Hello friends and happy Monday! We have details of two events happening this week for museum professionals to share with you. One is happening tomorrow, Tuesday, October 1, and the other on Wednesday, October 2. Both events are FREE but do require advance registration. Using …
The American Land Museum: Places as Cultural Artifacts Curatorial Innovations Lecture. Free and Open to the Public. Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street Wednesday, April 17, 6:00 pm Matthew Coolidge, Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation The Center for Land Use Interpretation explores how …
“We can’t change the past but we can change history.” -Dr. Kymberly Pinder On Friday, March 29th, I attended Tufts University’s one-day symposium, “From Monument to Memorial: Space, Commemoration, and Representation in America Now.” Organized by the Department of Art and Art History, the symposium …
Humans have always been interested in unusual, curious, and odd things. For this reason unusual collections, both personal and in museums, exist throughout the world. This interest in collecting the unusual and interesting can be traced back to the cabinets of curiosity popular in 16th …
Please join RISD and Waterfire Providence for a symposium on the controversial artist intervention on the Rosa Parks House. The day begins with a tour of the project followed by panel discussions about art, preservation, and memory. This project brings up questions of race, artistic …
Wednesday, April 18, 6:00 pm Unseen Connections A Natural History of Cell Phones Joshua A. Bell, Curator of Globalization, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Cell phones are among people’s most prized possessions. They play an important role in daily life, …