A recent leadership gift of $1 million from the Altria Group will enable the museum to advance its statewide outreach strategy to engage middle-grades students in hands-on STEM learning after school. “Altria has been generous [Read More]
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One of the first mass-produced business computers has been rescued from the scrapheap for the third time in its 50-year history. The ICT 1301, also known as Flossie, has just arrived for storage at The [Read More]
The San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum opened in its new home in the freight house in San Luis Obispo’s Historic Railroad District on October 12. The museum is located in and around the circa 1894 [Read More]
The Evansville Museum presents On The Air: The Early Days Of Radio And Television In Evansville an exhibition on view October 13, 2013 – January 12, 2014. The Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau Center for [Read More]
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will reopen at 9 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Fall Home School Day, which was originally scheduled for Oct. 7, has been postponed and will be [Read More]
The Maine Marine Museum in Bath presents Eye Sweet and Fair: Naval Architecture, Lofting, and Modeling an exhibition on view June 14, 2014 — Sept. 28, 2014. The most important, most mysterious and, arguably, the [Read More]
Special events, music, speakers, half-price for visitors dressed in 1930s-style SEATTLE, – The long-awaited fly-in arrival of the Museum’s 1935 Lockheed Electra is scheduled for Sept. 21 at 1:45 p.m. After 78 years in service, [Read More]
The Field Museum of Natural History presents Fractured: North Dakota’s Oil Boom an exhibition on view now through Mon Jan 20, 2014. Journey to the prairies of North Dakota with nationally acclaimed photographer Terry Evans [Read More]
The National Museum of Natural History will open three exhibitions Sept. 17 featuring the interconnected relationship between people and the ocean. The 23,000-square-foot Sant Ocean Hall opened in September 2008 with the mission to share [Read More]
The International Space Hall of Fame (ISHF) and the New Mexico Museum of Space History announced that the members of the original Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X) Team have been inducted into the International Space Hall [Read More]
The National Museum of Mathematics presents The Secret Life of Squares on Friday, September 27 at 7:00 pm. What do mathematics and dance have in common? For years Karl Schaffer and Erik Stern have been [Read More]
One of the U.S. Air Force’s first C-21A aircraft landed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday, Aug. 28. The Learjet (now Bombardier Aerospace) C-21A twin turbofan-engine aircraft was the military [Read More]
The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced the acquisition of the iPad music application Planetary, developed by Bloom Studio Inc., along with the underlying source code, which will be freely released to enable developers to build [Read More]
The Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) will unveil the Bezos Center for Innovation, on October 12. Announced for the first time in August 2011, the Bezos Center is the result of more than two [Read More]
San Jose Museum of Art presents Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things an exhibition on view October 17, 2013 through February 2, 2014. When we think of brilliant design, we usually think of monumental [Read More]
The National Air and Space Museum will display Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds in an exhibition on view from Sept. 13 until Oct. 22. The extraordinary document, created ca. 1505, shows [Read More]
On Saturday, Aug. 10, the National Air and Space Museum will present “Helicopters,” an educational family day at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Part of the museum’s Super Science Saturdays series, the [Read More]
The Museum at Central School in Kalispell, Mont. recently installed Videotel’s new VP71 industrial DVD player in its newest interactive exhibit. The VP71 is an integral part of the new “History of Flathead Valley” exhibit, [Read More]