Museum offers inspiring exhibits for boomers
Elizabeth Cerejido, former Frost Art Museum curator, documents her mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s in Absence Series with 13 color photographs and a video assembled in a small white room. Some of the photos are simply white lettering ...

Museum Blogs
It is less formal then a traditional museum website, giving the curators and staff a chance to push the museum’s ‘personality’. The casual format means that any information can be added, from a fresh look at objects in the collection, ...

Museum Crawl
I’ve been haunting Pittsburgh museums a lot lately. My favorite thing to do is get a pass to the Museum of Natural History on my lunch break and just stroll through the Hillman Hall of Minerals & Gems. That exhibit, however, will be ...

More on Hollein: Another US Museum Connection; "Too American"?
A CultureGrrl reader helpfully alerted me to the fact that Max Hollein, possibly to be named the next Metropolitan Museum director, is also on the board of trustees of the Neue Galerie, New York. And I've also discovered that a ...

Suburban Spotlight: Museum of Anthropology
This week's Suburban Spotlight is on the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia. The MOA is your one stop to view breath taking art work from the Pacific Northwest First Nations. ...

Fifth annual Cartoon Art Museum benefit at Pixar Animation Studios
The Cartoon Art Museum, the only museum in the western United States dedicated to all forms of cartoons and comics, is delighted to host its fifth annual benefit at Pixar Animation Studios on Saturday, October 11, 2008. ...

Athens County Military Museum Final Friday Speaker
Athens County Historical Society & Museum’s Curator/Education Coordinator Heather Reed will present, “Andrews Raiders-The Great Locomotive Chase” as part of the Athens County Military Museum’s Final Friday Speaker Series this Friday, ...

Portland Art Museum Offers Discount Admission to College Students
Portland Art Museum If you’re a college student who is planning to visit the Portland Art Museum more than once over the next year, add the museum’s College Student Pass to your back-to-school shopping list. ...

Davis Museum Releases Statement on Missing Fernand Leger Painting
As many of you will recall, last November I informed the community that in the course of searching the collections of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, museum staff discovered that the painting, Woman and Child, by Fernand Leger ...

Mezco Toys to Give Annual Donation of Action Figures to Museum of ...
Museum of the Moving Image and Mezco Toyz, a leading manufacturer of licensed merchandise, today announced the establishment of an annual donation of film- and television-related toys and materials to the Museum’s collection. ...

Museum Speakers Series
If you’re in the Fairfax, Virginia, area tomorrow the National Firearms Museum will be hosting a special evening with Stuart Mowbray. He will have a talk on gun collecting in the South Tower auditorium at 7 pm ...

Context Clues
An art museum provides a very specific sort of context for its contents. As a visitor walks through the collections, there is a kind of underlying thesis at work: these things all fit, in one way or another, into a broad category. ...

FusionArts Museum: Woman, A Group Exhibit
“WOMAN” FusionArts Museum’s first group exhibit by female artists examines this new female imperative with the assistance of the Roman poet Ovid who said: “What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her”, reminding us that women ...

FusionArts Museum: Woman, A Group Exhibit
Organized by Director Walter Hopps in 1963, By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy - the first-ever retrospective of the artist’s oeuvre - featured 114 works of art, including major loans from Europe and the Philadelphia Museum of ...