Museums and Cultural Institutions Throughout the Country Offer Free Admission on September 28, 2013
Chicago, Ill. –(ENEWSPF)—September 2, 2013 – The National Veterans Art Museum (NVAM) will open its doors free of charge on Saturday, September 28, 2013, as part of Smithsonian magazine’s ninth annual Museum Day Live! A nationwide event, Museum Day Live! offers free admission to visitors presenting a Museum Day Live! ticket at participating museums and cultural institutions.
Inclusive by design, the event represents Smithsonian’s commitment to making learning and the spread of knowledge accessible to everyone, giving museums across all 50 states the opportunity to emulate the admission policy of the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C. Last year’s event drew over 400,000 participants, and this year’s event expects record-high participation.
The NVAM offers free admission to visitors year-round, but is excited to join the Smithsonian in this effort to make cultural and learning experiences available and accessible to all. The NVAM recently launched The Things They Carried Interactive, a website designed to make the arts and history of their permanent exhibition The Things They Carried, based on Tim O’Brien’s book of the same name, available and accessible to all, free of charge. The Things They Carried Interactive is available through www.nvam.org.
“Museum Day Live! is a great opportunity for individuals throughout our country to take advantage of the wealth of resources in museums and cultural institutions near them. We hope our neighbors in Chicago use this day to discover the cultural and artistic offerings of museums like ours,” said Executive Director Levi Moore.
Current exhibitions at the NVAM include The Things They Carried, which features work from the permanent collection and is inspired by Tim O’Brien’s book of the same name; Not About Bombs, which features work by five female Iraqi artists and will be on display until October; and Tenacity and Truth: People, Places and Memories, which opened on Memorial Day 2013 and will remain on display through May 2014. Tenacity and Truth is the NVAM’s widest-ranging show, featuring artists from WWII, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, and the Iraq War. In addition, patrons can have a sneak peek at the newest acquisitions to the permanent collection.
The Museum Day Live! ticket will be available to download beginning in August at www.Smithsonian.com/museumday. Visitors who present the Museum Day Live! ticket will gain free entrance for two at participating venues for one day only. No ticket is required for admission to the NVAM. One ticket is permitted per household, per email address. For more information about Museum Day Live! 2013 and a list of participating museums and cultural institutions, please visit www.Smithsonian.com/museumday.
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About the National Veterans Art Museum
The National Veterans Art Museum is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and exhibition of art inspired by combat and created by veterans. No other gallery in the world focuses on the subject of war from an artistic perspective, making this collection truly unique. The National Veterans Art Museum addresses both historical and contemporary issues related to military service in order to give patrons of all backgrounds insight into the effects of war and to provide veterans an artistic outlet to work through their military and combat experiences.
The National Veterans Art Museum is located at 4041 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The National Veterans Art Museum will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Admission is free. For group admission reservations, call the Museum at 312/326-0270 or visit www.nvam.org.
Patrons of the museum can access art from the permanent collection and biographical information on the artists through the NVAM Collection Online, a recently launched online and high-resolution archive of every piece of art in the museum’s permanent collection. The NVAM Collection Online can be found at www.nvam.org/collection-online.
Source: nvam.org
