Welcome to our weekly roundup of museums in the news! Minneapolis Museum Agrees To Return Ancient Vase Opening Day For Barnes Museum in Philadelphia: Next May 19th Museum Admission as an Expression of Mission The V&A Museum Turned into a Living Room for London Design Week Museum …
If you didn’t get the chance to attend the USS Constitution Museum‘s wonderful One Size Fits All? conference last fall, fear not: they’ve uploaded videos of each presenter to their website. (If you’re not familiar with the Family Learning Forum website, then you really should …
The Nichols House on Beacon Hill is planning a wonderful symposium on Friday, September 30 titled “Sustaining Heritage, Sustaining Communities.”
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its founding, the Nichols House Museum is pleased to present the symposium “Sustaining Heritage, Sustaining Communities: Museums and Historic Preservation in the 21st Century.” On September 30, 2011, five speakers from Europe and the United States will come together to share experiences from their museums and heritage sites that have showcased, revived, and sustained their respective communities. Through promoting cross-cultural understanding in Honduras; reinventing uses for historic British buildings; preserving and presenting a 17th century church in Amsterdam; conserving a national landmark in Chicago for social and cultural inclusivity; and boosting heritage tourism in Jamaica, each case study demonstrates the power sustainability has on a community’s heritage and economy. Please join us for this full day event.
Full-time students can register for $25 if they provide proof of student status. The list of presenters looks great, as do their presentation topics.
The registration page is straightforward and clean – kudos to the Nichols House for that.
Heads up, everyone. On Wednesday, September 21, there will be a museum tech meetup at the Cambridge Brewing Company in Kendall Square. Organized by Ed Rodley, exhibit designer extraordinaire at the Boston Museum of Science, these have been held regularly for a few months now, …
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There’s a great conference out at UMass Amherst next weekend, September 23-24, taking a look at the future of the public history field.
Nina Simon, author of The Participatory Museum and the blog Museum 2.0 will be doing a workshop on Saturday afternoon.
Check out the program and registration information here. [PDF]