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You are drawn to the brightly colored image on the other side of a room and need to get closer to understand what you are seeing. Just like that, the Bishop Museum of Science and Nature has drawn you into an exhibit that feels more like an art gallery than …

Museum scientists regularly work in space exploration and Mars research with NASA and colleagues from the European Space Agency. Ongoing projects including collaboration with NASA on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover and ESA’s ExoMars mission using our world renowned meteorite collection. Professor Caroline Smith, Head of Earth Science Collections and …

Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, who at 38 was the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion in 2018, has been selected to design the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new $500 million modern and contemporary art wing. the museum announced on Sunday. “This is a very large order,” museum director Max …

What is that? How did it come to this? No matter what archeology discovers, the iconic range of 13-foot-tall, 25-ton stone blocks called Stonehenge continues to mystify. They say it was a temple built four or five thousand years ago. But who were the faithful, and how did they transport …

the Natick Historical Society has discovered all sorts of treasures as he prepares for the eventual reopening of his museum in the basement of the Bacon Free Library. The discovery at the end of last week of a Civil War artillery shell in his collection required special attention. The Bomb …

The Grove Museum’s new executive director, Amanda Hamon, has worked in museums for more than 20 years. As the museum prepares to celebrate its fifth anniversary with Grove Day 2022 on Saturday March 12, Hamon is ready to open a new chapter of community engagement and partnerships. “I see museums …

With Winner at the helm, the museum is building new spaces — but also a more engaging way to tell the story of scientific discovery. CLEVELAND— “A boss is someone who boldly chooses her own direction. She gets things done, she often deviates from the conventional path and blazes her …

Tue March 1, 2022 2:20 p.m. In conjunction with the Erie County Bicentennial Committee (EC200), the Buffalo Museum of History will be hosting EC200 Coin Swapping Days from March 2 through April 2. The pieces feature the EC200 logo on one side and Old County Hall on the other, inspired …

Dippy the dinosaur will return to the Natural History Museum in May after recently wrapping up a four-year tour of the UK. The 26 meter long installation of a cast of Diplodocus was first exhibited at the London Museum in 1905. It was seen by more than two million people …

On Tuesday, a teacher at St. Francis de Sales High School encouraged her students to gather around a large glass box displaying a fossil over 100 million years old near the entrance to a new exhibit at the Field. Museum. She asked if they noticed how the fossil almost looked …

It’s not every day that European Renaissance artwork arrives at State College. Until May 8, the Palmer Museum of Art will display a collection of works by German printmaker Albrecht Dürer in its second-floor special exhibitions gallery. “Engraving in the Age of Dürer” features some of the artist’s most influential …

Museums contain a lot of knowledge and people visit them to learn. In most cases, museums serve as storage or carriers of knowledge from the past. In this case, people can learn and understand what was there and what it meant. Other museums will also contain the knowledge of the …

The 57 World Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, on loan from the Natural History Museum, opens at The Base, Greenham today (Friday 4th February), with outstanding images that capture fascinating animal behaviour, species spectacular and breathtaking diversity of the natural world. The images shine a light on stories and …

BLOWING ROCK – The Blowing Rock Art & History Museum will host the WFDD Photo of the Year competition, which will take place at the Alexander Community Gallery from February 8 to March 19. Beginning in February, BRAHM will display 53 images taken from the surrounding region, all showcasing the …

Sir Patrick plans to join the board in October 2022 and take over as chairman in early 2023. Mr Patrick Vallance says: “I have loved the museum since my first visit as a young child. It inspired me to pursue a career in science and continues to inspire visitors of …

The Bell Museum has a great origin story. It began in 1872 as a “one-room cabinet of curiosities”. Today, the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of Natural History has an elegant and fascinating home on the University’s St. Paul campus and plans to celebrate 150 years with exhibits and experiences …

It was past midnight when a crane lowered the towering bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, lifting her upper body from the pedestal where she has presided over the American Museum of Natural History since 1940. The rest of the sculpture, now surrounded of scaffolding, is expected to fall apart all …

DOWNTOWN – Local dinosaur fans will soon get to see the Jurassic period underwater environment up close. The Field Museum’s latest exhibit, “Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep,” will take visitors on an underwater journey to see some of the creatures that once inhabited it, according to a press release …

The Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg received state funding of $ 100,000 to support exterior improvements to the museum, according to Senators David G. Argall (R-Berks / Schuylkill) and Patrick Browne (R-Lehigh) and Representative Jerry Knowles (R- Berks, Carbon & Schuylkill). “Since the first laying of tracks in 1827, …

‘Love is in the Air,’ an exhibit premiered at the Saratoga History Museum on January 14, showcases a nostalgic collection of vintage Valentine’s Day and the ways people celebrate Valentine’s Day in the world. Argentina, for example, extends its Valentine’s Day celebration and calls it “Sweet Week”, during which friends …

The Pokemon Fossil Museum event is coming to several new science museums in Japan from March 2022. The event will feature comparisons of Pokemon fossils with their real-life counterparts. Additionally, the event will also feature a Pikachu dressed as an archaeologist. [Thanks, Famitsu!] The Pokemon Fossil Museum special event will …

People will have the opportunity to share their visions of the new space that will house the Aberdenn History Museum. The Aberdeen Museum and History Board of Trustees will host a virtual strategic planning workshop on Tuesday, February 1 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss the museum’s future location in downtown …

For 19 years, the Northwest Montana Historical Society’s John White Lecture Series has been a local highlight of the winter season, promising a list of engaging and insightful discussions. This year, the popular series will be available as in-person and digital presentations. Here’s a look at what’s on the agenda …

A Confederate monument to Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia that has become a flashpoint in America’s fierce debate over public monuments may have a new home: the city’s Black History Museum and Cultural Center. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced last week that they had …

By Candice L. Cravins Photographer Deborah Hughes will present her solo exhibition, “Water Footprints: Photographs and Artistic Expressions of Water Wanderings Around the Colorado Plateau,” at the John Wesley Powell River History Museum in Green River from January 10 to June 11, 2022. “Footprints of Water” exposes and frames the …

[Sun Gazette Newspapers provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.] The Virginia Museum of History & Culture (VMHC) in Richmond will soon complete the largest and most transformative renovation in its nearly 200-year history. The museum, operated by the Virginia Historical Society, remained open with …

Natural History Museum zoologist HAS BEEN fired for believing in Loch Ness monster, recently released documents reveal Dr Denys Tucker lost his job at the Natural History Museum for believing in the Loch Ness monster His career came to an abrupt end at age 39 when he was fired for …

Annual Free Days offered by the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District cover the metro area’s largest nonprofits, from the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Botanic Gardens to the Denver Zoo, and they’re always family hits. The aforementioned organizations are considered Tier 1 organizations in SCFD sales tax funding, and …

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (PA) – Louisiana State University museum official received a unique retirement gift – researchers in Alabama and South Carolina named a prehistoric shark species after it. Suyin Ting has been responsible for the Vertebrate Paleontology Collections at the LSU Museum of Natural Science for 26 years. Its …

BERN TWP., PA – Call it a road map to the past. “These detailed maps that we have show the compound, the barbed wire, the electrified wires, in extraordinary detail,” said Mark Gillen, director of the Berks Military History Museum. Its intricate lines are drawn across land that sits adjacent …

X Sign up for free to receive the latest news straight to your inbox Register The Cooper King Distillery continued its continued commitment to the fight against climate change with the launch of an exclusive carbon negative “Discovery Gin” in collaboration with the Natural History Museum. The York-based distillery that …

RBCM will close its third floor on December 31 for a makeover that is expected to take years. Many who visited the museum last week agreed that the exhibits should be presented in an updated context, but disagreed with their dismantling during the long viewing period. In the Old Town …

Dominique Genetti, Digital journalist December 16, 2021 “Meet Me In St. Louis” stars Judy Garland and tells the story of the Smith family living in St. Louis before the 1904 World’s Fair. Original movie poster It seems almost wonderfully ironic to watch “Meet In St. Louis” on the subject of …

A massive animal skeleton, larger than a tiger, swims through the air at the LA County Museum of Natural History, one front paw jutting forward and two large bulging eye sockets eyeing visitors. This impressive skeleton is an extinct aquatic mammal called Desmostylian, and it was discovered in Orange County. …

The Chronicle Bongani Ndlovu, columnistTOURISTS have been denied access to the Zimbabwe Natural History Museum in Bulawayo after Zesa cut power to the facility three weeks ago for a debt of $ 700,000. Museum director Dr Moira Fitzpatrick said debt has piled up over the course of a year and …

As the Bucks County African American Museum prepares to move into its first permanent home, the Mobile Museum of History and Culture is hosting a fundraiser on December 2. In partnership with Parx Casino, proceeds from the inaugural Building Our Dream cocktail party fundraiser will be used to repair the …

A marine museum on Mount Desert Island that has been closed for the past two years is set to reopen next June with a new owner and expanded offerings. A new non-profit association, Oceanarium and Education Center, bought the 19-acre waterfront property on Highway 3 in Bar Harbor in January …

HIM. AND ON THIS VETERANS DAY YOU ARE INVITED TO VISIT A LOCAL MUSEUM AND TEACH A FEW SPECIAL MILITARY MEMBERS AND THERE IS A SPECIAL OFFER FOR VETERANS AND ACTIVE SERVICE MILITARY PERSONNEL. THIS IS THE NEW EXHIBITION OF DOGS OF WAR AT THE UPCOUNTRY MUSEUM OF HISTORY. IT …

Architecture studio Space Popular has teamed up with Sir John Soane’s Museum in London to create an exhibition that examines “the magic and mechanics” of virtual travel. The exhibition, titled Space Popular: The Portal Galleries, opens in June 2022 and will feature a history of portals in fiction, as well …

Aberdeen History Museum focuses on a new home. The city of Aberdeen’s offer for a new location for the museum has been accepted, the city’s museum board said at its meeting earlier this week. “We heard from the owner and they accepted the city’s offer,” said Stacie Barnum, Aberdeen’s director …

The Pioneer Museum of Alabama will be celebrating its 50th anniversary from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday and everyone is invited to be a part of this monumental occasion. Barbara Tatom, director of the museum, said the Pioneer History Museum was the fulfillment of its founder Curren Farmer’s dream. …

Cherif Bey spent his childhood thinking that all museums combined art and natural history, as they do in Carnegie Art and Natural History Museums. While he may have learned this was not true, his own ceramic and glass artwork is influenced by dinosaur bones and the colors of birds. The …

Listen to this story: Poems, pictures, news articles, Facebook memes – all of these and more will be featured in a December exhibit that the Kodiak History Museum is hosting on COVID-19. Museum curator Lynn Walker recently appeared on KMXT’s Talk of the Rock to describe how the museum funded …

By CONNIE and LYNN BAER Grossmont High School’s 101st Anniversary celebration was an opportunity for the Foothillers to come together, remember and share their pride in Foothiller. 101 years ago, the founding board members, principal, teachers, staff and its community could not have imagined today’s Grossmont, a school that cherishes …

Lila Moss keeps things cool in a chic bomber jacket with faux leather pants for a fun skating session with a glam friend at the Natural History Museum ice rink launch By Ciara Farmer For Mailonline Posted: 2:51 AM EDT, October 22, 2021 | Update: 2:51 AM EDT, October 22, …

This week, I change a bit and I put a letter to the editor of the NEWS of August 19, 1976. The letter is written to the inhabitants of one town, but could easily be applied to others. It was written by Royce E. McDaniel, who served in Madrid, Spain, …

The latest exhibit from the Historic RailPark & ​​Train Museum highlights the importance of railways during the war. The final phase of the museum’s “Railroads at War” series focuses on the importance of “canteens” and the “Harvey Girls” to the success of the railroads in this era. RailPark executive director …

The winners of the fifty-seventh competition were recently unveiled at an online awards ceremony broadcast live from the Museum to viewers around the world. The competition attracted more than 50,000 entries from 95 countries. The result of extreme dedication and technical expertise, Creation by French Grand Title winner Laurent Ballesta …

EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin (WEAU) – Star Wars: The Nostalgia Awakens is a traveling exhibition by Jarrod Roll. He is a Star Wars enthusiast and museum curator in Onalaska Wisconsin. Roll’s collection traveled to Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin. Now he has made a stop at the Chippewa Valley Museum in Eau …

By MARY STEURER, Casper Star-Tribune CASPER, Wyo. (AP) – Vickie Goodwin was supposed to meet her husband at the Smithsonian Museum, and he was very, very late. The Wyoming natives were visiting Washington for her work, and while attending a meeting, Sissy was out on a sightseeing trip. Now he …

The DuSable Museum of African American History received the prestigious Chicago Cultural Treasures Multi-Year Grant in the amount of $ 575,000. The Chicago Cultural Treasures Initiative is a $ 14.4 million grant awarded to organizations that contribute to the history, culture, vibrancy and identity of communities of color in greater …

DURBAN – The repatriation of the Egyptian mummy Peten-Amun on display at the Durban Museum of Natural Sciences could take place in 2022. This was revealed by the Durban Director of Natural Sciences of eThekwini Municipality, Allison Ruiters, during the meeting with the Chairman of City Councilor Weziwe Thusi and …

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) – We’re rediscovering Charlotte’s lost signs. At one point, we passed by them all the time on the trips – while shopping – the Penguin sign; South 21 Drive-In; Eastland Shopping Center. They have become iconic, in a way, of Charlotte and her history. But they were …

Kevin Burkman, board member of the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum, handed over a poster-sized, detailed map of black history sites in the Sourland Mountain area to elementary school last week. Village of Skillman as part of its educational outreach program. The Montgomery, Hopewell Valley, Princeton and Hillsborough school districts, …

A 10-year-old boy took home a major award while a marine biologist captured a unique event. A 10-year-old boy won a major award for natural photography for his photo of a spider in India while a biologist captured a rare moment in nature for the top prize. Vidyun Hebbar was …

Alicia Thomas, the new executive director of the Virginia Quilt Museum, said she has only made one quilt in her life, but is an avid embroiderer. Thomas said she came from at least two generations of quilters in her family: her mother and grandmother. But as the new director of …