CHICAGO, July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Pritzker Military Museum & Library is proud to announce that Dr. Richard W. Schneider will be the recipient of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library’s 2021 Citizen Soldier Award. The award will be presented when Dr. Schneider is honored at the 2021 Liberty Gala, […]
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Mini Museum Honoring the Black Panther Party Will Debut on Juneteenth | Smart News
A 1,000-square-foot apartment in West Oakland, California, is now a “mini museum” documenting the history of the Black Panther Party, a militant Black power organization whose members “confronted politicians, challenged the police and protected [B]lack citizens from brutality,” per the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The […]
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Museum to unveil Tucker memorial on Juneteenth
Jun. 10—For a community to grow, it must face its past, even the worst of its history. On June 19, the Coos History Museum will help Coos Bay do just that when the museum hosts its first Juneteenth celebration. The highlight of the day will be the placing of a […]
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Petersen Automotive Museum
Make your approach to Modern Auto in Boone at present for high quality vehicles, a friendly group, and skilled service at every step of the way in which. And in case you have any questions for us, you possibly can at all times contact us. We’re here to reply your […]
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Boston Children’s Museum Milk Bottle Receives 2021 Preservation Award | News
BOSTON, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Boston Children’s Museum has received the 2021 Mayor Thomas M. Menino Legacy Award by Preservation Massachusetts for the renovation of the historic Hood Milk Bottle structure. The award recognizes preservation projects that are transformative, catalytic, embrace the community, create partnerships, and revitalize the best […]
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Academy Museum will roll out a digital red carpet before the Oscars
A rendering shows the exterior of the Academy Museum’s David Geffen Theatre, the concrete orb designed by Renzo Piano. (Renzo Piano Building Workshop / Academy Museum Foundation) The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures won’t open until Sept. 30, but you can “visit” as soon as April. The museum held an […]
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Visitor numbers soar after $45 million Sydney museum revamp
SYDNEY — What a difference free admission and a multimillion dollar renovation can make. After decades in the doldrums, the 194-year-old Australian Museum in Sydney — one of the Asia-Pacific region’s oldest Western-style museums — is humming with visitors, drawn by the lure of its new look and a blockbuster […]
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NM Natural History Museum reopens Wednesday
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – For the first time in four months, people were finally able to visit the Natural History Museum. Dozens of people made their way to the museum Wednesday to check out the sights and sounds they’ve been missing for months. Flooding forces closure of NHCC Art Museum “There’s […]
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Berkshire Museum invests $3.5M to protect building, transform Pittsfield mission | Local News
PITTSFIELD — Leaders of the Berkshire Museum hope to fully reopen this summer with new gallery spaces and a revamp of its second floor, fruit of a $3.5 million investment of proceeds from its 2018 sale of art. With practical improvements already tackled, including a new sewer line, a nearly […]
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How a Compton artist’s lost prison painting found its way to the Hammer Museum
Fulton Leroy Washington, a.k.a. Mr. Wash, in his Compton apartment and painting studio with a Kobe Bryant portrait he made. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Fulton Leroy Washington knows, all too well, the rules around making art in prison, those strict regulations for inmates working in the well-guarded hobby […]
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With school trips cancelled, are interactive online museum tours the answer?
From there, it’s a bit of a choose your own adventure with articles, quiz questions, and videos and other virtual tours of different sites. I found myself getting drawn in further and further, fascinated by the sheer joy of learning. I think this is where a resource like Google Arts […]
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Frances Zeller, museum coordinator at the Belen Harvey House Museum, loves her dogs and enjoys to sew | Features
Frances Zeller has been the museum coordinator for the Belen Harvey House Museum for five years. She lives in Los Chavez and enjoys dog showing, a sport of competition. Q What do you think about when you’re alone in your car? A “I think about what I should have said, […]
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The National Native American Veterans Memorial was unveiled on Veterans Day at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
By Mary K. Talbot | Special to The Journal Harvey Pratt had won a national competition for a coveted artistic commission. He arrived in Washington, D.C., and was touring the grounds to identify the exact location where his vision would be executed when “a hawk showed up,” he remembers. It “flew […]
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COVID Crushing ‘A Christmas Story’ House & Museum Business
The house featured in “A Christmas Story” is normally a tourist hot spot during the holidays, but this year business is hurting as much as getting your tongue stuck to a frozen flagpole. Folks running A Christmas Story House & Museum — the Cleveland residence used for exterior shots of […]
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Hammer Museum, Huntington Library and a COVID waiting game
The late French-Moroccan artist Nicola L’s 1969 sculptural installation “La Chambre en Fourrure” (The Fur Room), slathered in royal purple faux-fur and studded with pockets, has been re-created inside the Hammer Museum for this year’s “Made in L.A.” biennial. Before COVID-19, viewers were meant to slide their faces and arms […]
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‘Made in L.A.’ at Hammer Museum, Huntington Library: A review
As I drove over to the UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood to see the latest iteration of its biennial exhibition, the radio news broadcast a litany of awfulness. Coronavirus infections across the country had broken a record, with nearly 120,000 new cases in one day. The president of the United […]
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Barbara Kasten’s Bauhaus inspiration in ‘Scenarios’ at Aspen Art Museum
Barbara Kasten’s “Scenarios” is on view at the Aspen Art Museum through April 4, 2021.Courtesy photo The multi-disciplinary artist Barbara Kasten’s work emerged from the same creative DNA that birthed the aesthetics of modern Aspen. A Chicago native, she was deeply influenced by the Bauhaus movement that also shaped Aspen’s […]
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Road Trip Alert: Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera at the Denver Art Museum
Announced a year ago, the Denver Art Museum exhibition “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism” was to be the art event of the year for Colorado – another hotly anticipated event following a string of blockbuster shows at the museum in recent years. Last year’s Claude Monet survey and […]
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The aim of these rocks at JoCo museum is to bring smiles
Thea Levin, 4, takes a closer look at the Kindness Rocks at the Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center. Courtesy photo Need some bold colors to bring a bit of cheer? The Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center’s Kindness Rocks project might brighten your day. A new painted rock garden […]