NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A new exhibit at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans examines how the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was and is remembered. The exhibit is part of the museum’s commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the attack, which took place on December 7, 1941. Japanese …
Read More »Fairfield Museum presents Holiday Express model train show
Fairfield, Connecticut – A cherished holiday tradition full of model trains, magical winter landscapes and lots of fun family activities in town on Friday December 3rde. The Fairfield Museum’s Holiday Express Model Train Show opens on the evening of Fairfield’s Tree Lighting, Friday, December 3 from 5 p.m. to 8 …
Read More »The Great Art Heists of History: The Robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Part 2: The Investigation
FBI agent Thomas McShane has been tasked with investigating a potential suspect: Whitey Bulger. Bulger was well known to the local authorities. He was the head of Boston’s notorious Winter Hill Gang, one of the city’s most powerful organized crime families. The Irish-American thug was also familiar to the FBI, …
Read More »Norwalk’s Stepping Stones Museum reopens nearly two years after the pandemic closed
NORWALK – Originally closed in March 2020 due to COVID restrictions, the Stepping Stones Museum for Children has kept its doors closed a little longer to continue a massive renovation project in one fell swoop. The children’s museum will reopen to the public on Saturday at 8 a.m. and unveil …
Read More »The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art announces Erin Monroe as curator of Krieble of American Paintings …
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art announces that Erin Monroe will be the Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculptures. Monroe has served in the US Art Department at the Wadsworth Atheneum in various capacities since 2007, most recently in the role of Associate Curator. âIt is more than exciting …
Read More »Aldrich Art Museum in Ridgefield launches new works on paper
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art press release: November 13, 2021 Aldrich is pleased to announce At first glance, Milano Chow’s first personal institutional exhibition. Shown in two galleries on the first floor, Chow will present more than a dozen new works on paper spanning two and three dimensions. Milano Chow: …
Read More »Tick tock, drip, here + now
The long-awaited exhibition âDrip-Drop, Tick-Tock, Here + Nowâ opened at the Housatonic Museum of Art (HMA) on October 28 with a full house. Crowds have gathered to see the astonishing but suggestive multimedia sculptures and paintings of Weston, CT artist Joseph Fucigna after a two-year wait thanks to fire, flood …
Read More »Denver Museum waives allegedly looted Cambodian artifacts
DENVER (AP) – Prosecutors have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking the confiscation of four Cambodian antiques that were sold to the Denver Art Museum by a former art dealer accused of illegally looting and selling items old. The U.S. Attorney General for the Southern District of New York …
Read More »By day – The Tantaquidgeon Museum of the Mohegan Tribe celebrates its 90th anniversary
New London – The reasons the Mohegan Tribe members celebrated its history this weekend were twofold. The Tantaquidgeon Museum of the Mohegan Tribe celebrated its 90th birthday, and part of Saturday’s anniversary celebration was the return of an important piece of tribal history to its rightful home. Officials from Cornell …
Read More »Protests against the closure of the Great Hunger Museum gain momentum
It was a pretty impressive turnout in Hamden, Connecticut on Saturday when concerned Irish-Americans gathered at the Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University to pay tribute to the now-closed facility and urge a reopening or relocation. intact content in a location that will show a greater respect for the Irish …
Read More »African-American history museum opens in Connecticut – NBC Connecticut
There is a brand new museum in Stratford that takes a look at the nation’s history through the prism of the African American experience. Jeffrey Fletcher has a special mission to share African American history with Connecticut. Using a collection of memorabilia started by his mother and father, he established …
Read More »Over 100 people, including Connecticut officials, protest closure of Great Hunger Museum in Ireland – The Quinnipiac Chronicle
With umbrellas in hand, more than 100 people gathered in the streets of Hamden on a rainy Saturday sharing one goal: to save Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. âMy heart is in the building, my blood is in the art,â said Frank McCarthy, a former public safety officer who worked at …
Read More »Irish Americans rally to protest the closure of the Great Hunger Museum
CAMDEN, Connecticut: Irish Americans have gathered to protest the closure of the Great Hunger Museum of Ireland at Quinnipiac University in Camden, Connecticut. Protesters gathered outside the museum in an event they described to ‘salute the museum’, which houses the world’s largest collection of Irish Famine artifacts. The Great Hunger …
Read More »Rally to protest the closure of the Irish Museum of Great Hunger
Community members gathered outside the Great Hunger Museum of Ireland in Connecticut to protest the closure of the historic building. Activists organized the event over the weekend to “salute the museum” which houses the world’s largest collection of art linked to the Irish famine. The Great Hunger Museum of Ireland, …
Read More »Sutliff Museum celebrates its golden anniversary | News, Sports, Jobs
WARREN – On November 21, 1971, the story of the Sutliff family was first presented to the public in a special way with the opening of a small museum on the second floor of the County Public Library of Warren-Trumbull. The museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Melissa …
Read More »Old Campus Ghost Museum – Yale Daily News
Sophie Henri Old Campus is heavy with the weight of Yale centuries. Since the university first claimed New Haven soil, buildings have occupied that space – but Yale is constantly modernizing, forever surpassing itself, shedding buildings with each generation as it reinvents itself, buying new buildings with the enthusiasm of …
Read More »Homeland Security Bill Would Include $ 50 Million For Coast Guard Museum: CEG
Once built, the National Coast Guard Museum will educate, engage and inspire visitors, showing how the men and women of the USCG have faithfully served the nation since 1790 and how they continue to use technology to protect waterways. , environment and trade of the country. (Payette rendering) Connecticut Senator …
Read More »International Space Station exhibit at Springfield Science Museum receives funding – WWLP
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Read More »The Day – Dayne Rugh appointed director of the Slater Memorial Museum at the NFA
Norwich – Dayne Rugh, who had served as acting director of the Slater Memorial Museum since March, has been appointed its new director, Norwich Free Academy officials said on Monday. Rugh, who also heads the Society of the Founders of Norwich, a nonprofit group that operates the Leffingwell House Museum, …
Read More »The Recorder – Museum grants to help Historic Deerfield, PVMA weather the pandemic
DEERFIELD – Historic Deerfield and the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) have received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop new programs as the museum industry navigates the enduring COVID-19 pandemic. Of a total of $ 87.8 million awarded to nearly 300 institutions across the United States, …
Read More »Homeland Security Bill would include $ 50 million for Coast Guard Museum in New London
October 23 â US Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Announced this week that he is pushing hard to get Congress to approve a $ 50 million boost to the construction fundraising effort from a National Coast Guard Museum in New London. Murphy, chairman of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, …
Read More »Fairfield Museum Receives Prestigious NEH Grant
Fairfield Museum and History Center press release: 22 October 2021 The Fairfield Museum received a very competitive grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP). One of 115 SHARP grants nationwide, the grant will support the efforts of the Fairfield Museum …
Read More »Museum offers to melt Lee statue to create new works of art
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (AP) – A museum in Virginia offers to melt a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee who was at the center of a violent White Nationalist rally in 2017 in Charlottesville and create a new piece of public art. The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center submitted …
Read More »The Bruce Museum appeals to Margarita Karasoulas as art curator
GREENWICH, CTâThe Bruce Museum, a world-class community institution that promotes understanding and appreciation of art and science to enrich the lives of all, announces the appointment of Margarita Karasoulas as Art Curator. Coming from the Brooklyn Museum, where she has been Assistant Curator of American Art since 2017, Karasoulas will …
Read More »Harvest Day activities return to the Dudley Farm Museum in Guilford
GUILFORD – Harvest Day activities will return to the grounds of the Dudley Farm Museum later this month. The event will take place on October 30 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 2351 Durham Road. After being canceled in 2020, the Dudley Foundation has resumed this day of activities, …
Read More »The Fairfield Museum and the Keeler Tavern receive NEH grants for colonial-era exhibits
Two historic centers in Fairfield County have received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) âSustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP)â to continue their respective presentations of colonial life in Connecticut. The Fairfield Museum and History Center received a grant of $ 125,565 that will …
Read More »Glad it wasn’t 1692! Salem Witch Museum, Witch Dungeon Museum and Witch Tours Tour
Confused about where to start to learn more about the long history of the Salem Witch Trials? Any historical journey begins with one (or all) of these three stops. Salem in Massachusetts is perhaps best known for its Salem Witch Trials. It was a series of hearings and executions of …
Read More »Dr John Lahey on the closure of the Great Hunger Museum of Ireland
The Great Hunger Museum of Ireland at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut was opened in 2012 by Dr. John Lahey, the former president of the university, who says he is “saddened and perplexed” by the museum’s closure by his successor Judy Olian. In a statement provided to the Irish Voice, Lahey …
Read More »The day – Senator Murphy explains his support for the Coast Guard Museum in New London
90 years ago, then Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon came to New London to lay the cornerstone for the future headquarters of the US Coast Guard Academy. And in the decades that followed, thousands of bright and courageous Americans came to Connecticut to study and train to rescue those in distress, …
Read More »Fairfield Museum Receives National Endowment for Humanities Grant
Fairfield CT – The Fairfield Museum received a very competitive grant from the National Foundation for the Humanities, Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP). One of 115 SHARP grants nationwide, the grant will support the efforts of the Fairfield Museum to resume its on-site programs and install …
Read More »Veterans of the past 100 years will be honored at the West Haven Museum
Written by Michael P. Walsh WEST HAVEN, CT – The Veterans Museum & Learning Center will celebrate West Haven’s centennial with an exhibit honoring service members in the community. The open house, âA Tribute to Veterans of the Past 100 Years,â is scheduled for November 7 from 10 am to …
Read More »Holocaust survivor husband of CANDLES museum founder Mickey Kor dies aged 95
HIGH EARTH, Ind. (WTHI) – A Holocaust survivor and the husband of the founder of the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center has died. The CANDLES Holocaust Museum said Michael “Mickey” Kor passed away just after 6:00 am Tuesday morning. He was 95 years old. Mickey was the husband of …
Read More »Mystic Seaport Museum News + Election Workers Wanted
Hey, neighbors! Today, there’s a lot going on at the Mystic Seaport Museum and the Town of Stonington is looking for election officials for Election Day. First of all, the weather forecast for the day: More and more windy. High: 72 Low: 51. Here are the best stories in Stonington-Mystic …
Read More »The Day – Nautilus leaves Submarine Force Museum for $ 36 million preservation project
Groton – The Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, was towed Friday afternoon from its home at the Submarine Force Museum upstream to a jetty at Naval Submarine Base, where it will be subject to ‘a preservation project estimated at $ 36 million. Captain Kenneth Curtin, the new subbase commander, …
Read More »240 acre estate for sale in Stonington + treasures from the mystical museum
Hello, residents of Stonington-Mystic! Today, singer Sergio Franchi’s 240-acre estate is for sale in Stonington, and there’s a new exhibit at the Mystic Seaport Museum. First of all, the weather forecast for the day: Hot with clouds and sun. High: 71 Low: 62. Here are the best stories today in …
Read More »Air Museum will host beer tasting and live music | Food and drink
WINDSOR LOCKS – The New England Air Museum is teaming up with Broad Brook Brewing Company to bring you âFlight Nightâ today from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The public is invited to explore the museum’s collection of world-class aircraft, while tasting local craft beer and enjoying light snacks and live …
Read More »Aldrich Museum updates historic 1971 feminist art exhibit with new generation of female artists
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut revisits its historic 1971 feminist art exhibit “26 Contemporary Women Artists” with a new twist. Opened next summer, the museum will put artists featured in the original exhibit, including Howardena Pindell, Mary Heilmann and Adrian Piper, in dialogue with a new generation …
Read More »Mark Twain House and Museum announce 2021 MARK TWAIN WORLDWIDE Virtual Gala
The Mark Twain House & Museum today announced the full list of famous guests for its 2021 Virtual Gala to be held on Thursday, November 4 at 7 p.m. EDT. The Mark Twain Around the World-themed event will celebrate Samuel Clemens’ world journeys, his popular travel writings and, of course, …
Read More »Last stop at Connecticut Museum for subway car buried on September 11
EAST HAVEN, Connecticut – When the PATH 745 car left Hoboken, NJ on September 11, 2001, it was just another day of travel for the subway car and its passengers. No one could have predicted the events that would change the world that day. The entire PATH station under the …
Read More »Connecticut’s Museum of the Occult can kill you
Twill you go past the classical sculptures, impressionist paintings, and ancient chipped relics that you stroll past in your local art museum? Maybe you’d like to see a haunted Raggedy Ann doll in a shop window that could try to kill you instead. Beneath the Connecticut home of one of …
Read More »Connecticut Museum Guide
The American Museum of Tort Law, the nation’s first museum dedicated to the legal system, opens on September 26, 2015 in the town of Litchfield Hills in Winsted, the hometown of museum chairman, consumer lawyer Ralph Nader. After spending nearly half a century battling businesses over issues such as dangerous …
Read More »The Day – Connecticut museum sells statue at auction to launch NASA satellite
Hartford – The Discovery Museum and Planetarium in Bridgeport is making a calculated compromise by launching a major upgrade to its science education curriculum for schoolchildren. The 55-year-old museum is auctioning off a huge bronze statue on Friday to raise money to equip and program a milk carton-sized satellite attached …
Read More »The Connecticut Museum, an Indigenous treasure
MASHANTUCKET, Connecticut – It’s a story of pride and perseverance, the struggle to reclaim a tribal nation and share its long history and rich heritage. The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, which at 308,000 square feet is one of the largest Native American educational institutions, tells the story of …
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