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The Putnam Museum and Science Center, originally Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, is a museum of history and natural science with an interactive science center in Davenport, Iowa, United States. The museum was founded in 1867 and was one of the first museums west of the Mississippi River. It houses around 250,000 historical artifacts and ...
The groundwork for the museum was laid in 1951 when Walter Ames helped sisters Amy and Anne Putnam (nieces and heirs of Henry W. Putnam) to form the nonprofit Putnam Foundation to own and manage their art collection. The sisters had settled in San Diego in the early 20th century and made donations to the San Diego Museum of Art in its early ...
This list of museums in Iowa is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
A selection of instruments and artifacts from the collection comprise the exhibition Time, Life, & Matter: Science in Cambridge.This permanent display can be found in the Putnam Gallery on the first floor of the Harvard Science Center, which is free and open to the public during regularly scheduled hours, Sunday through Friday.
American Lithuanian Cultural Archives or ALKA (Lithuanian: Amerikos lietuvių kultūros archyvai) is located at 37 Mary Crest Drive in Putnam, Connecticut next to the convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is dedicated to the preservation of Lithuanian culture in the United States. ALKA comprises a ...
For “Anonymous Fragments,” a new solo exhibition that opens this month at Emory University’s Carlos Museum, Hull has trained his inquisitive eye on the Atlanta institution’s collection of ...
A participating museum may receive benefits that can outweigh a potential reduction in direct admissions fees. Access to reciprocal membership privileges is usually reserved for membership levels higher than a basic membership, and participating museums have found that membership revenues may increase after announcement of a reciprocal program.
The Putnam family experienced such discrimination. An account cited how they were refused admission to a museum on account of their skin color. [5] Putnam was also active in petitions to state legislature calling for the integration of schools. [6] As a prominent activist advancing temperance in Boston, she worked with Susan Paul and Nancy ...