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Ryan Gosling Loves Museums

Ryan Gosling Loves Museums

Ah, the internet, which can take anything and turn it into an endlessly hilarious, self-replicating meme. In other news, Ryan Gosling apparently really loves museums.

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our weekly roundup of museums in the news, and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! Eva Longoria Pushes For National Latino Museum After ‘Problem-Plagued’ Mexican American Center The Museum as Sacred Place Fredericksburg slavery museum finances questioned Jonathan Kay: Three reasons why Winnipeg’s 

Davis Art Museum @ Wellesley College: New Gallery App

Davis Art Museum @ Wellesley College: New Gallery App

Wellesley alum Hannah Heller, who’s now an MA candidate in Museum Education at Tufts, sent us this great video about the development of the new app for the Wellesley College art museum. It looks like an interestingly interactive model, prompting visitors to really engage with objects on a thoughtful, emotional level.

Behind-the-scenes Tour of NEDCC?

Behind-the-scenes Tour of NEDCC?

There is a possibility of a Tufts tour of the Northeast Document Conservation Center, learning about all the behind-the-scenes work these fabulous people do. Would you be interested? Please take a moment to answer this poll and help us plan. [poll id=”5″]

Here and There: Get Your Hands Dirty

Here and There: Get Your Hands Dirty

Here: First, drop in between 11am and 2pm on January 28 at the deCordova’s one day installation, Snowdecahedron. Join local artist Dan Sternof Beyer and participate in making snow sculptures. There: Next, sign up for a two day pottery workshop at Fuller Craft Museum on 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Sorry this is a bit late! Hopefully the articles will be extra-interesting to make up for it.

Hampton Roads museums adapt to challenging times

Incoming KMAC Director Envisions Efficient Museum With Contemporary Exhibits

Museum director eagerly awaits the day she can welcome visitors

UNI Museum in Cedar Falls Faces Uncertain Future

Two Visitors to the New Museum Claim They Got Ear Infections From Carsten Höller’s ‘Psycho Tank’

An art history mystery at Worcester Art Museum

Integrating the Museum into the City, the new SFMOMA expansion

China built a ridiculously science fictional museum in a city where nobody lives

Museum’s moral tragedy

South Africa gallows site becomes museum, memorial

National Mounted Warfare Museum planned at Fort Hood

Accessible Frank Lloyd Wright House To Become Museum

Metropolitan Museum Provides a Trove of Images for Google Goggles

Rights museum left in lurch: Opening delayed; out of money; a top executive quits

A detective’s work at the MFA

Sigma Corporation Partners with Sculptor to Spotlight Underwater Museum