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, a sad piece of local news. The Higgins Armory Museum will close in December of this year. Their amazing staff, inventive programs, and fantastic collection have definitely captured the museum field’s imagination. So sorry to see this team broken up! Read more on the Boston Globe’s website.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art is sued over ‘recommended’ admission
- Museum of Fine Arts offers a new way to experience work
- A Museum’s Games Are Not on Pedestals
- New ‘Creatures’ exhibit lights up Field Museum
- Stuttgart museum returns painting sold under Nazis
- Gifts to Gardner endows more curators
- Creating Engaging Museum Online Experiences: MoMA’s Digital Lounge
- Indianapolis Museum of Art announces staff reductions in cost-cutting move
- Italy Mobilizes to Rebuild Naples Science Museum
- Art marriage may yield L.A. mega-museum
- Doris Duke’s Shangri La museum
- Burke Museum on UW campus in Seattle shows problem with plastic (photo gallery)
- Discovery Museum will have window onto Earth
- Nassau Firefighters Museum Gives Out Free Smoke Detectors
- Online museum project unearths ‘filthy’ Van Dyck masterpiece
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