Author: Phillippa Pitts

Science in Museums: Sensory Science, Visualizing Climate Change

Science in Museums: Sensory Science, Visualizing Climate Change

by columnist Kacie Rice Those who have worked in scientific research know that it’s often a world ruled by numbers and formulas. Even studies based on a mineral’s color or an animal’s morphology (that is, its basic shape and look) have to be backed up 

Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: Meet the Museum! Hollis Bowe, Major Gifts Coordinator at Ford’s Theater, Washington DC

Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: Meet the Museum! Hollis Bowe, Major Gifts Coordinator at Ford’s Theater, Washington DC

by columnist Madeline Karp Welcome back to Dispatch’s on-going series Meet The Museum! This week we are talking to Hollis Bowe, Major Gifts Coordinator at Ford’s Theater in Washington DC. Hollis is a passionate advocate for big cats’ rights and a graduate of Tufts University!

Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: Castles (And Dragons and Mermaids) Made of Sand

Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: Castles (And Dragons and Mermaids) Made of Sand

by columnist Madeline Karp

I’ve been known to complain that Atlantic City is a culture vacuum. People don’t come to Atlantic City to take in Shakespeare, look at fine art or go to wine tastings. They come to go to get tanned, ogle half-naked girls at the beach, and get trashed on over-priced drinks at the beach bars. If you want refinement, the locals say here, go to Philadelphia. This is the Shore, baby.

So you can imagine my (pleasant) surprise when I stumbled across the 2013 World Championship Sand Sculpting Competition hosted right on the beach in Atlantic City. Twenty champions from around the world qualified to compete as solo artists and in pairs.

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Museums in the News

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! Museum accused of discriminating against gay families RAF Museum lifts Nazi bomber off floor of English Channel Oprah Winfrey donates $12 

Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: “Rights”-ful Ownership

Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: “Rights”-ful Ownership

by columnist Madeline Karp There are two things in this life that I particularly love: early American history, and a good dramatic mystery. So of course, when news broke that Pennsylvania’s original copy of the Bill of Rights may have been found in the New 

Museums in the News

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!