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Month: July 2013
Learning from 100-year-old Museum Education
Check out this amazing story from the Sunderland Museum. In 1913, their curator came up with a program for blind visitors–adults and children–to let them explore objects. Architectural columns, historical gas masks, and scores of natural history specimens were included. Make sure you scroll to …
Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: I’ve Got a Bone to Pick
by columnist Madeline Karp
I think I might be desensitized to extra disgusting things. I regularly see kids eating things they definitely shouldn’t eat. I’ve seen lots and lots of blood spurting from noses and foreheads and knees after tumbles down stairs. I get sneezed on, and coughed on, and just this week a toddler wiped her wet thumb – fresh from a good thirty minutes of sucking – right down my neck.
Maybe it’s part of working at a children’s museum. Continue reading Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: I’ve Got a Bone to Pick
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! Its Bubble Popped, Hirshhorn Takes Stock of the Future China Museum Shut Down as Exhibits Shown to Be Forgeries Getty Museum …
Science in Museums: Science Museums and History of Science Museums
by columnist Cira Brown I’ve recently been doing a bit of work for the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, part of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. I love the CHSI and have used it and its exhibitions as a basis for some of …
Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: Whose Program is This Anyway?
by columnist Madeline Karp,
You may have heard that the great improv comedy show of the late ‘90’s Whose Line is it Anyway? is making a comeback this summer.
As museum professionals, I think it behooves us all to watch it. Why? Because a) everyone needs a good laugh now and again, and b) I’m a firm believer that running a museum education program is actually just an exercise in improv comedy. Continue reading Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: Whose Program is This Anyway?