On Sunday 1 November the British Museum will host a special celebration of the Day of the Dead; an annual Mexican festival where families gather to remember the dead. The British Museum will present an engaging programme of performance, processions, storytelling, displays and much more.
The origins of this celebration can be traced back at least […]
From Dec. 20 through May 31, 2009, a retrospective Barbie exhibit titled ‘50 Fashionable Years’ will be on display at Geppi’s Entertainment Museum at Camden Yards, Baltimore!
Baltimore - On Dec. 20, Geppi’s Entertainment Museum at Camden Yards (“GEM”) will unveil a new exhibit focusing on America’s favorite blonde: Barbie. The panoramic display, which will be […]
“The Largest Directory of Online Collectibles Museums on Earth™ has crossed the 1000 listings milestone” Collectibles-Museums.com announced.Sites included are all fascinating, quality-reviewed Museum and Collection sites with online galleries of impressive collectibles displays. The site’s listings include 1,000,000 images of both high art and intriguing oddities.
Some of the more recent site additions include:
• Mark Steinmetz […]
Survivors of the Slave Ship, The Wanderer, to be Honored at a Commemorative Ceremony on Jekyll Island, Georgia
Jekyll Island, GA - One hundred and fifty years ago, a yacht carrying elicit cargo arrived on Jekyll Island, Georgia. On the morning of November 28, 1858, it anchored on the south end of the island, and approximately 409 […]
LONDON - This first exhibition ever mounted of Flemish paintings in the Royal Collection brings together 51 works from the 15th to 17th centuries, including masterpieces by Hans Memling, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan Brueghel, Van Dyck and Rubens. By the 1550s the Netherlands enjoyed a level of wealth that remained unmatched in the West […]
Nearly 105 years in the making, the Harley-Davidson Museum, located near downtown Milwaukee, will open its doors to the public on Saturday, July 12. Grand Opening festivities will kick off with a Harley-Davidson-style ceremony at 10 a.m. and will continue throughout the weekend.
Milwaukee, WI (PRWEB) May 8, 2008 — Nearly 105 years in the making, […]
Baltimore - For viewers of HBO’s lavish, compelling, and historically rich mini-series John Adams, the image of the famous “Join, or Die” cartoon is front and center, in both visual and intellectual terms. Illustrated by Benjamin Franklin and first published in the May 9, 1754 Pennsylvania Gazette, perhaps the only known copy in private hands […]
Funds will Provide Support for Archiving and Preservation of one of the World’s Largest Collections of Jazz Images by a Single Photographer
Studio City, Calif. (PRWEB) April 3, 2008 — The GRAMMY Foundation® Grant Program recently announced that it has awarded a $33,017 grant to the Herman Leonard Jazz Archive to support the preserving and organizing […]
Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) was a leading spokesperson for the American Craftsman movement. Stickley formed the philosophy for his Craftsman furniture after encountering the British Arts & Crafts movement during trips to Europe in the mid-1890s. Before he discovered and began making Arts & Craft-inspired items, Stickley manufactured the mass-produced, ornamental, fad-driven furniture which he later […]
The long awaited reopening of the Currier Museum of Art took place on Sunday, March 30, 2008 after almost two years of expansion. The reinstalled galleries and breathtaking new public spaces will be unveiled free to the public during the first week, March 30 - April 5 (excluding Tuesday when the museum is closed), with […]
