Spring History Lecture Series Continues
The new Museum of Springfield History will continue its spring lecture series at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 28, with a talk titled “Crystal Products of the Frost King: Ice Harvesting and the Natural Ice Industry in New England.” The program will be held in the museum’s SIS Hall and is free with the price of museum admission.
2010 Dr. Seuss Cake Contest Winners Announced
The Springfield Museums have announced the winners of the “Dr. Seuss Takes the Cake” contest which was held at the museums on March 6 during a Weekend Family Fun program celebrating the birthday of Dr. Seuss.
Museum Program to Celebrate the Art of Watercolor
The Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts will present A Spring Celebration of Watercolor on Sunday, March 21, at 3 p.m. The program will feature a discussion of the art form by Heather Haskell, director of the museum; Julia Courtney, curator of art; and Deborah Rubin, a watercolor artist from Amherst.
New History Museum Launches Spring Lecture Series
The new Museum of Springfield History will kick-off its spring lecture series at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 14, with a talk on "Slavery in the Connecticut River Valley." The program will be held in the museum’s SIS Hall and is free with museum admission.
Artist Donates Two Paintings of the Connecticut River
Hadley artist Lewis Bryden has donated two landscape paintings to the Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts.
American Watercolor Society Exhibition on View at D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
The Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts will host the American Watercolor Society 142nd Annual International Exhibition from March 16 through May 23.
Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s 106th Birthday at the Springfield Museums
The Springfield Museums’ Weekend Family Fun series will continue on Saturday, March 6, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. with a Birthday Hoedown for Dr. Seuss. The snow date is Sunday, March 7. Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield on March 2, 1904.
March 2010 Museums à la Carte Programs
The Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle will present the following Museums à la Carte programs in March. The programs are held on Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. in the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts.
Stars Over Springfield at the Springfield Science Museum
The Springfield Science Museum’s large rooftop telescope will be open for public sky-gazing on Friday, March. 5, at 7:30 p.m. The program will be held rain or shine. If it is overcast, a planetarium show will be presented in place of telescope viewing.
Spend February Vacation in Outer Space
The Springfield Museums have planned a week of out-of-this-world fun during February school vacation. Spectacular Space Week activities will be offered Monday, Feb. 15 through Friday, Feb. 19 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and are free with museum admission unless noted.
Museum will have you wanting the car keys
SPRINGFIELD - Habit makes it easy to misread the decimal point on a colorful “Mobilgas ethyl’’ pump in the Museum of Springfield History. Look closely: It advertises fuel not at $1.59 a gallon but at 15.9 cents. That was a good thing, considering that the 1911 seven-passenger Stevens-Duryea luxury touring car displayed around the corner got only seven miles a gallon.
Springfield museum celebrates civil rights
Monday is the start of Black History Month. On Sunday the Museum of Springfield History unveiled an exhibit tracing the civil rights movement in the city during the 1960s.