Today’s “What We’re Reading” post comes to you from Ingrid Neuman, Tufts professor of the course Collections Care and Preservation and Conservator at the RISD Museum “The Custodians: How the Whitney is transforming the art of museum conservation”, The New Yorker, January 11, 2016 This article by …
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DOCENT (VOLUNTEER) Description: The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital explores the hospital’s more than 200 years of history and the groundbreaking research happening here today. Volunteer docents greet visitors, lead tours, and demonstrate pieces of technology and …
Tuesday, March 1, 6:00 pm
Destroying Images: Current Iconoclasm in Context
James Simpson, Chair, Department of English and Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Harvard University
The destruction of iconic images and monuments—iconoclasm—carried out today by extremists representing a wide range of political and religious views, makes many recoil in horror. This response, however, is in part derived from the fact that our Western cultures have themselves been fiercely iconoclastic. James Simpson will discuss the six classic phases of iconoclasm in European history and highlight the role that museums have played in protecting objects from major iconoclastic events. From this history, he will put current iconoclasm into perspective.
Lecture. Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and Harvard Semitic Museum
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Free event parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
We know how difficult it can be to keep up with current museum literature during your busy everyday life, particularly if you no longer have a syllabus to guide you. Our goal is to provide our readership with up-to-date information about a wide variety of topics that …
Today’s “What We’re Reading” post comes to you from Cynthia Robinson, director of the Tufts Museum Studies program. Many museums conduct professional development workshops for classroom teachers, but until now, most developed their own agendas, with little more than tradition to guide them. Recently, Alfredo …
We are officially kicking off a new series for the blog called “What We’re Reading.” We know how difficult it can be to keep up with current museum literature during your busy everyday life, particularly if you no longer have a syllabus to guide you. Our goal is to provide our readership with up-to-date information about a wide variety of topics that people actually find useful.
Each week, we will put out a call to you, our lovely readers, for suggestions of items such as:
If you come across something relevant, please submit it to us (along with a few short sentences about why you think it is particularly helpful) at tufts.museum.blog@gmail.com. We will post your suggestions as they come in, as well as adding them to our permanent What We’re Reading page.
So, please keep your eyes peeled and keep us in mind when you find something interesting!
Just as a reminder, the What We’re Reading page also compiles some helpful blogs that we check regularly.