National Museums Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University have joined forces to share expertise and develop links. A formal partnership has been signed which will see both organisations working closer together on cultural programmes. Hope has [Read More]
On Saturday (December 11) at 4pm, world-renowned scientist, Dr. Andrew Maynard, gives a no-holds-barred presentation on the future of technology. His latest blog post http://2020science.org/2010/12/06/small-gods-and-the-art-of-technology-innovation explains the topic of his talk and charmingly describes his [Read More]
The program last night at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) saw over 150 people come together at the museum to view the documentary Handmade Nation and hear the filmmaker, Faythe Levine, discuss the handmade/maker movement [Read More]
The Wellcome Collection is to present High Society: Drugs in Victorian Britain on February 11-12 2011. This event will open with a Friday evening of traditional Victorian entertainment, a performance of the extraordinary Magic Lantern- [Read More]
Spanning the period from 1470-1526, covering the Wars of the Roses to ten years before the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the hoard is the largest intact assemblage of its kind. It contains some rare pieces, [Read More]
The V&A museum presents Imperial Chinese Robes from the Forbidden City an exhibition open 7 December 2010 – 27 February 2011. This exhibition shows three centuries of beautiful and historic royal robes worn by the [Read More]
The Swedish American Museum presents Dalsland goes West on viwe through Jan. 30, 2011. The Museum will partner with the Dalsland Art Association and the Society of Artists in Dalsland for a special exhibit titled [Read More]
The American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia presents a special temporary exhibit about the New Sweden colony now on display at the Swedish American Museum. Open through Jan. 30, 2011. This exhibit titled Colony to [Read More]
The Arizona Historical Advisory Commission, Arizona Centennial Commission, and Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records will host Centennial Commemoration of Arizona’s Constitutional Convention. One hundred years ago, delegates adjourned Sine Die Arizona’s Constitutional Convention. [Read More]
From 7 December, the Rijksmuseum will display a selection of 20th-century photographic works acquired in recent years with the support of Baker & McKenzie. Helen Levitt, Squatting girl/spider girl, New York City, 1980 The sponsorship [Read More]
Kunsthaus Zürich presents Karl Moser – Art and Architecture 17 December 2010 – 27 February 2011. The Kunsthaus Zürich honours its first architect: Karl Moser (1860–1936), man of the world and one of the towering [Read More]
The Danforth Museum of Art presents Rhoda Rosenberg: The Shape of Memory on view through February 6, 2011. The 17 prints and 2 artist books displayed in the exhibition Rhoda Rosenberg: The Shape of Memory [Read More]
The Milwaukee Art Museum presents Framing a Decade: Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings, 2001–2011, open Dec 9, 2010–April 3, 2011 in The Koss Gallery. It is inspiring to see what can be accomplished in a [Read More]
The Model Guild of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD will host a weekend model-building workshop from 6 to 9pm Friday, February 25 and 9 to 5pm Saturday and Sunday, February 26 and 27. [Read More]
Pohns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library presents the exhibition “Edward S. Curtis: Photogravures from The North American Indian,” which will run through March 27. In a project that spanned 23 years, The North American [Read More]
The National Museum of Australia is showing Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route, open through 26 January 2011. This groundbreaking exhibition reveals the richness of desert life today. It tells the story of the Canning [Read More]
The appeal to save an iconic Old Master painting, The Procession to Calvary by Pieter Brueghel the Younger for the nation still has some way to go to reach its £2.7 million target by Christmas. [Read More]
The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries announced the acquisition of a unique collection of 280 rare books and manuscripts relating to the history of scientific discovery from the late 15th to the 20th centuries. Made [Read More]