Month: March 2012

Survey on Contemporary Objects in History Museums

Survey on Contemporary Objects in History Museums

Please take a few minutes to help a fellow museum studies student out. Leslie Howard, who’s completing an MA in Museum Studies from Harvard and is NEMA’s Membership Manager, is writing her thesis on collecting contemporary objects. Do you have an opinion on whether museums 

Tufts Museum Studies Open House

Tufts Museum Studies Open House

If you are interested in the Tufts Museum Studies graduate program, make sure to attend the open house coming up this Wednesday, March 7 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. It promises to be a fun, informative talk, and I’m not just saying that because I’m 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news articles about museums.

Army history museum shows off remodel

Celebrating 10 years with 6 Museum School Instructors

Grimshaw Breaks Ground on the Miami Science Museum Which Will Be Its Own Living Exhibit

Bellevue’s Museum of Doll Art shuts for good on Thursday

Syfy Bringing ‘Igniters’ Campaign to the Museum of Natural History

Debt-ridden US National Slavery Museum to present reorganization plan in Virginia courtroom

Museum urges Frederick, Md., merchants to use Civil War ties to draw tourist business

House of the Day: Museum-Turned-Mansion in Savannah

Wang Shu’s Powerful Ningbo History Museum is Made of Rubble

London 2012: Olympics museum plans unveiled

Turkey Bans Loans to Museums in New York and London

Museum loses tax break A taxing situation for museum

The Museum Never Sleeps

The Museum Never Sleeps

This was going to go into our museums in the news roundup, but it’s too cool not to get its own post. John Kannenberg, audio artist, has sampled the daily and ambient sounds Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, Michigan along with a number