Author: Amanda Gustin

The Museum Never Sleeps

The Museum Never Sleeps

This was going to go into our museums in the news roundup, but it’s too cool not to get its own post. John Kannenberg, audio artist, has sampled the daily and ambient sounds Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, Michigan along with a number 

Upcoming Lecture at Tufts

Upcoming Lecture at Tufts

This sounds really interesting and right up the museum studies alley. Check it out if you can! March 5, 6 pm, art history department seminar room, 11 Talbot Ave. Lucia Allais, Princeton, The Salvage of Abu Simbel, or, Heritage as Technology Lucia Allais is Assistant 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news articles about museums.

Students Create Wax Museum For President’s Day

Museum may lose Holocaust artifacts

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to launch its first online catalogue, Paintings of the Americas

A museum for American ingenuity?

Albania opens new museum wing on abuses during its former communist regime

Berkeley’s Artwork Loss Is a Museum’s Gain

New Museums to Shine a Spotlight on Civil Rights Era

E. Tenn. railroad museum back on track

My Visit to the Museum of Chinese in America

In Crisis-Wracked Greece, A Crime Wave Grips the Nation’s Museums and Cultural Sites

Renovation Turns Ship Museum into Modern Riverfront Manse

Moscow’s military museum – a journey through Russia’s history

Museums Advocacy Day 2012

Museums Advocacy Day 2012

Dear Museums Advocacy Day supporters, With just a few days to go until Museums Advocacy Day 2012 gets underway, we ask you to please share the following message with your members and networks: Museums Advocacy Day 2012 Webcast The American Association of Museums will be 

Stuff Museum People Say

Stuff Museum People Say

You may have heard of the “Stuff ___ Say” meme. They’re basically short videos of condensed humorous phrases that groups of people say. Here’s an example of my previous personal favorite of the genre: Stuff Riders Say. I say “previous,” because the intrepid staff at 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news stories about museums!

Blues museum planned for St. Louis riverfront

An Artist Ends Ties to Museum in Harlem

Kenner Mardi Gras Museum items go on the auction block

Peabody Essex Museum to pay Salem $53,000 in lieu of taxes

Nice Mob Museum you got there; it’d be a shame if it’s not a hit

The Getty Museum has a new director but an old problem

Is New Flying Museum ‘Fugly’?

Books Recycled Into Decorative Tower in Washington Museum

History Museum Wants You to Mail in Your Old Underwear

New Vegas museum highlights Mob bosses, tommy guns

Cincinnati museum merger a model for other cities?

Obama to speak at African American history museum’s groundbreaking

The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies

Vandalism At Detroit Historical Museum

Thieves loot Greece’s Ancient Olympia museum