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Caricature Museum in the Fayoum Oasis
The small artist colony of Tunis is located at the western end of the Fayoum oasis on a small elevation overlooking the lake. It is home to a number of writers, painters, and, above all, potters, whose work has made the village famous. Five years ago, Mohamed Abla opened the Fayoum Art Center. Courses in... »
Former museum director charged with stealing Egyptian antiquities
The ousted head of Long Island University’s Hillwood Museum has been charged with stealing ancient Egyptian artifacts from the museum and trying to auction them at Christie’s. Barry Stern, 61, admitted he took the nine pieces – each more than 2,000 years old. A preliminary search of the museum’s collection found other pieces missing. The stolen... »
To Click or not to Click: Museums and Photography
Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr Nina Simon is a designer of “participatory, interactive, slightly strange museum exhibits all over the place”. She’s currently writing a book called The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide. Her post on the current state of affairs regarding photography inside museums is a thought provoking one. Here are the opposing sides... »
Recession hits the Met
Image by wallyg via Flickr Ninety-six staff members of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY accepted an offer of voluntary retirement, part of a wider staff reduction that also will cut employees by layoff and attrition and bring the payroll down by 357 positions, to 2,200. Many had served the museum for decades, and all... »
'Battle of the Smithsonian' is right: Ancient Egypt is really, really cool
The sequel to Ben Stiller’s Night at the Museum opens this week, cumbersomely titled Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. In the first film, Larry, a divorced dad played by Stiller, ends up as a night watchmen at the Museum of Natural History. What sets the movie’s plot in motion by magically... »
Musée de la Civilisacion website is fun an educational
Musée de la Civilisacion is located in Quebec, Canada. Their latest exhibit takes you back to ancient Egypt to learn about the process behind mummification, and the significance of the rituals these desert dwellers engaged in to secure a blissful afterlife. The exhibit website has a variety of features to engage the user in the... »
British Museum Treasures at Royal BC Museum
The Royal BC Museum in Victoria, British Columbia is hosting a greatly expanded version of Treasures: The World’s Cultures from the British Museum. Arranged geographically and chronologically, more than 300 artifacts and works of art from the BM’s world-renowned collection, including Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities as well as examples of modern and contemporary art,... »
King Tut exhibit sells thousands of tickets
In the first few hours after the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis opened ticket sales, it has sold more than 19,000 tickets, said Jaclyn Falkenstein, public relations coordinator for the museum. One year ago, the museum announced the “Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs” exhibit, would come to Indianapolis. The exhibit of more than... »
Economic reality of the Brooklyn Museum
Image via Wikipedia For the fiscal year 2009, which began on July 1, 2008, the annual operating budget of the Brooklyn Museum is $29 million. Since FY 2008, City operating support to the Brooklyn Museum has been reduced by 32%. The value of these reductions in FY 08, FY 09 and those currently proposed in... »
Visitors invited to watch forensic artist develop mummy's face
Starting Monday, area residents can watch a forensic artist methodically recreating the head and face of an Egyptian male from about 900 B.C. at the Wayne County Historical Museum in Richmond. Forensic artist Brenda Robertson Stewart of Indianapolis will sculpt features of the mummified man in front of visitors, who are welcome not only to... »
