In the late 1970s, New Britain social studies teacher Jimmie Elizabeth Nkonoki-Ward wanted to honor the women who’d taught her Black history and served as her role models. She commissioned an artist ...

Walking through the New Britain Museum of American Art, Jimmie Elizabeth Nkonoki-Ward carries with her an excitement about the portraits of women hanging on the walls. The 88-year-old explained that ...

Visitors to London’s galleries and museums can see some of the finest artworks in the world without paying a penny – but for ...

Sophie Huget knows firsthand how much the New Britain Industrial Museum can raise its profile. As a lifelong Connecticut resident, aspiring curator and later a part-time staffer at three Hartford and ...

Two Connecticut museums are shedding light on the hardships Black Americans faced during the civil rights movement inside the country and inside the state. One stroll around the Mobility in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Frederick Horniman Museum has always been free, in keeping with Horniman’s wish - Emli Bendixen/Art Fund When I was secretary ...

FILE - In this Tuesday July 9, 2019 file photo a woman looks to a model of a carnival float from Duesseldorf depicting British Prime Minister Theresa May and the Brexit at the exhibition 'Very British ...

NEW BRITAIN — The New Britain Museum of American Art is hosting a month-long celebration dedicated to Women’s History Month. In addition to the usmeum’s ongoing 2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA initiative, in ...

The United Kingdom’s first national LGBTQ museum opens its doors in London’s King’s Cross neighborhood Thursday, almost exactly 50 years after England’s first Gay Pride march took place just a few ...

Scramble the cat, the mascot of the Kent Battle of Britain Museum, has a worldwide fanbase with some visitors saying they visit the museum purely to meet her. The charming 12-year-old cat has captured ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Natural History Museum in London suspended a gigantic skeleton of a blue whale in its main entrance Thursday, drawing attention to vanishing species in an environment under ...