What do you do when your star attraction — a retired space shuttle — is under wraps and out of view from the public for the next few years? If you’re the California Science Center, you land another spacecraft. The Los Angeles museum and educational destination on Monday (June 24) announced the addition of a […]
The Fort Pitt Museum takes visitors on an exploration of the history and culture of American Indian tribes who once called Western Pennsylvania home with its new exhibition, “Homelands: Native Nations of Allegheny,” which opened June 22. Created in collaboration with Delaware, Seneca, Seneca-Cayuga and Shawnee tribes, the exhibition features rare artifacts. The Native settlers […]
A broom displayed at Dortmund’s LWL Industrial Museum at Zeche Zollern tells a poignant story about the enduring impact of German colonial history: The sturdy street brush, still available today, is crafted from fibers of the piassava palm. “Owners of a piassava bristle factory in Herford became millionaires with this product,” explains curator Barbara Frey, […]
In the night, moon flowers — divine, white bodies with heart-shaped leaves — radiate like a star-shaped Christmas tree topper. At the sight of dawn, they collapse. Moon flowers have adapted to the sleep cycles of nocturnal pollinators. They emerge like Cinderella in the moonlight, giving off strong perfume scents that attract moths and flies […]
The Airbus A320 airliner that ditched in the Hudson River in 2009 is now an aviation artifact. None of the 155 passengers and crew died during the “Miracle on the Hudson” crash. I was blown away when I visited the jet at the Sullenberger Aviation Museum to see the famous plane. On January 15, 2009, […]
A new exhibit about space stations turns the focus from how astronauts live in space to how millions of people may do so in the years to come. The past, present and future of humans residing in orbit is explored in “Home Beyond Earth,” a temporary exhibition now open at The Museum of Flight in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Library of Congress is unveiling an eclectic new exhibit drawing on the institution’s vast historical archives and designed to make the library a more popular and accessible destination for visitors and tourists. “Collecting Memories” — which opens to the public on June 13 — is an intensely curated exhibit that brings […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – As part of the second day of Miss Arkansas festivities in the Capital City, the 45 contestants had several events scheduled for Sunday, including a trip to the Old State House Museum for a tour of the Miss Arkansas Gown Exhibit. Dozens of dresses dating back six decades were on display, […]
The Mercer Museum in Doylestown is taking a new look at the notorious Doan Gang — the band of five Revolutionary War-era brothers and one cousin from Central Bucks County and served as British spies and hardened criminals during the war — through a new exhibit. The grave marker for Abraham Doan, who was eventually […]
[Source] An exhibit that aimed to confront hate against minority communities led to the temporary closure of Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum after pro-Palestine staffers walked out over concerns with the program’s language. Key points: More than 20 staffers participated in the walkout on May 22 after the museum opened its “Confronting Hate Together” exhibit. The […]
May 22—ELKHART — After a Monday arrival procession, an opening ceremony for the 9/11 Never Forget exhibit took place in downtown Elkhart Wednesday. Sponsored by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, the mobile exhibit contains items and exhibits collected in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C., […]
May 13—Starting May 16 and running through the last week of June, the Vanishing Texana Museum will once again be hosting an exhibit of both historically and locally significant quilts. The collection has been organized by Larry Lydick, museum curator, and Deborah Burkett,a member of the Cherokee County Historical Commission and author of “Quilts and […]