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The Anchorage Museum

The Anchorage Museum launched a new exhibit this month celebrating the contributions, legacies and strength of women from the circumpolar north. “Extra Tough: Women of the North” gathers artwork from women from Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Finland...

Elmhurst Art Museum

As the nation faces a historic moment of social justice reawakening, the Elmhurst Art Museum announces a new exhibition that reflects on historical and contemporary responses to fair housing in the Chicago area. “In...

University of Wyoming Art Museum

It might sound dramatic, but we’ve all experienced a version of exile in 2020. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Wyoming in March, all classes and activities quickly ended on the University of Wyoming campus....

Detroit Institute of Arts

The new exhibitions at the Detroit Institute of Arts are taking the legacy of the Motor City for a spin, but when it comes to who’s sitting behind the steering wheel, the two shows feel...

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

On Friday, November 13 Denver Museum of Nature & Science will launch the grand re-opening of the Space Odyssey exhibit. The space-themed exhibit, which made its home in the museum over a decade ago, has been revamped with new...

Concord Museum

A new exhibit at the Concord Museum puts one of the most iconic symbols of the Revolutionary War front and center. At the center of the $1.2 million exhibit “April 19, 1775” are several artifacts that...

Harrison Museum of African American Culture

Just a few months ago, Ryan Bell was attending an art showcase for the first time. Now, the founder of Black Father Family is curating his own exhibit, designed to connect Black families, and...

Metropolitan Museum of Art

In 1866, a group of businessmen and civic leaders launched the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a concept without a work of art to its name. The New York City cultural institution only acquired its first artifact—a third-century...

Vancouver Island Military Museum

When wars break out it’s not just captured armed combatants of warring nations who are sent to prison camps. When Japan’s armed forces swept through Southeast Asia during the Second World War, numbers of...

Dade Heritage Trust

Dade Heritage Trust (DHT) recently unveiled a new permanent museum exhibit, “Biscayne Bay: Our Water, Our World,” at the non-profit’s headquarters located at 190 SE 12 Terr. in the Brickell neighborhood. “The exhibit is...

Grand Rapids Public Museum

Produced by Imagine Exhibitions, the newest exhibition at the Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM), “Wild Connections” by New York artist Sean Kenney, opened Nov. 7 and features works of art made entirely from LEGO bricks. ...

Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum

The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum unveiled an exhibit mid-September, which will be on display through late March 2021. It features the underwater photography of shipwreck researcher, scuba diver, and historian, Marc Corbett. The...

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...

Fort Collins Museum of Discovery

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,...

Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnology

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...

National Museum of American History

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...