9/11 Museum Waiving Opening Day Fee After Condé Nast Donation The 9/11 museum is waiving the $24 admission fee on opening day — but reservations are required. Officials announced Wednesday that Condé Nast, which is moving to the World Trade Center site, has made a donation to allow all visitors to go for free on … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Hacking the Museum Experience
In January I had the pleasure of visiting New York City (for the very first time) and believe it or not, the weather was lovely. I was in town for work (transporting an artifact with a colleague) and took the opportunity to tour some of NYC’s world-class museums. I have several posts to share in the … Continue reading
What Happened in Museums This Week? March 15 – 21
Carnegie Museum Unveils Dinosaur Nicknamed ‘Chicken From Hell’ In prehistoric North Dakota, a marshy land roamed by turtles and crocodiles, there lived a dinosaur that experts think looked sort of like a giant chicken. When the species’ bones arrived at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History a decade ago, employees looked at the 11-foot-long animal … Continue reading
11 Questions to a Museum Blogger on MuseumBlog/gers Day
If you engage with anything mildly museum-centric on Twitter, you may have noticed that today is #MuseumBlogs Day. Museum 140 and I partnered, in celebration of their third birthday, and have tweeted our #MuseumBlogs hearts out to, and with, the world! It’s been quite fun. To mark the occasion there have new posts from the following Museum Blogs: Cabinet … Continue reading
Thank You, Museum Bloggers
As #MuseumBlogs Day gets kicked off on Twitter (just received a tweet from Australia!) I want to say thank you to all of the Museum Bloggers out there. Thank you for sharing your adventures, experiences, experiments, failures, ideas, jokes, memes, passions, pictures, points-of-view, presentations, reports, reviews, successes, surveys, stories, studies, theories, videos, and simply, yourselves. The time … Continue reading
Meet a Museum Blogger: Claire Madge
Claire Madge leads a double life. She’s a librarian, wife and mum to three children under 10. In her spare time (if such a thing exists) she becomes Tincture of Museum, passionate museum volunteer, advocate of kids in museums and late night blogger. In 2012, when her eldest daughter was diagnosed Autistic she took the … Continue reading
March 19 is Museum Blog/gers Day on Twitter!
This Wednesday, March 19, Museum Minute has partnered with Museum 140, for their third birthday, to bring you Museum Blog/gers Day on Twitter. What does that mean? We (as in Museum Minute, Museum 140, you AND everyone else on Twitter) will be chatting about museum blogs and the fantastic bloggers behind them – all day. … Continue reading
What Happened in Museums This Week? March 8 – 14
Animatronic Abe Lincoln Up for Auction at Gettysburg Museum Life-size Civil War figures dressed in period garb, antique furniture and an animatronic U.S. President Abraham Lincoln will go on the auction block this weekend as a museum focused on the Battle of Gettysburg prepares to revamp itself. The American Civil War Wax Museum, which opened … Continue reading
Where have I been lately?
The blog has been quiet lately. In the past month my job has changed drastically: I’m in a new department with a new team and I’ve been assigned some exciting projects. During this transition I’ve had to adjust my “free time”/writing schedule and focus on research. Now, with a full month under my belt, and … Continue reading
Meet a Museum Blogger: David Mentiply
David Mentiply is a museum blogger based in London. His love of museums and desire to fundraise for a charity close to his heart, led him to organise the Museum Marathon. He has previously worked on a historic ship and volunteered for Britain’s oldest military museum. Do you work in a museum? If not, where … Continue reading
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