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ABM Events

Bloomington area museums present a wide variety of programs for all ages and interests as well as changing exhibitions throughout the year. Browse through the calendar to see what's going on at your favorite museums! Contact individual museums for more information on specific programs or exhibits.

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Sunday May 19, 2013

Make a Science Toy: Popguns!

  • May 19, 2013
  • Venue: WonderLab
  • Address: 308 W. 4th Street, Bloomington, IN 47404
  • Phone: 812-337-1337 ext.25
  • Times: 1:30 - 4 pm
  • Admission: Members: $2/project | Nonmembers: $2/project, plus museum admission
  • www.wonderlab.org

Discover the science and power of air pressure! Drop in to build your own popgun to take home.

"Walking Through Gardens" Exhibition

An exhibition of garden-inspired fiber art by local artist Martina Celerin

Mathers Museum of World Cultures Exhibit--The Day in Its Color: A Hoosier Photographer's Journey

This exhibit presents a survey of Charles Cushman's extraordinary work, an archive of photographs that is the largest known body of early color photographs by a single photographer, 14,500 in all, most shot on vivid, color-saturated Kodachrome stock.... more

Mathers Museum Exhibit--Footsteps of a Stranger: Shoes from Cultures Around the World

Footsteps of a Stranger: Shoes from Cultures Around the World expands our thinking about how shoes can reflect the values, ideals, and aesthetics of an era or culture. The exhibit features a diverse range of footwear, including bridal sandals from P... more

New in the Galleries: Breaking the Gilded Ceiling: Women Artists of the Nineteenth and Early Twentie

This installation will feature women artists—some former artist’s models, some wives and mothers, and some trailblazers—who worked in a variety of media. Included will be work by photographers Anna Atkins, Julia Margaret Cameron, a... more

Tapa: Unwrapping Polynesian Barkcloth

This spring, students taking the course On Exhibit: The Pacific Islands have had the opportunity to create a small installation, as well as an online Web module focusing on Polynesian tapa cloth from the permanent collection of the IU Art Museum. Tap... more

Three Remarkable Women: Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Margaret Chinnery, and Félicité de Genlis

In honor of women’s history month, the IU Art Museum will premiere a focused exhibition featuring Vigée Le Brun’s Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery (1803) and selected materials from the Lilly library. The exhibition presents an unusually... more

Exhibit - In the Kitchen Around the World

This exhibit presents objects used in preparing food and food service from different areas of the world. It breaks down into two categories: what the viewer perceives as familiar, such as plates, cups, and dishes, and what is unfamiliar, such as a Pe... more

Exhibit - Treasures of the Mathers Museum

Decades of collecting and curating will be featured in this exhibit, presented in conjunction with the institution’s 50th anniversary.

Exhibit - Unfinished Business: One Hundred Years of Quilt Blocks

An exhibit presenting elements from unfinished quilts will be presented in conjunction with the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show.

Mathers Museum Exhibit--Time As We Keep It

Time As We Keep It presents different facets of time including the evolution of the clock, the development of time zones, and contrasting cultural perspectives of time. Objects on display represent a range of time periods including a sun dial, a Mono... more

20th Century Colonial Revival Quilts Exhibit

This interesting journey through the study of quilts displays con-temporary quilters’ recreations of historic designs and offers visitors an opportunity to explore the quilt-making industry.

Exhibit - From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web: The Origins of Everything

This exhibit examines history on a large scale, through the exploration of cosmic, biological, and human origins.

Exhibit - Picturing Archaeology

Described in their words and illustrated by their images, the research and fieldwork of 13 Indiana University archaeologists is presented in Picturing Archaeology at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures/Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology.

Exhibit - Rhythms of the World Audio Exhibit

Rhythms of the World is a free audioguide tour of musical instruments from around the globe featured in exhibits throughout the museum. The audioguide includes narration and musical clips of the highlighted instruments.

Exhibit - Thoughts, Things, and Theories...What Is Culture?

Thoughts, Things, and Theories...What Is Culture? examines the nature of culture through the exploration of cultural traditions surrounding life stages and universal needs.

Monday May 20, 2013

"Walking Through Gardens" Exhibition

An exhibition of garden-inspired fiber art by local artist Martina Celerin

New in the Galleries: Breaking the Gilded Ceiling: Women Artists of the Nineteenth and Early Twentie

This installation will feature women artists—some former artist’s models, some wives and mothers, and some trailblazers—who worked in a variety of media. Included will be work by photographers Anna Atkins, Julia Margaret Cameron, a... more

Exhibits "Face Value: Portraits from The Kinsey Institute" & "Casual Encounters"

  • May 20, 2013
  • Venue: Kinsey Institute
  • Address: 1165 E. Third Street, Morrison Hall 313, Bloomington, IN 47405
  • Phone: 812-855-7686
  • Times: 1:30 - 5 pm
  • Admission: Free
  • kinseyinstitute.org

The Kinsey Institute is offering two shows this spring and summer, both featuring a wide range of artworks from our permanent collection. Face Value explores the various ways that artists utilize the portrait, an art form that has existed for millen... more

Tapa: Unwrapping Polynesian Barkcloth

This spring, students taking the course On Exhibit: The Pacific Islands have had the opportunity to create a small installation, as well as an online Web module focusing on Polynesian tapa cloth from the permanent collection of the IU Art Museum. Tap... more

Three Remarkable Women: Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Margaret Chinnery, and Félicité de Genlis

In honor of women’s history month, the IU Art Museum will premiere a focused exhibition featuring Vigée Le Brun’s Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery (1803) and selected materials from the Lilly library. The exhibition presents an unusually... more

20th Century Colonial Revival Quilts Exhibit

This interesting journey through the study of quilts displays con-temporary quilters’ recreations of historic designs and offers visitors an opportunity to explore the quilt-making industry.

Tuesday May 21, 2013

Mathers Museum of World Cultures Exhibit--The Day in Its Color: A Hoosier Photographer's Journey

This exhibit presents a survey of Charles Cushman's extraordinary work, an archive of photographs that is the largest known body of early color photographs by a single photographer, 14,500 in all, most shot on vivid, color-saturated Kodachrome stock.... more

Mathers Museum Exhibit--Footsteps of a Stranger: Shoes from Cultures Around the World

Footsteps of a Stranger: Shoes from Cultures Around the World expands our thinking about how shoes can reflect the values, ideals, and aesthetics of an era or culture. The exhibit features a diverse range of footwear, including bridal sandals from P... more

New in the Galleries: Breaking the Gilded Ceiling: Women Artists of the Nineteenth and Early Twentie

This installation will feature women artists—some former artist’s models, some wives and mothers, and some trailblazers—who worked in a variety of media. Included will be work by photographers Anna Atkins, Julia Margaret Cameron, a... more

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