A blog celebrating the resiliency of museums
by Nicole Ackman · Published December 3, 2021 · Last modified December 20, 2021
Westport Museum for History and Culture is set unveil its newest exhibit, a gingerbread village of Westport’s past and present, on Saturday during the second annual outdoor holiday market. Executive Director Ramin Ganeshram said...
by Nicole Ackman · Published June 30, 2021 · Last modified July 14, 2021
Regular visitors to the Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry (BIMP), its Forum Series and Puppet Slams conducted with the UConn Puppet Arts Program understand the deep history of puppetry as a centuries-old form...
by Nicole Ackman · Published June 18, 2021 · Last modified July 13, 2021
Live animals, diorama displays and works from native artists will welcome visitors to the Bruce Museum in this summer’s exhibition “The Amazon Rainforest: Beauty • Destruction • Hope,” which opens to the public on...
by Nicole Ackman · Published March 8, 2021 · Last modified March 17, 2021
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will explore the birth of modern medicine and its scientific breakthroughs with a new exhibition titled, Health, Healing & Addiction in 19 th Century America. The exhibition will open on...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 10, 2021 · Last modified February 22, 2021
Looking through The New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson’s artwork for an exhibition at the Bruce Museum was an enjoyable experience for the two curators. “We spent a lot of time giggling as we went...
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...