Norman Rockwell Museum

It’s Norman Rockwell’s birthday! To celebrate, Norman Rockwell Museum is offering free admission on Friday, February 3, 2012, to all Normans, Normas, and anyone else celebrating a birthday on that date!

The fun continues on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, when we will celebrate the 200th birthday of Rockwell’s literary hero, Charles Dickens! The Museum will offer free admission on that date to all Charlies, Charlenes, Chucks, and those who share the same birthday.

Educating Students for a Rapidly Changing World Thursday, February 23, 5:30 p.m. Join us for a community conversation about the nation’s most pressing topics. Free and open to the public. Reception will follow. RSVP’s encouraged. Upcoming Four Freedoms Forums will be held on Thursdays, March 29, and April 26, 5:30 p.m. Topics to include: growing up as [...]

Recently, Norman Rockwell Museum Curators Stephanie Plunkett and Joyce K. Schiller had the pleasure of teaching a course about the art of illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Chaired by award-winning illustrator Whitney Sherman, this Critical Seminar in the school’s outstanding new MFA Illustration Program explored diverse aspects of our visual [...]

Norman Rockwell Museum recently had the special honor of a visit from a man who is not only one of our generous art donors, but also a true innovator (in a field that is now a billion dollar industry)! Ralph H. Baer is considered “the father of video games”. Back in the late 1960s, this creative engineer developed the first of a series of games to play on a television screen, including the popular ping-pong game. 

Baer recently welcomed representatives from the Museum to his home in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he agreed to a videotaped interview about his remarkable career, and his unlikely connection to Norman Rockwell.