Museums in the News
Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange! US museum defends plan to honor Hamas-linked journalists killed in Gaza DC museum reverses decision to honor Hamas Free Fun Fridays at museums will begin in June Museum’s missing 100kg whale [...]
Museums in the News
Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange! Star Wars exhibit at Indiana St. Museum Art Review: Fighters With a Wardrobe to Match Princess Diana museum to close, contents to go to sons Column: Canada’s museums could learn from [...]
Quick – save the Marathon Bombing objects!
Rainey Tisdale, one of our own professors here at Tufts, has been agitating for a museum to step up to collect the objects relating to the Boston Marathon bombing before they disappear. Listen to her in this interview on WBUR, which aired this morning: http://www.wbur.org/2013/04/23/saving-marathon-memorial-items.
Museums in the News
As a break from the other news that has been read, re-read, and read some more by those of us in Boston, here’s what happened in museums around the world this week. Justin Bieber courts controversy after visiting Anne Frank museum and writing he hopes she ‘would have been a Belieber’ Netherlands’ national museum, the [...]
Museums in the News
Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange! First: a very controversial exhibit at a Berlin Museum spurs this op-ed. Warning, the article and the exhibit may be offensive to some. San Francisco’s Exploratorium museum set to open in [...]
Museums in the News
Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange! First, to start things out on a light-hearted note, read about the adventures of Cashew, an 18lb tortoise who made national news for three days last week (here and here). Then, [...]
Museums in the News
Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange! The big story remains the lawsuit against the Met over voluntary admission fees. Here’s the LA Time’s account for this week. Ellis Island Museum Re-Open ‘Not Likely’ in 2013 Mich. Museum [...]
Museums in the News
Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange! The big news this week, of course, is the FBI’s statement on the Gardner Museum heist over 20 years ago. Do you think we’ll ever see those pieces again? Hear ABC’s [...]
Museums in the News
Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange! But first, if you’re in New York, stop in at the Museum of Art and Design for their current exhibition, Imagining the Future Museum. From proposals to scrap the physical collection [...]
Museums in the News
Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange! But first, worth reading is an interesting op-ed from a Yale University senior about the “sanitized” presentations of museums that she’s encountered. Agree or disagree, it’s a very opinionated presentation. Read [...]