Weekly news about museum trends, museum planning, the future of museums and interactive kinetic sculpture for the week of November 27 , 2011
Museum Planner
Posted links to the future of museum labels
Museum / Exhibition Openings:
Michael Jackson Museum on hold
9/11 Museum opening delayed, over dispute of hundreds of millions of dollars in unexpected costs
80,000 sq. ft addition to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, planned to open Spring 2012
Possible new D.C., museum “National Jewish Museum”
“Out Harvey Wang’s Window” at the Tenement Museum
Polluted River as Art Experiment
Hardrock Casino, NJ to include Music Museum
Samples of Einstein’s brain to go to Mutter Museum
“Alice in Wonderland” exhibition at the Tate, well written exhibition review from the Telegraph
Resources:
Great article and resources about museums going green
Interesting the museum of online museums
Articles of Interest:
“Libraries and Museums Become Hands-On Learning Labs”
“Calling All Boomers: Don’t Start More Nonprofits”, The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Artist Ai Weiwei under investigation by Chinese authorities over nude art
“Google Cultural Institute” starts to digitize artifacts, Dead Sea Scrolls
Museum of Nature & Science, Dallas, surpasses $185 Million fundraising goal
Sex Pistols graffiti being studied by archaeologists
NASA to start “tweetups” to communicate message, NASA connect page
Creepy ! What the museum of the future will NOT look like
Adobe’s better take on an online museum
Conferences:
Museum Next Conference May 23 – 25 2012, Barcelona
Art Basel Miami, December 1st-4th