Major art exhibitions, art fairs and antique and crafts shows,
natural history, science and other museum exhibitions, arranged
alphabetically by city, with North American cities listed first
and European cities listed next, followed by Asia/Oceania
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Museums in North America
Boston, Mass.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Tue-Sun 11am-5pm. Admission: Adults $9, seniors $7, students
$5, children $3 280 The Fenway near Louis Prang Street.T Stop:
Museum (Green Line). Tel.(617) 566-1401.
Museum of Fine Arts
Closed Mondays. Call (617) 267-9300.
Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard University Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
02138. Call 617-495-9400.
Mon-Sat. 10 am - 5 pm; Sun. 1pm - 5 pm. Admission: Adults $5,
seniors $3, students $5, children $3
T Stop: Harvard (Red Line).
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Art
Chicago, Illinois
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Science and Industry
Open Mon-Fri 9:30am-4pm; Sat-Sun 9:30am-5:30pm.
Admission $2.50-$10. 5700 S. Lake Shore Drive at 57th Street Hyde
Park. Tel. (312) 684-1414.
Corona Del Mar, California
Annual Sand Castle and Sand Sculpture Contest, September.
Call (714) 729-4400.
Dallas, TX
Dallas Museum of Art
Call (214) 922-1200.
Fort Worth, Texas
Kimbell Museum of Art
Indianapolis, IN
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Call (317)923-1331.
Laguna Beach, Calif
Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters, July-August.
For more information, or tickets to the Pageant, call: Outside
the "714" area code: (800) 487-3378. Local callers:
(714) 497-6582.
Los Angeles, Calif
Armand Hammer Museum of Art
(310) 443-7000.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90036. (213) 857-6000.
Los Angeles (Malibu), Calif
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Hours: Tue-Sun 10am-5pm.
Free admission. J. Paul Getty Museum, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu. About 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Tel.
(310) 458-2003.
Milwaukee, Wisc
Milwaukee Art Museum
Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis, MN
Uptown Art Fair
Every August. Uptown Minneapolis neighborhood, centered at
Lake St. & Hennepin Ave. The Midwest's largest outdoor juried
arts and crafts festival, featuring 525 national artists, 35 food
vendors, kid's activities. Attendance: 350,000. Free. Call (612)
823-4581.
Minneapolis, MN
Walker Art Center
Closed Mondays. Call (612) 375-7622.
New Haven, Conn.
Yale University Art Gallery
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans Museum of Art
New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum
Open Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Admission:
Adults $4, students $2, seniors $1.50, children free. 200 Eastern
Parkway at Washington Avenue, Brooklyn. Tel. (718) 638-5000.
The Jewish Museum
Closed Fridays and Saturdays. 5th Ave. and 92nd St. Call (212)
423-3230.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
9:30-8:45; Closed Mondays. Fifth Ave. at 82d St.
Museum of the City of New York
Wed-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun
1-5pm Admission: Adults $5, seniors/students/children $4, families
$10. Museum of the City of New York Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street.
Call (212)534-1672.
Museum of Modern Art
Call (212) 708-9480. Hours: Sun.-Tues., Sat., 11-6; Thur.- Fri.,
noon-8:30; Closed Wednesdays. 11 W. 53d St.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Call (212) 570-3600.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
National Gallery of Canada
Call (613) 990--7081.
Philadelphia. PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Closed Mondays. Call (215) 235-7469 for information.
Museum of American Art
Call (215) 972-7600.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
For a recording of events and activities, call 412-622-3172.
Richmond, Virginia
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Rochester, New York
Strong Museum
St. Louis, Missouri
The St. Louis Art Museum
1 Fine Arts Dr., Forest Park. St. Louis, MO 63110. (314) 721-0067.
San Francisco, Calif
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
The Legion of Honor is located in Lincoln Park
near 34th Avenue and Clement Street. The Legion of Honor is open
Tuesday through Sunday from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm. and on the first
Saturday of the month until 8:45 pm. Museum admission: $7 adults,
$5 seniors 65 and over, $4 youth 12-17, children under 12 admitted
free. The museum is free on the second Wednesday of each month
Call (415) 863-3330 for recorded information.
The de Young Museum
The de Young Museum, San Francisco's oldest public museum, is
located in Golden Gate Park near 10th Avenue and Fulton Street.
The de Young Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 9:30
am to 5:00 pm. and on the first Wednesday of the month until 8:45
pm. From October 14 through December 4, there are additional viewing
hours on Tuesday from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm and every Wednesday evening
until 8:45 pm. Museum admission: $6 adults, $4 seniors 65 and
over, $3 youth 12-17, children under 12 admitted free. The museum
is free on the first Wednesday of each month. For current information,
please call the Hot Line at (415) 863-3330.
Santa Fe, NM
Indian Market
August. Indian artisans sell goods in the Plaza. Call 1-800-777-2489.
Sausalito, CA
Sausalito Art Festival
September. Painting, sculpture, photography, glass, jewelry.
Call (415) 332-3555.
Savannah, Georgia
Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences
Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art
Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Call (202) 357-2700.
Wilmington, Del.
Brandywine Arts Festival
September. More than 300 artisans exhibit and sell in Josephine
Gardens. Call (302) 656-8364.
Art in Europe
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Rijksmuseum
Open daily except January 1. Address: Stadhouderskade
42, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Call (020) 673 2121.
Pan Amsterdam International Art and Antiques Show
October. R.A.I. Exhibition and Congress Center. Call +(073)
141965 for '97 dates and information.
Van Gogh Museum
Open daily, except January 1. Address: Paulus
Potterstraat 7, 1071 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Call (020)
570 5200.
Antwerp, Belgium
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Basel, Switzerland
Telaf Basel.International fine art and antiques fair. Classical
Greek and Roman, Egyptian, Oriental. Islamic, pre-Columbian and
modern art. Call +(41-1) 482-6153.
Bonn, Germany
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Bruges, Belgium
International Antiques Fair
October - November. Call +(050) 35.40.07 for dates.
Edinburgh, Scotland
National Gallery of Scotland.
Annual exhibition of Turner watercolors , Every January.
Call +(031) 556-8921.
London, England
National Portrait Gallery
National Gallery
Hours: Mon-Tue, Thu-Sat 10am-6pm; Wed 10am-8pm; Sun noon-6pm. Free admission.
Trafalgar Square. Tube: Charing Cross. Tel. + 839 33 21.
Royal Academy of Arts
Call +(44) 171-4945615.
Tate Gallery
Olympia London Fine Art and Antique Fair,
February. Call +(071) 370-8243 for dates
Victoria and Albert Museum
Closed Jan.1, Good Friday, May Day Bank Holiday, Dec. 24 - 26. Call +(0171) 938-8500.
Madrid, Spain
National Archaeological Museum
Clothes, furniture and everyday objects belonging to commoners
and courtiers 250 years ago. Call (212) 265-8822.
Moscow, Russia
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
For more information, write:
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, UI. Volkhonka 12, Moscow, Russia.
Call +(095) 203-7412.
Munich, Germany
Kunsthalle der Hypo Kulturstiftung
Mon-Wed, Fri-Sun 10am-6pm; Thu 10am-9pm. Admission DM4-8. 15 Theatinerstrasse.
Tel. +22 44 12
Paris, France
Musee National d'Art Moderne
Paris, France
Grand Palais
Hours: Mon, Thu-Sun 10am-8pm; Wed 10am-10pm. Admission FF50. 3 Avenue du General-Eisenhower,
8th arr. Metro: Champs-Elysees-Clemenceau. Tel.+44 13 17 17.
Centre National de la Photographie
Admission FF15-30. 11
Rue Berryer. 8th arr. Metro: Etoile, George-V, Place des Ternes.
Bus: 22, 31, 43, 52, 83, 84, 93 Tel.+ 53 76 12 32.
Le Carrousel de Louvre
Biennale Internationale des Antiquaires, September, 2000.
Europe's fanciest antiques fair. Call +(33-1) 47.20.31.87.
Musee du Petit Palais
Avenue Winston-Churchill, 8th arr. Metro: Champs-Elysees
or Clemenceau. Tel. +42 65 12 73.
Musee d'Orsay
Call +(1) 40.49.48.14
Salon de Antiquaries
Pelouse d'Auteuil. Every November. Call +44.13.17.30 for dates.
Rome, Italy
Galleria Borghese
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen
Closed Monday. Address: Museumpark 18-20, 3015 CB Rotterdam,
The Netherlands. Call +010 441 9400.
St. Petersburg, Russia
State Hermitage Museum
. Exhibition schedule not yet available. Write:
State Hermitage Museum, 36 Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg,
Russia. Call +(095) 812/311-3420.
Stow-on-the-Wold, England
Annual Antiques and Fine Arts Festival, February.
Stow-on-the-Wold "Where the Wind Blows Cold" is a Cotswold
village worth seeing for its stark beauty and honey-colored limestone
buildings. Festival features jewelry, clocks, English silver,
Staffordshire figures, tribal rugs and 30 lectures, given by experts
such as David Battie of Sotheby's and Victor Chinnery of the Birmingham
City Museums. Hotel discount packages available. Call from U.S.:
011-44-1451-830-666, or fax 011-44-1451-870-014.
Stuttgart, Germany
Staatlische Galerie. Call +(49) 711-2124074.
Venice, Italy
Biennale, June - October 2001. The big international art
expo. In the Palazzo Grassi, the Museo Correr, the Biennale Gardens,
and several other locations. Now held in odd-numbered years.
Art in Asia, Australia & Oceania
Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Australia
Open daily, except Good Friday and Christmas Day. Address: Parkes
Place, Parkes ACT, Canberra, Australia. Call +(61) 6 240-6411.
Osaka, Japan
Daimaru Museum
Sydney, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art
Tokyo, Japan
Mitsukoshi Museum
Yokohama, Japan
Takashimaya