First things first: if you’re not reading Museum 2.0, you should be. Next, check out Nina Simon’s recent post, Six Museum-Related Blogs You Might Not Know About That Are Really Good. One of the blogs is local – Thinking about Exhibits is written by Ed …
We’ve linked to several news items in the past few weeks covering the removal of artwork at the National Gallery of Art and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Both museums have removed artwork from their galleries, either after public protest or the anticipation …
Welcome to the fifth Museums in the News roundup.
Canadian Museum Backs Smithsonian Protest (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC)
Disney gets weird (proposed movie based on a Disney theme park attraction called “Museum of the Weird”)
How much was street artist Blu paid for whitewashed MOCA mural? (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California)
Mastodon to be moved, gently and in pieces (Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio)
Immerse yourself in barbed wire at Devil’s Rope Museum (Devil’s Rope Museum, McLean, Texas)
Behind the scenes at the museum (Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina)
Lemieux lends memorabilia to museum for Winter Classic (Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
New license plates to benefit museum (Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces, New Mexico)
Namco Museum Megamix is a new compilation of classic video and arcade games. All well and good – companies try to re-release and cash in on their older products in the name of nostalgia all the time. (King’s Quest, anyone?) Namco is calling this release …
The IMLS is running a series of free webinars about caring for collections. Per their description: Using the content of the Connecting to Collections Bookshelf, Forums, and Workshops, these highly interactive webinars will connect you with experts and colleagues to discuss issues of common concern. …
Today we’re highlighting three very interesting and interrelated blogs that appear on our blogroll, to the lower right of these posts. All three write eloquently and with definite points of view about issues of security, cultural property, and legal implications in the museum world.
Museum Security Network – Primarily a news aggregation website for all things related to museum security. The Museum Security Network was founded by Ton Cremers, former head of security at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, and calls itself “the main channel for the distribution of news and information pertaining to cultural property protection, preservation, conservation, and security.”
Elginism – Really interesting blog about questions of cultural property. It has a definite point of view (the site’s name comes from its created definition of Elginism: “n. 1801. An act of cultural vandalism”) but a broad scope, and some really thoughtful exposition. Well worth following.
The Art Law Blog – Terrific and informative news about law in the art world, which naturally has a lot of crossover with museums. The mix of contemplative posts as well as current issues is especially good.