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Stockbridge, Mass. – December 19, 2024 – Norman Rockwell Museum announces today, the 2025 lineup of exhibitions, and highlights some key events and programs in the coming year. Continuing its focus on the breadth of American illustration art, the Museum offers three major exhibition opportunities, and three collection highlight installations. Visitors can explore diverse eras and forms of visual storytelling, including classic works by Rockwell, intricate photographic illustrations by Walter Wick, narrative portraits of notable women by Anita Kunz, cartoon art by the legendary artists of the Famous Cartoonist Course, and the striking published art of the Jazz Age...

Today “Original Sisters’’ feels urgent. It’s a heartening tether between untold histories and a threatening future. As a woman standing in Kunz’s hall of sisters, I felt a knot inside me loosen. Look who we are, I thought. Look what we can do...

When the Norman Rockwell Museum sent its “Imagining Freedom” exhibition on its international tour in 2018, something unusual accompanied artist Norman Rockwell’s famous Civil Rights images: a virtual reality experience. By sliding on headsets, 50,000 adventurous — and mostly younger — visitors connected “with almost every object in the exhibition through virtual reality,” said Rich Bradway, the museum’s digital innovation officer, and they interacted with how the art “connected to the culture and society.”

Electric light is something we take for granted. But just over 100 years ago, half of all homes in the U.S. were still dependent on gas lights and candles. In the 1920s, as the fledgling technology was introduced to more homes, Edison Mazda Lamps, a division of General Electric, began a marketing campaign exalting the warmth and impact of the incandescent light bulb.

From Tiny Tim to The Big Man and his bride, locals created quite a festive scene as NBC’s “Today Show” hosted by Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager broadcast from the front of The Red Lion Inn, courtesy of affiliate NBC 10 Boston’s evening anchor Priscilla Casper. The production was the first in a series from the network’s long-running news show highlighting America’s most festive Main Streets during the holiday season.

With Christmas now just weeks away, the TODAY Show is bringing back their beloved holiday series, “Merriest Main Street,” where they highlight towns and cities across the country full of holiday cheer and merriment, that attract crowds near and far. They are kicking off their third season of the series, with the town that is pictured in one of Norman Rockwell’s most famous holiday paintings “Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas.