A bumper crop: 57 new developments (1-13 March). (Previous list. All past lists.)
- Congo hopes a new museum can heal a nation’s scars.
- McSweeney’s imagines museum work: “Natural Museum of History Interoffice Smackdown.”
- Smart museum idea in here somewhere: brilliant IKEA subway display in Paris.
- Mixed Reactions to News of Dale Chihuly Museum Planned for Base of Space Needle.
- Swiss Museum of Transport: the “most fun, most whimsical, most hands-on and most clever” of them all.
- A smart museum idea is in here somewhere: 3D Optical Illusion Pavement Art
- Juncanoo claims to connect “museums with patrons through mobile interactive tours.”
- Talented museum catalog and book designer Gina Rossi.
- Charming video: Preparing the gowns for the First Ladies exhibit.
- Virtual tour: Strong National Museum of Play
- Ireland’s new National Leprechaun Museum. (See next item.)
- “Too Many Museums?” (See previous item.)
- Exploratorium gets $90M, their biggest gift in decades, to prep a new pier site.
- Which is better investment for a nonprofit, an iPhone App or mobile website? (Answer: mobile web.)
- “Renzo Piano, Favored Museum Designer, Wears Out His Welcome”
- “We have TRIPLED our visitation since the movie opened!”
- Harriet Tubman Collection Unveiled by Smithsonian Museum (NMAAHC).
- Clever museum idea: Using Lights Display to Raise Awareness – and Money.
- Exhibit of computer-aided design blurs art and architecture.
- Obama appoints information design guru Edward Tufte to help explain $787B in recovery stimulus funds.
- You Are Not a Curator.
- Smart museum idea: National Trust’s “Tweet For Our Treasures” campaign.
- A Tree Grows in the Guggenheim.
- Foot in the Door 4 – Minneapolis Institute of Art’s crowdsourced art exhibit.
- “Feed The Children” interactive exhibit.
- Here’s one way to make use of old, outdated material. Colorado History Museum’s moving sale.
- Florida Modern Day Slavery Museum tackles human trafficking.
- Many Metropolitan Museum of Art Guards Are Aspiring Artists (and they started a magazine).
- “Capture your own MetMoment and we’ll add it to our slide show.”
- Rather incredible: Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.
- The remarkable Julián Zugazagoitia leaves el Museo del Barrio to lead Nelson-Atkins Museum.
- What museum visitors wanted in an iPhone app, circa July 2009.
- The (online) Timeline of Art History from the Met
- The interactive kinetic art of Bernie Zubrowski. (video)
- US National Slavery Museum gives up. And that’s not all.
- Handy video summary of augmented reality.
- The People’s History Museum opens (Manchester, UK).
- The natural history museum that time forgot.
- And the hottest new museum funding idea from California is … Snoopy?
- Fresh idea: “Tag Tours,” staff-picked alternative online tours of the collection.
- Skinput – fascinating bio-acoustic sensing array turns your body into a touch-screen.
- “Do Museums Still Need Objects?“
- Google Labs introduces Gesture Search.
- Interesting stats on museum attendance in SF & Chicago.
- The Gender Museum.
- Widow of notorious Israeli museum burglar attempts to sell looted artifacts back to the same museum.
- Location-based game for iPhone maps Manhattan’s historical ecosystem onto modern streets.
- The exceptional exhibit designers Opera Amsterdam.
- “This Robert Storr piece on museum design comes to a sudden end just when it seems to be taking off.”
- Design Museum (UK) releases all-star shortlist of 7 architects.
- USATODAY: Museum attendance surged in 2009 as travelers stayed closer to home.
- #Zooms, a new museum hashtag game (invented in the Netherlands).
- The first iPhone museum app in Germany.
- Museum of the American Gangster.
- Link to great AAM report, Service Despite Stress (PDF document).
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives to open late 2010.
- The #class project: a “series of public workshops in a classroom setting” about art during a recession.
