Continuing our fun series of museums featured in the movies, here’s a clip from the classic 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Ferris, his girlfriend Sloane, and his best friend Cameron, skip a day of school and cruise around Chicago. Hijinks ensue. This scene, set …
Imagine that each person in your family has 36 coupons per year as a clothing allowance. A coat might require fifteen coupons, while a scarf might require 2 coupons. How far can you stretch those coupons? What do you do if a clothing item gets …
The Victorian Society in America Summer Schools: Newport, RI, and London, England
STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURE, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS, DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE, LONDON
July 1 – July 15, 2012
Course leader Ian Cox, Director of the London Art Course at Christie’s Education, and a distinguished roster of scholars and museum experts provide an exhaustive survey of Victorian and Edwardian architecture, interior design and decorative arts, through lectures and in-depth site visits. The course also treats the history of London and issues of preservation and restoration of historic buildings. A highlight of the Summer School is the mid-course tour of Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester led by the former course director, the eminent architectural historian Gavin Stamp.
NEWPORT SUMMER SCHOOL
June 1 – June 10, 2012
Course leader Richard Guy Wilson, the Commonwealth Professor and Chair of Architectural History at the University of Virginia, and a distinguished roster of local experts and scholars provide a comprehensive survey of the 19th century focusing on Newport, the “queen” of American resorts. Through lectures and tours of public and private buildings, they address and de-construct architecture, interiors, landscape, city planning, fine and decorative arts of the second half of the 19th century. The course also addresses issues of “nuanced” restoration
and the preservation of structures.
The program is based at Salve Regina University in Newport. Summer cottages, built at the turn of the 20th century, comprise the campus. Students are housed in Ochre Lodge, designed by Dudley Newton in 1890.
HOW TO APPLY
Scholarships are available for current students and life-long learners. Details of this year’s programs and fees will be available by Dec. 1. Application deadline: Mar. 1. Contact Jennifer Carlquist, Victorian Society in America Summer Schools, ph: 612-280-7823, email: vsasummerschools@gmail.com
Website: www.victoriansociety.org
Copying this one right over from their newsletter; these all sound great and thanks to an IMLS grant they’re FREE. AASLH is able to offer the following webinar series free of charge with funding generously provided by an IMLS 21st Century Museum Professionals grant. Register …
Welcome to our weekly roundup of museums in the news – sorry this is going up a little bit later than usual! Ground Broken For New Benj. Franklin Museum In Old City Philadelphia Ceredigion Museum gives away vintage clothes collection Buttermilk makes debut at Heritage Farmstead …
We’re going to try an occasional series here of posting fun clips of museums in the movies.
Today’s is from my personal favorite museum movie of all time: the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. For those of you who haven’t seen the movie, you really need to. It’s about an art heist at the Met, and the people behind the heist. It has Renee Russo and Pierce Brosnan at their most suave and elegant and sexy.
If you haven’t seen the movie, do not watch this clip. It spoils the ending. But if you have seen the movie, or you don’t mind being spoiled, enjoy!