Museums in the News

Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange! But first, here are the museum related Hurricane Sandy stories. There are others, and a quick search will bring up the continuing coverage of damage to New York’s galleries and historic sites, in Chelsea and elsewhere.

Special: Hurricane Sandy Section

• The Subways and Buses Are Back, and So Is the Transit Museum, with Free Admission Today
• Gov. Cuomo: Sept. 11 museum filled with water
• The 9/11 Museum Is Flooded With 5 Feet of Water
• Museum of Modern Art to Offer Presentation on Conserving Flood-Damaged Artworks
• Delaware Art Museum open for free after Sandy

In other news:

• American Independence Museum faces closure
• Museum Of Science And Industry Introduces Charlie Brown And The Great Exhibit
• Serendipitous Matchmaking of Art and Movement
• Expanded Neon Museum in Las Vegas reopens
• Funeral museums liven up the death industry
• NY Museum Stages First ‘Scent’ Exhibit
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Gets Major Gift from Zell Family Foundation