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Victorian Summer School

Victorian Summer School

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 

Free Webinars from AASLH

Free Webinars from AASLH

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 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

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 Museum

The return of the Rose Art Museum

Wal-Mart gives $5 million to help build Smithsonian black history museum on National Mall

Antique cars rolling into new Tacoma museum

Worcester Art Museum names new director

Watch the Construction of the Museum of Conan Art Exhibit

Visitors ride 3-story slide at NYC museum

Model T museum plans move to new E. Indiana site

Scientologists settle in at old science museum

BROOKLYN MUSEUM CELEBRATES THE ROARING TWENTIES

At the Metropolitan Museum, a New Wing, a New Vista

Concord Museum Crowdsources Upcoming Exhibition

Abu Dhabi museum island hit by more delays

New York City Health Officials Warn Museum About Skinny-Dip Exhibit

Museum director search starts over

Museums in the Movies: The Thomas Crown Affair

Museums in the Movies: The Thomas Crown Affair

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, 

Tales and Ales from Historic New England

Tales and Ales from Historic New England

Certificate students Sarah Margerum brings us this review of a recent museum event. If you’d like to review museum events for the Tufts blog, drop us a line in the comments! This past Saturday, October 8, Historic New England hosted Tales and Ales, a fun-filled 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our roundup of museums in the news!

Occupy Wall Street Movement Declares War on NYC Museums as “Temples of Cultural Elitism”

Army Museum’s Morbid Oddities Resettled in Maryland

Museum unconvinced by new Van Gogh death theory

History museum must leave Everett’s Carnegie Building, but has few options

Museum to tell tales of forgotten war horses

Museum opens window to the fields of sorrow

Children’s museum in Appleton wants to teach kids to save the world

Magical museums recall favorite holiday movies

Jack Kevorkian’s Estate, Mass. Museum Feud Over Artwork

Modernizing the Academy

Buffalo museum builds long-lost Frank Lloyd Wright gas station

What colour should gallery walls be?

Innovative Indianapolis Museum Chief Moves to Dallas

Authorities arrest man for having sex in SC museum