I know, I know – grad students don’t exactly have a ton of excess money floating around, so you’re a little hesitant about ponying up the cash for the NEMA conference this fall. You don’t have to go it alone, though! There are several scholarships …
The American Association for State and Local History’s Annual Conference is an amazingly good time for museum & history professionals, but this year it’s being held all the way across the country from us in Salt Lake City, Utah. If your student budget can’t stretch …
As you progress through your museum career (or really any career!), getting advice from those who have been there and done that is crucial. Do you want to be a decorative arts curator? Then talk to other decorative arts curators, find out what they do every day, and how they got to where they are. Talk to more than one. Find your own path with their examples as guides.
Here’s a great article about informational interviews: how to reach out and secure them, how to make sure they’re productive, and how they can help you.
Welcome to our weekly news roundup of news articles about museums! A day at Saratoga’s real Museum Museum Is Literally Spitting Out Burned Exhibits Every boyfriend’s nightmare: Inside Seoul’s new handbag museum How the Gardner’s garden grows: Nursing the Gardner Museum’s plants back to health At …
Tufts Adjunct Professor Margherita Desy sent us this ringing endorsement of an upcoming event at the Boston Athanaeum: I have been a member of the Athenaeum for many years and often bring my collections management in as a field trip. The Athenaeum’s collections run from fine arts …
NPR did a really wonderful little story on the idea of art revitalizing a town’s struggling economy, using the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA, as an example.
What do you think? Can art drive an economy? Does Mass MoCA just need a little more time? Do museums really drive as much revenue toward their communities as people claim, or should we be more realistic and talk more about intangible benefits?