The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum will present Tales of Witchcraft and Tombstones – Saturday, October 16, 23 and 30 and Sunday, October 17, 24 and 31.. Everyone knows about the Salem Witchcraft trials but we hardly hear [Read More]
The Minister of Culture, Ángeles González Sinde, announces the discovery of this work and her intention that it should be acquired by the Museo del Prado The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day (glue-size tempera on [Read More]
The Wallace Collection will present a Special Day Event: The Scholar and the Star: The Wit, The Rake and the Italian Dancer’s Daughter, on Wednesday 13th October, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm. The Scholar and [Read More]
Walker-Commissioned Work is a Monumental Jazz/Film Retelling of the Frankenstein Myth Two master innovators–jazz trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison–collaborate on Spark of Being, a monumental retelling of the Frankenstein myth. The Grammy-nominated [Read More]
LOS ANGELES – The Ray Charles Memorial Library will officially open on September 23, 2010, the 80th anniversary of the birth of the iconic American entertainer, it was announced by Valerie Ervin, President of The [Read More]
This exhibition, open, Thursday 23rd September, 2010 – Monday 3rd January, 2011, is the latest in an ongoing series mounted by the Wallace Collection which features selections from celebrated collections of French drawings. The holdings [Read More]
The exhibition Beasts on Parchment: Picturing Animals in Medieval Manuscripts, open November 6, 2010–February 15, 2011, looks at the ways in which medieval people perceived animals. Dragons Battling (detail) Book of Hours, Rouen, ca. 1480, [Read More]
Plastic pollution in the oceans 13 October, 7pm Royal Geographical Society Our throw away society is polluting large areas of the world’s oceans with plastics, threatening marine life and food chains. How did it get [Read More]
The Science Museum of Minnesota will show an exhibition of King Tut artifacts – Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, from Feb. 18 to Sept. 5 2011. Experience the riches of royal life [Read More]
The New Bedford Whaling Museum presents Charmed by the Sea: One Hundred Fifty Years and more of Yachting on Buzzards Bay, opening on September 25, 2010 during a major weekend rendezvous of the Cruising Club [Read More]
The New Bedford Whaling Museum will host the 35th Annual Whaling History Sympoisium on Sat, Oct 16 to Sun, Oct 17, 2010 @ All Museum. Founded in 1975, The Whaling History Symposium is the world’s [Read More]
The Montrose Museum is closed for refurbishment and accessibility work. The museum is expected to reopen next weekend, with a new exhibition, Montrose and the Battle of Britain. The museum holds significant Neolithic and bronze [Read More]
The Museum of the Earth, opens Half Shell: How and Why We Study Evolution on Friday, September 24, 6:30 p.m. – 8: 30 p.m. Tickets $10 Learn about all different kinds of bivalves – clams, [Read More]
On Friday, October 15, the Museum of American Finance will unveil the display of an 18-karat solid gold Monopoly set covered with hundreds of precious gemstones, on loan from the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of [Read More]
With graceful eyelashes, long flaxen hair and serene expression, the “Beauty of Xiaohe” seems to have just softly fallen to sleep-yet she last closed her eyes nearly 4,000 years ago. She was found, and excavated, [Read More]
A cacophony of stuffed animals dramatically spot-lit onto a wall to form a portrait silhouette of the late fashion icon Isabella Blow has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery. It goes on display at [Read More]
The Centre Pompidou presents a retrospective exhibition Arman, one of the leading figures of post-war art. pen open through January 10 2011. Arman, “The day after pompei’s syndrome”, 1984 © coll. Marianne et Pierre Nahon [Read More]
Visitors from around the globe have trekked to Springfield, Illinois the past five years to see the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. During the month of October 2010, the Museum is making it easier for the [Read More]