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Sheriff partners with children’s museum to build Safetyville
Private museums in Shanghai forced to close, seek new homes
IBM Building Smarter System for Louvre Museum
Medicine, Museums and Spoons Full of Sugar
The List #0060: Visit an Automotive Museum
9/11 Memorial Museum Remains Plan Opposed By Victims’ Families
Story Museum needs volunteers with tales to tell
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Something about the idea of emergency preparedness appeals to the obsessively organized part of me. Do you feel the same? If so, you might want to check out this upcoming meeting.
New England Regional Summit
Emergency Preparedness for Cultural Institutions
COSTEP MA is pleased to announce a second summit meeting for the New England statewide emergency preparedness organizations representing cultural organizations. These organizations include Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness (COSTEPs) and Alliance for Response groups in the region.
This meeting is open to the public and anyone interesting in learning more about emergency and disaster preparedness in their state is encouraged to attend.
· Date: Friday, March 23, 2012
· Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
· Location: Public Affairs Center (PAC) Room 136, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
· RSVP: By March 9, 2012 to Veronica Martzahl at veronica.martzahl@tufts.edu
Current Agenda:
Additional agenda items should be sent to Veronica Martzahl at veronica.martzahl@tufts.edu.
It’s right at Tufts – no excuse for not checking this great event out!
On Sunday, March 11, at 3pm, the Tufts Art Gallery is organizing a walkthrough of Nancy Holt: Sightlines with Contemporary Art Historian and Museum Director Chris McAuliffe. The one-hour tour will be followed by a small reception in the Remis Sculpture Court.
Please take a few minutes to help a fellow museum studies student out.
Leslie Howard, who’s completing an MA in Museum Studies from Harvard and is NEMA’s Membership Manager, is writing her thesis on collecting contemporary objects.
Do you have an opinion on whether museums should collect contemporary objects? Do you work at or know of an institution that is pursuing this? If so, please check out her survey.
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