“The Cultural Value of Everyday Places: A Symposium to Honor Longstreth” symposium will take place ahead of the 2019 VAF Conference Landscapes of Succession in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania May 28-29.
The Pennsylvania Historical Association invites proposals for its 2019 Annual Meeting, being held October 17-19. The conference theme will be “Constructing Citizenship and Community.” Proposals are due by March 15.
The “Avenue of Our Founders,” between Front and Eighth Streets, honors Market Street’s place in Philadelphia history. Also renamed was a portion of Sixth Street between Race and Lombard, now known as the “Avenue of Freedom” to mark sites of black historical significance.
The New York Academy of Medicine invites participants to #ColorOurCollections. The week-long campaign provides access to hundreds of pages of adult coloring books from international museums, archives, and libraries.
The Eik Sande, a 32-foot replica of an ancient Viking ship, was installed in the museum in advance of their new exhibit, Vikings: Beyond the Legend.
Film Historian Karen Redrobe is the new director of the Wolf Humanities Center. She plans to expand public programming and make it more inclusive.
The archives is now located at Fifth and Spring Garden Streets, within the new, 70,000 square foot Yards Brewing Co. complex.
Those who worked with Silman say he will be long remembered for his innovative and daring solutions to seemingly impossible engineering problems.
The grants will support the renovation of the 1928 main building to create ten new galleries for the display and interpretation of the museum’s Early American Art collection.
Tuomi Joshua Forrest will join the organization in Mid-August. Forrest most recently served as the Vice President of Partners for Sacred Spaces.