Dougherty Museum

Top Four Best Places to Buy and Sell Antiques

If you’re up for the travel and antique shipping, here are four places to start your search for the best place to buy and sell your antiques away from home.

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10 Collectibles NOT Worth Collecting Anymore

Kovels.com is the go-to source for information on antiques and collectibles since 1953. Research your antiques using our FREE price guide.

7 Things You Need to Know Before Shopping a Big Antiques Market

Ever wonder why Joanna Gaines always gets the good stuff? Not anymore.

How to Clean Coins to Make Them More Valuable

You come across a rare 1909 Indian Head Cent, generally worth over $400. But wait it’s very dirty and tarnished. What do you do?

Finding Treasure: A Quick Guide to Antique Appraisal

Could that old vase in your attic be valuable? We talked to a local appraiser to find out.

A Night at the Museum: 10 Museums that Host Sleepovers

At museums across the U.S. you can live out Milan Trenc's children's-book-turned-movie-series A Night at the Museum. From dozing with dinosaurs to snoozing with sea creatures, these 10 museums host overnight events for kids and adults alike.

This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Museum

The Near-Impossible Challenge of Designing the 9/11 Museum

For the museum’s designers and curators, that tension led to a ­tangle of quandaries: How can you present a lasting memorial to an event whose impact is still unspooling through developments such as the Edward Snowden leaks and the Senate’s torture report? How can you speak to 9/11’s polarizing effects, such as the ­bungled search for WMD, without alienating some significant portion of your audience?

Stroll through the Museum Of Failure, which preserves the world’s worst products

There’s a reason we love to witness the failure of others, and it’s not entirely based in cynicism and bitterness. Failure brings us together, it makes us feel less alone. It’s why we watch The Room in crowded theaters. And it’s why, when you’re in Helsingborg, Sweden, you’re going to visit the Muse

Would You Do Yoga in a Museum?

The North Carolina Museum of Art intertwines two enlightening experiences: yoga and art. Stretch your mind and body with this unique experience. Gaze upon large works of art covering the surrounding wall while meditating and striking poses. So break a sweat, have a stretch, and unwind with yoga in the galleries.

Would you exercise in a museum?

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA hold group workouts set to disco music in front of masterpieces. Can physical activity enhance art appreciation?

get off my (museum) lawn!

Maybe it’s just me but is it “dump on museums” month? First arts writer Judith Dobrzynski bemoans how participatory museums have caused “high culture” to hit the skids…

Heard Museum Comes to You

A variety of programs can be presented at your location, providing a richer understanding of American Indian arts and culture for all kinds of groups. Free Traveling Panel Exhibits These three-panel freestanding exhibits are designed for use in libraries or schools and are rented at no cost. The exhibit stands at 8 feet tall and ...

Museums and Motivation: Extrinsic Motivation

How extrinsic motivational drivers work and don't work in the context of museum engagement and what you can do about museums and motivation.

People Behaving Appropriately in Art Museums

Showing the world how you're supposed to do it: quietly, reverentially, and with your hands behind...