The Nichols House on Beacon Hill is planning a wonderful symposium on Friday, September 30 titled “Sustaining Heritage, Sustaining Communities.” To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its founding, the Nichols House Museum is pleased to present the symposium “Sustaining Heritage, Sustaining Communities: Museums and Historic …
Heads up, everyone. On Wednesday, September 21, there will be a museum tech meetup at the Cambridge Brewing Company in Kendall Square. Organized by Ed Rodley, exhibit designer extraordinaire at the Boston Museum of Science, these have been held regularly for a few months now, …
Welcome to our weekly roundup of museums in the news.
Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Baltimore could close
Smithsonian develops technique to date silk items
1965 Film About Mr. Potter’s Museum of Curiosities
Field Museum’s McCarter to retire
Oakland museum cancels Palestinian kids’ war art
Judge throws out lawsuit over Custer museum raids
A Museum of Repression Aims to Shock the Conscience
Fla. museum told to hold painting allegedly looted by Nazis
Coming Soon: The National Museum for African American Music
How Tech Is Changing the Museum Experience
Touring David Copperfield’s Personal Museum of Antique Curiosities
There’s a great conference out at UMass Amherst next weekend, September 23-24, taking a look at the future of the public history field. Nina Simon, author of The Participatory Museum and the blog Museum 2.0 will be doing a workshop on Saturday afternoon. Check out …
I’ll copy this right from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, because they say it best. But the gist is that they gave $1 million to 14 Boston-area sites, and now those sites are opening up for free or reduced admission on Saturday, September 17. …
Heads up! The deadline to apply for scholarships for the 2011 NEMA Fall Conference has been extended to September 23.
Learn more about the scholarships here, and more about the conference here.