Month: January 2011

Tufts Instructor Ken Turino in New Hampshire Public Television Documentary

Tufts Instructor Ken Turino in New Hampshire Public Television Documentary

“At the River’s Edge : An Oral History of Berlin, New Hampshire” Berlin, New Hampshire, in the heart of the Northern Forest, is a small city of approximately 10,000 people, best known for its paper mills and being the largest producer of newsprint in the 

Ring in the New Year with a NEMA Workshop

Ring in the New Year with a NEMA Workshop

Orphans in the Collections: Unclaimed and Abandoned Property Workshop Monday, January 24, 2011 Higgins Armory Museum Worcester, MA 10:00 a.m ~ 4:00 p.m. Registration Deadline:   January 17, 2011 Join us at the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, to discuss unclaimed and abandoned property issues and how 

Museums in the News – The Roundup Has Lost Count

Museums in the News – The Roundup Has Lost Count

Welcome to our museums in the news roundup! I have officially lost count of how many we’re up to now.

Hands-down my favorite headline of the week: Museum trains employed in snow battle (Swedish Railway Museum, Gävle and Ängelholm, Sweden)

National Museum of Play buys earliest known Monopoly game (Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York)

Indiana museum puts mastodon bones up for adoption (Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana)

Residents of Huntsville, Texas, say there’s more to life than death row (Texas Prison Museum, Hutsville, Texas)

4 of 7 Nevada state museums targeted for closure (Nevada)

The Eight Track Museum opens today in Deep Ellum (Eight Track Museum, Dallas, Texas)

Museum programs for Alzheimer’s patients show the power of art as therapy (Various Museums)

Touching stuff at the museum (North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, Raleigh, North Carolina)

Roy Neuberger: legendary investor dies at age 107 (Various Museums)

Science museum learns it’s tough to destroy a fruitcake (Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia)

Hold that obit; MoMA’s not dead (Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)

Museum wants to return objects, but there’s a hitch (Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York)

Popular reality show comes to National Motorcycle Museum (National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa)