Weekly Jobs Listing
Welcome to our weekly job listing. As always, job announcements go up immediately on their own page. Early Childhood Coordinator [Golisano Children's Museum]*Early Childhood Coordinator* The Golisano Children¹s Museum of Naples is currently recruiting an Early Childhood Coordinator. The Early Childhood Coordinator is responsible for developing, leading, overseeing, and evaluating a variety of inte… Science [...]
An Interview with Historypin Founder Nick Stanhope
Nick Stanhope, CEO of We Are What We Do and the founder/creator of Historypin, was kind enough to take some time out of his busy schedule of press promotion this week to talk to me about Historypin, and how he see it working with museums and archives. He has some really interesting ideas about how [...]
Best Exhibitions in America This Summer?
The Attic, our sibling blog over at the University of Leicester’s Museum Studies program, wants to know if anyone has suggestions for exhibitions and museums to see in the US this summer. Go, let them know about all the great stuff that we’re doing this side of the pond!
Historypin Review
So on Monday we announced the launch of Historypin, a really interesting new interactive history project. Users from all over the world can share digital content – stories, videos, photos – by “pinning” it to the Google Maps interface. Today we’ll have a quick review/overview of the nuts and bolts of the project, and then [...]
Awesome Tufts Internships
After an inexcusably long hiatus, we’re back with more Awesome Tufts Internships ™. Today we hear from Alexandra van den Berg, who is going into her second year in the History and Museum Studies MA degree. She wrote to us back in June, so she’s already moved on to the second portion of her internship [...]
NEA & NEH Funding
The AASLH, on top of things as always, has made it very easy to write in to your congressperson about the recent slash in funding for both the NEA and NEH: AASLH is a proud member of the National Humanities Alliance, and we are asking you to please write your Members of Congress and ask [...]
Historypin Launches
Get excited, because this is really, really cool, and it launches today. Historypin is a website that enables users to upload their own historical content – of any kind – and then tag it on Google Maps. It is then geo-cached and dated. You can layer historical streetviews over existing streetviews – or see the [...]
Museums in the News: The Summertime Edition
Welcome to our weekly museums in the news roundup! New York Museum Unveils Gaming Event The Tangier museum offers unique look at island A Welcome Mat? Not Always ANNE WILKES TUCKER: Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Houston Was Fort Worth museum’s statue hiding sordid sales history? ’17 Swedish Designers’ exhibit at Nordic Heritage [...]
Weekly Jobs Listing
You know the drill by now, but: job announcements always go up on their own page, and this is just a weekly roundup. Vice President, Education and Family Learning [Please Touch Museum]Please Touch Museum® Position Description Vice President Education & family learning** (**Universal Requirements for Vice Presidents noted immediately following Position Description) Reports To: Ex… [...]
Museum Advocacy
This seems sadly apropos for a week in which funding for the NEA and NEH has been cut again. AAM is doing two free museum advocacy webinars next week. Two FREE Upcoming Advocacy Programs – July 12 and July 13 AAM will offer two FREE programs next week, and we invite you to participate: August [...]