Check out this amazing story from the Sunderland Museum. In 1913, their curator came up with a program for blind visitors–adults and children–to let them explore objects. Architectural columns, historical gas masks, and scores of natural history specimens were included. Make sure you scroll to …
by columnist Madeline Karp I think I might be desensitized to extra disgusting things. I regularly see kids eating things they definitely shouldn’t eat. I’ve seen lots and lots of blood spurting from noses and foreheads and knees after tumbles down stairs. I get sneezed …
Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange!
by columnist Cira Brown I’ve recently been doing a bit of work for the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, part of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. I love the CHSI and have used it and its exhibitions as a basis for some of …
by columnist Madeline Karp, You may have heard that the great improv comedy show of the late ‘90’s Whose Line is it Anyway? is making a comeback this summer. As museum professionals, I think it behooves us all to watch it. Why? Because a) everyone …
With summer classes at Tufts kicking off this week, we thought we’d offer a few suggestions for those of us who aren’t in class to keep up the good work. (Of course, our reading is all beach-worthy!)
This week’s recommendation is from Program Director, Cynthia Robinson:
Mary Kay Zuravleff’s fictitious but totally believable National Museum of Asian Art takes center stage in her funny and offbeat book, The Bowl Is Already Broken (2006). Zuravleff, who worked as an editor at the Smithsonian, used her insider’s knowledge to construct wickedly accurate depictions of the quirky but devoted people who work in museums and confront-or cause-many of the big and small issues that we discuss in “Museums Today.”
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Have a book you’d like to recommend? Email Phillippa at tuftsmuseumblog[at]gmail.com.