The British Museum has recovered 268 more missing objects following thefts at the institution. The museum announced on Friday that a total of 626 items, out of around 1,500 missing or stolen objects, have been found across the world – including in Europe and North America – and taken back to be housed in its […]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Kern residents are invited to celebrate California Living Museum’s 41st birthday this Saturday. Meg Maitland, Executive Director at CALM joined 17 News at Noon to speak about the what you can expect at this years bash. Mission at Kern County seeks donations for its residents According to Maitland, various animals at […]
Australian police are seeking two people for allegedly vandalizing a century-old Chinese parade dragon and other valuable artefacts at a museum in a small town known for its historic links to China. The vandalism took place last week at the Golden Dragon Museum in Bendigo, about 100 miles northwest of Melbourne, according to the police […]
NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Friday’s PEOPLE Magazine 2024 Food and Travel Special issue will feature a North Kansas City museum among it’s top 25 bucket-list travel spots. You could drive through an industrial area off the highway in North Kansas City and probably never notice it, but in the two months since it opened […]
On May 14, the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma announced that service members and their families will have free admission to their museum this summer. The museum joins others nationwide as part of the Blue Star Museums initiative. The Blue Star Museum is a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star […]
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 […]
STORY: :: A spider smuggler arrested in Turkey is said to be a curator at the American Museum of Natural History :: Istanbul, Turkey :: Police said the spiders’ poisons can be milked for making medicine worth $10 million per liter :: May 13, 2024 Police arrested the suspect at Istanbul Airport on Sunday and […]
On May 9, the Museum of Flight awarded $276,000 in scholarships to 16 students who have participated in the Museum of Flight’s education programs or were enrolled in Raisbeck Aviation High School. In all, 27 school districts were represented by 77 applicants from various racial and economic diversity. “The Museum’s education programs are designed to […]
NEW YORK (PIX11) — On Mother’s Day, the place known for contemporary modern art was filled with future artists and their families. “I don’t care what kind of museum it is, and I just like it. If it’s an art museum, I like the art,” said eight-year-old Mira Fuhrmann. Mira was one of many kids […]
May 11—ALBUQUERQUE — If you don’t have a ringing sound running through your ears before taking a tour of the Telephone Museum of New Mexico, you might have one afterward. This little-known love temple to telephones, located in a former AT&T administration building in downtown Albuquerque, boasts more than 1,000 telephones. Some of them can […]
May 9—Visitors will follow the science in New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science’s latest exhibition. “Sci-Fi & Sci-Fact” is a traveling exhibit from New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo. It opened on May 4, at the NMMNHS and will be on display through December. It is included with regular museum admission. […]
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – Four historic aircraft will visit the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach this Sunday for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. According to a release from the museum, the C-47 war veterans ‘That’s All, Brother’ and ‘Placid Lassie’ will be joined by a Navy R4D ‘Ready 4 Duty’ and a civilian […]