Snapshots: Museums opening back up; WKTV brings you the details

By WKTV Staff

Quote of the Day

“A museum is a place where nothing was lost, just rediscovered …”

Nanette L. Avery

Bodies Revealed is one of the exhibits currently at the Grand Rapids Pubic Museum. (GRPM)

Grand Rapids Public Museum

The Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM) officially reopened to the public last week, and it has extended the Bodies Revealed exhibition to Sept. 27. Go here for the story.

Iconic works of art, Blue Lily by Deborah Butterfield in front of Tornado Over Kansas by John Steuart Curry (Supplied/MMA)

Muskegon Museum of Art

The Muskegon Museum of Art has reopened with “Shaping the Future, Celebrating the Past,” an exhibition that highlights and explores the various facets of its internationally recognized permanent collection in all of its galleries through the summer and fall of 2020. Go here for the story.

Gilmore Car Museum

While many people saw the Academy Award winning movie “Green Book”, visitors to the Gilmore Car Museum can now learn more about the book and its role in black travel in an exhibit which opened in 2014 and has since gained much praise. Go here for the story.

Fun fact:

155 million

The total number of objects, works of art and specimens at the Smithsonian is estimated at nearly 155 million, of which nearly 146 million are scientific specimens at the National Museum of Natural History. Source.