“At the River’s Edge : An Oral History of Berlin, New Hampshire” Berlin, New Hampshire, in the heart of the Northern Forest, is a small city of approximately 10,000 people, best known for its paper mills and being the largest producer of newsprint in the …
Orphans in the Collections: Unclaimed and Abandoned Property Workshop Monday, January 24, 2011 Higgins Armory Museum Worcester, MA 10:00 a.m ~ 4:00 p.m. Registration Deadline: January 17, 2011 Join us at the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, to discuss unclaimed and abandoned property issues and how …
Welcome to our museums in the news roundup! I have officially lost count of how many we’re up to now.
Hands-down my favorite headline of the week: Museum trains employed in snow battle (Swedish Railway Museum, Gävle and Ängelholm, Sweden)
National Museum of Play buys earliest known Monopoly game (Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York)
Indiana museum puts mastodon bones up for adoption (Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana)
Residents of Huntsville, Texas, say there’s more to life than death row (Texas Prison Museum, Hutsville, Texas)
4 of 7 Nevada state museums targeted for closure (Nevada)
The Eight Track Museum opens today in Deep Ellum (Eight Track Museum, Dallas, Texas)
Museum programs for Alzheimer’s patients show the power of art as therapy (Various Museums)
Touching stuff at the museum (North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, Raleigh, North Carolina)
Roy Neuberger: legendary investor dies at age 107 (Various Museums)
Science museum learns it’s tough to destroy a fruitcake (Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia)
Hold that obit; MoMA’s not dead (Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)
Museum wants to return objects, but there’s a hitch (Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York)
Popular reality show comes to National Motorcycle Museum (National Motorcycle Museum, Anamosa, Iowa)
First things first: if you’re not reading Museum 2.0, you should be. Next, check out Nina Simon’s recent post, Six Museum-Related Blogs You Might Not Know About That Are Really Good. One of the blogs is local – Thinking about Exhibits is written by Ed …
We’ve linked to several news items in the past few weeks covering the removal of artwork at the National Gallery of Art and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Both museums have removed artwork from their galleries, either after public protest or the anticipation …
Welcome to the fifth Museums in the News roundup.
Canadian Museum Backs Smithsonian Protest (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC)
Disney gets weird (proposed movie based on a Disney theme park attraction called “Museum of the Weird”)
How much was street artist Blu paid for whitewashed MOCA mural? (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California)
Mastodon to be moved, gently and in pieces (Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio)
Immerse yourself in barbed wire at Devil’s Rope Museum (Devil’s Rope Museum, McLean, Texas)
Behind the scenes at the museum (Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina)
Lemieux lends memorabilia to museum for Winter Classic (Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
New license plates to benefit museum (Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces, New Mexico)