Wellesley alum Hannah Heller, who’s now an MA candidate in Museum Education at Tufts, sent us this great video about the development of the new app for the Wellesley College art museum. It looks like an interestingly interactive model, prompting visitors to really engage with objects on a thoughtful, emotional level.
Month: December 2011 (Page 2 of 5)
Here: First, drop in between 11am and 2pm on January 28 at the deCordova’s one day installation, Snowdecahedron. Join local artist Dan Sternof Beyer and participate in making snow sculptures.
There: Next, sign up for a two day pottery workshop at Fuller Craft Museum on February 8 and 15. Suitable for beginners, this workshop covers pottery making tools and design and allows participants to make one of three types of terra cotta vessels.
Visit deCordova for more information about Snowdecahedron. Free with museum admission.
Visit Fuller Craft Museum for more information about this and other workshops. $108 includes all materials.
Sorry this is a bit late! Hopefully the articles will be extra-interesting to make up for it.
Hampton Roads museums adapt to challenging times
Incoming KMAC Director Envisions Efficient Museum With Contemporary Exhibits
Museum director eagerly awaits the day she can welcome visitors
UNI Museum in Cedar Falls Faces Uncertain Future
Two Visitors to the New Museum Claim They Got Ear Infections From Carsten Höller’s ‘Psycho Tank’
An art history mystery at Worcester Art Museum
Integrating the Museum into the City, the new SFMOMA expansion
China built a ridiculously science fictional museum in a city where nobody lives
South Africa gallows site becomes museum, memorial
National Mounted Warfare Museum planned at Fort Hood
Accessible Frank Lloyd Wright House To Become Museum
Metropolitan Museum Provides a Trove of Images for Google Goggles
Rights museum left in lurch: Opening delayed; out of money; a top executive quits
Sigma Corporation Partners with Sculptor to Spotlight Underwater Museum
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