JACKSONVILLE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Museum of Science and History (MOSH) today announced the selection of Balfour Beatty and Stellar as a joint venture to lead the construction management of the MOSH Genesis project. Balfour Beatty and Stellar will oversee all vertical construction of the $85 million project, which will bring a …
Read More »From Dawn to Dusk with 56 Masterpieces from the National Museum of Sweden opens February 19 at the Nordic National Museum
In the Garden by Johan Krouthen 1887-1888 Nordic Museum information At a time when few international art exhibitions travel to America, the National Nordic Museum is presenting one of the largest West Coast European art exhibitions in 2022On February 19, the National Nordic Museum will premiere a landmark exhibition from …
Read More »Pokemon Fossil Museum event returns in 2022
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 …
Read More »ECU Football Has Powerful DC Experience When Visiting National Museum of African American History and Culture
WASHINGTON, DC (WITN) – Part of Military Bowl week is exploring the area around which the game will be played. He really hit home with ECU football on Friday. ECU football trained on Friday morning and it went rather well according to the team. The pirates boarded the bus and …
Read More »Five things you didn’t know about mistletoe | Smithsonian Voices
Smithsonian botanist Marcos A. Caraballo-Ortiz collected these specimens of mistletoe in Mexico. Marcos A. Caraballo-Ortiz This holiday season, you might be hoping to catch someone under the mistletoe – or it just might be an prospect you’d like to avoid. The association of mistletoe with kisses and Christmas in the …
Read More »Douglas SBD-2P Dauntless arrives at Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum
Last October, we reported that after some 40,000 hours of volunteer work, the catering team at the Aerospace and Air Science Museum Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan had completed the restoration of the Douglas SBD-2P Dauntless BuNo. 2173. This article also stated that the dive bomber was to leave Kalamazoo for …
Read More »Wilderness and Watercolors: A Hidden Museum Pays Homage to the Staggering Artwork of an Adventurer | New
As a child, Palo Altan Jane Woodward dreamed of living in a museum. She spent her summers visiting her grandmother in Manhattan and loved to fantasize about what it would be like to live in the Metropolitan Museum, like the characters in her favorite book, “From the Mixed-Up Files of …
Read More »Denver Art Museum reflects on plundered African art
DENVER (AP) – British troops in 1897 staged a violent retaliatory raid on the kingdom of Benin, in what is now southern Nigeria, looting and torching the royal palace and sending the oba, or king, into exile . The British confiscated all of the royal treasures of their colonial subjects, …
Read More »Asteroid samples brought back by Hayabusa2 on display at Tokyo museum
A black particle collected during the Hayabusa2 space probe’s first landing on the asteroid Ryugu, which is now on display to the public at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo’s Koto district, can be seen in this photo provided by the museum. TOKYO – Samples from …
Read More »ExxonMobil Qatar and Qatar Museums announce sponsorship of new Dadu, Qatar Children’s Museum
ExxonMobil Qatar and Qatar Museums (QM) have entered into a sponsorship agreement for Dadu, the Children’s Museum of Qatar, with the signing of the company as a founding family member. QM Chairman HE Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, and ExxonMobil Qatar Chairman and CEO Dominic Genetti made …
Read More »Tipperary Bog Ancient Book’s Journey to Museum Treasure
One summer day in Tipperary while peat was being extracted from a bog, a bud sprouted from the freshly cut earth. The discovery sparked a five-year conservation journey to retrieve and preserve what lay beyond: a 1,200-year-old book of psalms in its original cover. Bogs across Europe have thrown away …
Read More »The science museum holds exhibitions in Chattogram
The Director General of the National Museum of Science and Technology, Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, on Saturday inaugurates the Robotic Olympiad at the Chattogram International Presidency School. – Press release The National Museum of Science and Technology hosted the Robot Olympiad, a mobile science exhibition and stargazing program in Chittagong on …
Read More »‘It was terrifying’: the journey of an ancient book from the Irish bog to the museum’s treasure | Museums
ohn summer day in Tipperary, as peat was being extracted from a bog, a bud sprouted from the freshly cut earth. The discovery sparked a five-year conservation journey to retrieve and preserve what lay beyond: a 1,200-year-old book of psalms in its original cover. Bogs across Europe have thrown away …
Read More »Local museum honors military working dogs with new exhibit
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 …
Read More »Danish National Museum unveils gold treasure “dream find”
JELLING, DENMARK – Last month the Danish National Museum (National museum) and the Vejle Museum (Vejlemuseerne) unveiled one of the most impressive Iron Age gold discoveries ever to be found. The collection contains 22 objects, including Roman coins and many thin amulet-shaped discs known as “bracteates. âIn total, the collection …
Read More »The National Museum of Animal Art exhibits while they sleep: a bear story
Carl Rungius (United States, born Germany, 1869–1959). Old Man of the Mountains, 1930. Oil on canvas. 34 x 39 inches. JKM® collection. National Museum of Animal Art. Robert McCauley (United States, born 1946). The Only West Left is the One in Your Head, 2014. Oil on canvas on panel. 24 …
Read More »Florida LGBTQ Museum Launches Major Digital Exhibit
by JW Arnold Visitors to the Stonewall National Museum and Archives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ libraries and loan collections, have fallen by nearly two-thirds due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, after months of research, SNMA recently launched a major digital exhibit just in time …
Read More »The National Museum of African American Music black art centers in Nashville: NPR
The National Museum of African American Music in Nashville. NMAAM / 353 Media Group hide caption toggle legend NMAAM / 353 Media Group The National Museum of African American Music in Nashville. NMAAM / 353 Media Group For decades, Nashville tourism has drawn primarily white tourists for its country music, …
Read More »Culpeper Museum Upcoming Events | InsideNoVa Culpeper – Culpeper Times
Witchcraft webinar offered by the Museum of Culpeper History The Museum of Culpeper History will be offering a free webinar on the history of witchcraft in Colonial Virginia at 5 p.m. on October 19. Williamsburg author / historian Carson Hudson will reveal how early America’s witches were not limited to …
Read More »Harriet Powers – Encyclopedia of New Georgia
Harriet Powers is one of South America’s best-known quilt makers, although only two of her quilts, both of which she made after the Civil War (1861-1865), survive today. One is in the collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC The second quilt …
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