Press Releases

The Springfield Science Museum's large rooftop telescope will be open for public sky-gazing on Friday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m.

As Seen Through These Eyes, a documentary film in which Holocaust survivors tell their stories through the art they created during their imprisonment, will be shown at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday, March 30, at 1 p.m. The film is part of the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival and is co-sponsored by the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center.

Reservations are still being accepted for the spring trip to Paris offered by the Museum School.

The Springfield Museums will present an afternoon of dinosaur fun on Friday, March 21, from noon until 4 p.m. The program is part of the Weekend Family Fun series and is sponsored by TD Banknorth. Dino Fun Friday activities are free with museum admission unless noted.

The Museum of Fine Arts will present "The Other Side of Currier & Ives," a two-part teacher workshop on Monday, April 7, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Monday, April 14 from 4 -6:30 p.m. Participants will learn how to teach American history using images from the museum's large collection of 19th-century Currier & Ives prints. The deadline to register for the workshop is March 14.

Stunning photographs of Antarctica will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts from March 25 through June 1 in the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey.

Space is still available in a one-day watercolor workshop scheduled for Wednesday, Mar. 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum on the Quadrangle.

Registration is underway for spring courses and travel at the Museum School of the Springfield Museums.

Woodblock prints inspired by animals both real and imagined will be on view at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts from March 4-September 7, 2008, in the exhibition Curious Creatures: Japanese Prints from the Permanent Collection.