The lectures are free, but registration is required. Visit the FWMSH website to reserve spots.
On Wednesday, the museum hosted a lecture called African American Women s Activism in Historical Practice, which highlighted objects related to African American women’s history in the Smithsonian collections.
The event focused on African American women’s activism and contributions in historical perspective.
Four speakers, including Dr. Aleia Brown, Assistant Director of the African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities Initiative at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, explored an interesting aspect of African American women’s activism through an extended discussion of one or two objects.
“Even in such a short time it was running, inches of water was flowing over the museum school, the lobby and the offices, said Dr. Doug Roberts, Chief Public Experience Officer for the museum.
After that, Roberts said it turned to survival and cleaning up what they could until North Texas thawed out. The museum, which still had electricity, even opened up its doors for staff who didn’t have electricity and needed at least a warm place to stay.
Luckily, precious fossils and other historical artifacts were saved. Visiting hours are still temporarily suspended but the hope is to open up parts of the building soon.
Texas ranching and oil heiress Anne Marion s $150million art collection goes up for auction: Masterworks by Warhol, Lichtenstein and Franz Klein not seen by the public in decades go on sale
Marion, who founded the Georgia O Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, died last year at the age of 81
Marion and her husband, John Marion, a former Sotheby s chairman, established the museum in 1997
Sotheby s said three masterworks at the heart of the collection are expected to each sell for over $20 million
They are: Warhol s Elvis 2 Times, Richard Diebenkorn s Ocean Park No. 40, and a Clyfford Still
Sotheby s said the masterworks were featured in her Fort Worth home, designed by architect I.M. Pei
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North Texas museum damaged after water pipes burst in cold weather
North Texas museum damaged after water pipes burst in cold weather The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History has a mess on its hands.
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Fort Worth Museum of Science and History suffered damage due to water from broken pipes and sprinklers caused by record low temperatures, the museum announced in a February 17 statement. Water from the burst pipes flooded the Museum School, the Academy of Digital Learning Laboratory, the Museum store, parts of DinoLabs, and offices.