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
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
Alliance Names 2014 Great American Museum Advocates The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has selected the first two Great American Museum Advocates from nominations submitted by museums of all types and sizes, all across the country. The winners are Simone Batiste, 16 years old from Oakland, CA, nominated by the Chabot Space & Science Center … Continue reading
Afghanistan Museum, Devastated by Civil War, Taliban, on the Mend but Long Road Ahead Looters stole tens of thousands of artifacts from the National Museum of Afghanistan during the country’s civil war in the 1990s, and then thousands more were destroyed by the Taliban when they took power. Now the museum is slowly coming back … Continue reading
80 at 80 Museum of Science and Industry Celebrates 80th Birthday with 80 Artifacts On Wednesday, the museum celebrated its 80th birthday by debuting “80 At 80,” a collection of 80 artifacts that represent the “museum’s DNA” from early inventions to modern advancements, according to Kathleen McCarthy, head curator. To read more, click here. A … Continue reading
Beverley Rogers is passionate about Egypt. The Ph.D.candidate at Swansea University is writing a thesis on the Reverend William MacGregor, a collector of Egyptian antiquity and a key player in the early years of the Egypt Exploration Society. Her research interests include the history of Collections, the history of Egyptology, and all things Egyptomania related. Beverley … Continue reading
900 Artifacts Recovered National Museum Unveils Haul of ‘Looted’ Artefacts The National Museum of Ireland today unveiled a recently recovered collection of some 900 artefacts which it said had been looted from historical sites around Ireland by “treasure hunters” using metal detectors. Many of the artefacts were found by police in England following a tip-off … Continue reading
20th Anniversary of USHMM U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Marks 20 Years At an event centered on one of the darkest times in human history, more than 1,000 Holocaust survivors, World War II veterans and other dignitaries crowded into a tent to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and filled it with the joyous … Continue reading
Community-Curated Open Studio Project Brooklyn Museum Tests A Democratic Model For years, Gabrielle Watson kept her art to herself. She painted large, expressionistic oil portraits of friends and relatives in her Crown Heights apartment when she wasn’t at her day job as a lawyer. Some of her friends didn’t even know about her art habit. … Continue reading
Jack Shoulder has adventures in museums and chronicles his exploits on his blog. He visits museums, galleries and other cultural places; the big ones, the small ones and all the ones in between. When not exploring museums, Jack is usually working in them; he does lots of digital stuff in/with/about museums in his day jobs … Continue reading
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