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Free December Webinars

Free December Webinars

Wild Apricot, which makes online membership software, has a really great blog. Each month, they do a roundup of free online webinars. (I think I’ve mentioned them before. They do a really great job.) Here’s this month’s. Highlights include: Playing by the Rules: Creating an 

Here and There: More Than One Way to Decorate a Tree

Here and There: More Than One Way to Decorate a Tree

Here: First, show some support for our own Sarah Duff and visit the exhibit she planned at the Andover Historical Society, Common Indecency. Tinsel and ornaments will seem so commonplace when you realize you could be decorating with corsets and vintage toilet paper. There: Next, 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our weekly roundup of museums in the news!

What car part should hang in a museum?

Human Zoos: Quai Branly Museum Puts Humans On Display

Time To Tweet The Art: Museum-Analytics.org Keeps Tabs On Curatorial Social Media

Utah’s new museum of natural history engages the senses: Rotting flesh and bird songs

Make Museums Free: The fight to move beyond placards and glass cases

Artist Fills Venerable French Museum with 80,000 Condoms

Smithsonian Black History Museum Accepts KKK Robes

Museum Of Colorado Prisons Showcases Creativity Behind Bars

Potential museum ordered to drop ‘Olympic’ from name

Art or Toy?

Art or Toy?

Last week, I visited the MFA with my friend and her five month old son, Lucas. We’re doing our part to create a museum advocate of the future. Lucas was especially engaged in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art. He remained content for a 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Sorry this is so late; blame the Atlanta airport, whose wifi wanted nothing to do with my laptop this morning. Lewis County museum votes to lay off paid staff Minnesota museum and town revel in Spam An $85 million endowment? The Still Museum can bank 

Help Plimoth Plantation

Help Plimoth Plantation

Happy Thanksgiving to those who are celebrating today!

Museum professionals and students aren’t exactly two crowds known for having lots of extra money, but if you can spare anything, Plimoth Plantation needs your help.

On Saturday, November 19, the Francis Cooke house at the living history museum burned down during a hearth cooking demonstration. Those of us who went down on the Boston EMP visit to Plimoth two weeks ago may remember that fire is a distressingly authentic threat to historic village even today.

In the spirit of the holidays, please consider donating even a small amount of money to one of New England’s landmark museums to help them rebuild the Francis Cooke house.