Not “news,” but don’t miss a TED talk with the director of the Met! 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! A vistor to the Tate Modern tags …
Everyone’s talking aNEMA NEMA NEMA in the run up to their conference this November, (and for good reason, it’s a great opportunity to meet and chat with the people who are coming up with ideas and moving the cogs in our regional museum community.) But …
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!
Baltimore museum could reclaim Renoir sold at flea market for $7
Irish Famine Museum Opening at Conn. University
Seattle Art Museum’s New Exhibit: Women Take Over
American Museum of Magic still a wonder to its director
A German Museum Restages the Seminal 1912 Exhibition That Made Modernism Cool
Einstein’s brain is now interactive iPad app
Museum offers ‘parental daycare’ for Justin Bieber fans
And an extra special congratulations to the Danforth Museum on their incredibly anonymous donation. They’re a museum who do excellent work, and deserve the rewards! Read more: Danforth Museum receives $500,000 gift
Happy Monday everyone!
From the Boston EMPs. If you’re not on their mailing list, shoot an email to the address below. On October 15th we will be hosting another National EMP workshop. The workshop will be based on curriculum developed by AAM and presented by Dan Yaeger, the …
A terrific-sounding series, relayed to us by Museum Studies certificate alum Gretchen Pineo, who’s doing an MA in Historic Preservation at BU right now. The American and New England Studies Program Announce Their 2012 Conversation Series: MATERIAL CULTURE Please Join Us For the First Meeting …
Great event, free to the public. Check it out, and if you go, write us a recap for the blog! The report they’re talking about can be found here.
“Critical Conversations: The State of History in the National Park Service”
In 2012, the Organization of American Historians released a report
critically examining the state of history in the National Parks. Imperiled
Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service reveals the
findings of four historians who embarked on the study in 2008. The report
identifies and addresses thirteen areas of concern. Our discussions will
focus on the History/Interpretation Divide; Partnerships for History; Fixed
and Fearful Interpretation; and Civic Engagement.At “Critical Conversations,” NPS staff tasked with the myriad
responsibilities of engaging the public with the past at the nation’s
parks– interpreters, historians, curators, and their colleagues-will
reflect on the report and its implications, and brainstorm ways to meet
identified challenges. What will it take for the NPS to “recommit to
history,” and where we might go from here?Join NPS staff and the UMass Boston History Department for an afternoon of
two consecutive roundtable discussions where participants will reflect on
the major findings of the OAH report; discussion with the audience will
follow.The roundtable discussions will be followed by a reception.
Where: Massachusetts Archives
220 Morrissey Blvd., Columbia Point, Boston
3rd floor, Room 315When: Friday, November 2, 2012
Time: 1:00-6:00 pm
Free and open to the public. Parking available.
Co-sponsored by University of Massachusetts Boston History Department, and
Boston National Historical ParkQuestions: contact Jane Becker, History Department, UMass Boston
jane.becker@umb.edu