Museums

Welcome to the 'Museums' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Museums'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Museums”

• Sweeney’s name enshrined at Civil War museum

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 146
  On the seventh day, members of the Sweeney family always knew where to find dad.“He spent every Sunday at the historical society,” Kara Sweeney said of her father, Alan.The former president of the Lackawanna Historical Society – a beloved fixture at the group’s Catlin House on Monroe Avenue – died of cancer ...
  4 hours ago

• Tim Burton at the Museum of Modern Art MoMA, New York

  
  Espaces Arts & Objets — Authority: 115
  The Museum of Modern Art MoMA, New York Tim Burton November 22, 2009 > April 26, 2010 The Museum of Modern Art will present a major exhibition exploring the full scale of renowned filmmaker Tim Burton’s career, both as a director and concept artist for live-action and animated films, and as an artist, ...
  4 hours ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  IZO — Authority: 515
  Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. If you wish, you can see the part of the Wall at the Wende Museum of the Cold War, Culver City (LAT).
  10 hours ago

• Modestes II

  
  D.C. Confidential — Authority: 110
  Viewing Modestes : Geneva, CH This photo captures a group of women during a docent-led tour of the exhibit Modestes: Portraits et Histoires de Femmes au Moyen-Orient . Photo copyright: Janet M Kincaid, 11/09
  10 hours ago

• Broad Ambition

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 149
  Peter Aspden of the Financial Times talks to Eli Broad as Broad makes the publicity rounds for his re-launch of LA’s MoCA and searches for a permanent director for the museum: But this has been more than an emergency turnround. Broad’s ambitions are greater than that. At the heart of his donation and support ...
  11 hours ago

• Hills & Dales Estate

  
  GEORGIA FAMILY VACATIONS — Authority: 115
  Georgia > West Central Georgia > Troup County > LaGrange By SHERRI SMITH BROWN The historic Ferrell Gardens at Hills & Dales Estate is one of the best preserved 19th-century gardens in the Southeast United States. Many people are familiar with Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain. Fewer ...
  12 hours ago

• Westville

  
  GEORGIA FAMILY VACATIONS — Authority: 115
  Georgia > West Central Georgia > Stewart County > Lumpkin By SHERRI SMITH BROWN A craftsman shows young Westville visitors the fine points of weaving a traditional cotton basket. Westville is an outdoor history museum which depicts an 1850 west Georgia village. You may have seen pictures ...
  12 hours ago

• Celebrating the Philippine Culture

  
  Singapore Kid's Places — Authority: 112
  Members of the Rose Borromeo Spanish Dance Company performing yesterday Good morning everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend and can start the new week with refreshed energy (hard sometimes I know). We had an interesting and busy weekend. Yesterday we visited the Asian Civilization Museum to enjoy the ...
  13 hours ago

• Modestes

  
  D.C. Confidential — Authority: 110
  Modest: Portraits and Stories of Women in the Middle East : Alexander Boulet, Photographer : Geneva, CH Currently, there is a temporary exhibit of photos by the late photojournalist Alexandra Boulat currently on display at the Museum of the International Red Cross/Red Crescent titled Modestes: Portraits et ...
  18 hours ago

• The Metropolitan Museum unveils a maybe Michelangelo

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 740
  Saturday I stopped at New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art to have a look at “Young Archer,” the  sculpture attributed to a youthful Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475 -- Rome 1564), which went on view Nov. 3 in the Vélez Blanco Patio, just off the grand staircase at the entrance to the European galleries. ...
  18 hours ago

• The University of Helsinki City Campus Library / Anttinen Oiva arkkitehdit

  
  ArchDaily — Authority: 641
  Architects: Anttinen Oiva Architects Location: Helsinki, Finland Project Manager: Vesa Oiva Collaborators: Jussi Kalliopuska, Selina Anttinen, Antti Lehto Building services consultant: Aila Puusaari, DI, Pˆyry Building Services Oy Construction-engineering consultant: Sami Lampinen, DI, WSP Finland Oy ...
  22 hours ago

• MEDIEVAL MOURNERS COMING TO CITY HALL

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 150
  Alabaster figures to take a sabbatical from the Musée des Beaux-Arts By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka A group of nearly 40 of the greatest masterpieces of medieval sculpture, which have never before been seen in their entirety outside of France, will be presented ...
  1 day ago

• Military addendum

  
  WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE — Authority: 121
  My initial impression of the area that lies north-west of the distinctively shaped Kwun Yam Shan (Goddess of Mercy Mountain) was that it looked pretty idyllic as well as plain pretty... But it turns out that just round the bend is the largest military base in Hong Kong! Its pure coincidence, I ...
  1 day ago

• November Shopping

  
  Texas RV Travel blog — Authority: 113
  November is a good time for day trips to small towns.  With the change of color. cooler weather and  If the small towns have arts & craft shows, you will spend the day walking, chatting with artisans, eating food on a stick, enjoying your day and finding homemade treasures to give as gifts. Heart of Texas Arts ...
  1 day ago

• Collected Museum Reviews

  
  New at LacusCurtius & Livius — Authority: 416
  Museum für antike Schifffahrt, Mainz This little blog now exists for almost two years, and I have written twenty-two articles on museums in Europe and the Near East; Bill has added one article on a museum in the United States. It’s a nice collection, even though many famous museums are still not covered – the ...
  1 day ago

• Museum of Family History: Whats new?

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 482
  The Museum of Family History has three new November exhibits. -- Paint What You Remember: The Memories of Mayer Kirshenblatt of Opatów, Poland Mayer Kirshenblatt left his hometown of Opatów (Apt), Poland in 1934 at age 17 for a new life in Canada. He brought along some physical possessions, but also a storehouse ...
  1 day ago

• Art Review | Connecticut: Real Rembrandts, and the Also-Rans

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  AUTHENTIC At the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford: Left, “Portrait of Anthonie Coopal” (1635); center, “Self-Portrait” (1659); right, “Young Woman at Her Toilet (Old Testament Heroine)” (c. 1632-33).
  1 day ago

• 11/14/09: Anime Book Event: “The Octonauts” with Meomi | Berkeley

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 491
  Meomi, a quirky collective of bubbly graphic artists and illustrators will present their latest manga/anime-inspired children’s book, The Octonauts and the Great Ghost Reef, which is about a team of eight undersea explorers who are always ready for fantastic voyages. Johnny Funcheap’s Note: “This is one of ...
  1 day ago

• 11/14/09: Portal to the Pacific: 70 Years on Treasure Island

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 491
  Come to Treasure Island’s beautiful, historic, art deco Building One to see a fascinating photo and narrative exhibit portraying the history of San Francisco’s best kept island secret. Built from the mud of the Bay in 1937, the site of an unforgettable world’s fair in 1939-1940, and the west coast terminus for ...
  1 day ago

• Ueno Zoo and the Grutt Pass – Part 1

  
  TravelJapanBlog.com — Authority: 129
  We recently purchased a couple of Grutt Passes (ぐるっとパス or gurutto pasu in Japanese). Included with the pass is free admission to the Ueno Zoo. The Ueno Zoo is wonderfully peaceful on a Sunday morning. On a Sunday afternoon it turns into what you see below. The zoo opens at 9:30. We didn’t arrive ...
  1 day ago

Comments about Museums