In San Francisco, the Museum of African Diaspora received the 2010 SF Weekly Award in the category of Best Museum: “There is nowhere else like this. Its mission and reason for being are so rare, and the execution so flawless, that the 2005 addition to the downtown museum district has become a flaming jewel in the area's already-crowded art crown.”

The new Anchorage Museum opened to great acclaim in May 2010 incorporating to of our major recommendations from our Master Plan for an expanded facility: the 10,000 sq. ft. Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center and the former Imaginarium, which took over 9,000 sq. ft. of interactive gallery space in the Museum’s 80,000 sq. ft. expansion.

The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto forged a partnership with the National Gallery of Canada in a three-year program that will see the two institutions co-organize and co-present a series of exclusive exhibitions in MOCCA’s newly-renovated project space.

The American Indian Cultural Center & Museum launched the Keeping the Fire Campaign to support its dynamic program development and operations as an institution dedicated to telling the stories of Oklahoma’s tribes. Visit www.aiccm.org for further information.

Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania has opened a new 3,590 sq. ft. green wall featuring 47,000 plants, making it the largest greenwall in North America.

The National Museum of American Jewish History opened its new $150 million, 100,000 sq. ft. building in the heart of historic Philadelphia on November 14. It is the only museum in the nation dedicated solely to telling the story of Jews in America.

Typewriter used in Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust film, “Schindler’s List,” which received seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Photograph by John Elder.