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How to make a great museum? Make your staff happy.

How to make a great museum? Make your staff happy.

The Happy Museum Project, which is putting together a really interesting assortment of studies, thinking, and initiatives (if you’re not getting their newsletter, go sign up!), just published an interesting article from Steve Gardam, Head of Live Programmes at the London Transport Museum. Gardam went 

Upcoming Boston EMP Events

Upcoming Boston EMP Events

Quoting this one directly from the Boston EMPs email: Hello Boston EMPers! This Thursday December 15th we will be having an informal happy hour at Meadhall in Cambridge.  The gastropub is near the Kendall/MIT stop on the Red Line.  We will start to gather around 

Here and There: Mixing Business with Pleasure

Here and There: Mixing Business with Pleasure

Here: First, sign up for Drawing in Pubs, a ten week session hosted by the MFA that meets in a different pub each Thursday and covers basic drawing skills in pencil and ink. Open to all levels over age 21.

Next: Get your tickets for the Gardner’s After Hours Opening Bash on January 19. Be one of the first to explore the new wing and revisit the historic galleries. There will be drinks, snacks, a concert in the concert hall, a band in the courtyard, art activities and more.

Visit the MFA for more information about Drawing in Pubs. January 5-March 15. $285.

Visit the Gardner for details, ticket options and to purchase tickets. January 19, 7pm. $40-60.

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news articles about museums. The museum website as a newspaper – an interview with Walker Art Center Museum treads careful line in ‘God(s)’ exhibit What’s in a museum’s name? Everything ‘Please touch,’ says new Utah natural history museum Maintaining 

NEMA YEP Book Club Poll

NEMA YEP Book Club Poll

The New England Museum Association’s Young & Emerging Professionals group is planning on hosting a book discussion in the near future. They’ve got a poll up asking which book we should all talk about, so go, vote, and then come to the meeting. (We’ll have 

NEMA Conference Survey

NEMA Conference Survey

Did you attend NEMA’s fall conference?

If so, they’re looking for some feedback.

Go, fill it out, and give your opinion. If you give them your thoughts by December 16, you’ll be entered to win a free conference registration for NEMA 2012.

If you missed filling out your little yellow evaluation sheets about a particular panel during the conference as well, you can do that online.