As mentioned, we’re doing occasional reviews of museum online learning opportunities written for the Spring 2012 class “Museums and Online Learning.” This author has preferred to remain anonymous. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Collection The Isabella Stewart Gardner collection is an amazing array of paintings, furniture, …
Another great entry in our new series – look for lots more of these as we explore where everyone’s headed off to this summer! Andrea Rosen is doing a summer internship at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. She found the internship on the Center’s …
Ed Rodley is an exhibit developer over at the Museum of Science and author of the terrific blog Thinking about Exhibits. Go add it to your blog roll right now; I’ll be here when you get back.
Okay! Welcome back. Anyway – Ed organized a museum tech meetup in May, and I was not on the ball about posting about that, plus it was the same night as the last NEMA YEP workshop. So, sorry about that.
Luckily for the rest of us, everyone at that meetup had so much fun that they’re organizing another one, and possibly regular ones, in the future.
The next one is going to be June 15 or 16. We’ll announce when it’s settled here, or you can add the Museum Tech Meetup Google Calendar to your own calendar.
Welcome to our weekly museums in the news roundup! Museum starting seed library for urban farmers (Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Chicago, Illinois) Museum curator puts her vision on display (Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California) Could smallpox still be lurking in labs and …
Pssst – want to help a great museum project gather data? Take fifteen minutes to help the Family Learning Forum fill out a new survey about its website. Clickity click. PS – This goes double for those of you who are interning at the USS …
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