Month: March 2013

Science in Museums: MakerSpaces and Museums

Science in Museums: MakerSpaces and Museums

by columnist Cira Brown Last month, Artisan’s Asylum, a community craft studio in Somerville (and one of the largest in the world), held a weekend conference entitled, How To Build A MakerSpace. The “Make Movement” is borne out of the Do It Yourself philosophy, which 

Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: To Make Good Use of Dr. Seuss

Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: To Make Good Use of Dr. Seuss

by columnist Madeline Karp For those of you not up on your children’s authors, this weekend marked the 99th birthday of beloved children’s author, poet and illustrator Theodor Geisel a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. The Please Touch Museum celebrated by reading Dr. Seuss’s best-loved books at story 

Museums in the News

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, worth reading is an interesting op-ed from a Yale University senior about the “sanitized” presentations of museums that she’s encountered. Agree or disagree, it’s a very opinionated presentation. Read it here.