Museums

Column: What could have been had The Graw stayed open

2012-05-15 17:00:00

It's Armed Forces Day dear readers. Saturday is also the running of the 137th Preakness, part of the Triple Crown. After the Kentucky Derby, now Maryland gets to shine. Lots of hoopla and black-eyed Susans will be the fare at the Pimlico Racetrack....

Table Talk: The Museum to open soon in Mount Vernon

2012-05-15 08:51:00

The Brass Elephant could soon be reopening. Well, not the Brass Elephant exactly. A restaurant named The Museum is set to open within weeks at 924 N. Charles St., the elegant Mount Vernon townhouse that the Brass Elephant called home for almost 30 years...

Aberdeen Proving Ground salutes the armed forces

2012-05-11 10:07:00

Starting Monday, Aberdeen Proving Ground will continue a long-standing American tradition this year with an Armed Forces Week celebration (May 14-19) and a concentrated Armed Forces Day celebration this Wednesday, May 16. This year's celebration will...

Anne Arundel County exhibit briefs

2012-05-11 00:00:00

Phillips paintings Portrait and still-life oil paintings by Pamela Phillips will be on exhibit from Wednesday, May 16, through June 10 at Main Street Gallery, 216A Main St. in Annapolis. A reception will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 19....

Big trucks come to Museum of Industry

2012-05-10 12:43:00

Baltimore will show off its biggest trucks Saturday and allow young residents to meet police officers, firefighters and others who drive the big rigs through city streets. The Biggest Big Truck Show brings about 20 vehicles to the Baltimore Museum of...

Chris Davis' cleats heading to Sports Legends Museum, hat to Cooperstown

2012-05-10 13:24:00

Before the Orioles left for their first road trip of the season, first baseman Chris Davis and some Orioles teammates visited the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards to learn more about Baltimore’s rich baseball history. Now, the cleats Davis...

Brass Elephant property space will reopen as The Museum

2012-05-10 14:00:00

The dormant liquor license has been reactivated at 924 North Charles Street, the former home of the Brass Elephant. The approval came at Thursday's meeting of the Baltimore City Liquor License Board. Within a few weeks, the property will reopen as The...

Artwork by Abutus area students at Baltimore Museum of Art May 9-13.

2012-05-08 12:10:00

Local students' artwork at Museum of Art Students from area elementary and middle schools are among those from Baltimore County public schools whose artwork is on display as part of the annual Art Is for Everyone exhibition at The Baltimore Museum of...

Catonsville area students' artwork on display at Baltimore Museum of Art

2012-05-08 12:09:00

Walters donates artwork images to Wikipedia

2012-05-08 10:41:00

The Walters Art Museum is donating more than 19,000 images of artworks from its collection to the organization running Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is created and edited by users. The images will be available for Wikipedia articles in any...

Taneytown Museum milking local history for dairy, Civil War exhibits

2012-05-05 20:19:00

The Taneytown History Museum is featuring two small, but vivid, exhibits that focus on very different aspects of north Carroll County history: Its brush with the Civil War, and its 200-year heritage of dairy farming. The exhibit "Got Milk: A Brief...

New Hopkins hospital takes an artful approach to health care

2012-04-27 13:08:21

When Johns Hopkins Hospital officially opens its new, $1.1 billion building Tuesday, sick children will find a cobalt cow with legs the color of grass and a butter-colored head floating above their heads, poised to jump over a fanciful "moon." The new...

A pot from the Jivaro tribe in Ecuador, part of the collection at Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, which has an enormous collection of Native American and South American artifacts that are being restored and carefully packaged as part of a huge conservation project on May 1, 2012.

2012-05-09 14:35:41

Museum staffers Cindy King with Prince, a white-sided, black rat snake, and Dan Butterworth with Sandy, a red-tailed boa constrictor, at the Children�s Museum 16th annual Gala Saturday.

2012-05-05 00:00:00

Washington County Museum of Fine Arts is just one of the 23 museums part of the Museum Ramble this weekend.

2012-05-02 13:14:00