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Guides for Gallery Hangouts Description: Peabody Essex Museum Guides for Gallery Hangouts are volunteer docents who host drop-in programs throughout the museum, with a special focus on family groups made up of multiple generations. Gallery hangouts are “pop-up” programs offered for up to two hours …
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Volunteers Needed Description: The “Castle of Nightmares”, a unique haunted tours event at Hammond Castle Museum, is looking for volunteers! Have you always wanted to haunt a real castle? We’ll be happy to help you obtain community service credit for your participation, which supports the …
On Thursday, October 1, the Royall House & Slave Quarters is having an event at Tufts featuring a living history interpreter. Actress Tammy Denease will be performing a narrative inspired by the life of Belinda Sutton, a woman enslaved by the Royall family who later successfully petitioned the state for a pension after being freed.
Stop by the Crane Room on Tufts’s Medford campus from 6:00-7:00 to listen this important part of history.
This event is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Tufts University & The Royall House and Slave Quarters Museum, Medford MA
For years Tufts Technology Services held a small number of monthly licenses to Lynda.com—an encyclopedic self-paced digital learning library. Now the entire Tufts community has unlimited access to this robust technical training library with just their Tufts username and password. One of my favorite things …
Next Thursday, October 1, the Greater Boston Museum Educators Roundtable (GBMER) is hosting a “working lunch” at the Concord Museum to talk about green practices in museums and how educators can get involved in the topic. The discussion will be led by Sarah Sutton, author of …
If you’re looking for something fun to do, or have been putting of a museum because it’s too expensive, here’s your chance! This Saturday, September 26, is Museums Day Live, when many museums offer free admission for you and a guest when you show your “ticket” (sign up for an account at Smithsonian magazine).
Here is more information from BostonCentral.com:
“In the spirit of the Smithsonian Museums, which offer free admission every day, Museum Day Live! is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian magazine in which participating museums across the country open their doors to anyone presenting a Museum Day Live! ticket… for free.”
For more information, click here. For a map of participating museums (including museums outside of Boston) click here.