Thirty-one of the nation's most outstanding antique dealers will showcase a variety of American and English furniture, glass, metalware, ceramics folk art, quilts, Oriental and European porcelain, rugs, and other fine collectibles at the 38th Annual Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show on Memorial Day weekend, May 23-25. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily.

The Smithsonian Institution’s Accessibility Program, in partnership with the Senator John Heinz History Center, a Smithsonian Affiliate in Pittsburgh, will host more than 350 students during “Ability Pittsburgh,” an event for local students with disabilities Thursday, April 16, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Visitors to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will be able to feast their ears as well as their eyes on the treasures of Asia on Sunday, April 12th at 1:30pm, when the museum presents a Young Artists Showcase concert of both Chinese and Western classical music performed by two acclaimed Chinese-born musicians.

The Saint Louis Art Museum announces a series of Gallery Talks during April and May related to three current exhibitions: Power and Glory: Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty, Photography on the Street and Currents 103: Claudia Schmacke.

The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the April 10 opening of Recent Acquisitions in Prints and Photographs, a selection of the finest works on paper that have been acquired by the Museum in the last five years.

Families looking for an enriching, fun, and affordable(!) way to spend time together this spring can look no further than the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Modern Mondays, is a weekly program that brings contemporary, innovative film and movingimage works to the public and provides a forum for viewers to engage in dialogue and debate with contemporary filmmakers and artists. Modern Mondays presents new-and newly rediscovered-film and media works with the director in attendance, stimulating discourse, dialogue, and interaction in a social setting.

For the summer of 2009, adventurous children ages 7 through 13 can experience a day camp that takes them through time and across continents – at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on Penn’s campus in Philadelphia.

The Pope’s Toilet (2007), the bittersweet directorial debut feature of Enrique Fernandez, a writer born in Melo, Uruguay, and Cesar Charlone, the Uruguayan cinematographer of City of God and The Constant Gardener, will have a weeklong run at The Museum of Modern Art, from April 8 through 13, 2009.

The Delaware Art Museum’s summer program for children ages 6 – 12 provides a creative experience in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. Each two-week camp session is held in the Museum’s Bank of America Education Wing and includes regular visits to the Museum’s galleries and the Copeland Sculpture Garden.

The lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were profoundly changed by the arrival of British colonists in 1788. The National Museum of Australia presents four powerful stories about Aboriginal resistance on the colonial frontier in a new display.

The National Railway Museum (NRM) and Bachmann Europe Plc are offering modellers a helping hand during the credit crunch by offering them the chance to buy the latest limited edition boxed set model in the NRM-branded series in instalments.