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Food for Thought: Making a Museum from Scratch

Food for Thought: Making a Museum from Scratch

In case you haven’t seen this, Ed Rodley at Thinking about Museums has had a really, really fascinating, thoughtful, and thought-provoking series of discussions lately. He’s playing out a thought experiment that starts with a basic premise: how would you create a museum from scratch? 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news articles about museums. NYC museum’s beer exhibit offers history on tap Academy’s New Movie Museum Designers: ‘Don’t Call It a Museum’ Contemporary Museum hopes to reopen Follow Museums Like Others Follow Sports Teams Kenya to open Africa’s first 

Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture

Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture

The Salzburg Global Seminar and IMLS have teamed up to produce a really interesting-looking report about “Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture.”

Go, download, and read it.

Reminder! John Falk Book Discussion & Drinking About Museum

Reminder! John Falk Book Discussion & Drinking About Museum

This is your reminder that the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is hosting not one but two fantastic professional development events next week. Everyone should try to make at least one of them! First up is on Wednesday, June 6. The NEMA Young and Emerging Professionals 

Boston EMP Event: Working for the Government

Boston EMP Event: Working for the Government

Copied right over from the Boston EMP announcement: Hello Boston EMPers! Interested in working for the government but daunted by all the paperwork, grade levels, and bureaucracy that goes into applying?  Come attend our June workshop – learn the basics of the application process and some of 

YEP Book Club & Networking

YEP Book Club & Networking

Heads up – the NEMA Young and Emerging Professionals and the Greater Boston Museum Educators Roundtable are teaming up to present a great night of discussion and networking at the DeCordova Sculpture Park & Museum.

Greater Boston Museum Educators’ Roundtable and the New England Museum Association Young and Emerging Museum Professionals bring you a discussion and question and answer session with John Falk, author of “Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience”.

Mr Falk will be joining the book club via Skype.

Join us for networking from 4:00pm-6:00pm and for Book Club with John Falk from 6:00pm – 8:00pm.

Please RSVP to both/either event by emailing Emily Silet at esilet@decordova.org

Interested in carpooling to the event? The New England Museum Association is helping to arrange carpooling to the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park for the event. Please contact Leslie Howard at leslie.howard@nemanet.org if you are interested in carpooling. Please be mindful that NEMA cannot guarantee carpool arrangements.