Heads up everyone: a month from yesterday is the first day of classes for the Fall 2012 semester at Tufts University. Those students I’ve been hearing from haven’t been resting on their laurels this summer – the Tufts Museum Studies program has been venturing hither …
Nice and timely, two very interesting and very different ways in which museums and archives are crowdsourcing their materials. In case you’ve never heard of it, “crowdsourcing” is a term used to refer to the placement of a task – or more usually a very …
Welcome to our weekly roundup of museums in the news!
Walmart Donates $20M to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to Sponsor Admission
Atheist Group Wants 9/11 Cross Removed from Museum
Chicago museum’s unearthed Soviet posters a diary of war
Met Museum to send 19 artifacts to Egypt next week
Connecticut Trolley Museum Vandalized
Tomblin orders review of State Museum’s coal displays
Organizing a museum outing prompts a twinge of sympathy for Congress
Museum Shows History and Power of Wind Energy
Jersey City Museum Unlikely To Reopen
Corruption scandal tears apart Moscow’s largest museum
Moscow Sex Museum Is Latest Undertaking On For Former Presidential Candidate Alexander Donskoy
New York Times art critic Holland Cotter seems to be arguing for the death of the encylcopedic museum. What do you think?
The always-interesting blog Asking Audiences, which is the voice of Slover-Linett Strategies, has a good response to the recent Onion article that cleverly (and painfully!) characterizes art museums as “art jails.” The Onion’s art museum joke is worth taking seriously
Some lovely historic photographs for you of an innovative educational program at the Sunderland Museum.
It would never, ever fly today.