Museums and Community Collaborations Abroad

Welcome to Building a Transatlantic Bridge, an innovative project providing opportunities for collaboration and interaction for high school students in the Greensburg Salem School District and for high school students in Oberhausen, Germany.

Friday, July 16, 2010

The Westmoreland's "Born of Fire" Industrial Scenes featured in International Exhibition


The Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s Born of Fire: The Valley of Work exhibition will be part of Feuerländer: Regions of Vulcan, a large-scale international exhibition, to be presented at the LVR-Industriemuseum in Oberhausen, Germany from July 25 through Nov. 28, 2010, as part of the Ruhr Region's designation as the 2010 European Capital of Culture. Feuerländer: Regions of Vulcan comprises nearly 200 works of art illustrating the development of the mining, iron and steel industries in Europe and the United States from around 1780 to the present. Barbara L. Jones, Chief Curator at The Westmoreland, will travel to Germany to participate in the opening festivities of the exhibition and will write about her experiences on this blog.

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