Welcome to our weekly museums in the news roundup! The Egyptian National Museum and other museums in Egypt continue to be very much in the news this week as officials assess damage from looting. One of the most interesting stories developing right now is the …
How’s this for engaging with the community: the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art (in Pittsburgh) have thrown their weight behind their football teams (that would be the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, respectively) in a really brilliant way. Here’s …
Musician Josh Ritter’s new album came out last May, and one of his tracks tells of a love story between an archaeologist and her mummy – their ups and downs, their joint academic career, and all the time they spend in museums. Ritter’s drummer, Liam Hurley, also happens to be a master puppeteer, and he used his skills to create the music video for the song.
NPR talks about the making of the music video here, and you can read the lyrics to “The Curse” here.
I’m a little sad that Ritter’s lyrics refer to a museum as a tomb, but that’s a small thing compared to the wonderful, creepy, touching, frightening artistic experience of this song.
What do you all think? Too weird? Just right?
[Admin note: This post, perhaps fittingly, is the 100th post here on the Tufts Museum Studies Blog. Here’s to 100 more!]
Next up in our continuing series is a more specialized organization. Don’t worry, we’ll be featuring organizations that cover all the wonderfully specific portions of the museum world as we go along! So, for those historians out there: the American Association for State and Local …