The Massachusetts General Hospital has begun construction of a landmark museum of medical innovation, scheduled to be completed in late 2011. Following several years of planning and coordination led by the MGH History Committee, the [Read More]
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum has received a $90,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s American Art Renewal Fund (AARF). The museum will use the money to fund the position of assistant curator and to [Read More]
Almost three years after disaster struck the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML), plans have been finalized for the historic relocation of the flood damaged building currently located at 30 Sixteenth Ave. SW. [Read More]
The Reno County Museum has announced plans to visit the smaller communities in Reno County and establishing small, temporary exhibits highlighting items unique to those towns. Museum Collections Through exhibits and programs, the Museum uses [Read More]
The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History presents Black Mesa an exhibit Opening March 5. Oklahoma boasts the fourth highest biodiversity of any of the 50 United States. The Sam Noble Museum’s Hall of [Read More]
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has reached agreements with the Snowmass Water and Sanitation District (SWSD) and the State Historical Preservation Office that will allow excavation crews to return to Ziegler Reservoir in [Read More]
The Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum has just soft launched HipHopHoF.TV and HipHopHoFMuseum.com community website. The site will be the home of the Hip Hop Hall of Fame, and feature its own Hip Hop [Read More]
A new dinosaur named Brontomerus mcintoshi, or “thunder-thighs” after its enormously powerful thigh muscles, has been discovered in Utah, USA. The new species is described in a paper recently published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica [Read More]
The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with Talladega College in Alabama, has embarked on a two-year project to restore, research and exhibit Hale Aspacio Woodruff’s renowned Talladega murals. Commissioned in 1938 to both commemorate [Read More]
MKM presents Anthony Cragg Things on The Mind Sculptures, drawings, graphic art, on view February 24 – June 13, 2011. The MKM starts 2011 with a retrospective exhibition featuring Anthony Cragg. Entitled Things on the [Read More]
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is to display James Naismith’s Original Rules of Basket Ball on March 5 – May 29, 2011. In the winter of 1891, James Naismith, a young college physical education teacher [Read More]
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen presents Thomas Struth – Photographs 1978 to 2010. Exhibition open: February 26 – June 19, 2011. Düsseldorf and Berlin based artist Thomas Struth is among the major representatives of the German photo scene. [Read More]
The Goethe-Institut New York is pleased to announce the inauguration of MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, at 38 Ludlow Street, the downtown satellite space for contemporary art of the Goethe-Institut New York. This residency program [Read More]
Motorless flight celebrated, Museum unveils Steve Fossett’s record setting “Perlan I” glider with debut of permanent exhibit The world of silent flight is celebrated at Soaring Expo 2011, held March 5-6 at The Museum of [Read More]
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has launched a Web-based interactive 9/11 timeline that creates a unique multimedia landscape using images, audio and video to chronicle the events of the day. The timeline tells [Read More]
The American Folk Art Museum is showing Perspectives: Forming the Figure on view through August 21, 2011. The idea of character is thematically relevant to a deeper exploration of traditional folk art and the work [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels is offering its first two-day Boater Safety Course for 2011 on April 12 & 13. The course will be held from 6 to 10 pm each [Read More]
The former Fresno Metropolitan Museum may reopen as a children’s museum after First 5 Fresno County agreed to provide $50,000 in seed money for a museum study, according to a report by the Fresnobee. “When [Read More]