Museums Are Here

A blog celebrating the resiliency of museums

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The magic and splendor of Walt Disney Animation Studios, from the opulence of Beauty and the Beast to the stylized forests of Sleeping Beauty, now have their very own exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The new...

Museum of Contemporary Art

As of July 1, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) will finally reopen to the public. While many LA museums have been up and running again since April, MOCA only reopened half of their...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

From the 1920s to the 1950s, women transformed the art—and industry—of photography. A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows exactly how these pioneering photographers did that. “The New Woman Behind the...

Museum of the Earth

Bold women are on display at “Daring to Dig: Women in American Paleontology,” a new exhibition from the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) that opened March 28 and highlights women...

Queens Museum

The Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park has announced two new exhibits. The exhibits, “Art as Social Action” and “RAF: Prosthetic Location,” both explore issues regarding social justice and healing after trauma. These...

Museum of Science and Technology

Lacrosse is one of the oldest organized sports in the country and was first played by indigenous tribes in this region. To highlight its rich, local history, there’s a new exhibit at the Museum...

American Museum of Natural History

Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced that the City will open a new vaccination site at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in Manhattan on Friday, April 23. The new vaccination site will operate...

Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art announces the opening of a new exhibition titled Who What When Where on Saturday, April 10. Based on the iconic Carrie Mae Weems’ 1998 photographic series of the same name, Who What When...

The Samuel Dorsky Museum

Much has been written about Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious, a belief that all humans share a collective ancestral knowledge and imagery described as archetypes. After living through 2020, it seems that...

New Museum

On Sunday, September 15, 1963, four black girls were slain in an explosion at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bombing was instigated by four Ku Klux Klansmen. “These children,” Martin Luther...

Paleontological Research Institution

The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) announced the opening of the “Warren D. Allmon Changing Climate: Our Future, Our Choice exhibit,” which will include a permanent exhibit at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca,...

Museum of the City of New York

Photos taken on Staten Island during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are on display at the Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan. The pictures were submitted by the College of Staten Island’s (CSI’s)...

Parrish Art Museum

The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of businesses and organizations across the globe to pause and rethink their strategies, concoct creative solutions to new challenges and raise awareness of this evolution to keep from sinking in...

Rochester Museum & Science Center

The Rochester Museum & Science Center’s new exhibition featuring over 200 Rochester and Haudenosaunee women is open.  “The Changemakers: Rochester Women Who Changed the World” is a community-curated exhibition that aims to inspire and...

Rochester Museum & Science Center

A new exhibit opening this week at the Rochester Museum & Science Center will celebrate 200 diverse Rochester-area women and showcase how they helped shape and inspire the community. Among those featured: Rochester native...

Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute

There’s a new way of looking at art at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute. The staff has had to come up with creative ways of bringing the public to the museum. Education Director...