ExhibiTricks, a great museum design/exhibition blog, has a fantastic interview with Rachel Hellenga up this week. Hellenga talks about her background, museum skills, the exhibition process, and where museums are going next. Go check it out.
Wimpole Farm, a working farm run by the UK’s National Trust in Cambridgeshire, England, is hoping to capitalize on the internet obsession with FarmVille by opening up its operations to 10,000 internet fans. They’re calling the project MyFarm. By paying 30 pounds a year, internet …
Please think fondly today of your fellow students in the exhibitions class as they iron out last-minute details for their exhibition opening tonight. They’ve put in a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to bring this wonderful collection of photographs to the Tufts Art Gallery. (Well, we hope not too much blood. Or any, really.)
If you have any time at all free tonight, please swing by the exhibit opening – 5:30 to 8:30 tonight, with a gallery talk by artist Markham Starr at 6:00.
We’ve blogged about all of this before, so go and read up in our previous posts if you’d like.
A day late, but hopefully not a dollar short. Enjoy! Want to go to the museum? You’ll need at least $10 (various museums, California) Johnstown Flood Museum expands, honors David McCullough (Johnstown Flood Museum, Johnstown, Pennsylvania) Former employees accuse Ebenal of charging personal costs to …
Remember a few weeks ago we talked about the NEDCC’s webinar on risk assessment for disaster planning? It had limited spaces open, and came and went last week. Luckily for those of us who couldn’t attend the initial webinar, the lovely folks at NEDCC have …
As I’ve said, sorry for the radio silence! I won’t attempt to cover several weeks’ worth of museum news, but here are a selection of articles.
Tea party project has steep price (new Boston Tea Party Museum, Boston, Massachusetts)
Attackers in French museum damage controversial ‘Piss Christ’ (Collection Lambert, Avignon, France)
King Tut’s chair in a fashion line ad triggers uproar (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)
Johnny Cash’s childhood home to be turned into a museum (proposed museum, Dyess, Arkansas)
Big exhibit of Grandma Moses in Bennington, Vermont (Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art hits the market (LACMA, Los Angeles, California)
Florida museums expect big hit in upcoming budget (various museums, Florida)
Icelandic Penis Museum acquires human penis (Phallological Museum, Husavik, Iceland)
Great Barrington home to Civil Rights museum (Museum of Civil Rights Pioneers, Great Barrington, Massachusetts)
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis bids goodbye to Mookie (Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana)
National Latino Museum plan faces fight (proposed museum, Washington, D.C.)
New director named at Victoria and Albert Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England)
Austrian museum to return Nazi-stolen Klimt (Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg, Austria)
Scrimshaw stolen from Cape Cod museum (Cape Cod National Seashore Museum, Eastham, Massachusetts)
Most Smithsonian funding intact under budget deal (Smithsonian Museums, Washington, D.C.)
NY MoMath museum aims to add to mathematics appreciation (proposed museum, New York City, New York)
Exhibit highlights Civil War nurses (National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.)
Grammy Museum planned for the Mississippi Delta (proposed museum, Mississippi)
Catalina exhibit focuses on Norma Jean’s island time (Catalina Island Museum, Avalon, California)
Derby Museum showcases jockey great Bill Shoemaker (Kentucky Derby Museum, Louisville, Kentucky)
NY’s Irish-American museum leaving longtime home (Irish American Heritage Museum, Albany, New York)
New international UFO museum is on hold (proposed museum, Roswell, New Mexico)
Carlisle area military museum remains in Army’s cost-cutting crosshairs (Army Heritage and Information Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
Glitzy LA auto museum receives $100 million gift (Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, California)
CT scans of Egyptian mummy help Vermont solve crimes (Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont)