2014 Event Unidentified remains of victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack are put to rest in a private depository next to the museum at the World Trade Center Memorial site; the remains will not be accessible or viewable to the public 2014 Event National 9/11 Memorial officials announce that the 9/11 Museum will open mid-May; the long-delayed Museum, dedicated to the victims of the terror attack, plans to charge $24 for most adult tickets 2013 Event The landscape painting, 'Sunset at Montmajour,' becomes the first full-sized Van Gogh painting to be confirmed since 1928; it is put on display at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum 2013 Event New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announces it will return two statues from northern Cambodia's archeological site Koh Ker 2013 Event The FBI reports they have discovered who stole $580 million in masterpieces from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, the greatest art heist in American history 2013 Event The famous painting, 'Liberty Leading the People' by Eugene Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 is vandalized while on loan to the Louvre-Lenz museum in Lens, France 2012 Event The U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavor inches through the streets of Los Angeles on a trolley, making its way to a museum 2012 Event Jan van Eyck is credited as the painter of 'The three mary's at the tomb' a painting from the 1430's held in a Rotterdam museum 2012 Event The 'Lamb of God', the first panels of the Ghent Altarpiece are secretly moved from Saint Bavo Cathedral for a five-year restoration at the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts; the panels are likely the most frequently stolen artwork in history 2012 Event Naples' Casoria Contemporary Art Museum begins burning its artworks to protest government budget cuts affecting cultural institutions 2012 Event Between 60 to 70 artifacts of the ancient Olympic games are stolen by thieves who broke into the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece 2011 Event Financial disputes lead New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to report that the National September 11 Museum will not open on time 1996 Event Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in New York City 1996 Death Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator, dies at 60 1996 Death Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday 1996 Death Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary, dies at 84 1995 Death Trenchard Cox, museum director, dies at 90 1995 Death John Walker, museum director, dies at 88 1995 Death Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83 1995 Death Roye England, modeller/museum curator, dies at 88 1995 Death James Pack, naval officer museum curator, dies at 81 1994 Death Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78 1994 Death Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator, dies at 63 1994 Event National Museum of American Indian opens (New York City) 1994 Death Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87 1994 Event Anne P. Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History 1993 Event Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum 1992 Death Paul E Garber, 1st curator (National Air and Space Museum), dies at 93 1992 Event Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem, Israel 1992 Event Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington D.C. 1991 Event New York City's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio and Television" 1990 Event Center for Urban archaeology opens in New York City South Street Seaport Museum 1990 Event Ellis Island reopens as a museum 1990 Event Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen 1988 Event Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes 1988 Event Bronx Museum for Arts opens 1988 Event Museum of Moving Image in London opens 1987 Death Jean Helion, artist/author (Museum of Living Art), dies at 83 1987 Death John Baur, museum director, dies at 78 1987 Event National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C. 1987 Death Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90 1986 Event Hall of Fame and Museum announced to be built in Cleveland 1984 Event King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels 1984 Death Garry Winogrand, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations', dies of gallbladder cancer at age 56 1983 Event Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington D.C. 1981 Death Joseph H Hirschhorn, U.S. art collector/founder H Museum, dies at 82 1981 Event Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes 1981 Event 1st Richard Nixon museum opens in San Clemente, California 1980 Event Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens 1972 Event American Museum of Immigration dedicated 1969 Death Robert Lehman, U.S. multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies 1968 Birthday Owen Wilson, born in Dallas, Texas, actor, writer, comedian, appeared in film, 'You, Me and Dupree', 'Starsky & Hutch', 'I Spy', 'Night at the Museum', 'The Darjeeling Unlimited' 1965 Event Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History 1964 Event San Francisco Fire Department Museum is dedicated 1963 Event Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum 1961 Event Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days 1961 Event NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd 1960 Birthday Helen Rees, director, Design Museum 1959 Event Guggenheim Museum, by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in N.Y.C. 1959 Death Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architect (Guggenheim Museum New York), dies at 89 1958 Birthday Dickie Thon, born in South Bend, Indiana, Richard William 'Dickie' Thon, baseball player, shortstop, played for Major League Baseball teams California Angels, Milwaukee Brewers, suffered Mike Torrez fastball facial injury, Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Famer, 2003 1958 Event Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk 1957 Birthday Glenn Hoddle, born in Hayes, London, soccer team manager for Swindon Town, formerly played for Swindon Town, National Football Museum Hall of Fame inductee 1955 Event Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 and becomes a floating museum 1951 Birthday Liz Phillips, born in New Jersey, composer, sound artist, interactive artist, creates sound installations relating to live forms, has held exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, collaborated with Merce Cunningham Dance Company 1951 Event Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Francisco opens 1949 Event 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1948 Birthday Michael Houlihan, director, Horniman Museum and Gardens 1944 Birthday R. J. B. Knight, deputy director, National Maritime Museum 1943 Death William H Singer, U.S. painter/collector (Singer Museum), dies at 75 1943 Birthday Ian Robertson, British museum director, National Army Museum 1942 Birthday Neil Chalmers, director, National History Museum, London 1939 Death Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder, dies at 70 1938 Event Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland 1937 Birthday Max Hebditch, director, Museum of London 1936 Birthday Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator 1935 Birthday Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director, Victoria and Albert Museum 1935 Event Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens 1935 Event Hague local museum opens 1931 Birthday David Wilson, director of British Museum, 1977-92 1931 Event 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks 1931 Birthday Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator 1929 Event New York City Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building 1929 Event Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City 1928 Event Railroad museum opens in Utrecht, Netherlands 1928 Birthday Garry Winogrand, born in New York City, New York, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations' 1927 Event Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum 1926 Birthday Pierre Janssen, art museum director 1926 Event Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens 1925 Event Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms 1924 Death Hans Thoma, painter, style reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites, works include 'Eve in Paradise', at the Frankfurt Museum, dies in Karlsruhe, Germany, at the age of 85 1924 Event Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens 1923 Event 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich 1923 Birthday Michael Jaffe, director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge England 1922 Event Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam 1921 Death Petrus Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93 1921 Event DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens 1919 Birthday John Cox, Flemish/U.S. painter/dir, Museum of Fine Physician, Boston 1916 Event Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam 1916 Birthday Robert Jesse Charleston, museum Curator 1916 Birthday Gene Mitchell, museum director 1914 Birthday James Pack, naval officer museum curator 1914 Event New York Museum of Science and Industry incorporated 1913 Event "Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered 1913 Event French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands 1912 Birthday Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator 1911 Birthday Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary 1909 Birthday John Baur, museum director/author, American Paintings in 19th Century 1909 Event Victoria and Albert Museum opens in London 1907 Birthday John Canaday, art critic, Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios 1906 Birthday John Walker, museum director 1906 Birthday Roye England, modeller/museum curator 1906 Event Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam 1906 Birthday Norman Cook, museum curator 1905 Birthday Trenchard Cox, museum director 1903 Event Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam 1902 Birthday Lucie Rie, born in Vienna, Austria, born Luzie Gomperz, potter, works displayed in collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York 1899 Birthday Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet, Teotihuacan 1899 Birthday Paul E Garber, U.S. founder/1st curator of National Air and Space Museum 1899 Event Victoria and Albert Museum foundation laid England 1897 Birthday Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director 1889 Event Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii 1885 Birthday Lionel Atwill, English/U.S. actor, Mystery of the Wax Museum 1883 Event A papyrus offered to British Museum for 10,000 pounds, forgery 1881 Event Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens 1879 Death Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies 1872 Event Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City 1870 Event Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in New York City 1869 Event American Museum of Natural History opens (New York City) 1869 Birthday Ales Hrdlicka, U.S., anthropologist and curator, US National Museum 1869 Birthday Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch founder, Kroller-Muller Museum 1868 Birthday William H Singer, U.S. painter/collector, Singer Museum, Laren 1865 Event PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport 1865 Event P. T. Barnum's museum burns down 1864 Event Fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans 1861 Birthday Solomon R Guggenheim, philanthropist, Guggenheim Museum New York City 1860 Birthday William C Mills, museum curator, excavated Ohio Indian mounds 1857 Birthday Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator 1856 Birthday Daniel Guggenheim, U.S., Guggenheim Museum 1839 Birthday Hans Thoma, born in Bernau, Germany, painter, style reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites, works include 'Eve in Paradise', at the Frankfurt Museum 1838 Event Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands 1827 Birthday Petrus J H Cuypers, architect, Amsterdam Museum, Central station 1813 Birthday Junius S. Morgan, U.S., merchant/philanthropist, Metro Museum of Art 1797 Birthday Anthony Panizzi, Librarian at British Museum 1778 Death Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76 1761 Birthday Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud, created wax museum 1759 Event British Museum opens in London 1759 Event British Museum opens in Montague House, London 1753 Birthday John Soane, English architect, Bank of England, Soane Museum 1753 Event British Museum forms and opens in 1759 1753 Death Hans Sloane, English physician (British Museum), dies at 92 1702 Birthday Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst, Dutch silk merchant, Teyler's Museum 1660 Birthday Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder, British Museum
