New guest poster: Sarah Margerum is a certificate student at Tufts, and a volunteer at the Cambridge Historical Society. Meet the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House: I know, it’s a mouth full, but that’s what happens when a house has been around since 1685 – it passes through …
Welcome to our weekly roundup of news articles about the museum world! Metropolitan Museum Unveils Revamped Web Site Portland’s International Cryptozoology Museum to get a bigger home Google & The Israel Museum Put Dead Sea Scrolls Online Boston museum returns Hercules bust to Turkey Museum …
If you don’t have Saturday afternoon plans yet, check this out. (Even if you do have plans, you might want to cancel them for this!)
On Saturday, October 1, 2011, Cambridge will again celebrate Cambridgeport History Day, bringing people together and creating a sense of place and community through shared history and common stories. Dana Park, on Magazine Street, between Lawrence and McTernan streets, is the event’s hub.
The Cambridge Historical Society‘s website has more information and a complete schedule.
There will be living history performances, fun activities for kids of all ages, a potluck, and a neat community exhibition called “If This House Could Talk.”
If you go, let us know all about it!
Remember, remember the fifth of November… …because this year, The Old State House is throwing what sounds like an amazing Guy Fawkes Day party. Says Nathaniel Sheidly, Historian and Director of Public History at the Bostonian Society: The average pub might offer a pop-culture themed …
Ed Rodley, of the Museum of Science and the blog Thinking About Exhibits, has had a wonderful series of posts recently about “Dealing With Your Cognitive Load.” In a four-part series, he lays out the ways that information can come to you and how you …
Every month, Wild Apricot posts a great blog roundup of free nonprofit webinars. It’s a list well worth looking over; there’s usually something for everyone.
If you can spare an hour or two each week, you can get some great education about nonprofit questions, many of which are directly applicable to museum work.
Check out their October listing.
PS – the Wild Apricot blog is great on general principle – add it to your reading list.