Springfield Museums Add an Extra Day for the Summer
The Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle will be open seven days a week from June 18 through August 31.
Springfield Museums Announce Summer Admission Rates
The Springfield Museum have announced new admission prices for June 1 through August 31.
Summer Kickoff Party at the Springfield Museums
Celebrate the start of the summer season at Springfield Museums’ Culture & Cocktails event on Thursday, June 7, from 5 to 8 p.m. on the Quadrangle grounds. If it rains, the event will be held in the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History.
Springfield Museums Seek Director of Development
The selected candidate must be dynamic and entrepreneurial in order to lead the Springfield Museums in achieving institutional advancement goals.
June 2012 Museums à la Carte Programs
The Springfield Museums will present the following Museums à la Carte programs in June. The programs are held on Thursdays at 12:15 pm in the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts.
Springfield Museums to Participate in Blue Star Museums Program
The Springfield Museums will be one of more than 1,500 museums across America to participate in the Blue Star Museums program, which provides free admission to active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day, 2012. The Blue Star Museums program is a collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of Defense.
Springfield Museums Receive Federal Grant
The Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle have received a planning grant of $40,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to develop an interpretative plan for the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum.
Museum Exhibit Marks Tornado Anniversary
Storm Stories: Path of Fury, a multi-media exhibition that looks back at the June 1, 2011 tornado, will be on view from June 1 through October 28 at the Lyman & Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History at the Quadrangle in Springfield. Admission to the history museum will be free for everyone on June 1.
Walking Tour to Visit Tornado-Damaged MacDuffie School Campus
Historian Bill Hosley, a preservationist and former curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum, will lead a walking tour up Maple Street to the Ames Hill campus of the former MacDuffie School on Saturday, May 12, from 10:30 am-noon.
Love, American Style: The Art of Lisa Hoke
Lisa Hoke creates colorful art out of things that we all encounter every day: paper, cardboard, product packaging, paper plates, plastic cups, matchbook covers, printed advertising material, and all sorts of other discarded flotsam and jetsam from our consumer society. She has assembled an intriguing and vibrant collection of these materials in the installation Love, American Style, on view at the Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts through May 26 of next year.