Monday, August 31, 2009

Accreditation Celebration at NIC today

Holly Turner, director of the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, sends this invitation:

Please join us Monday (today) between noon and 7 p.m. for Accreditation Celebration Day!

We will be celebrating the museum's recent accreditation by the American Association of Museums. We will be offering all visitors:
  • FREE ADMISSION!
  • A first glimpse at the 24th annual Rocky Mountain Invitational Exhibition,features 85 works by about 60 artists from across the region
  • Special “behind the scenes tours” of the museum – at 2, 4 and 6 p.m.
  • A free gift for the first 50 visitors through the doors
  • Chances to win museum memberships and other great prizes
  • In the Discovery Center, Preschool Picassos (which is held from 1-2 p.m.) will be free
  • Free ongoing, silk screen printing workshop in the Discovery Center
  • Chance to enter prize drawing in The Museum Shop at the NIC

Says Holly: “We hope everyone will drop by, for a few minutes at least, to have a cookie with us, enjoy the art and see why the NIC has earned the highest national recognition for a museum.”