Field Museum
Special field trips available at Lincoln Museum
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield is offering special programs for student field trips this school year.Library officials say they’re hosting a Classroom Connections Program with specific sessions for students in...
Baby Woolly Mammoth Leaving Field Museum
A 42,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth that has been on display at Chicago's Field Museum since March is getting ready to make her way to New Jersey.
Linking the Past and the Present Through Art
To celebrate the reopening this summer of the Israel Museum's main galleries, three guest curators were given free rein on about half a million pieces ranging from prehistoric tools to conceptual art.
Colorado Ski Museum: 'A connection to Vail's history and heritage'
VAIL - Directors at the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum and Hall of Fame are doing everything they can to make sure the museum remains front and center in Vail. Executive director Susie Tjossem and curator Erica Lloyd are looking for volunteers to donate three hours per month in order to help kick the museum's numerous new programs and exhibits into gear. "The museum is really an opportunity ...
42,000 year-old baby mammoth is headed outta town
CHICAGO (AP) – A 42,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth that has been on display at Chicago’s Field Museum since March is getting ready to make her way to New Jersey. Scientists say the mammoth calf named Lyuba (Lee-OO-bah) is the best preserved and most complete mammoth specimen known. She made her United States debut in Chicago [...]
Word on the Street: Museum reps to make IMAX pilgrimage
Representatives from the Peoria Riverfront Museum board of directors and Lakeview Museum are headed to Chattanooga, Tenn., on Sept. 25-27 to learn more about the evolving large-screen digital theater environment. The big question, though, is whether the trip actually matters. By most accounts, city and county officials are hopeful the board can land an IMAX-brand theater for the riverfront ...
Aviation classes offered in Millville
MILLVILLE -- Millville Army Air Field Museum will offer aviation modeling classes from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, beginning Sept. 11.
42,000 year-old baby mammoth headed to Liberty Science Center
BC-IL--Mammoth Exhibit-Chicago/140 Eds: APNewsNow. to leave Chicago CHICAGO (AP) — A 42,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth that has been on display at Chicago's Field Museum since March is getting ready to make her way to New Jersey.
World War II bomber on display at McClellan
A restored World War II B-25 Mitchell bomber airplane will be put on display at McClellan Field today and will be available for 45-minute flights.
The Bold and the Beautiful
Dayton Art Institute hosts “Modern Masters” of Abstract Expressionism Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, now on display at the Dayton Art Institute, showcases revolutionary Abstract Expressionists' work that caused a sea change in the way the western world came to view art. The exhibition also includes works created in response to this mid-20th-century American movement's ...
