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Design Museum Everywhere

Bringing the transformative power of design to the forefront, Design Museum Everywhere goes virtual with its groundbreaking exhibition, We Design: People. Practice. Progress. Highlighting the lack of racial and gender diversity in the design field first and...

Kennedy Museum of Art

For the 2020 Fall Semester, Ohio University’s Kennedy Museum of Art has gone live online through the KMA Virtual Portal.  The KMA Virtual Portal offers a safer option for visitors to access the Kennedy...

Idaho Museum of Natural History

The Idaho Museum of Natural History on Idaho State University’s Pocatello campus is opening a new exhibition exploring the skulls of a variety of both ancient and modern animals. “Skulls, Everyone’s Got One,” opening...

Hayes Presidential Library and Museums

It may sound familiar to hear that when a certain U.S. president felt his message was not being carried by news reporters in a manner he liked, he instead insisted on making efforts to...

Jewish Museum Milwaukee

Jewish Museum Milwaukee (JMM) will launch its first new exhibit since reopening its doors to the public last month, with “Luba Lukova: Designing Justice” features the work of one of the most internationally renowned...

Muhammad Ali Center

The Muhammad Ali Center in downtown Louisville is using plywood from boarded-up buildings as part of a new exhibit that will serve as a lesson in Louisville’s history.  The museum wanted to take the...

Illinois State Museum

The Illinois State Museum (ISM) has opened a new exhibit, called “Journal of a Plague Year: Illinois in 2020.” ISM said the exhibition’s title is inspired by Daniel Defoe’s 1722 book “Journal of a...

Philbrook Museum of Art

The Philbrook Museum of Art will present this fall “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists,” the first major traveling exhibition exclusively devoted to Native women artists from all over the United States and...

Museum of Idaho

‘It’s completely unique as far as we know.’ One of the highlights of a new exhibit the Museum of Idaho hopes to open at the end of the year will be a more than...

Midwest Museum of American Art

Two close-up photos show young Black children holding “Black Lives Matter” signs at a Chicago protest this year. Like a cross on a wall, they flank two hand-colored lithographs of a white boy and...

NYC Fire Museum

The New York City Fire Museum in Manhattan will open its doors on Wednesday, just two days before the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The Spring St. museum has been closed since March...

Cincinnati Art Museum

The Cincinnati Art Museum has a new exhibit from Hank Willis Thomas that will examine gender and race, interconnected worldwide struggle for liberty and equality, and the importance of participation. It can all be enjoyed...

Holter Museum of Art

An abandoned playground merry-go-round listing into the grass. A grain elevator slowly falling apart. A graciously graying old house whose wrap-around porch overlooks the prairie. These were all once-loved places that have a story...

National Constitution Center

Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment on Wednesday. Through 3 p.m., there will be different online activities, including a tour through Facebook Live of the new exhibit...

Temecula Valley Museum

The Temecula Valley Museum announces a new outdoor exhibit experience to take place at Sam Hicks Monument Park, 28300 Mercedes Street, in Old Town Temecula. The museum, which will offer three exhibits featuring the...

World Chess Hall of Fame

The stalemate lasted through June, when the doors to the World Chess Hall of Fame could open again. It closed in March due to the pandemic, but in the meantime, workers set up plexiglass...