Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is a three dimensional encyclopedia of art history. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV.
"Jellymongers" Bompas and Parr use 55000 litres of neon green jelly to transform Brunel's ss Great Britain in the most spectacular stunt of Culture24's Museums at Night festival. Want more? Sign up to the Culture24 monthly newsletter: bit.ly Look / Find / Go / See: www.culture24.org.uk Museums at...
Russian artists took to the streets of central Moscow over the weekend, staging a walk around the boulevards with their works, as part of the city's annual "Night of the Museums" where cultural institutions are open all night long. Yuri Samodurov, the organiser of the event, said he had planned t...
Chicago has more than 40 museums that cover a vast array of interests from contemporary art to nature and history. There is even a museum campus located along the lakeside! Browse all of Chicago's museums and more at www.choosechicago.com.
A ceremony marks the groundbreaking of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. February 22, 2010.
Increasingly, our world is filled with tablets, smart phones and lap tops. We move at a pace that would have been unimaginable only a few decades ago. Steven Conn's book "Do Museums Still Need Objects" uses museums as a lens to explore 21st century challenges around public space and civic identit...
This southern US city is full of culture and history. www.WatchMojo.com takes a look at the top museums found in Dallas, Texas.
A short film I made for my Science Communication class @ UW. I'm interested in informal science education, particularly at museums, so I thought this would be a fun and informative project. I asked three questions: 1) What's one science fact or idea that fascinates you? 2) What would your ideal s...
Recently Kim's been obsessing over museums, her new "hobby." Here she reads from her latest report, "The Creation of Value: meditations on the logic of museums and other coercive institutions." Mildly unpleasant Dead Pinky Story also included (free poster available for download at www.PinkyShow.o...
Hangzhou urban planning bureau has announced MVRDV winner of the international design competition for the China Comic and Animation Museum (CCAM) in Hangzhou, China. MVRDV won with a design referring to the speech balloon: a series of eight speech balloon shaped volumes create an internally compl...
On this weeks' Moscow Out show we visit a selection of unknown museums in the capital. RT's Martyn Andrews visits a venue constantly kept at minus ten degrees and comes face to face with weird and wonderful scientific experiments. The team meet weird and wonderful people, look at outrageous artif...
Learn about the best museums in Washington, DC so that you know what to visit on your next trip. Here is more information on the five best museums in Washington, DC Watch More Tips, Advice and How To Videos on the About.com YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com Watch More How To Videos on About.com: v...
www.ted.com Imagine being able to see artwork in the greatest museums around the world without leaving your chair. Driven by his passion for art, Amit Sood tells the story of how he developed Art Project to let people do just that.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performanc...
THE AMERICAN (PART 1): bit.ly In which the Nerdwriter explains how art museums and looting are intimately connected. In which he tries to reconcile the beauty we feel when visiting museums with its rotten cost. TUMBLR: thenerdwriter.tumblr.com TWITTER: bit.ly FACEBOOK: on.fb.me (less info)
In the middle of Berlin is an actual island! Called Museum Island, it's a lot like the National Mall in Washington, DC, except there's no junk food! Filled with museums, history and gardens, it's the perfect day trip.
More info: improveverywhere.com Like us on Facebook: facebook.com For our latest mission we staged an unauthorized autograph signing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art with an actor who bears a striking resemblance to King Philip IV of Spain. Standing in front of the 400-year-old Velázquez paintin...
