Reynolda House Museum of American Art Signs On For Smithsoni

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Reynolda House Museum of American Art Signs On For Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day 2008

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Sharyn Turner
336.758.5580
sturner@reynoldahouse.org

or Sarah Mansell
336.758.5524
manselss@reynoldahouse.org

—Fourth Annual Museum Day Features Free General Admission on September 27, 2008—

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (September 23, 2008) — On Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, Reynolda House Museum of American Art will participate in the fourth annual Museum Day, presented by Smithsonian Magazine. Admission to Reynolda House is free this day for visitors who present the Museum Day Admission Card.

Museum Day is a day when museums and cultural institutions nationwide open their doors free of charge to Smithsonian magazine readers and Smithsonian.com visitors. A celebration of culture, learning, and the dissemination of knowledge, Smithsonian's Museum Day reflects the spirit of the magazine, and emulates the free-admission policy of the Smithsonian Institution's Washington, DC-based properties.

Last year nearly 100,000 people attended Museum Day. All 50 states plus Puerto Rico were represented by 651 participating museums. Reynolda House is one of five museums in the Piedmont Triad participating in Museum Day this year.

Two exhibitions are currently on display at Reynolda House, "Early American Portraits" and "A Country Takes Shape." On Friday, October 3, Reynolda House unveils its fall exhibition, "Seeing the City: Sloan's New York" with an opening party scheduled to start at 7 p.m. Reynolda House is the only venue in the South to host this exhibition, which will be on view through January 4, 2009.

Attendees must present Smithsonian magazine's Museum Day Admission Card to gain free entry at participating institutions. The Museum Day Admission Card is available in the September 2008 issue of Smithsonian magazine, and a downloadable version is available on the Museum Day website at smithsonianmag.com/museumday.

Founded in 1970 with the launch of Smithsonian magazine, Smithsonian Media—comprising Smithsonian magazine, Air & Space, goSmithsonian, Smithsonian Publishing Digital Network, Smithsonian Books and advertising for Smithsonian Channel—allows the intellectually curious to indulge and engage their passions for history, the arts, the natural world, culture, and travel. Smithsonian Media's flagship publication, Smithsonian magazine, has a circulation of more than two million. The multimedia network is also affiliated with the world' most visited museum and research complexes at the Smithsonian Institution. For more information, visit www.smithsonian.com, www.airandspacemag.com, and www.gosmithsonain.com.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of the nation's premier American art museums, with masterpieces by Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and Gilbert Stuart among its permanent collection. Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features traveling and original exhibitions, concerts, lectures, classes, film screenings, and other events. The museum is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the historic 1917 estate of Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband, Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Reynolda House and adjacent Reynolda Gardens and Reynolda Village feature a spectacular public garden, dining, shopping and walking trails. For more information, please visit reynoldahouse.org or call 336.758.5150.
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