ncmuseums

An occasional list of exhibits, programs, and events at North Carolina museums. Sponsored by the North Carolina Museums Council.

Monday, July 14, 2008

1). Ackland Art Museum has received a grant from The Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent grant-making agency of the federal government, to fund a five-day, on-site detailed conservation survey of 75 Asian art works from the Ackland Collection. The grant totals $26,968 and will enable a group of conservators to visit the Ackland in early August to survey of a collection of fragile scrolls and folding screens from the Ackland Collection.

2). Museum of the Albemarle: Kids, become an archaeologist for the day at the Museum of the Albemarle for Archaeology 101! On Wednesday, July 16 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, visit with real archaeologists and view the tools they use! Visitors will participate in archaeological activities including searching for objects hidden in the dirt. Participants are allowed to keep what they find. This event is free to the public. Call the Museum’s Education Department 252-335-1453 for more information.

3). N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences is hosting an eight-part lecture series to complement The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition. Israeli Professor Rachel Elior will present the first lecture of the series, "Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Were They Written?" on Thursday, July 17 at 7 p.m. in the Museum's WRAL Digital Theater. Dr. Elior is the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Jewish Mystical Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to the Scrolls, her interests include Early Jewish Mysticism, Messianism, Sabbatianism, and the role of Women in Jewish Culture. On Thursday, Elior will address the variety of topics on which the Scrolls were written, their authors, and the circumstances in which they were written.

4). Wheels Through Time will honor our nation’s military by paying tribute to those men and women who have served our country, both past and present. In celebration of our nation’s birthday, the museum will be offering free admission for both veterans and active duty during the entire month of July. The museum, which houses the premier collection of rare American vintage motorcycles and unique automobiles, will also be giving the first ever demonstrations of several of our country’s rarest military machines.

5). Museum of the Albemarle: Visit the Museum of the Albemarle on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 from 3:00 pm until 8:00 pm for “All About Pirates Day!” The Museum will open a new exhibit featuring Blackbeard memorabilia. In order to highlight the opening of the exhibit pirate centered activities and demonstrations will be available and free to the public. Two members of Blackbeard’s Crew will be on hand to roam and talk with visitors from 3:00 pm until 7:00 pm. Blackbeard’s Crew is a living history performance group dedicated to the accurate representation of seafaring life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, specifically 1690-1720.

6). Discovery Place presents “The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience” - runs from Friday, July 18 – Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. Moviegoers will line up around the block to get the hottest ticket in town when “The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience” opens in The Charlotte Observer IMAX® Dome Theatre at Discovery Place, Friday, July 18 at. The highly-anticipated, blockbuster film opens concurrently with the nationwide 35mm release from Warner Bros. Pictures. Visit the web site or call 800-935-0553 for show times.

7). Cameron Art Museum presents "Art and Remembrance: The Legacy of Felix Nussbaum" (29 min., 1993), "Eyewitness" (38 min., 2000) on Thursday, July 17, 7:30 pm Program admission: $5.00 Two documentary shorts examine artists caught up in the Holocaust and committed to documenting the horror they witnessed. Art and Remembrance uses the paintings of Felix Nussbaum's paintings to give a unique presentation of Nussbaum's work created while in hiding in Brussels. Twenty-five years after he was captured and put on the last transport to Auschwitz the hidden paintings were discovered. Nussbaum's work is also included in "Eyewitness" with the work of Jan Komski and Dinah Gottliebova, all three working in secret while in the Nazi death camps.

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