Mainebiz & Portland Press Herald - Tue February 15, 2022
Maine's Portland Museum of Art Plans $85M Capital Campaign for Major Expansion
Fundraising has gotten under way on a major expansion of Maine's Portland Museum of Art (PMA) to create more space for exhibitions and more than double the size of the gallery's downtown footprint, with a new $85 million capital campaign....
New York Post - Mon February 14, 2022
NYC's Universal Hip Hop Museum to Open in 2024
The Universal Hip Hop Museum now being built in New York City has ambitious plans to not only provide visitors with a physical experience but have a significant presence in the metaverse as well. The city's first brick-and-mortar hip hop museum in the Bronx will have a fresh online edge to it, featuring both real-world and online exhibits, the New York Post learned earlier in February during a tour of the project....
CEG - Wed December 08, 2021
Yale's Popular Natural History Museum Undergoing $160M Renovation
A huge $160 million project is under way at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., as the college's world-renowned Peabody Museum of Natural History is getting its first makeover in 90 years. Founded in 1866, the museum helped introduce the world to dinosaurs in the 19th century and is today one of the world's oldest and largest university museums of its kind....
The Day - Tue October 26, 2021
Homeland Security Bill Would Include $50M for Coast Guard Museum in Connecticut
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy announced earlier in October that he is pushing for Congressional approval of a multi-million-dollar boost to the fundraising effort for construction of a National Coast Guard Museum in New London....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu August 26, 2021
Bronx Builders: Crews Constructing Universal Hip Hop Museum in New York
Designed to acknowledge and preserve the history of the genre's past, present and future, New York's Universal Hip Hop Museum (UHHM) will "inspire, empower and promote understanding" when it opens in the South Bronx in 2024....
VTDigger - Mon July 12, 2021
VT's Fairbanks Museum Could See Expansion with Federal Grant
The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in Vermont could finally become a reality after years of beleaguered expansion plans. The 132-year-old facility in St. Johnsbury was chosen by Vermont's U.S. Rep....
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Mon May 10, 2021
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Building Imaginative $14M Expansion
Trolley fans have flocked to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington, Pa., since the 1950s. Now, the popular attraction southeast of Pittsburgh is getting an expansion designed to give trolley devotees an even more immersive experience than before....
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - Wed February 24, 2021
West Virginia's Point Pleasant River Museum Breaks Ground on New Building
Museum staff broke ground Feb. 22 for a new building to house the Point Pleasant River Museum and Lakin Ray Cook Learning Center in West Virginia, near the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. Following a fire that gutted the Old Nease Building, the previous home of the museum, the staff has been working to raise funds for a new building....
CEG - Thu January 07, 2021
Virginia Museum of Natural History Branch in Holding Pattern
In a land not so far away, but a time before a world-wide pandemic, discussion began about building a $10.4 million branch of the Virginia Museum of Natural History in the Shenandoah Valley town of Waynesboro....
CEG - Fri December 18, 2020
New $30M Expansion Ongoing at VA Museum of History & Culture
The Virginia Museum of History & Culture (VMHC), at 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard in Richmond, closed to the public Dec. 14 for its $30 million expansion and renovation project. The museum plans to remain shuttered until early April....
