First: sorry for missing last week’s museum’s in the news roundup! I am not always as on top of my intrepid blog editor persona as I’d like to be. As a bonus, this week’s news roundup will be twice as long. I know you’re excited. …
If you haven’t been following the AAM’s Facebook feed – or any of their other communication methods – you might not know that today and tomorrow are designated as Museum Advocacy Days. The AAM, through its website Speak Up For Museums, is promoting a number …
Welcome to the weekly museums in the news roundup!
Without a doubt the weirdest story of the week is this one: Desperate museum guard holds Renaissance masterpieces for ransom, only to have them stolen from his car (Museum of Fine Arts, Corsica, Italy)
Worcester Art Museum unveils modern art exhibit (Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts)
U of I donor of painting fought 1963 sale rumors [in connection with the University of Iowa’s proposed sale of a Jackson Pollock painting] (University of Iowa Art Museum, Des Moines, Iowa)
UI arts community celebrates withdrawal of Pollock bill (University of Iowa Art Museum, Des Moines, Iowa)
Art donors wary after Pollock bill (University of Iowa Art Museum, Des Moines, Iowa)
Financial problems for Seaport Museum New York (Seaport Museum, New York, New York)
Museum: a lens to examine America (various museums)
Oscar-nominated fashions on display at LA museum (Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Museum and Galleries, Los Angeles, California)
Creation Museum, same-sex couple, dispute entrance (Creation Museum, Petersburg, Kentucky)
VA couple seek slave artifacts returned (proposed National Slavery Museum, Fredericksburg, Maryland)
Egypt opens museums and historical sites (various museums)
Half a dodo found in museum drawer (Grant Museum, London, England)
NH children’s museum has new executive director (New Hampshire Children’s Museum, Dover, New Hampshire)
ACLU museum exhibit criticized (State Historical Building, Des Moines, Iowa)
JFK Library invites scrollers to try out president’s desk (John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts)
It’s a new era for Catalina Island Museum (Catalina Island Museum, Santa Catalina, California)
Local man donates rare JFK footage to museum (Sixth Floor Museum, Dallas, Texas)
Up next is a very specialized, very important group: the Visitor Studies Association. The VSA, in its own words, is today’s premier professional organization focusing on all facets of the visitor experience in museums, zoos, nature centers, visitor centers, historic sites, parks and other informal …
This isn’t exactly a professional organization, so we’re spinning information about this great organization off into its own post. National Arts Strategies is a group that helps with “organizational leadership for arts and culture.” They provide advice, training, and general information about best practices in …
Welcome to the museums in the news roundup.
Deeply scientific – but not completely rational (interview with director of the Charles Hayden Planetarium) (Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts)
Summoning the heavens: Malden man at helm of revamped planetarium (ditto)
Hello out there: anyone want to help a museum? (Kern County Museum Authority, California)
Historic railway museum stays on track (Mid-Continent Railway Museum, North Freedom, Wisconsin)
Edgar Allen Poe House and Museum in danger (Edgar Allen Poe House and Museum, Baltimore, Maryland)
J. Edgar Hoover’s name on museum draws fire (proposed national museum research center)
12 best relics in the Shanghai Museum (Shanghai Museum, China)
Lowe Art Museum exhibits art and politics from Times Square to Cuba (Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida)
Ken doll turns 50 at Boynton museum’s Barbie exhibit (Museum of Lifestyle and Fashion History, Boynton Beach, Florida)
Valuable artifacts missing from Egyptian Museum (Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt)
London Street Photography at the Museum of London (Museum of London, London, England)
St. Louis Art Museum and AAMD Guidelines (St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri)
Wilder insists slavery museum will be built (proposed museum of slavery, Fredericksburg, Virginia)
State closer to having a civil rights museum, but location still an issue (proposed civil rights museum, Jackson, Mississippi)
Trailside museum receives $175k state grant (Blue Hills Trailside Museum, Milton, Massachusetts)