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! Its Bubble Popped, Hirshhorn Takes Stock of the Future China Museum Shut Down as Exhibits Shown to Be Forgeries Getty Museum …
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 needs a good laugh now and again, and b) I’m a firm believer that running a museum education program is actually just an exercise in improv comedy. Continue reading Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: Whose Program is This Anyway?
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: …
By columnist Catherine Sigmond Let’s face it. English has become the global language, the lingua franca that links us all together. It’s also increasingly being recognized as the international language of science. For non-native English speakers, the necessity of being able to read, speak, and …
One week from today, the Boston EMPs will be hosting a free grant writing workshop with Christine Cunningham, Ph.D., the founder and director of the Museum of Science’s Engineering is Elementary program.
The EMPs are a fantastic group to get to know, so RSVP to BostonEMPs[at]gmail.com to save a spot.
The workshop will be held at 7pm on Wednesday, July 17 at the USS Constitution Museum (Charlestown Navy Yard Building 22 Boston, MA 02129 for your GPS needs.)