Museum Issues

Lisa Curran, Doren Ross, Fred Wilson and I spoke about university art museums from different perspectives. The panel discussion is attached.

VANITY MUSEUMS:  AN AMBIVILENT CONSIDERATION

January 2010

The article “Free at Last” appeared in Museum News in 2005.  The article espouses free entrance without mandatory admission as necessary for welcoming more and more diverse visitors

I was delighted to be asked by George Liston Seay of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to be interviewed upon the publishing of my collected writings, Civilizing the Museum. 

George Hein has spent an academic lifetime focused on learning in museums and its relationship to learning theory.  This slide package allows students and museum staff to understand the educat

Within a few hours of the announced death of Michael Jackson, the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney Australia put up a case of Michael Jackson memorabilia.  Among the things that happened was the th

Nina Simon is a prolific and original thinker.

This project “Boston Stories” is the work of many people, mostly alumni of the Boston Children’s Museum during the 1970’s onward.

The PDF link to this paper is attached below and was written in 2008 for Hands-On Europe the international children’s museum conference held in Germany.

The paper is available on-link in the link below.

The Blue Ocean Museum was written for the ICOM Triannual in Vienna Austria in 2007