Friday, December 5, 2008

Artwalk Comes Early


This months Artwalk will be this Saturday from 6-9pm. This is one week earlier than the usual Artwalk time. However it will be a night of fun for everyone as it also lines up with our winter holiday festival here in Moab.

The Museum will be featuring the Artwork from the Plein Aire Competition held by Natural Bridges national park. There are 27 great paintings of both Natural Bridges and other parks in Southeastern Utah.

The Moab Artwalk will not start up again until March of Next year.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Museum prepares for renovation

The Museum of Moab is going through some changes. With a state earmark for improvement the museum is expanding and changing.

First the Museum will be updating it's history room by removing some displays and fleshing out a time line from the 1950's to the present era.

Secondly the museum is rehousing and storing many of it's artifacts to increase the efficiency of it's storage units will looking to expand it's external storage.

Finally the museum is moving ahead on its photo digitization initiative by scanning photos from the Fran Barnes collection into our computer database.

Overall the next few months at the Museum look pretty busy for everyone.