The Penn Museum
The Penn Museum is opening a new exhibit on the meaning behind clothing and fashion as a celebration of apparel and accessories across cultures spanning a 2,500-year period. The exhibit — titled “The Stories...
by Nicole Ackman · Published July 8, 2021 · Last modified August 10, 2021
The Penn Museum is opening a new exhibit on the meaning behind clothing and fashion as a celebration of apparel and accessories across cultures spanning a 2,500-year period. The exhibit — titled “The Stories...
by Nicole Ackman · Published June 11, 2021 · Last modified July 6, 2021
After shutting its doors more than 14 months ago, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is now ready to welcome kids and their families back inside starting on June 12, and it hopes to do...
by Nicole Ackman · Published May 7, 2021 · Last modified May 28, 2021
After 15 years of planning, design, and reconstruction, the Philadelphia Museum of Art unveiled its $233 million Frank Gehry transformation late Friday morning with a ribbon cutting outside the newly revamped West entrance. Mayor...
by Nicole Ackman · Published May 5, 2021 · Last modified May 28, 2021
When the African American Museum in Philadelphia reopens Thursday after more than a year of pandemic shutdown, it will reintroduce Philadelphia and the world to Anna Russell Jones (1902-1995),an overlooked American artist with an...
by Nicole Ackman · Published April 22, 2021 · Last modified May 7, 2021
Like many Philadelphia museums that will be reopening, safety restrictions in place, for the first time since the pandemic began, the Please Touch Museum in Fairmount Park is ready for play again. Every exhibit there revolves...
by Nicole Ackman · Published April 19, 2021 · Last modified April 21, 2021
The African American Museum of Bucks County, (AAMBC) will bring its exhibit, “Building on the Dream: From Africa to Bucks County” to another distinguished museum in Bucks County, The Parry Mansion Museum, located at...
by Nicole Ackman · Published March 25, 2021 · Last modified March 30, 2021
The Marilyn Horne Museum and Exhibit Center is working on creative ways to engage people. Among those ways is a new exhibit, — “Beyond Beethoven” — that is currently up in the museum’s cafe....
by Nicole Ackman · Published March 18, 2021 · Last modified March 22, 2021
Though it’s been a difficult and trying year, it’s been a year that’s perhaps connected people like never before. A Bucks County museum is now highlighting some of that commonality with a new exhibit....
by Nicole Ackman · Published March 6, 2021 · Last modified March 17, 2021
As part of Women’s History Month, the Museum of the American Revolution is hosting a variety of programs about women during the revolutionary period. One program, underway through April 25, is called “When Women...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 15, 2021 · Last modified February 22, 2021
Allentown Art Museum’s “Portrait of a Young Woman” is more than a painting by one of the greatest visual artists in history. A new Rembrandt exhibit is going to help you find out why....
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 August 26, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
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...
by RSmash270 · Published August 3, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Growing up, Travis Frees had heard stories about his grandfather, the late Warren L. Souders of Mohnton, being taken prisoner during World War II. But it wasn’t until he recently visited the Berks Military...