Museum as Folk
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by Jamel Williams | Growing up, I recall visiting 3 museums: The Brooklyn Children’s Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of …
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Why Dance in the Museum?
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by Grace Hwang | This question has two readings: the first, does dance belong in the collection of a museum? (And, as such, can it …
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Museums of Architecture
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by Melissa Woolford | The exciting and somewhat daunting thing about being a museum of architecture is that unlike a museum of natural history or …
Keep ReadingThe Pain of the Summer Venice Tourist
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by Paloma Checa-Gismero | (…) At the time of this writing I am regaining awareness of a long vanished body. Except for a week, about …
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Kultur Park
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Interview with Stephanie Sherman, by Pablo von Frankenberg on March 12, 2012 | How did Kultur Park develop? This all happened when George [Scheer, executive …
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New Children’s Museum
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Interview with Lauren Lockhart by Kate Clark on March 21, 2012 | How did the New Children’s Museum begin? NCM opened in 2008. We were …
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Living Interpretation
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Interview with Ryan Hill, by Kate Clark and Christopher Kennedy (January 2012) | Describe for us the interpretive guide program at the Hirshhorn: The interpretive …
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Museum Futures in History
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by Pablo von Frankenberg Nearly one hundred years prior to the opening of the first museum building, ideas and thoughts surrounding the museum as an …
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Anacortes Museum
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Interview with Bret Lunsford by Kate Clark on December 28th, 2012 | KC: How was the Anacortes Museum founded? BL: That touches upon a lot …
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The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History
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Interview with Hugh Ryan, transcript by Christopher Kennedy (February 2012) | CK: Can you talk a little bit about what the idea of a “museum” …
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Elsewhere and the Museum as Commons
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by George Scheer | Consider a store, filled to the brink with consumables, one day decides that its inventories are collections, its merchandise is no …
Keep ReadingThe Museum is a Theater of Time
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by Christopher Kennedy | The museum is perhaps the greatest durational and ongoing performance modernity has ever encountered. From wonder rooms and cabinet of curiosities, …
Keep ReadingAllen Bassing, They Handed Me A Crowbar
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by Pablo von Frankenberg | In 1959, Allen Bassing and his wife decided to travel the world. Starting off in Paris with a Citroën 2CV, …
Keep ReadingA Place of Focus and Concentration: Terry Riley on good museums
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by Terry Riley | One measure of a museum’s institutional health is the degree to which it balances its competing interests. The one quality of all …
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