Springfield Museums Celebrate the Holidays with a Night of “Champagne and Mistletoe”
The Springfield Museums will host their third Culture & Cocktails event of the season on Thursday, December 13 from 5-8 pm at the Springfield Science Museum. The event, titled “Champagne and Mistletoe,” is sponsored by The Valley Advocate.
Springfield Museums Statement on Gas Explosion
The Springfield Museums reported no damage from Friday's gas explosion, which occurred only a few blocks from their location on Edwards Street.
Celebrate the Season with 2012 Holiday Fun at the Springfield Museums
The Springfield Museums will kick off the holiday season with an afternoon of family fun and an early evening Lighting of the Quadrangle celebration on Friday, Nov. 23.
Springfield Museums to Offer Docent Lecture on Colonial America’s “New” Elite
On November 18th at 2 pm, docent Betty Romer will discuss “Faces of the American Elite” during a mini-tour of the Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts.
Modern Dialect Exhibit brings early 20th Century American Paintings to Springfield
Modern Dialect: American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection will be on view in the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts from November 20, 2012-February 24, 2013. The exhibition illustrates American Modernism from the 1920s to the beginning of World War II, a period marked by significant change and compounded by the onset of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The more than sixty major American Scene paintings in the exhibition illustrate the changes the nation underwent through the eyes of American artists who were often poor and out of work.
Museums to Offer “Trash to Treasure” Preview for Teachers
The Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle will host a free Teacher Preview of their new “Trash to Treasure” school program on November 15, 2012 from 4-6 pm at the Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts. Refreshments will be served
Springfield Museums Courses and Workshops Cancelled Monday
All Museum School and teacher workshops scheduled for Monday, October 29 have been cancelled due to weather.
Stars Over Springfield at the Science Museum Marks Special Anniversary
The Springfield Science Museum will be open for public sky-gazing on Friday, November 2 at 7:30 p.m. The program will be held rain or shine. If it is cloudy, a planetarium show will be presented in place of telescope viewing.
“Spooktacular” Halloween Fun at the Springfield Museums
The Springfield Museums will host “Halloween Spooktacular” on Saturday, October 27, from 10 am to 4 pm. Most activities are free with museum admission.
Museums Seeking Entries in 2012 Gingerbread House Competition
The Springfield Museums are inviting bakeries, schools, individual bakers and young people to submit design plans to create gingerbread houses that will be on view at the Springfield Science Museum as part of the holiday exhibit “Gingerbread Fairy Tales.”
Museums Offer Teacher Workshop Series on the Holocaust
The Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle will host the workshop series “Teaching the Holocaust” beginning on the Monday, October 22, from 4-6 pm at the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History.
Springfield Museums and WGBY to Host “Family Fiesta Day”
The Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle and WGBY Public Television for Western New England’s Latino Advisory Board will host “Family Fiesta Day,” an event celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, on Saturday, October 13, from 10 am to 4 pm.