Museums nationwide are working to make their collections more accessible for people with disabilities, said Elizabeth Merritt, vice president for strategic foresight for the alliance, which represents museums of all sorts, from tiny local history museums to huge zoos.
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Is Glenstone a great art museum or a billionaire couple’s folly?
Glenstone — the recently expanded museum of contemporary art in Potomac, Maryland, near the District of Columbia — is the most exciting new private museum in America. Envisioned by its founders, Emily and Mitch Rales, as “not only a place, but a state of mind,” Glenstone is a 21st-century version of the Frick, the Phillips […]
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‘The World Between Empires’ helps dismantle the myths of Rome
“The World Between Empires” focuses particularly on the period from 100 B.C. to about 250 A.D., when the empires of Rome to the west and Parthia to the east contested this territory, with shifting borders, long periods of uneasy peace and devastating wars that seemed to settle nothing.
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A $1.8 million, 71-year-old car will anchor new museum and showroom in Arundel
The Tucker, one of only 51 made, will be the centerpiece of the Maine Classic Car Museum Collection, where the cars on display also will be for sale.
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Tokyo museum explores the world of parasites
At the Meguro Parasitological Museum in tokyo, exhibits who how types of parasites differ depending on their host animals. (Taku Yaginuma/The Japan News) It’s hard to believe that about 60,000 parasitological specimens are housed in a building on bustling Meguro-dori avenue in Tokyo, which is lined with fashionable shops. Stepping inside Meguro Parasitological Museum, I […]
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Museum L-A selling products designed with mill workers' artwork
LEWISTON — Museum L-A is preserving Maine history with original millworkers’ artwork, and it all started with a dive into a dump truck. Museum Executive Director Rachel Desgrosseilliers said that in 2005 she spotted two big dump trucks on the loading dock. One had a bright red piece of fabric sticking out. “It caught my curiosity […]
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Wilton fourth-graders designate funds for play museum
WILTON — Fourth-graders at Academy Hill School have pledged funds to the Western Maine Play Museum, an emerging children’s museum in Wilton. The students decided they wanted to give the profits from their annual Business/Education Partnership with Hannaford Brothers to the museum. For the past 25 years, Brenda Laverdiere’s fourth-grade students have been involved in […]
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Western Maine Play Museum goal continues
WILTON — Western Maine Play Museum board members and volunteers have raised over $90,000 in pledges, cash donations and in-kind support for the children’s museum. “We’ve had a lot of support and want to keep the project rolling,” said Angela McLeod, board president. “We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished in five months of fundraising.” A […]
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Rock-and-roll music exhibit at Museum L-A opens Oct. 18
LEWISTON — Museum L-A will open its new exhibit “Rock Around the Clock: L-A’s Music Making Machine, 1950s-1970s” from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. The exhibit reveals a snapshot of Lewiston-Auburn history embedded with images and memorabilia, including economic, political and cultural changes that were the background for our local music life such as the […]
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New exhibits at historical Poland Spring venues
The other new exhibit is the Columbian Exposition Room which features the World’s Fair and includes photos of the Fair’s largest building — the Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building which was 30.47 acres. Check out the All Souls Chapel’s stained glass windows when you visit. For more information, call 207-998-4142.