by columnist Tegan Kehoe Students in this year’s Exhibition Planning class were given a challenge: choose an image that inspires you from the photographs in Historic New England’s exhibition, “The Camera’s Coast,” and use it as a jumping-off point for a full-blown exhibition plan. In …
Apply for a fourteen day course this August through Rutgers University. This special educational travel seminar to Rwanda and Ethiopia is designed for emerging scholars in the fields of Comparative Genocide Studies, Memory Studies, Museum Studies, Media Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History and cognate …
Next Wednesday, March 19, from 9-10:30 am, local legislators, artists, and cultural district stakeholders will convene at The Mary Baker Eddy Library for a MassCreative public hearing. They’ll be tackling the FY2015 budget, with perspectives from the individuals and institutions affected.
For the morning’s agenda, click here.
The Mary Baker Eddy Library is located a 200 Massachusetts Avenue, in Back Bay.
Here’s an exciting opportunity for current students (sorry alumni) to enter a competition for museum bloggers sponsored by Randi Korn & Associates. The deadline is April 1, so take some time and get your writing ready!
by columnist Tegan Kehoe This weekend, I went on a creative retreat of sorts, an annual event that I love. Two and a half days of intense time in a community I care about, several hundred friends and strangers in a hotel, being silly and …
The Greater Boston Museum Educators’ Roundtable is sponsoring a professional development event on March 13, 2014, from 1-4pm at Danforth Art.
Join colleagues for a discussion of how best
practices in customer service outside of the
museum field can be used to enhance the visitor
experience when applied cross-departmentally. A
panel including staff members from the Children’s
Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the MIT
Museum will consider the unique relationship
between museums’ Visitor Services and Education
departments and explore the benefits and
challenges of hybrid staff structures. Educators
will leave with a newfound understanding of what
a truly visitor-centered museum can look like and
practical ideas to implement at their own
institutions.