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, I was sad to hear of E.L. Konigsburg’s death this week. Her book, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler made a huge impression on me as a kid and is still inspiring kids today. (I know, I led a Mixed-Up Files tour at the MFA earlier this year!) Read the NYTimes blog post here: The Legacy of an Author Lingers at the Met

• Hundreds flock for first glimpse inside Museum of the History of Polish Jews
• Rewinding History, Bush Museum Lets You Decide
• Denver Museum paleontologist discovers new dinosaur
• Quebec museum saves Cold-War submarine from the scrap heap
• Museum donation boxes: are they universally ignored?
• Holburne Museum appeals for bead basket funds
• Uruk, Possibly World’s First Metropolis, Is On View At Pergamon Museum In Berlin (PHOTOS)
• Moscow book museum enchants children with joyful reading
• Art museum receives national recognition
• Unfinished business at the Holocaust Museum
• Museum find proves exotic ‘big cat’ prowled British countryside a century ago
• Folk Art Museum to Sell Off Works at Sotheby’s for Chairman’s Debts