Everyone’s telling you that you have to network. Go out there and meet people! they say. Make your voice heard! Introduce yourself and make connections and do favors and it will all pay off down the road! And you say…that sounds great. Where on earth …
Welcome to a new occasional series on the Tufts Museum Studies blog. We’ll be interviewing all sorts of interesting people with intriguing perspectives on museums and issues that touch upon museums. If you would like to conduct an interview or suggest someone to be interviewed, …
Welcome to our weekly Museums in the News roundup!
Row over Mandela heritage museum (Nelson Mandela Museum, Mthatha, South Africa)
Some fossils are out of time at small California museum (Buena Vista Museum of Natural History, Bakersfield, California)
Chicago museum curator hunts for exhibit-worthy gadgets at CES (Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, Nevada)
Top Museum Shows of 2010 (Various Museums)
Las Vegas’s Neon Boneyard to open museum and public park this year (Neon Boneyard, Las Vegas, Nevada)
Smithsonian cafe features American Indian dishes (Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.)
The Corcoran, re-imagined (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Victoria Beckham bored by museum trip (Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, California)
Broad Museum is stripped of big ideas – but may gain plaza and new urban energy (Eli Broad Museum, Los Angeles, California)
DC university launches Iraqi museum residency (George Washington University Museum Studies)
An old friend returns to lead Concord Museum (Concord Museum, Concord, Massachusetts)
Asian Art Museum deal makes city liable for debt (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California)
Museum must decide whose human rights abuses will be featured – and how (Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Canada)
New Bedford museum holds ‘Moby Dick’ marathon (New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts)
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has a neat project up on its website: This Place Matters. “This Place Matters” is a simple Google Map on which any visitor to the site can pin a flag, marking a place that matters to them. The NTHP …
With the advent of the internet age, we all have a LOT more tools in our hands to begin to learn about specific organizations – and particularly specific museums. Whether you’re doing some research into a museum you’d like to work for, trying to get …
Please join the Boston Emerging Museum Professionals and the NEMA YEPs for a group tour of the NEW Art of the Americas wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The new wing has 53 new galleries and is the centerpiece of the museum’s recent expansion. The tour will be 1 hour long. After the tour, we can grab a bite to eat at the New American Café, Galleria or Garden Cafés (optional).
When: Sunday, January 23 at 11:00 am (please arrive 15-20 minutes early so that we can start on time)
Where: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue
The group entrance is the Linde Family Wing Entrance, located on the west side of the Museum.
Public Transportation: Green Line: MFA stop on E branch
Fenway stop on D branch
Orange Line: Ruggles
Bus #39
Cost: $18.00 per person
RSVP by January 12th to Leslie Howard via email- BostonEMPs[at]gmail[dot]com. Space is limited!