Museums

"Let your Motto be resistance! Resistance! RESISTANCE! No opposed people have ever secured Liberty without resistance" — abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, 1843

Aug. 30, 2007 -- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has commissioned Jenny Holzer (b. 1950), an internationally renowned conceptual artist best known for her pioneering work incorporating texts into light-based sculptures and projections, to create a major site-specific light sculpture. "For SAAM" is scheduled to be installed in the museum's contemporary galleries in November.    » read more »

28 August 2007, Houston (By Greg Flakus) -- The fossilized bones of a female hominid creature found in Ethiopia in 1974 and today known around the world as Lucy are now in the United States on an unprecedented tour. The bones are part of a larger exhibit on Ethiopia, as both the birthplace of humankind and as a cradle of early civilization, that is set to open at Houston's Museum of Natural Science on Friday. But, as VOA's Greg Flakus reports from Houston, Lucy's tour outside Ethiopia has generated some controversy.    » read more »

MOUNT OLIVET, Ky., Monday, July 30, 2007 – Visitors to the Pioneer Museum at Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park will soon get a better idea of what the area was like when mastodon, bison, Native Americans and pioneers lived in the area.

The museum, built during the Depression, has undergone a $150,000 renovation with improved exhibits and a detailed interpretation of the 1782 Battle of Blue Licks, the last Revolutionary War battle fought in Kentucky.    » read more »