Curator's Chat
Check out this week's Curator's Chat with BCM Curator of Collections Jason French.
GCF Awards Behringer-Crawford Museum
Grant to Bring Covington Community Together
Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) has awarded $20,500 to Behringer-Crawford Museum for a Hispanic Culture Collaboration Project. The grant will be used to curate a traveling exhibit, providing cultural equity for Covington’s Latino youth and their families through a direct opportunity to tell their heritage stories and experiences.
April 30, 2024: Pride in the Skies: Northern Kentuckians in the Kentucky Aviation Hall of Fame with Marty Schadler
April 16, 2024: From River Rat to Steamboatman with Captain Don Sanders
April 2, 2024: The Man Who Saved Cincinnati with Peter Bronson
March 19, 2024: Thoroughbred Racing in Kentucky with Dr. James Claypool
March 5, 2024: NKY Movie Theaters
Feb. 20, 2024: From Old Latonia Racetrack to Turfway Park Racing and Gaming
Feb. 6, 2024: Coney Island Unveiled
Jan. 23, 2024: Kelley-Koett X-Ray Manufacturing
Jan. 9, 2024: Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence
Nov. 28, 2023: What a Find! An Early Log House in Kenton County
Nov. 14, 2023: Telling Stories Through Illustration, Writing & Design
Oct. 17, 2023: The Ohio River Way: Promoting Recreation, Connecting Communities and Celebrating the Ohio River Way of Life with Brewster Rhoads
Oct. 3, 2023: Two Faces of Kentucky Slavery: Henry Bibb and John W. Anderson
Sep. 20, 2023: The Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project with Wayne Onkst
Sep. 6, 2023: The History of Camp Ernst (1954-1979)
Aug. 23, 2023: Bobby Mackey
Aug. 9, 2023: Cemeteries and the National Register
July 26, 2023: Big Bone Lick State Historic Site, the Birthplace of Vertebrate Paleontology: National Honors and Accolades!
July 12, 2023: Centennial Celebration of Hope with St. Vincent de Paul
June 28, 2023: Women of the 18th Century: What were their Stories?
June 14, 2023: When the President Visited Kentucky
May 31, 2023: Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire with Robert Webster and David Brock
May 17, 2023: Safety, Diving and Education on the Ohio: Boone County Water Rescue
May 3, 2023: The Monitor Class Ironclads, At the Dawn of Industrialized Warfare
April 19, 2023: Horsecars and Streetcars of Kentucky from 1860-1950
April 5, 2023: On the Fringe of Society: Revitalizing Historic Payne Hollow
March 22, 2023: Newport: Sin City
March 8, 2023: Webbed-feet on the Western Waters
Feb. 22, 2023: Never Give Up: A Vietnam Veteran's Memoir
Feb. 8, 2023: The Rise to Stardom of Kentucky's Most Famous Rolls-Royce with Jamie Schworer
Jan. 25, 2023: Cincinnati Scavenger on Location: Around the Corner Fabrics and the KY Theatre with Kathryn Witt
Jan. 11, 2023: The Margaret Garner Story with Kareem Simpson
Nov. 30, 2022: Oldest Northern Kentucky with Rick Pender
Nov. 16, 2022: Rosemary Clooney House Museum
Nov. 2, 2022: Lafayette's Farewell Tour
Oct. 19, 2022: Faces of the Deep with John & Martha Lange
Oct. 5, 2022: Ludlow Lagoon
Sept. 21, 2022: The Baker Hunt Legacy
Sept. 7, 2022: The History of YMCA Camp Ernst
Aug. 24, 2022: The History of Funeral Homes in Kenton County
Aug. 10, 2022: The Covington Flood Wall Murals
July 27, 2022: The History of the Campbell & Kenton County Police Departments
July 13, 2022: How Playing Sports and Growing up in Silver Grove Led to a Lifetime of Friends, Memories & Stories
June 29, 2022: Past, Present and Future of Ludlow's Destination Economy
June 15, 2022: Workers on the Dinsmore Farm
June 1, 2022: General James Taylor and his Relationships with People of Color
May 18, 2022: Setting the Stage in Mainstrasse: Mike's Music: A Hometown Hub for Original Music
May 4, 2022: Home Sweet Home: Music of NKY
April 20, 2022: Old Thyme Whiskey of NKY
April 6, 2022: Dedicated Research & Digging in Behringer's Journals
March 23, 2022: Where did Artist Naomi Bradford Meet a Horse Named Henry?
March 9, 2022: Little Britain Carriage House: Clocks, Locks, Arrowheads & Antiquities
Feb. 23, 2022: Mary Bruce Sharon: Painted Memories
Feb. 9, 2022: Haunted History: Ghost Stories & Urban Legends of NKY
Jan. 26, 2022: Sisters: How Nuns Shaped Northern Kentucky
Jan. 12, 2022: Does Your Home Have History?
Dec. 1, 2021: This County was Built on Bourbon
Nov. 17, 2021: Remembering a Patriot, Private John Swindle
Nov. 3, 2021: The Civil War in Boone County, Kentucky
Oct. 20, 2021: The Alligators of Prisoners Lake
Oct. 6, 2021: From the Mound to the Hill - Jim Bunning - Remembering and Honoring a Local Hero
Sept. 22, 2021: Peace, Bricks & Happiness
Sept. 8, 2021: Diverse Diamond; An Introduction to Negro League, Cuban and Latin American Baseball
Aug. 25, 2021: "You'd Be Home Now": Park Hills, Kentucky
Aug. 11, 2021: Covington Stars
July 28, 2021: Ludlow: How Transportation Transformed a City
July 14, 2021: Museum Marvels A Behind-the-Scenes Glimpse
June 30, 2021: Beverly Hills Supper Club
June 16, 2021: Our True Blues: The Story of the Covington Blue Sox
June 2, 2021: Northern Kentucky's Mystery Family Cemetery
May 26, 2021: 1889 Boone County Courthouse History and Renovation
May 19, 2021: Devou Park Beginnings Part II
May 12, 2021: Early Days: Devou Park Beginnings
May 5, 2021: The Boone County Timekeeper: Thomas Zane Roberts
April 28, 2021: Old Latonia, America's Most Beautiful Race Track
April 21, 2021: CVG - From Beginnings to New Heights
April 14, 2021: Mistakes & Murder: NKY's 18th Century Mysteries
April 7, 2021: The Women of Dinsmore
March 31, 2021: The Lives and Times of Clyde and Mary Middleton
March 24, 2021: Adventures in Archaeology
March 17, 2021: The Aftermath of the Battle of Perryville
March 10, 2021: William Goebel: NKY's Only 20th Century Governor...for Three Days
March 3, 2021: King Cholera in Covington, KY 1832-1873
Feb. 24, 2021: A Conversation about Covington's Cathedral
Feb. 17, 2021: It All Started at Pump #1: Stories of Early Bellevue, Kentucky
Feb. 10, 2021: Locks and Dams of the Ohio River
Feb. 3, 2021: Vent haven Museum: A Northern Kentucky Treasure
Jan. 27, 2021: A Century of Scouting: The History of Boy Scouts in NKY
Jan. 20, 2021: Sixty-Six Senators Who Served Kentucky
Jan. 13, 2021: Forbidden Fruit: The Story Behind the Fiery Beverly Hills Supper Club Inferno
Jan. 6, 2021: Thomas More University - A Century of Learning
Dec. 30, 2020: Organizing for Action: Women's Suffrage in Northern Kentucky
Dec. 9, 2020: Everyday People, Life in Covington 1840-1940
Dec. 2, 2020: Cincinnati Winter Holiday Traditions
Nov. 18, 2020: Murder on the Ohio Belle
Nov. 11, 2020: Flying High: Kentucky Women in Aviation History
Nov. 6, 2020: Kentucky's Astronomer-General
Oct. 28, 2020: A Story of the Underground Railroad
Oct. 21, 2020: A History of the Adena and Hopewell Cultures in NKY
Oct. 7, 2020: NKY Women in the Arts
Sept. 23, 2020: In the Days of the Grand Water Power
Sept. 16, 2020: The Artist as Storyteller: Intersection of Art and History
Sept. 9, 2020: Rich Tapestry of Covington Neighborhoods
Sept. 2, 2020: Unwanted: A Murder Mystery of the Gilded Age
Aug. 26, 2020: KY Politics 101
Aug. 19, 2020: Hidden History of Kentucky Political Scandal
Aug. 12, 2020: Building Stories and History through Adaptive Reuse
Aug. 5, 2020: Camp Springs
July 29, 2020: Big Bone Lick Part 2
July 22, 2020: Big Bone Lick Part 1
July 15, 2020: Bavarian Brewery
July 8, 2020: NKY Revolutionary War Patriots
July 1, 2020: Engineers of the Fortification System
June 24, 2020: Citizens for Labor, Soldiers for Battle: Civil War Defenses of NKY
June 17, 2020: Making History: Inside the Museum
June 10, 2020: Southgate Street School, Newport
May 27, 2020: Ludlow Lagoon
BCM is on TV!
KET to Air Photography Documentary
Here I Am: Making Photographs with Malcolm Wilson, a documentary produced by Behringer-Crawford Museum in partnership with FotoFocus, will be featured on Kentucky Education Television (KET) next week.
The video, which spotlights the work of Wilson, a renowned Appalachian photographer, will be shown on KETKY, the network's Kentucky channel, on Monday, July 5, at 8:30 p.m.; Wednesday, July 7, at noon; and Thursday, July 8 at 5 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.
