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Virtual Planetarium Show for Kids: How Many Stars Can You See in YOUR Sky?
Update: Zoom registrations are sold out. However, this event will be live-streamed on Facebook Live. Do your kids love the Planetarium? We do, too—and since we can’t get together under the dome yet, we will bring the Planetarium to you! How many stars did you see in the sky a few weeks ago, when the
Virtual Planetarium Show for Kids: Easy-Peasy Planets and the Moon
Do your kids love the Planetarium? We do, too—and since we can’t get together under the dome yet, we will bring the Planetarium to you! There’s a nice arrangement of Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon this week. Bright and easy to spot without staying up late, we’ll cover what to look for and where, using
Virtual Planetarium Show for Kids: A Week for Dark Skies
Do your kids love the Planetarium? We do, too—and since we can’t get together under the dome yet, we will bring the Planetarium to you! This week the sky will be dark and moonless—a good time to look for faint objects like the Andromeda Galaxy and not-so-bright stars. Even so, there are other lights—turned on
Virtual Tour of Landscape Art & Virtual Travel
Join Curator Laura Vookles on a tour of Landscape Art & Virtual Travel: Highlights from the Collections of the HRM & Art Bridges with artist Marcia Clark, whose work Butterville Road Intersection is featured in the exhibition. Vookles and Clark share their thoughts about the exhibition as a whole, as well as selected individual works,
Outdoor Astro Show: Rainbows, Exoplanets, and Aliens!
Most things in space are so far away that visiting them in person isn’t currently possible, but the light they give off can tell us (almost) everything we need to know. We can uncover exoplanets, find out what things are made of, and, just maybe… find aliens! Join us in the Museum Courtyard as we
Virtual Artist Talk: Vinnie Bagwell on Victory Beyond Sims
One year ago this month, Yonkers-based artist Vinnie Bagwell was selected by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs to create a sculpture just outside Central Park (at 5th Avenue at 103rd Street) to replace a statue of J. Marion Sims, the nineteenth-century gynecologist who experimented on enslaved black women to achieve his medical breakthroughs. The
Hispanic Heritage Month 2020
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2020 at the Hudson River Museum with the following virtual programs. Stars Over the Americas: A Bilingual Planetarium Show Sunday, September 20, 5pm Storytime LIVE: El Pájaro Arcoíris by Ramón Caride Wednesday, September 23, 11:30am Curator Tour from Home: Glenview’s Stenciled Ceilings Sunday, September 27, 1:30pm Teen Art Project LIVE: Rework,
Stars Over the Americas: A Bilingual Planetarium Show
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, learn about everything in the night sky from Nunavut to Tierra Del Fuego in a virtual planetarium show. Find out what you might see with the naked eye, and with the aid of a telescope, from the northernmost to southernmost points of the Western Hemisphere. Hosted by HRM’s Manager
Teen Art Project LIVE: Rework, Remix, Renew
Learn about contemporary Dominican artist Julia Santos Solomon, featured in our new exhibition Women to the Fore, as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Hear about Julia’s creative practice, and incorporate her method of taking inspiration from past artists and artworks to create deeply personal works and new narratives of your own. All you need is
Curator Tour from Home: Glenview’s Stenciled Ceilings
In 1999, the Hudson River Museum completed a large-scale interior restoration project of Glenview, the Museum’s 1877 Gilded Age home on the National Register of Historic Places, including repainting original stencil designs in the Parlor and above the Grand Staircase. Felix Chavez and his team of artists worked on this project for months, in consultation