2001 is the International Year of Volunteers. Around the world, communities are celebrating all the work done by these very special people. Central Massachusetts stands alone - the cultural organizations here are recognizing the valuable work of volunteers by offering free admission to all volunteers wearing their red V ribbon this week. April 26, Thursday, noon 1 p.m. Bring your lunch and family history questions to genealogy expert Kay Sheldon and compare notes with other researchers.
General admission applies for non-members.
This exhibition examines the ongoing romantic and antiquarian fascination with armor from the time of its disappearance from the battlefield to the present day. The exhibition draws on important private holdings as well as the Fogg Museum at Harvard, the Yale Museum of British Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Visitors will see relics of tournament revivals staged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, reproductions and forgeries of armor, original suits of armor redecorated to reflect modern ideas of medieval taste, and examples of the uses of armor in home decoration and commercial images. Members free, non-Members free with Museum admission. This exhibition is made possible in part by a general operating grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Museum's Corporate Membership supporters.