Tufts Museum Studies Open House
If you are interested in the Tufts Museum Studies graduate program, make sure to attend the open house coming up this Wednesday, March 7 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. It promises to be a fun, informative talk, and I’m not just saying that because I’m one of the presenters. Come visit even if you’ve already [...]
Upcoming Lecture at Tufts
This sounds really interesting and right up the museum studies alley. Check it out if you can! March 5, 6 pm, art history department seminar room, 11 Talbot Ave. Lucia Allais, Princeton, The Salvage of Abu Simbel, or, Heritage as Technology Lucia Allais is Assistant Professor in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton [...]
Tufts Art History Graduate Research Conference
The Tufts University Art History Graduate Program would like to invite your students, faculty, and staff to attend its graduate student research conference. The theme of the conference is “Art and Exchange.” This year’s event will be held Saturday, March 10, 2012, from 9:30 to 3:45, with a keynote talk by Dennis Carr, Assistant Curator of Decorative [...]
Behind-the-scenes Tour of NEDCC?
There is a possibility of a Tufts tour of the Northeast Document Conservation Center, learning about all the behind-the-scenes work these fabulous people do. Would you be interested? Please take a moment to answer this poll and help us plan.
Roommate Sharing for NEMA
Are you going to NEMA? Do you need a hotel room? The conference hotel, the Hilton Hartford, has sold out, but a number of Tufts Museum Studies students are working on room-sharing agreements at a nearby hotel. If you are planning on going to NEMA but hesitant about hotel fees, let us know. Email amanda.gustin[at]gmail[dot]com [...]
Tufts Internship Orientation Meeting
Tomorrow night, and don’t miss it if you want to get started on your internship and complete your Tufts degree! Details below. Museum Studies Internship Orientation Session Wednesday, October 12, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m. Tisch Library, Room 304 All students who plan to start internships in the spring or who want a jumpstart on summer internships must [...]
Awesome Tufts Internships
Shannon Foley is finishing up her Museum Studies certificate with this terrific internship way out on the left coast: My internship at the San Diego History Center starts next week. A large bulk of my internship will consist of me helping the museum create accessible tours and programs for disabled visitors. I will also be [...]
Awesome Tufts Internships
Kristin Powers is finishing up her Museum Studies certificate with this fantastic internship: Kristin Powers is the Public Relations/Marketing and Exhibits intern at the Cambridge Historical Society. A graphic designer by trade, Kristin is working with the staff of CHS, housed in the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, a 17th and 18th century Tory mansion, to get the [...]
Awesome Tufts Internships
After an inexcusably long hiatus, we’re back with more Awesome Tufts Internships ™. Today we hear from Alexandra van den Berg, who is going into her second year in the History and Museum Studies MA degree. She wrote to us back in June, so she’s already moved on to the second portion of her internship [...]
Online Learning Reviews: The Brooklyn Children’s Museum
As mentioned, we’re doing occasional reviews of museum online learning opportunities written for the Spring 2012 class “Museums and Online Learning.” This author has preferred to remain anonymous. Brooklyn Children’s Museum’s Collections Central: Useful, But Not Much Fun Isn’t it the mission of a children’s museum to make learning fun? If I were a teacher [...]