Architecture Firm Joins Team to Expand and Enhance Museum Facilities and Visitor Experience The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has selected the architecture firm Snøhetta to be its partner in developing an expansion [Read More]
From 8 October 2010 to 16 January 2011, the Van Gogh Museum will be presenting Illusions of reality: Naturalist painting, photography and cinema, 1875-1918. The exhibition, curated by guest curator Gabriel P. Weisberg, Professor of [Read More]
The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the selection of Lisa Ayla Çakmak as the 2010–2013 Mellon Fellow for European art to 1800. Selected from a field of 11 national post-doctoral applicants, Çakmak joins the Museum [Read More]
The life-size carving of a human skull in the British Museum collection was made from a single block of quartz crystal (a clear colourless variety of quartz known as rock crystal). According to Museum records, [Read More]
The Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum consists of a produce truck of the same model in which farmworkers were locked and chained as part of recent slavery operations (U.S. v. Navarrete, 2008), accompanied by displays on [Read More]
New Galleries, Orientation Facilities, and Public Spaces Enhance Visitor Experience of Museum’s Campus and Encyclopedic Collections Jerusalem, – The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, inaugurates its renewed 20-acre campus, featuring new galleries, orientation facilities, and public spaces, [Read More]
On June 22 2010 the Wallace Collection celebrated its 110th anniversary as a national museum open to the public. It has long been considered the greatest private art collection to be bequeathed to any nation [Read More]
The Harvard Art Museums announce the appointment of Lynette Roth as Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, effective January 3, 2011. A specialist in German art of the early 20th century, Roth’s highly disciplined [Read More]
4.5 billion-year-old pallasite could be the key to unravelling the origins of our solar system The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has acquired the world’s largest piece of the Springwater pallasite, a rare and scientifically important [Read More]
For more than five decades, Barbie(R) doll has continued to deliver fashionable, aspirational and culturally relevant play experiences to girls of all ages. In partnership with The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the Barbie brand introduced [Read More]
Special programs, extended hours, and close-up views of the Blues while the Navy flight demonstration is based at the Museum for Seafair air show SEATTLE, – The world-famous U.S. Navy Blue Angels F/A-18 flight demonstration [Read More]
The San Jose Museum of Art will present the first-ever museum survey of the work of the prominent sculptor Leo Villareal, a pioneer in the use of LEDs and computer-driven imagery. Leo Villareal, on view [Read More]
The £2 million refurbishment of the Yorkshire Museum is the biggest since it opened in 1830. Plans have been discussed for several years and detailed development and fundraising began in 2008, when the project was [Read More]
The Vale of York Viking Hoard has featured in the latest instalment of the BBC Radio 4 series, A History of the World in 100 Objects. The treasure will go back on display when the [Read More]
Space scientists planning a trip to Mars have visited the Yorkshire Museum to create a 3D map of one of its star objects – which will then be installed on a probe bound for the [Read More]
Asia Society showcases the work of photographer and mountaineer David Breashears who, with Glacier Research Imaging Project (GRIP), has retraced the steps of renowned Himalayan mountain photographers of the past century to recapture images of [Read More]
One of the earliest examples of David Smith’s welding is shown for the first time in this exhibition of approximately 40 works drawn from the BMA’s collection, the Estate of David Smith, and private collections. [Read More]
Photography Exhibition Celebrates Achievements of Alumni from The Kansas City Institute of Art and Honors its 125th Anniversary Kansas City, MO – In honor of The Kansas City Art Institute’s 125th anniversary, the achievements of [Read More]