Museums in the News – The April Showers Roundup

Museums in the News – The April Showers Roundup

Welcome to our weekly museums in the news roundup! Maine museum to get newly discovered 1840s murals (Rufus Porter Museum and Cultural Heritage Center, Brigton, Maine) 9/11 families don’t want remains underground at 9/11 museum (National 9/11 Memorial and Museum, New York, New York) Mississippi 

Museums in the News: The Roundup Thought This Was Spring?

Museums in the News: The Roundup Thought This Was Spring?

Welcome to our weekly museums in the news roundup. Italy offers to share disputed statue with Getty Museum (Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California) Castle museum shows why Charlie Brown was a real winner (Castle Museum, Santa Rosa, California) Selfridge Military Air Museum gets new displays 

Museums in the News – The Roundup Is Ready for Spring

Museums in the News – The Roundup Is Ready for Spring

Welcome to our weekly museums in the news roundup. Museum keeps pace despite changes and turmoil around the world (C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana) Children’s museum goes for regional appeal (San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum, San Diego, California) Raiding the Creation Museum with peaceful 

Museums in the News – The More Timely Roundup

Museums in the News – The More Timely Roundup

Welcome to our weekly museums in the news roundup! Attendance spikes at nuclear museum (National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuqueque, New Mexico) Museum will occupy former Real World House (Laogai Museum, Washington, D.C.) Bieber-worn kicks enshrined at Toronto shoe museum (Bata Shoe Museum, 

Japan

Japan

Though, as CultureGrrl points out, it is clearly too early to worry about and assess damage to museums and cultural sites in Japan, not before the human cost of the earthquake and tsunami has been addressed, it’s still good to hear Japanese museums check in. 

Museums in the News – The Overdue Roundup

Museums in the News – The Overdue Roundup

First: sorry for missing last week’s museum’s in the news roundup! I am not always as on top of my intrepid blog editor persona as I’d like to be. As a bonus, this week’s news roundup will be twice as long. I know you’re excited.