Wednesday Poll
One of the best ways to learn about museums is to visit museums. Lots of them. In class last week, several of us were remarking on how much fun it is to visit museums with fellow museum-folk. And so, a poll. Would you be interested in regular, recurring museum visits with members of the Tufts [...]
Gallery Educator Position
Just a heads up for everyone: we just posted a time-sensitive great new job on the Announcements page for a Gallery Educator at the ICA. They’re specifically looking for a Tufts student, so check it out! Gallery Educator – Institute of Contemporary Art
Museums in the News – The Roundup Is Ready for Spring
Welcome to our weekly museums in the news roundup. Museum keeps pace despite changes and turmoil around the world (C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana) Children’s museum goes for regional appeal (San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum, San Diego, California) Raiding the Creation Museum with peaceful pirate atheists (Creation Museum, Petersburg, Kentucky) Riverside Museum in Glasgow [...]
Museums: Educators or Collectors?
I recently finished reading Thomas Hoving’s memoir, Making the Mummies Dance. Hoving was director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1967 to 1977. He was a fascinating, polarizing figure, and passed away in 2009; his obituary in the New York Times is a thoughtful summation of his life and work. Hoving had clear, definite [...]
Especially for Me: Innovative Ways Museums Can Support Visitors of All Abilities
The registration deadline for this workshop is TODAY – so run, don’t walk, and sign up! *** Especially for Me: Innovative Ways Museums Can Support Visitors of All Abilities Monday, March 28 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Wistariahurst Museum Holyoke, MA Registration Deadline: March 21, 2011 Registration Fee (lunch included): $50 NEMA members / $60 [...]
Museums in the News – The More Timely Roundup
Welcome to our weekly museums in the news roundup! Attendance spikes at nuclear museum (National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuqueque, New Mexico) Museum will occupy former Real World House (Laogai Museum, Washington, D.C.) Bieber-worn kicks enshrined at Toronto shoe museum (Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada) Film focuses on remote museum in Uzbekistan (Karakalpakstan [...]
Weekly Job Listings
Welcome to our weekly jobs report. As always, new jobs appear first on their own, separate job announcements page. Director of Education [Brookside Museum]The Director of Education for Brookside Museum, home of the Saratoga County Historical Society, is responsible for furthering the museum’s mission by providing high quality, technologically diverse education programs to a variety [...]
Improv at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
You might well have seen this already – it’s gone viral in museum circles – but just in case you haven’t: King Philip IV recently signed autographs in front of his Velazquez portrait at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Well, sort of. Scroll down and read the comments on Improv Everywhere’s write-up of the stunt. [...]
NEMA YEP Workshops
This week’s professional organization information is about some very useful and specifically targeted workshops for young and emerging museum professionals. We’ve talked about them before, but the first one, called “LEARN,” is coming up soon and you don’t want to miss it. Information below. *** The NEMA Young and Emerging Museum Professionals (YEPs) PAG understands [...]