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Imagining What Museums Might Become
At the CUNY Graduate Center, a multifaceted conversation on the future of museums showed some of the contrasting and competing visions for what they might become.
Museums
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Can Social Tagging Deepen the Museum Experience?
Museums are reimagining their archives, their collections, and their relationship to their visitors through social tagging.
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Go Behind the Scenes of 9 Museums With These Great Online Web Series
These nine museums are using online video series to take viewers behind the scenes of their collections.
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In London's Reopened Garden Museum, Horticulture History Is Told Among Tombs
The Garden Museum in London has reopened, showcase a recreation of a 17th-century curiosity cabinet, horticultural art, and the tombs of the deconsecrated church in which it's located.
Comics
When Museum Security Let Down Their Guard
"Everyone wants to touch the art. It's just human nature."
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How a Smithsonian Naturalist’s Skeleton Ended Up on View at the Museum
The skeleton of 19th-century collector Robert Kennicott is on view in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History's Objects of Wonder. The bones recently solved the long mystery of his death.
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When Wrong Goes Right: 30 Creative Museum 404 Error Pages
404 pages are the dead ends of the internet, but some museums are using them for a bit of playful audience engagement.
News
On Museum Day, Institutions Encourage Visitors to Be Activists for the Arts
On May 18, museums across the county will offer free or discounted admission, and many will also put out postcards for writing to elected officials.
In Brief
Metropolitan Museum May Start Charging Admission to Out-of-Towners
The museum is in talks with municipal officials about potentially charging tourists a mandatory admission fee.
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In Miami, a Museum Attempts to Bring Teens and Cops Together Over Art
Art Detectives, a partnership between the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Miami-Dade Police Department, and two community organizations that launched last month, may be the only program of its kind in the US.
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After the Election, US Museums Affirm Their Roles as Safe, Open Spaces
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tenement Museum, and Japanese American National Museum are among those speaking out.
News
Activists in LA’s Boyle Heights Serve Galleries with Eviction Notices
LOS ANGELES — “No one is an innocent actor in the fine art of gentrification,” said a woman with a bandana covering her face, as she stood with dozens of protesters last Saturday evening outside of Museum as Retail Space, a gallery in the Eastside neighborhood of Boyle Heights.