Weekly News Roundup: July 14, 2014
Fury as Egyptian statue Sekhemka sells for nearly £16 million. See also the statements of ICOM CIPEG and British Museums Association. Should a photographer’s unseen, unedited work be shown...
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Imperial War Museum reopens in London after £40m revamp Helsinki divided on plans for Guggenheim outpost. US institutions hold workshop for Syrian cultural sites, in undisclosed location. Some in Italy...
View ArticleNimble and Responsive Exhibitions
The Exhibitionist, the journal of the National Association for Museum Exhibition, invites proposals for its Spring 2015 issue, “The Nimble and Responsive Exhibition.” Proposals of 250 words maximum...
View ArticleThe Visa Process
Over the last year, I’ve visited 14 countries and I’ve learned that every country has its own distinctive process for entry–and Russia is no exception. I’ve just made my way through the Russian...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: July 28, 2014
Objects continue to make news by their return ,their sale, and their collection. Painted panel looted from Egypt returns from Germany. Museum of Death in Los Angeles acquires Jack Kevorkian’s “Death...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: August 4, 2014
Temple or forum? A spirited online debate on the Portland Art Museum’s Parklandia social media project. What do you think? The big European museums are straining at the seams with millions of...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: August 11, 2014
Check out this website on Cold War era tourist sites in Europe and the United States, ranging from the UK’s Radar Museum to the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas. Despite being censured by...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: August 19, 2014
Is there a drone in your museum’s future? Tate Gallery: Robots as guides through the museum. Kyiv’s New Year’s tree, a symbol of the Maidan protests, is taken down and will become a part of museum...
View ArticleMuseums and “Hard History”
What’s “hard history?” It’s not difficult to find hard to talk about subjects in any of the three countries who sponsored the conference and this session on Thursday, September 11 included talks from...
View ArticleOn the Role of Museums
Many of the Saint Petersburg conference participants traveled to Yekaterinburg for the second part of the meeting – a three hours flight to the Ural -, and many more Russian colleagues joined us there....
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