Nice and timely, two very interesting and very different ways in which museums and archives are crowdsourcing their materials. In case you’ve never heard of it, “crowdsourcing” is a term used to refer to the placement of a task – or more usually a very …
Welcome to our weekly roundup of museums in the news! Walmart Donates $20M to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to Sponsor Admission Atheist Group Wants 9/11 Cross Removed from Museum Chicago museum’s unearthed Soviet posters a diary of war Schwarzenegger museum opens Met Museum …
New York Times art critic Holland Cotter seems to be arguing for the death of the encylcopedic museum. What do you think?
The always-interesting blog Asking Audiences, which is the voice of Slover-Linett Strategies, has a good response to the recent Onion article that cleverly (and painfully!) characterizes art museums as “art jails.” The Onion’s art museum joke is worth taking seriously
Some lovely historic photographs for you of an innovative educational program at the Sunderland Museum. It would never, ever fly today. You’ll see why.
Welcome to our weekly roundup of museums in the news!
Vt.’s Shelburne Museum hosts circus-palooza
Anacostia Community Museum Attempts Record-Breaking Ring Shout
At MoMA, A Blog Becomes a Show
Conan O’Brien Unveils ‘The Museum Of Conan Art’ At San Diego Comic-Con
Day Tripper: Museum Without Walls
Scavenger hunts at museums turn into whodunits
A Visual Escape to Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum
Classic Gaming Expo group begins fundraising for museum
Hidden Gem: Willard House and Clock Museum