Architecture by Randall Stout Architects. Photograph by John Hamill.

myScoper.com proudly welcomes this weekend’s opening of our New Taubman Museum of Art. If you live in Southwest Virginia you have probably noticed this has been quite a week for change and new directions. The last thirty days have been gathering momentum with a critical mass mounting this weekend for what looks like an explosion of things to do! To help celebrate myScoper.com has created super-cool collectible buttons with fabulous art quotes and they are FREE!… We are sure if you take a gander around town you will be able to one for yourself! Heck take two and give one to a friend!

Eight years in the making our new museum is here and there is nothing to do this weekend but celebrate, and if you can’t get your fill at the museum remember to check the myScoper.com calendar because it is chock full of events, busting at the seams this weekend! Seems everyone has caught the fever! So get out this weekend and celebrate, somewhere…!

Here is the quick list of how to be part of Roanoke’s weekend in the International Spotlight!

Official Public Opening is TODAY – Better get in line early!

Admission to the Taubman Museum of Art on opening day, Nov. 8, 2008, will be FREE. But museum-goers will need a ticket to get in. Tickets will be handed out at the museum starting at 9am. They will be marked with a specific entry time for later that day.

Ribbon-Cutting/Press Conference at 10am Market Street
Grand Opening (ticketed entry to first group of ticket holders) at 11am Taubman Museum

There is plenty to do outside to from temporary tattoos to shadow puppets

Live Music Schedule – FREE-NESS right here!

11am :: Winds of the Blue Ridge
12pm :: Cheryl & Erin Lunsford
1pm :: The Hillbilly Hot Club
2pm :: The Magic Twig Community
3pm :: Dave Eakin and Steve Hoke
4pm :: Ruth
5pm :: William Haskins (aka Cloudy)
7pm :: DecembeRadio then Monkey Fuzz

Opening Lectures :: a.k.a meet the architect

The Building Explored: An Architectural Panel Discussion with Randall Stout, Benjamin Forgey and Joseph Giovannini Saturday, November 8, 2pm

Rethinking Landscape Considered: Viewpoints with David J. Brown, Allen G. Thomas, Jr., Dennis P. Weller, and Burk Uzzle Saturday, November 8, 4 pm

Current Exhibitions

Rethinking Landscape: Contemporary Photography from the Allen G. Thomas, Jr. Collection
In the Cataclysmic Calm
Selections from the Museum’s Permanent Collection
Earthly Delights: Judith Leiber Handbags
Pens and Needles: Drawings for Tattoos
17th Century Florentine Painting: Selections from the Haukohl Family Collection
Revo/Over is an interactive, digital art installation