The New Mexico History Museum
Putting small businesses on display, one New Mexico museum is hoping to share the state’s history through the lens of entrepreneurs and they’re creating an entire gallery of current and past small businesses to...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 14, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Putting small businesses on display, one New Mexico museum is hoping to share the state’s history through the lens of entrepreneurs and they’re creating an entire gallery of current and past small businesses to...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 12, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
The Fort Collins Museum of Discovery has unveiled its latest exhibit in hopes of building awareness and understanding around mental health. “Mental Health: Mind Matters” opened Oct. 3 at the Fort Collins museum, 408 Mason Court,...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 12, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
It’s been four centuries since Europeans first arrived on the shores of southeastern Massachusetts, but the people they met have called the region home for 12,000 years. And while for many, the arrival of...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 12, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Before 2020 became the dystopian reality that we seem to live with every day, the Smithsonian Institution had declared this year as the “Year of the Woman,” anticipating the centenary of women’s suffrage. Nothing...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 11, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Some local advocates hit it out of the park over the weekend to celebrate an important anniversary in baseball and American history. The Strong Museum teamed up with “They Stepped Up to the Plate”...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 11, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Scattered around UVM’s Fleming Museum are reminders to wear masks, follow directional signs, and observe limits on gallery occupancies. But it’s not just the signage that reminds viewers of the pandemic and the strange...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 11, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
In 2020, 100 years after the 18th Amendment went into effect, the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum is featuring a new exhibit highlighting prohibition and the temperance movement as a whole throughout the Texas Panhandle. According...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 7, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
From a celebrated portrait of the nation’s first president George Washington to a drawing of George Floyd, University of Kentucky Art Museum’s “This is America*” examines the nation’s story — the good, the bad and the ugly...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 6, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Fearless female jockeys and their journey to break down barriers in Thoroughbred racing take center stage in the Kentucky Derby Museum’s new exhibit, “Right to Ride”opening October 16. “Right to Ride” puts a spotlight...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 5, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Nature’s Ninjas is a new exhibit at the Museum of Science & Technology or MOST for students and teachers to learn in a new way during the pandemic. Nature’s Ninjas is within the Little...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 5, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
As part of last year’s exhibit on emergency preparedness, the Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County handed out safety kits to visitors. “We distributed masks last year. How weird is that?” executive director Kat Burkhart...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 5, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
At New Britain Museum of American Art, 2020 was set to be the year of the woman, to mark the centennial of women getting the right to vote. Coronavirus got in the way, shuttering...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 3, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
A Philadelphia museum is looking back on a lesser-known moment in suffrage history as a prelude to the present. The Museum of the American Revolution’s new exhibition, “When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 2, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
The DoSeum, San Antonio’s children’s museum, has announced a new exhibit and an online lecture that will take place next week to help raise awareness and celebrate children’s learning differences. The two events are...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 2, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Back in Wilmington’s Cameron Art Museum on Thursday, it was easy to forget that until very recently it had been closed to the public for six months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Walking through...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 1, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Napa Valley photojournalist Tim Carl has captured the beauty and devastation of the wine country wildfires for several years, creating vivid portraits of communities under siege. Now, the Napa Valley Museum has created a...