Rainey Tisdale, one of our own professors here at Tufts, has been agitating for a museum to step up to collect the objects relating to the Boston Marathon bombing before they disappear. Listen to her in this interview on WBUR, which aired this morning: http://www.wbur.org/2013/04/23/saving-marathon-memorial-items.
by columnist Madeline Karp I had the good fortune to spend Passover with my cousins this year. Being closer to Philadelphia now, we don’t see our New York family members as often, so we jump at the chance to spend time with them. Especially if …
As a break from the other news that has been read, re-read, and read some more by those of us in Boston, here’s what happened in museums around the world this week.
Much like Boston, we’ll be returning to business as usual with our Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic and Science in Museum columns next week. We hope everyone is safe and well, and our thoughts are with those who were hurt, or whose friends and family were hurt in the events this week.
New England Museum Association Young and Emerging Museum Professionals have a great upcoming workshop for those in the field looking for more information on how volunteer and internship positions help start your museum career. Registration has been extended through early next week – register early, …
by editor Phillippa Pitts Museums talk a lot about being members of their communities, meeting niche needs and providing unique third spaces. Today, some of the museums in Boston stepped up beautifully. Below is just a rough screen capture snapshot of how our community responded …
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!
First: a very controversial exhibit at a Berlin Museum spurs this op-ed. Warning, the article and the exhibit may be offensive to some.