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! First, this week’s featured story: Van Gogh Museum 3D Prints Its Own Paintings. Although for now the price-tag makes them an expensive gift …
by columnist Madeline Karp You may have read this week that CNN Travel’s senior producer James Durston hates museums. If, like me, you work in a museum, Durston’s opinion piece may have really grilled your cheese. I’ll be the first to admit, I had steam …
by editor Phillippa Pitts
Games have been on my mind a lot this week. I know a lot of people who spend their incredible brainpower building games for museums, like Kellian Adams Pletcher with Murder at the Met, or Susan Edward with the Getty’s Switch (which I admire for its incredible simplicity!). I’ve even built a few games myself with SCVNGR. Nevertheless, I tend to approach gamification from a skeptical starting point.
This week, two new games crossed my desk that couldn’t be more different from each other: History Hero and Papers, Please.
by columnist Madeline Karp My family and I saw Lee Daniel’s The Butler last weekend. It sparked a family conversation about change over time. The main question: Can individuals – and then, by association, institutions – change? And what does it really take to implement …
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! First, what do you think? Should Scotland Yard open its grisly murder museum to the public? Read the article and share your …
by columnist Kacie Rice
My summer internship in Washington, D.C., has given me a great opportunity to explore a lot of new (to me) museums. This weekend, I checked out the National Building Museum, established by Act of Congress in 1980 and located in the historic 1887 Pension Bureau building in downtown Washington. The building itself is definitely befitting of a museum of architecture and city planning: the outside is an impressive red brick façade with a wraparound frieze depicting various military units, while the inside is a cavernous space supported by eight huge Corinthian columns. Multiple Presidents have held their inauguration balls inside the building, and it is regularly used for political events. Continue reading Science in Museums: Art and Science Collide at the National Building Museum