Google World Wonders Project
Initial reaction: OMG COOOOOOOL. More measured response from Max Van Balgooy of Engaging Places: Google Launches World Wonders Project.
Recent Posts
Food for Thought: Making a Museum from Scratch
In case you haven’t seen this, Ed Rodley at Thinking about Museums has had a really, really fascinating, thoughtful, and thought-provoking series of discussions lately. He’s playing out a thought experiment that starts with a basic premise: how would you create a museum from scratch? …
Museums in the News
Welcome to our weekly roundup of news articles about museums.
NYC museum’s beer exhibit offers history on tap
Academy’s New Movie Museum Designers: ‘Don’t Call It a Museum’
Contemporary Museum hopes to reopen
Follow Museums Like Others Follow Sports Teams
Kenya to open Africa’s first underwater museum
New York galleries staging museum-quality exhibitions
Exploring culture, history, art along Tacoma’s museum row
Utah Museum of Fine Arts: Moving artwork that’s 2 tons and has an engine
20 years after remains controversy, Dickson Mounds Museum adapts to trying financial times
Harley museum to display Softail swept to sea by tsunami
US art collectors, dealers, museum curators prowling Havana for works at Biennial festival
Robot to give virtual tours of museum to students in faraway locations
Charlotte Museum of History to close because of budget problems
American Indian Museum Displays Jim Thorpe’s Gold Medals in Exhibit Honoring Native Olympians
Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture
The Salzburg Global Seminar and IMLS have teamed up to produce a really interesting-looking report about “Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture.” Go, download, and read it.
Reminder! John Falk Book Discussion & Drinking About Museum
This is your reminder that the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is hosting not one but two fantastic professional development events next week. Everyone should try to make at least one of them! First up is on Wednesday, June 6. The NEMA Young and Emerging Professionals …