MOAS Blog

The Museum Stores located at the Museum of Arts & Sciences and the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art are proud to feature local artists and designers. Both stores feature a variety of beautiful gift items and jewelry that are all locally and lovingly handmade. It is our pleasure to introduce you to...

Whether a person is one hundred years old or five, inquiring minds want to know, “What’s the deal with Pluto? Why do you astronomers hate Pluto? Why did you murder poor, sweet, little Pluto?” We don’t and we didn’t!  We love Pluto! 
Jason Schreiner, Planetarium Coordinator for the Lohman Planetarium at MOAS, recently collaborated on a distance learning event as a NASA Solar System Ambassador with the Artemis STEM Club of Salt Lake City, Utah. They covered a variety of topics, ranging from sleeping in space to the farthest away galaxy, but as any astronomer will tell you, there is one subject that comes up more than any other: Pluto. Here are their questions, and our answers on Pluto!

Currently on view in the Bouchelle Changing Gallery is an exhibition of decorative hand fans from the MOAS collection that was inspired by last year’s exhibition of fans owned by local collector Judy Bush. A special thanks to Judy and her network of fan experts for their help in researching this rare collection.

It is not uncommon to mistake a bat for a bird. Bats fly through the air and most of the time you will see them in the evening when it is harder to distinguish the two creatures. People used to believe bats were birds, they just didn’t have feathers.