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Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our weekly roundup of museum news stories. Driving America: Henry Ford Museum Redefines Automotive History JFK library releases last of his secret tapes Apple’s Secret Museum Offer Clues to Inner Workings Philadelphia Museum of Art Guitar Pick Abu Dhabi Greenlights Its Mega-Museum Project 

Recap: Preparing Proposals for Conferences, a Boston EMP Workshop

Recap: Preparing Proposals for Conferences, a Boston EMP Workshop

On Thursday, January 19, several members of the Boston area Emerging Professionals Group, an affinity group of the American Association of Museums, met at the Diesel Cafe in Davis Square, Somerville, to hear a presentation about how to develop, write, and submit session proposals for 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news stories about museums.

Interview With Herb Tam of Museum of Chinese in America

Ammunition meant death in nation’s bloodiest war

American masters get new life at NYC’s Met museum

American art takes the stage at the Louvre with focus on landscape painting

Researchers, tribes clash over Native bones

Renzo Piano gets museum airborne

Back to school at a beloved museum

Rockford Art Museum curator plans more collaborations

Lawyer fights museum for Kevorkian art

renzo piano: isabella stewart gardner museum opens in boston

Adding sound to Children’s Museum exhibits

Saab museum up for sale as part of automaker’s liquidation

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Ohio opens library and archives to the public

AASLH Spring Workshops

AASLH Spring Workshops

AASLH does workshops all over the country, and we’re lucky enough to have a terrific one right in our backyard this spring, and the other a short train ride away. (They also have a great emerging professional scholarship program that you could use to attend 

Book Review: Museum Masters by Edward P. Alexander

Book Review: Museum Masters by Edward P. Alexander

In the new year, I’m hoping that the Tufts Museum Studies Blog will feature book reviews of interesting museological texts both old and new. These books will then be listed in our currently-anemic bibliography page, and linked back to their reviews. If you have a 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news stories about museums!

Underground Museum of Astronautics in Moscow

Quileute tribal museum show debunking Twilight movies opening in Washington, DC

Vegas museum to spotlight mob films

Texas museums seeing fewer school children, dwindling dollars

Civil War museums changing as view on war changes

Picasso Works Stolen From Greece’s Largest Art Museum

Charles Dickens Museum to shut for 200th anniversary year

Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opens new Renzo Piano-designed wing

US Slavery Museum in Va. denies $1.6M discrepancy

Time-Shifts And Discoveries At The Gardner Museum