Welcome to our weekly roundup of museums in the news! So sorry to have missed last week; we’ll try to make up for it with this week’s selections. Police: Woman Attacks Art At DC Museum Again Dutch city settles on looted Jan Steen painting Nitrate …
This is a great course of instruction offered fairly inexpensively by one of the best institutions in New England. What’s not to love? Register Now for NEDCC’s Fall 2011 FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITIZATION WEBINAR SERIES Thursday, September 22 INTRODUCTION TO IMAGE CAPTURE Tuesday, September 27 DIGITAL …
Heads up on this potentially very fun evening!
Our next event will be Tuesday, August 30th at 6pm. We’ll be getting a behind the scenes look at the Bostonian Society’s Old State House with staff from the collections department and then heading to a bar nearby in Faneuil Hall or Downtown Crossing.To RSVP, please email BostonEMPs[at]gmail[dot]com
We’ve posted about this before, but I just finished reading my weekly newsletter from the CFM and thought that a reminder would be in order. If you are not yet following the work of the AAM’s Center for the Future of Museums, you really should …
Do you have a strategic plan for your museum career? Lots of museums have five or ten year strategic plans, but have you ever thought of doing one for yourself? At the very least, some goals and timeframes will help you aim for where you …
August 21, 2011 is the 100 year anniversary of the famous theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Paris. The painting disappeared for two years, stolen by Italian artist Vincenzo Peruggia.
Joe Medeiros is a comedic writer who has been obsessed with the theft for most of his life, and to commemorate the anniversary, he’s produced a documentary trying to examine the real reasons that Peruggia took the Mona Lisa, and what he did with it during those two years.
Check out the trailer, and then check out the documentary’s website for more information. We’ll be publishing an interview with Joe in the coming weeks, so keep an eye out for that.