Australian Museum To Display Replica Of MT Dino Employees of the Two Medicine Dinosaur Center here have painstakingly built a replica of a 75-million-year-old Montana dinosaur so it can be shipped overseas for display in an upcoming exhibit at the Australian Museum, that country’s equivalent of the Smithsonian Institute. To read more, click here. Detroit … Continue reading
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What Happened in Museums This Week? July 27 – August 2
Detroit Art Museum Warns Auction Could Be Death Knell A top officer at the Detroit Institute of Arts predicts near-certain closure for the museum if Detroit sells major pieces from the 60,000 works in the institute’s art collection as a way to address the city’s dire financial situation. To read more, click here. Georgia Museum … Continue reading
What Happened in Museums This Week? May 25 – 31
‘Bubble’ Debate Plans For Smithsonian Museum ‘Bubble’ May Have Burst Call it the Smithsonian’s bubble problem. One of the Smithsonian museums — the Hirshhorn museum for contemporary art — came up with an ambitious new design to add more space: Why not build a giant, inflatable structure that would be big enough for people to walk around in? But … Continue reading
What Happened in Museums this Week? January 12 – 18
Controversy Israel’s Controversial King Herod Exhibition On Tuesday, Israel’s national museum announced the opening of the world’s first exhibition devoted to the archaeological legacy of King Herod, the biblical Roman-Jewish king who ruled Jerusalem from 37 to 4 BC. The Israel Museum will debut the Herod the Great exhibition on 13 February despite protests from Palestinians who object to the … Continue reading
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