NORTHERN IRELAND.- National Museums Northern Ireland released more details on the major new TITANICa exhibition opening at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum. TITANICa: The Exhibition will open at the world-class Transport Museum on Tuesday May 31 to m…
Drawing (on) Riverside by Patricia Cain at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum
GLASGOW.- As Glasgow’s new transport museum prepares to open to the public next month, a unique exhibition examining the way in which a building is much more than the sum of its parts, has been seen by more than 7000 people since it opened last mo…
New York City Museum and Visitor Center to Display Brooklyn Navy Yard’s 200-Year History
NEW YORK (AP).- For more than a century, tens of thousands worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, building some of the nation’s most storied warships — sailing frigates, Civil War ironclads, gunboats, sloops and 20th-century warships and submarines. T…
Torpedo Found at Philadelphia Construction Site
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- A police bomb squad had to be called to a Philadelphia construction site after someone found an old, inert torpedo. PennDOT spokesman Charles Metzger says a transportation department archaeological team found two men sitting on the…
Over Half a Million Visit Record-Breaking 17th Biennale of Sydney
SYDNEY.- The 17th Biennale of Sydney closed on Sunday with record-breaking visitation of over half a million attending the event. More than 517,000 visited the Biennale venues, with an estimated 408,000 additional visitors enjoying the Biennale’s …
Over Half a Million Visit Record-Breaking 17th Biennale of Sydney
SYDNEY.- The 17th Biennale of Sydney closed on Sunday with record-breaking visitation of over half a million attending the event. More than 517,000 visited the Biennale venues, with an estimated 408,000 additional visitors enjoying the Biennale’s …
Photographs by Cecil Beaton at the Imperial War Museum North
MANCHESTER.- 30 years after the death of photographer Cecil Beaton, Imperial War Museum North is displaying some of his most iconic Second World War shipyard images in huge 5m high frames outside the Museum – on The Quays in Manchester. Beaton was best…