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Calendar of events: 6th Annual Polish Summer Picnic set for June 18-19 Published by twalro@presspub... on Sat, 06/05/2021 - 6:38am By:  Press Staff Writer The 6th Annual Polish Summer Picnic, will be presented by Toledo Area Polka Society (TAPS) June 18 and 19 at Oak Shade Grove Pavilion in Oregon. (Submitted photo)         The Toledo Area Polka Society (TAPS) is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Polish Summer Picnic, sponsored by Genoa Bank, June 18 and 19 at Oak Shade Grove Pavilion, 3624 Seaman Rd., Oregon. Hours are 5-11 p.m. Friday and noon-1...

Openings and Closings: April 21 to April 27 Elizabeth Lanza A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, Volume 6 by George Edwards (1694–1773), 1758–1764. University of Michigan Library Special Collections Research Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan; courtesy of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio We’ve all been in a powder room or two lavishly wallpapered with multicolored birds. But haven’t you ever wondered where this style had its origins? Luckily for us, opening this week at the Toledo Museum of art is an exhibition entitled Rare and Wondrous highlights works produced...

Toledo Museum of Art to open 'Birds in Art and Culture' exhibit The Monroe News The Toledo Museum of Art will present "Rare and Wondrous: Birds in Art and Culture 1620-1820" from April 24 to July 25.  The exhibition, curated by TMA’s Head of Interpretive Projects and Managing Editor Paula Reich, will showcase the Museum’s recent acquisition of the important six-volume series "Ornithologie," written by Mathurin-Jacques Brisson, illustrated by François-Nicolas Martinet and published in 1760. "Rare and Wondrous" will also feature paintings, prints and decorative arts from TMA’s collec...

Museum extends spring series to include two new virtual lectures Published by twalro@presspub... on Sun, 04/04/2021 - 6:53pm By:  Tammy Walro         Due to the success of its previous presentations, the National Museum of the Great Lakes is announcing the addition of two more lectures to their 2021 Spring Virtual Lecture Series.         The first added lecture, titled “An Illustrated History of the Soo Locks,” will take place Wednesday, April 14, at 7 p.m. and will feature Michelle Briggs, who, since 2009, has served as the Soo Locks’...