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Month: May 2011 (Page 3 of 4)

Museums in the News: The AAM Roundup

May 22, 2011 / / 0 Comments

I know some of you out there at AAM, and I’m trying very hard not to be jealous. Bring some fun stuff back for the rest of us, eh?

In the meantime: lots of fun and interesting news out there about museums this week!

Hands-down my favorite article of the week is Museum Manners from the Chicago Tribune, with a tongue-in-cheek, yet still thoughtful and informative, look at behavior and etiquette in different museum spaces.

Getty trust names James Cuno president and chief executive (Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California)

France returns first Maori head to New Zealand (various museums)

Met sues British painter to recover $2.5m painting (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)

Port Huron Museum fleet sales again (Port Huron Museum, Port Huron, Michigan)

P.S. 58 Students collaborate with Guggenheim Museum (Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York)

The real-life museum of Indiana Jones (traveling exhibition)

A new reason to visit Hangzhou (The China Comic and Animation Museum, Hangzhou, China)

Vienna museum settles with heir on Nazi-looted Schiele painting (Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria)

Architecture killed the American Folk Art Museum (American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York)

Palace museum apologizes for stolen relics, museum security to be heightened (Liang Yi Museum, Beijing, China)

‘Museum Companion to Los Angeles’ covers wide, weird ground (various museums)

Museum-goer accidentally waded into carpet of peanut butter exhibit (Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Ring stolen from Camden Yards museum (Camden Yards Museum, Baltimore, Maryland)

The Met’s narcissistic new outpost (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)

Cars so stunning, they’re in a museum (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France)

What does it mean to be museum-worthy? (National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.)

How an amateur stole $1.5m in art from China’s Forbidden City (Beijing, China)

Seneca County to sell museum because of state budget cutbacks (Seneca County Museum, Tiffin, Ohio)

Tunica’s Riverpark Museum flooded (Riverpark Museum, Tunica, Mississippi)

Penn museum offers rugs inverwoven with Afghan warfare (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

New perspective on Shelburne Museum (Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont)

Albert Einstein’s immigration papers on show for the first time (Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, United Kingdom)

New York City’s MoMA to buy Museum of Folk Art next door (Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Folk Art, New York, New York)

Should the Milwaukee Art Museum protest Ai Wei Wei’s detention? (Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Minnesota)

Weekly Job Listing

May 21, 2011 / / 0 Comments

Tons of new jobs this week! As always, jobs go up immediately on the job announcements page.

  • Coordinator of Education [Reynolda House Museum of American Art]Reynolda House Museum of American Art, an affiliate of Wake Forest University, has an opening for a Coordinator of Education,  FT with benefits.   Those interested in applying are encouraged to visit the Careers section of the Wake Forest University …
  • Volunteer Collection Assistants, Volunteer Administrative Assistants [Museum Village]Volunteer Collections Assistants are immediately needed to assist in ILMS and NYSCA grant-funded projects. This is a great opportunity for history, education and museum studies students to get professional growth experience at a living history museum. …
  • Collections Associate [Museum Village]Two paid positions as Collections Associates are immediately available to continue work on an ILMS grant funded project to inventory and photograph a large collection of American material culture from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century. The 35-40…
  • Director of Exhibition and Curatorial [The Franklin Institute]THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE DIRECTOR OF EXHIBITION & CURATORIAL Philadelphia, PA The Franklin Institute, founded in 1824 and housed in its current building since 1934, has a rich and storied history.  Today, the Institute is a premier science educ…
  • Education Director [Museum at Eldridge Street]MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET Posted: May 10, 2011. Open Until Filled Title:                 Education Director Reports to:        Executive Director Status:              Full-time, Sunday -Thursday The Museum at Eldridge Street…
  • Asssistant Director [Lincoln Heritage Museum]*Assistant Director, Lincoln Heritage Museum, Lincoln, IL *Lincoln College is seeking an Assistant Director for the Lincoln Heritage Museum one of central Illinois’s greatest tourist attractions and repositories of Lincoln collections. Candidates mu…
  • Art Handler [Worcester Historical Museum]ART HANDLER: Historical Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts seeks to fill the position of temporary Art Handler, responsible for the transport and care of its collection. This is a temporary, short-tem, non-benefited position. Qualifications: Reportin…
  • Studio Educator [Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is looking for a studio educator to plan and implement programs for the studio space in the museum’s new Renzo Piano-designed addition scheduled to open in January 2012.  You’ll find the job description below; it is…
  • Director of Collections and Exhibitions [Chrysler Museum of Art]Museum Search & Reference is pleased to announce the national search for the Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA. The Chrysler Museum seeks an experienced museum department head.  The new Dire…
  • Curator [Fairbanks House]Fairbanks House seeking a Curator The Fairbanks Family Association in America is seeking a full-time Curator to manage the Fairbanks House in Dedham, the oldest timber-frame structure in the country.   If you know anyone who has experience wit…

Lifelong Learning

May 13, 2011 / / 0 Comments

We all get a great education in the classroom through Tufts – but how to continue that process once we’re out in the big, bad real world? And how to apply the great lessons that we’re getting from the theory to the practice?

One of the best ways to keep learning and keep a critical eye is to keep visiting museums. Collect all the information you can – brochures, gallery guides, and photographs of labels, object placement, gallery layout, everything you can think of. (I once took a picture of where a bathroom door was located relative to a column as a sort of  “don’t try this at home, kids” bad example.)

So you get home from a museum trip and you’ve collected everything. Now what? That’s where I’m hoping you will help out – or at least start to think about for yourself.

Do you file everything by museum, or by type of literature? (A folder of gallery guides, or everything ever from the MFA?)

Do you cull through your photographs, or just dump them on your hard drive? Then do you file them by museum, or by example?

How do you flag your best and worst examples?

Do you put things online? Do you worry about copyright and privacy and exposing yourself if you do so, and develop a not-so-flattering opinion of the museum in question?

Talk about it here in comments, and at the very least – think about it. Developing your arsenal of examples is key to both your ongoing critical eye and your future career prospects.

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