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by columnist Madeline Karp I’ve been known to complain that Atlantic City is a culture vacuum. People don’t come to Atlantic City to take in Shakespeare, look at fine art or go to wine tastings. They come to go to get tanned, ogle half-naked girls …
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by columnist Madeline Karp There are two things in this life that I particularly love: early American history, and a good dramatic mystery. So of course, when news broke that Pennsylvania’s original copy of the Bill of Rights may have been found in the New …
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! German bomber salvage attempt postponed for a week Civil rights, history museums planned for Mississippi Museum brings makeover to crime-hit Marseille …
Mark your calendars for an amazing series by the Cambridge Historical Society this summer. They say:
For the fifth year in a row, Cambridge archives will open their doors and invite the public in to see the rare items that are rarely seen. “Working in local history you get to know all sorts of cool places that have amazing resources,” said Gavin W. Kleespies, director of the Cambridge Historical Society, “but most people never get inside these institutions or only know of a few of them. Our city is full of archival collections of photos, letters, and diaries that are breath taking, shocking, and comic-and they are all in the city of Cambridge. This is an opportunity for anyone who is interested to glimpse items from world class archives and talk with the experts who know these collections. ”
Residents and visitors will be given the opportunity to visit thirteen institutions in this year’s Open Archives program, including eight archives that have never participated before.
This year’s theme is Spaces: Sacred and Profane, and each archive will interpret this in their own way and delve into their collections to display materials, including photographs, correspondence, ephemera, and more that relate to that theme.
“This is the largest archives tour in America and one of the only archives tours open to people who do not work in libraries or museums.” continued Gavin. “Last year we saw Julia Child’s Emmy, a lock of Amelia Earhart’s hair, an x-ray of a Picasso sculpture, manuscripts from W.E.B. Du Bois, a real John Hancock signature, and posters advertising the Byrds’s concert at MIT. It is an amazing set of tours.”
Tours are offered between June 17 and 21. See this press release for specific dates, reservation info, and more.