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A Washington D.C. Family Vacation: Paulano’s Ultimate One-Page…
Paulano | July 7th 2008 by Paul Mansfield
After spending 4 days in Washington, DC with my family, I thought I would take a quick moment to recap some of the highlights and lowlights, and offer a few suggestions to those of you who are thinking of making the same trip. Tip 1: Use Reagan Nat read more
Countdown to Keep British Inventor’s Iconic Clock in the UK Sta…
Net News Publisher | July 7th 2008 by Terry
U.K. Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has placed a temporary export bar on a clock system designed by the internationally renowned British clock designer William Hamilton Shortt. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep Shortt’ read more
Should ransom be paid for stolen art?
SAFECORNER: Cultural Heritage in Danger | July 7th 2008
In Stop the appeasement of art and antiquities thieves (Globe and Mail, July 5, 2008) Geoffrey Clarfield, former curator of ethnography at the National Museums of Kenya, writes "art theft seems to have become a form of proxy kidnapping." Clarfield co read more
Dueling Geniuses - An Inspired Japanese Art Exhibit
The Tokyo Traveler | July 7th 2008 by ShaneS
Artists are often compared to one another and more often inspire and compete with one another to create great works. Throughout the history of Japanese art, each generation of painters, Buddhist sculptors, potters and other artists studied the read more
National Angkor Museum not really “national” or “Angkor”?
The Southeast Asian Archaeology newsblog (SEAArch) | July 7th 2008 by Noel
The International Herald Tribune writes about the newly-opened National Angkor Museum that has drawn criticism for not being really “national” (as it is Thai-owned) or “Angkor” (contains mainly pre-Angkorian relics). A new mu read more
Hitler Beheaded!
An American Expat in Deutschland | July 6th 2008 by Christina G
A new Madame Tussauds wax figure museum opened July 5th in Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate. There was some controversy over the museum’s decision to include a wax figure of Adolf Hitler, and what do you know, the second museum patron in the d read more
Holland Cotter: Chinese museums sets a model the West can learn f…
SAFECORNER: Cultural Heritage in Danger | July 5th 2008
Photo: Shiho Fukada for The New York TimesIn the July 4 New York Times, art critic Holland Cotter offers his impressions of museums in China, which recently adopted a nationwide free-admission policy. The article, first in a series entitled Civilizat read more
2008 Museum Institute at Sagamore
New York History | July 5th 2008 by Adirondack Almanack - New York History Blog
Upstate History Alliance has announced their 2008 Institute at Sagamore. According to UHA's website, this year's institute "will address the challenges and creative solutions for Interpreting Historic Spaces:" Interpretation-- the process of bringin read more
The New Republic on Trends in American Museums
The Random Arts Blog | July 3rd 2008 by The Random Man
Finding your inner cheapskate: Los Angeles on a $20 budget
Official Kango Blog | July 3rd 2008 by Elliott Ng
From guest blogger Marsha Takeda-Morrison of Sweatpantsmom I’m a big fan of Rachael Ray’s “$40 Dollars A Day,” where the ubiquitous Food Network star goes to different places around the world and shows you how you can enjoy three meals a day read more
Summergarden 2008: New Music for New York
The New York City Traveler | July 3rd 2008 by Heather
MoMA’s free outdoor summer concert series, Summergarden, will begin this Sunday evening, July 6, 2008. Each Sunday evening during the summer, members of the Julliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center will bring their musical talent to the Scul read more
Libraries and Museums - Not There Yet
RandomConnections | July 3rd 2008
This photograph of Nina Simon over at Museum 2.0 pretty much sums up my experience with museum and library websites over the weekend. This was also the conclusion of Simon’s paper describing museums and libraries in the 21st Century. This all read more
Pyramid in Kazakhstan
Wayfaring Travel Guide | July 3rd 2008 by baksanir
Kazakhstan sits on vast reserves of oil and natural gas and in the next decade could be among the world’s Top 5 oil-exporting countries. The capital of Kazakhstan was relocated in 1997 from Almaty to what is now Astana. read more
Atlanta is fun!
The Vacationer | July 3rd 2008 by Trip Shop - Travel Journal
Just a quick update on our going abouts in our new hometown. We’re really starting to love Atlanta. The Hammond family has been busy and the kids have each found new activities, new friends, and new places in Atlanta that they love. (Do I smell suc read more
ICOM paper denounces practice of art-for-rent
SAFECORNER: Cultural Heritage in Danger | July 2nd 2008
A story in The Art Newspaper by Anna Somers Cocks (July 1, 2008)Loan fees risk killing the goose that lays the golden eggs raises interesting questions about museum collections for rent. It reports on a paper issued by the Italian branch of the Inter read more
A Surreal Marriage: Dalí’s Paintings and Film
The New York City Traveler | July 1st 2008 by Heather
Dalí: Painting and Film, MoMA’s newest exhibition, examines how Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí’s relationship with film and cinema affected his art. In the first exhibition of its kind, over 130 of Dalí’s paintings, drawi read more
The Rodin Era
My Buenos Aires Travel Guide | July 1st 2008 by Sandra
The National Museum of Decorative Arts presents the traveling exhibition of 19th century French sculptures, "The Rodin Era", that includes works by Auguste Rodin, Louis Ernest Barrias, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, Albert Ernest Ca read more
Check Out these Super Cool Fashion Exhibits
NY Accents: Accessories with a Twist | July 1st 2008 by newyorkaccents
Hey There,It's summer and a perfect time to hit the museums! These fashion exhibits are definitely worth checking out.New York City MuseumsThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtSuperheroes: Fashion and FantasySuperheroes and fashion, I absolutely love it! If read more
Show Me the Money!
BrandingFire | July 1st 2008 by Darrin Dickey
Image via Wikipedia I found another interesting blog from the folks at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It’s called Show Me the Money and it’s all about federal grant opportunities that may help out organizations active in h read more
Looking For Fun? Try A Scavenger Hunt
Megan's Minute | July 1st 2008 by Megan Smith
Last year my cousin Gaby J. gave me tickets to a murder mystery scavenger hunt as a Christmas present. The hunt, "Murder at the Met" was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and it was run... read more
The Most Popular Museums in Italy for 2007
Italy Travel Guide | July 1st 2008 by BootsnAll.com
Anyone waiting in the long line to get into the Uffizi Gallery or the Vatican Museums on a hot summer day will recognize that they’re standing outside one of Italy’s top museums. But if you’re looking for a list of Italy’s mos read more
The Most Popular Museums in Italy for 2007
Travel Blog | July 1st 2008 by Marco Belemmi
Anyone waiting in the long line to get into the Uffizi Gallery or the Vatican Museums on a hot summer day will recognize that they’re standing outside one of Italy’s top museums. But if you’re looking for a list of Italy’s most popular ̷ read more
Top 10 Reasons to Live in San Francisco!
SF Blogg | June 30th 2008 by Max Lee
Here’s top 10 reasons to live in San Francisco for those of you thinking about moving here: 1. San Francisco is one of the “greenest” cities in the world. (Ranked Top 5 in the U.S.) 2. San Francisco is surrounded by water and ocea read more
Museum Monday: New Museum of Contemporary Art
The New York City Traveler | June 30th 2008 by Heather
The face of the Bowery changed forever on December 1, 2007 when the New Museum of Contemporary Art reopened its doors to the public after a massive relocation to the Bowery. Since its conception in 1977, the museum has become the most relevant read more
Dealing With the Money Crunch
BrandingFire | June 30th 2008 by Darrin Dickey
Downtown St. Joseph, MO Image via Wikipedia StJoeNews.net published an interetsing story on Sunday, June 29th titled “Museums look to the future“, noting that St. Joseph, Missouri has a number of good museums (including the Patee House M read more
New Tenement Museum Reflects Irish Immigration
New York History | June 30th 2008 by Adirondack Almanack - New York History Blog
From the New York Times comes a report on the newest Tenement Museum in New York City: The [Joseph and Bridget Moore family] place will become the sixth apartment of former immigrant residents of 97 Orchard Street to be recreated. The apartments are read more
Another trip to the Minnesota Children’s Museum
Travels with Children | June 29th 2008 by minnemom
I’ve written about the Minnesota Children’s Museum before, and how it’s a really neat place but sometimes very crowded. The week after Memorial Day, we hit the Children’s Museum trifecta. 1) My husband was able to get away, read more
Tiny Town
Portsmouth, Virginia Daily Photo | June 28th 2008 by ptowngirl
These miniature displays at the Children's Museum are just a small portion of a very large and unique collection of trains and villages that comprise the Lancaster Toy and Train Collection. This collection was started by A.J. Lancaster, who along wi read more
Glasgow Women's Library
Women of History | June 28th 2008 by Melisende
From 24Hour Museum:Scotland's Feminism Archive To Be Given New Home"Scotland’s long and distinguished history of feminism is to be preserved in a new dedicated Women’s Archive.The Glasgow Women’s Library currently has material in storage fillin read more
Gettysburg Hits The National News
The Gettysburg Pennsylvania Blog | June 28th 2008 by Allen Taylor
Gettysburg was in the national news recently. Renovations are good, but there is a tendency to look at the past nostlgically while portraying forward-looking innovations as bad. But reality is reality. People don’t want to walk around and look read more
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