Reimagining Bradford: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Bradford House Museum
Through artistic depictions created by South Shore artists and artisans, this exhibit provides visitors with new ways of experiencing the historic home.
(painting on canvas by Jessie Fries)
The Tool Revolution
The Tool Revolution tells the story of innovators in Windsor, Vermont, in the 1840s at the forefront of the push to create interchangeable parts and the American System of Manufacturing. In 1851, Robbins & Lawrence exhibited their guns at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. The company became one of the first to export technology from America to Europe. Collaborating with the foremost machine designers in America, and establishing a center for best practice in the most advanced industry of the day, they changed the world.
Ongoing Location: American Precision Museum, Windsor, VT
The Roger Federer Hologram
The museum re-opened on May 20, 2015 after complete renovation. Highly interactive, completely redesigned, and now showcasing more of the collection than ever before, the new museum offers a comprehensive and intriguing narrative of tennis history in an engaging manner.
A highlight of the new museum is a holographic theatre in which visitors feel as though they are in the room with Roger Federer, one of the sport's all-time greatest champions. When visitors walk into the theatre, the hologram of Federer welcomes visitors and begins a dynamic monologue about a topic that museum visitors and Federer have in common – a love of tennis. Federer then takes the visitor through his top-10 list of the reasons why he loves the sport, ranging from the athletic beauty of tennis to the challenge of it being an individual sport, all while showcasing a few of his signature shots.
Ongoing Location: The Museum at the International Tennis Hall of Fame, Newport, RI
Exploring the Magic of Photography (a compilation of four exhibits )
Through Her Lens: Women Photographers of Mid-Coast Maine, 1890-1920 explores the pioneering work of five women photographers who excelled in a field dominated by men.
Twenty Best, an exhibit of the twenty most fascinating photographs in the Penobscot Marine Museum collection, includes a photograph of the Great Bangor Fire of 1911 which destroyed much of the city, the earliest known photograph of Searsport, and an unusual ambrotype circa 1870 of a Chinese steward.
Evolution of the Photographic Snapshot: 1888-2015 explores the snapshot as a self-portrait of our culture. In the 1800’s cameras were expensive and photography was the work of professionals, but when Eastman Kodak introduced the inexpensive Brownie camera in 1900 suddenly everyone had a camera in their hand. What do we photograph and why, and what do the snapshots we take tell us about ourselves?
The Carters and the Lukes – Selections from the Red Boutilier Collection is an intimate portrait of two families of boat builders, one who built traditional wooden lobster boats for local fishermen and the other an innovator in the custom yacht business.
This compilation of exhibits is part of the Maine Photo Project, a year-long statewide celebration of photography in Maine in 2015. This collaboration of twenty-six cultural organizations offers exhibitions, a major publication, and a variety of programs exploring the state’s role as inspiration for photographers.
On view through October 18, 2015 Location: Penobscot Marine Museum, Penobscott, ME
From Birds to Beasts: Audubon's Last Great Adventure
From Birds to Beasts: Audubon’s Last Great Adventure will take you on John James Audubon’s 1843 journey up the Missouri River to observe and study some of America’s most iconic creatures. The Currier is partnering with New Hampshire Audubon to present From Birds to Beasts: Audubon’s Last Great Adventure. NH Audubon just celebrated its centennial year and will make its copy of the limited Imperial Edition (1845-1848) Quadrupeds portfolio available for display for the first time in the state since the 1970s, when they were also on view at the Currier.
On view through August 30, 2015 Location: Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
All the Sea Knows
All the Sea Knows combines paintings and decorative arts objects from the Museum of the City of New York’s remarkable yet seldom-exhibited maritime art collection with paintings and artifacts drawn from the Florence Griswold Museum’s collection. Included in the exhibition is a unique collection of letters written by Helen Powers Griswold to her husband Captain Robert Griswold, which will be shared publicly for the first time, both online and within the exhibition.
All the Sea Knows is the latest in a series of collection-sharing exhibitions that the museum has undertaken successfully with such museums as the Portland (ME) Museum of Art, the Albany Institute of History & Art, and most recently, the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
On view through Septmber 20, 2015 Location: Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT