Food for Thought: Museums & Historic Sites
We’ll call this an occasional series, which means when we have content, we’ll run it. The basic idea is to present a quick idea and get you thinking. If any of our suggestions catch your eye, and you’d like to write a response post, we’d love to publish it. Leave a comment and we’ll be [...]
Museums in the News
Welcome to our weekly roundup of museum news stories. Driving America: Henry Ford Museum Redefines Automotive History JFK library releases last of his secret tapes Apple’s Secret Museum Offer Clues to Inner Workings Philadelphia Museum of Art Guitar Pick Abu Dhabi Greenlights Its Mega-Museum Project Inside Prada’s 24 Hour Museum Agency awards $5 million to [...]
Weekly Job Listing
Per usual, jobs go up immediately on their own page. Exhibition Research and Development Manager [Monterey Bay Aquarium]Exhibition Research and Development Manager The nonprofit Monterey Bay Aquarium has a single mission: to inspire conservation of the ocean. Through world-class living exhibits, education programs, wildlife research and by advocating for … Education Specialist [National Park Service, [...]
Recap: Preparing Proposals for Conferences, a Boston EMP Workshop
On Thursday, January 19, several members of the Boston area Emerging Professionals Group, an affinity group of the American Association of Museums, met at the Diesel Cafe in Davis Square, Somerville, to hear a presentation about how to develop, write, and submit session proposals for museum conferences. Presented by Kate McIntosh of Revitalizing Historic Sites [...]
Museums in the News
Welcome to our weekly roundup of news stories about museums. Interview With Herb Tam of Museum of Chinese in America Ammunition meant death in nation’s bloodiest war American masters get new life at NYC’s Met museum American art takes the stage at the Louvre with focus on landscape painting Researchers, tribes clash over Native bones [...]
Weekly Job Listing
Welcome to our weekly roundup of job postings. As always, make sure you check the job announcement page if you want to see jobs the second they go up. School Programs Manager [Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]School Programs Manager, MFA Houston Position Available at the MFAH *Title:* *School Programs Manager* *Status:* Accepting Applications *Location:* Law [...]
AASLH Spring Workshops
AASLH does workshops all over the country, and we’re lucky enough to have a terrific one right in our backyard this spring, and the other a short train ride away. (They also have a great emerging professional scholarship program that you could use to attend one of these workshops. The catch is that the deadline [...]
Book Review: Museum Masters by Edward P. Alexander
In the new year, I’m hoping that the Tufts Museum Studies Blog will feature book reviews of interesting museological texts both old and new. These books will then be listed in our currently-anemic bibliography page, and linked back to their reviews. If you have a book that you’ve enjoyed reading, and would like to write [...]
Museums in the News
Welcome to our weekly roundup of news stories about museums! Underground Museum of Astronautics in Moscow Quileute tribal museum show debunking Twilight movies opening in Washington, DC Vegas museum to spotlight mob films Texas museums seeing fewer school children, dwindling dollars Civil War museums changing as view on war changes Picasso Works Stolen From Greece’s Largest [...]
Weekly Jobs Listing
Welcome to our weekly roundup of jobs. As always, they go up immediately on their own page. Director of Public Programming [Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]Director of Program Planning, IS Gardner Museum, Boston * * *Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum* *POSITION DESCRIPTION* *Position Title: *Director of Program Planning *Department: [...]