After a two week travel hiatus (all over the great state of Ohio, Birmingham, Alabama, and New Orleans, Louisiana) Museum Minute is back! This week kicks off with Susan Timberlake’s Museum Blogger profile below. Susan Timberlake began her museum career at the Museum of Life and Science in North Carolina. She’s since worked at the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2013
What Happened in Museums this Week? September 7 – 13
Civil War Flags from Museum Collection Destroyed Iowa has destroyed eight flags in its museum collection from a Civil War organization after they were damaged by excessive amounts of mold and sewage. To read more, click here. Foundation Gets $24 Million in Insurance on Paintings Stolen From Dutch Museum A publicity-shy Dutch foundation that owned … Continue reading
9/11 and the Value of Collective Memory
Today marks the 12th anniversary of 9/11. This is a day that will continue to resonate with New Yorkers, Americans, and the global community for generations to come. Today we will have conversations regarding where we were, who we were with, what we remember, who we knew, and what it meant. Today we will share … Continue reading
Meet a Museum Blogger: Francesco Ripanti
Francesco Ripanti is a 27-year-old archaeologist from Italy with a passion for video storytelling. Francesco thinks video is a very engaging medium for the communication of archaeology, especially for telling stories to the general public from the archaeologists’ point of view. Do you work in a museum? If not, where do you work? Tell us … Continue reading