The Electric Railway Museum in Coventry has been awarded Small Groups Award from the Heritage Railway Association (HRA). The award identifies the work done by Electric Railway Museum since its creation in 2008 as ‘an [Read More]
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SEATTLE On Jan. 11, an heroic airline captain will tell the story about how he and his crew successfully dealt with an in-flight emergency that could have been one of the biggest disasters in airline [Read More]
Electric Railway Museum announces a new arrival to its Coventry site. Laboratory 4, affectionately known as ‘Hastings Coach’, was the first vehicle to run with the Advanced Passenger Train Prototype’s suspension and tilt systems. A [Read More]
United States Senator Charles Schumer, Representative Jerrold Nadler, NYS Assembly Member Michael DenDekker and other New York City elected officials and civic leaders joined NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver at a ceremony presenting the title [Read More]
The Computer History Museum announced that Google.org has provided a grant of $500,000 for the Museum to preserve its valuable digital collection chronicling the birth of computing through the modern networked world. Support from Google.org [Read More]
The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn presents Driving America, a brand new, one-of-a-kind automotive experience, open to the public January 29, 2012. Buckminster Fuller’s prototype Dymaxion house, in the Henry Ford Museum Centered around an [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s Library of Congress and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Partnership Unlocks Mysteries of History, Science and Invention: Presenting a First Listen to the Experimental Sound Recordings of Alexander Graham Bell. In the early 1880s, [Read More]
The Museum of Texas presents Chernobyl, 25 Years Later—Biological Legacy of a Nuclear Meltdown, in Gallery 2. On view through March 2012. In 1986, a nuclear meltdown and explosion occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power [Read More]
The Saratoga Automobile Museum is to open a NASCAR exhibit in June 2012. The story will start with older cars that will include a moonshiner’s Ford coupe, a Herb Thomas Hudson Hornet and a rare [Read More]
The Computer History Museum (CHM) welcomes Isaacson on Dec 13, 2011 for a conversation about Jobs’ life, inspiration and legacy with Museum CEO John Hollar. From the best-selling biographer of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin [Read More]
The Alberta Aviation Museum has located an appropriate F-104 Starfighter (2) seater and is moving forward with acquiring the aircraft for restoration and exhibit. This is one of the few remaining available and is identical [Read More]
SEATTLE – On Dec. 10, photographer Dennis Biela will talk about his project to document the last shuttle flights in visually spectacular fashion. His presentation, “The Last Shuttle Project – How to Document an America [Read More]
The cosmos constantly changes. Stars are born, live out their lives, and die – sometimes calmly, sometimes explosively. Galaxies form, grow and collide dramatically A new exhibition and website, developed jointly by the Smithsonian Astrophysical [Read More]
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE) presents it’s first exhibition The History of 3D in Games an exhibition open on December 3, from 10 am to 5 pm. Alex writing on the museum’s [Read More]
The Muskegon Heritage Museum is displaying a Corliss Valve Steam Engine built in 1893, with a 10 foot diameter flywheel weighing 6 tons. This engine came from the Stewart Hartshorn Roller Shade Co. of Muskegon [Read More]
The Hixson Museum of Flight announced it is closed on November 29 due to flooding. The independent, non-profit Hixson Flight Museum is dedicated to aviation education while supporting Children’s Hospital at Erlanger. The Museum opened [Read More]
The American Museum of Natural History presents Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration a new exhibition on view at the American Museum of Natural History from November 19, 2011, through August 12, 2012, [Read More]
The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology (WLM) has embarked on a project that will bring its extensive collection of rare books, multimedia materials, and artifacts to people around the world. The most comprehensive collection of information [Read More]