In the late 1970s, New Britain social studies teacher Jimmie Elizabeth Nkonoki-Ward wanted to honor the women who’d taught her Black history and served as her role models. She commissioned an artist ...
Walking through the New Britain Museum of American Art, Jimmie Elizabeth Nkonoki-Ward carries with her an excitement about the portraits of women hanging on the walls. The 88-year-old explained that ...
Two Connecticut museums are shedding light on the hardships Black Americans faced during the civil rights movement inside the country and inside the state. One stroll around the Mobility in ...
FILE - In this Tuesday July 9, 2019 file photo a woman looks to a model of a carnival float from Duesseldorf depicting British Prime Minister Theresa May and the Brexit at the exhibition 'Very British ...
The Tate Britain art museum has just launched a new artificial intelligence exhibit that applies machine learning technology to images in some pretty unique ways. Called “Recognition,” the exhibit is ...
Maria Balshaw, the director of the British museum group that includes Tate Modern and Tate Britain, is stepping down next ...
Sophie Huget knows firsthand how much the New Britain Industrial Museum can raise its profile. As a lifelong Connecticut resident, aspiring curator and later a part-time staffer at three Hartford and ...
A digital museum dedicated to ethnic minorities in Britain has launched an online exhibition to tell the stories of mixed-race Irish families in the United Kingdom. The Mixed Museum launched the ...
Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...
The United Kingdom’s first national LGBTQ museum opens its doors in London’s King’s Cross neighborhood Thursday, almost exactly 50 years after England’s first Gay Pride march took place just a few ...
Recent robberies at museums worldwide have raised concerns over their security. Incidents include the theft of Matisse ...