Greenwich On The Cheap » Bruce Museum http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com Bargains, deals and freebies where you'd least expect them Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:27:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A Reminder: Entrance to Bruce Museum is FREE on Tuesdays http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/a-reminder-entrance-to-bruce-museum-is-free-on-tuesdays/ http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/a-reminder-entrance-to-bruce-museum-is-free-on-tuesdays/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:06:46 +0000 admin http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/?p=1045 Stop in on a summer Tuesday with the kids to see the year-long exhibit (ending November 2010); EAT OR BE EATEN at our local excellently eclectic museum – the BRUCE. The fascinating and sometimes bizarre adaptations of predators and prey in the natural world is the focus of the year-long exhibition Eat or Be Eaten: Animal [...]]]> Stop in on a summer Tuesday with the kids to see the year-long exhibit (ending November 2010); EAT OR BE EATEN at our local excellently eclectic museum – the BRUCE.

The fascinating and sometimes bizarre adaptations of predators and prey in the natural world is the focus of the year-long exhibition Eat or Be Eaten: Animal Survival Strategies. In the complex web of life, animals have evolved a variety of strategies that help them find food and avoid becoming someone else’s meal in the struggle for survival. Over 70 specimens of insects, shells, fish, reptiles, mammals, and birds from the Bruce Museum collection illustrate how animals detect, capture and consume prey while minimizing risk from predators.

]]> http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/a-reminder-entrance-to-bruce-museum-is-free-on-tuesdays/feed/ 0 Bruce Museum Outdoor Crafts Festival; Saturday and Sunday May 22-23: 10am-5pm, $8 Admission Includes Museum Entry Fee http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/bruce-museum-outdoor-crafts-festival-saturday-and-sunday-may-22-23-10am-5pm-8-admission-includes-museum-entry-fee/ http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/bruce-museum-outdoor-crafts-festival-saturday-and-sunday-may-22-23-10am-5pm-8-admission-includes-museum-entry-fee/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 13:08:19 +0000 admin http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/?p=928 Some of the finest craftspeople in the country participate in the annual Bruce Museum Outdoor Crafts Festival, where you are bound to find a one-of-a-kind piece of art to wear, display or give as a terrific gift. The $8 admission includes entry into the Bruce Museum, which is now showcasing it’s own Costume Collection (watch [...]]]> Some of the finest craftspeople in the country participate in the annual Bruce Museum Outdoor Crafts Festival, where you are bound to find a one-of-a-kind piece of art to wear, display or give as a terrific gift. The $8 admission includes entry into the Bruce Museum, which is now showcasing it’s own Costume Collection (watch out Metropolitan Museum!); The Dressmaker’s Art.” The Outdoor crafts festival also includes family craft activities, live music and food (to purchase) – and is year after year one of the most fun and aesthetically rewarding festivals in Greenwich.

]]> http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/bruce-museum-outdoor-crafts-festival-saturday-and-sunday-may-22-23-10am-5pm-8-admission-includes-museum-entry-fee/feed/ 0 BRAIN CANCER: SEARCHING FOR A BREAKTHOUGH WITH GENE AND CELL THERAPY Symposium Open to the Public, Thursday January 28, 2010, 7:00 p.m., Bruce Museum http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/brain-cancer-searching-for-a-breakthough-with-gene-and-cell-therapy-symposium-open-to-the-public-thursday-january-28-2010-700-p-m-bruce-museum/ http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/brain-cancer-searching-for-a-breakthough-with-gene-and-cell-therapy-symposium-open-to-the-public-thursday-january-28-2010-700-p-m-bruce-museum/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:35:39 +0000 admin http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/?p=751 There were an estimated 22,070 new cases of brain and other nervous system cancers diagnosed in 2009 – that is approximately an eight percent increase in the incidence of brain cancer since 2005.  Of those diagnosed, 48 percent will survive.  The Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, the only national non-profit committed exclusively to cancer gene [...]]]> There were an estimated 22,070 new cases of brain and other nervous system cancers diagnosed in 2009 – that is approximately an eight percent increase in the incidence of brain cancer since 2005.  Of those diagnosed, 48 percent will survive.  The Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, the only national non-profit committed exclusively to cancer gene therapy research, is listening intently for good news regarding this insurgent form of cancer.  It is impossible not to address the apparent increased incidence of this disease, which has indiscriminately taken the lives of national celebrities, politicians, amongst them Senator Ted Kennedy, and local residents, including young children.  The time is now for us to all look at this issue together and sort out its causes and hope for the future.

The Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT), founded by local Greenwich residents Barbara and Edward Netter, is a leader in funding and promoting research into all forms of cancer.  ACGT is offering the topic of brain cancer for its 2010 educational program, with three highly credentialed leading scientists who will share insights and progress on innovative approaches to the treatment of this devastating disease using cells and genes as “medicine.”  In addition to the informal presentations and discussion amongst the presenters, the program will then be open to questions and answers. This presentation, which is free and open to the public, will be held onThursday, January 28, 2010, at 7:00 p.m., at the Bruce Museum, One Museum Drive, in Greenwich, Conn. For more information, please call Betty Condon at 203-358-8000 or email bcondon@acgtfoundation.org <mailto:fyoung@acgtfoundation.org> .

Robert Martuza, M.D., F.A.C.S., Chief of Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and William and Elizabeth Sweet Professor of Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, also a member of ACGT’s scientific advisory committee, will moderate the program, including two ACGT Research Fellows involved in innovative brain cancer projects, Miguel Sena-Esteves, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Neurology and Gene Therapy Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Antonio E. Chiocca, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University Medical Center and James Cancer Hospital.

]]> http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/brain-cancer-searching-for-a-breakthough-with-gene-and-cell-therapy-symposium-open-to-the-public-thursday-january-28-2010-700-p-m-bruce-museum/feed/ 0 Altogether Ooky, The Cartoons of Charles Addams at Bruce Museum; October 10th – Jan. 24th; Admission Free for Members, $7 for non-members http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/altogether-ooky-the-cartoons-of-charles-addams-at-bruce-museum-october-10th-jan-24th-admission-free-for-members-7-for-non-members/ http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/altogether-ooky-the-cartoons-of-charles-addams-at-bruce-museum-october-10th-jan-24th-admission-free-for-members-7-for-non-members/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:42:52 +0000 admin http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/?p=183 Once upon a time, Morticia and Gomez Addams were the sexiest Goth couple on TV.  I loved their casual disregard for correctness of any kind, be it political, social or material.  It was all about Family Values, really- and everyone, from Uncle Fester to Cousin It – could be counted on for support, togetherness, and in [...]]]> Once upon a time, Morticia and Gomez Addams were the sexiest Goth couple on TV.  I loved their casual disregard for correctness of any kind, be it political, social or material.  It was all about Family Values, really- and everyone, from Uncle Fester to Cousin It – could be counted on for support, togetherness, and in their own demented way, doing the right thing.  I was a huge fan of The Addams Family series – I really wanted to treat my own little brother like Wednesday treated Pugsly – and only later in life came to find that the television show was based on drawings by Charles Addams.

Now, just in time for the premier of the Addams Family Musical on Broadway, The Bruce Museum has put 40 Charles Addams original cartoons on exhibit. This give museum-goers an opportunity to see a select number of pieces representing Addams quirky, macabre sense of humor.

“Charles Addams, Cartoonist” runs from Sat. October 10th – January 24
Admission: Free for Members, $7 for non-members

]]> http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/altogether-ooky-the-cartoons-of-charles-addams-at-bruce-museum-october-10th-jan-24th-admission-free-for-members-7-for-non-members/feed/ 0 The Superb Bruce Museum; Free Admission on Tuesdays http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/the-superb-bruce-museum-free-admission-on-tuesdays/ http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/the-superb-bruce-museum-free-admission-on-tuesdays/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:02:45 +0000 admin http://www.greenwichonthecheap.com/?p=22 Way back in the dark ages of the 1960′s, my Mom would take me to the “old” Bruce Museum to kill an hour or two. I went gladly; the black-light “Space” room was cool and cutting edge. And even the grandma’s-attic-stuffed third floor – an assortment of birds eggs in their nests, glow [...]]]> Way back in the dark ages of the 1960′s, my Mom would take me to the “old” Bruce Museum to kill an hour or two. I went gladly; the black-light “Space” room was cool and cutting edge. And even the grandma’s-attic-stuffed third floor – an assortment of birds eggs in their nests, glow in the dark rocks and minerals- enticed me month after month.  In the early 1990′s, the Bruce went through extensive renovation, and remains a Fairfield County treasure. It’s been garnering increased recognition in the art world while maintaining it’s quirky “nature exhibit” side (the glow-in-the-dark rocks are still here.  And, as a tremendous bonus, one of the best and largest displays of huge minerals – such as a 4ft high hoodoo-shaped amethyst geode – I’ve ever seen).  The current exhibit – “The Mouse House; Art from the Olga Hirshhorn Collection” presents 201 tiny artworks in a space meant to replicate Hirshhorn’s 500 square foot apartment. The Bruce Musem is a bargain even with its modest $7 admission, but on Tuesdays, you can bring the next generation of Bruce appreciators for free.

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