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Featuring a variety of artistic challenges, deep-dives, unique gallery tours, program highlights, and youth engagement to connect with you no matter where you are.
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Museum Share: INDIgenesis
As the role of museums during the time of covid-19 rapidly and uniquely transforms into a virtual learning platform of sorts, the influx of enlightening content coming from museums from all corners of the globe has been quite a sight to behold! Programming that was intended to be experienced in person is now being streamed online for the world to see.
Our Website Scavenger Hunt winner is...
Thank you to everyone who participated in our new website scavenger hunt. Many of you found Sir BRAHM and we appreciate the time you took to click around and find him. We hope you found other interesting information during your hunt. Click to find out who won! And Happy Earth Day! We hope you were able to enjoy the beautiful weather!
New Website Scavenger Hunt!
We’re so excited about launching our brand new website! We hope you have a few minutes to check it out! To encourage you to click around, we’ve hidden Sir BRAHM on one of the pages. Once you find him, click on his image and you’ll be entered to win a special BRAHM prize from our gift shop! We’ll choose a winner at 5pm on Earth Day, Wednesday April 22nd so you have a whole week to hunt! Good luck and enjoy the new site!
The Easter Platypus
The Easter platypus was your original “support local” enterprise. She kept her business small scale and kept it local. Her eggs were organic and since she was free range, so were her eggs. She shared them year round within her community. She was happy.
Museum Share: Viewing & Listening Suggestions for this Passover
Chag aviv sameach to those who are celebrating Passover! We’re pretty lucky here in North Carolina. There are only two permanent museum collections of Judaic ceremonial art in the United States, and one of them happens to be at the NCMA in Raleigh. They feature several highlights from their amazing gallery online--please take a look! Pictured above is a spectacular silver Italian Kiddush Goblet from their collection.
Museum Share: Participate in Foxfire's Oral History Project
Foxfire has recently launched a campaign to collect oral histories via crowdsourcing. The project is collecting self-recorded testimonies from individuals, families, or groups located within Southern Appalachia that captures this unique moment in history.
Creative Spark: Stay at Home Scavenger Hunt
In honor of our current exhibition Branching Out: Works in Wood from NC, we challenge you to find something beautiful in your home that is crafted out of wood. Share a picture of what you find and describe what you know about it!
Sunday Mornin' Museum Share: The Rubin Museum's Mindful Meditation
The Rubin Museum of Art in NYC focuses on Himalayan art and culture and offers weekly meditation sessions related to a different piece from their collection. Each session begins with an informative history of the work followed by a guided meditation led by a prominent NYC teacher.
Creative Spark: Consider - Challenge - Celebrate
For today's creative spark, we have three offerings to engage our minds in a productive, creative way. Here are three things to consider, to challenge, and to celebrate. Let us know your thoughts!
Sunday Mornin’ Challenge
We love a good art challenge so here's a unique one from our friends across the pond... Dutch TV show Tussen Kunst en Kitsch (translates to "Between Art and Kitsch"; similar to our Antiques Roadshow) is challenging folks stuck at home to recreate their favorite classical pieces, using the hashtag #tussenkunstenquarantaine