Institution’s history — exploring the world of photography [Read More]
Architecture Firm Joins Team to Expand and Enhance Museum Facilities and Visitor Experience The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has selected the architecture firm Snøhetta to be its partner in developing an expansion [Read More]
The life-size carving of a human skull in the British Museum collection was made from a single block of quartz crystal (a clear colourless variety of quartz known as rock crystal). According to Museum records, [Read More]
The Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum consists of a produce truck of the same model in which farmworkers were locked and chained as part of recent slavery operations (U.S. v. Navarrete, 2008), accompanied by displays on [Read More]
New Galleries, Orientation Facilities, and Public Spaces Enhance Visitor Experience of Museum’s Campus and Encyclopedic Collections Jerusalem, – The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, inaugurates its renewed 20-acre campus, featuring new galleries, orientation facilities, and public spaces, [Read More]
On June 22 2010 the Wallace Collection celebrated its 110th anniversary as a national museum open to the public. It has long been considered the greatest private art collection to be bequeathed to any nation [Read More]
The Harvard Art Museums announce the appointment of Lynette Roth as Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, effective January 3, 2011. A specialist in German art of the early 20th century, Roth’s highly disciplined [Read More]