Tim Burton retrospective at MoMA

MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art in New York City) is having an incredible show of Tim Burton's drawings, art, and sculpture. You can really see where his film visions came from for The Nightmare Before Christmas, and many of his other films.

The official video has Tim talking about the show, his art, and his films, including Alice in Wonderland.


Tim Burton retrospective at MoMA | Abduzeedo

Mutter Museum Gift Shop

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The Mutter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia has a unique collection of 19th century medical and anatomical specimens. Their Gift Shop helps them to fund their exhibits and programs. The shop is full of wonderful and fascinating items, from posters, to eyeball bandages!

Texas Musicians Museum - Home

The Texas Musicians Museum is located in Hillsboro, and has exhibits of music memorabilia, instruments, and the actual music. They also have a nice museum store. If you are located in the area, they are looking for volunteers as well.

Texas Musicians Museum - Home

An Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin

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This museum, built in an older synagogue, sits in an area that was once a Jewish center in Ireland. The museum houses information about the daily life and rituals, and allows James Joyce fans of Ulysses (whose character Leopold Bloom was Jewish) to see what life was like in Ireland in the early 1900's.



Everything about Jewish Community in Ireland

Fort Morgan has a Cell Phone Tour

Short article on how a museum has stepped up to the cell phone technology!

Museum offers cell phone audio tour, CO

Museums and the Web 2009 Conference

Museums and the Web is an annual conference. The speakers are often web developers and designers working with museums and heritage programs. Here, you can see the prekiminary program and learn more about the conference.


Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2009 (MW2009)

Museum Blogs

Image by Funky64 (www.lucarossato.com) via FlickrThere is a new place to search for museum blogs now! Alltop is a blog directory and has recently added the category of Museums. Here you can read and explore both museum blogs and news about museums.

Museums in Croatia

Image via WikipediaDid you know that Croatia has a Maritime Museum in Dubrovnik? Not only that, but they have a number of museums, including an archaeological one, and the websites are in English.

http://www.mdc.hr/dubrovnik/eng/index.html

Living History in Tennessee

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This living history museum covers the story of Southeast Tennessee from the Cherokee Indians and the early pioneers, all the way to 1940. They have a large antique glassware collection as well.

McMinn County Living Heritage Museum

MuseumStuff.com has again started listing museum shops that are available online. Take a look at the Heard Museum for fine gift ideas and American Indian crafts,


Online Museum Shops : MuseumStuff.com

Celebrities, animals. humor, this museum has it all and more! Click on the toilet to visit a random toilet.

The Toilet Museum - The Home of Toilet Art, Humor, and Fun Facts.

One of my favorite museums now has an exhibition catalog available. They have a great collection of art that has ended up in the trash and rescued by their volunteers.

The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA)

The Provincetown Art Association and Museum has a series of podcasts at PodcastGo. Podcasts are simply audio files that you can listen to either on your computer or MP3 player.

podcastGOMuseum : Local Museums: PAAM

I always wondered where the name Hadrosaurus came from. Here is the answer, it was the first actual dinosaur fossil skeleton excavated that led to the study of dinosaurs (at least, according to this website).


Hadrosaurus.com -- Official Haddonfield Dinosaur Committee Site

The pineapple is not native to Hawaii as many people seem to think. It is a native of Peru and is a type of cactus.

Here is a short social history of this fruit and how it came to be linked to the idea of hospitality.

Social History of the Pineapple

Courtesy of eWeek, here is the Museum of Computer Disasters. I particularly like the torched Mac (a.k.a. Roasted Apple).


DriveSavers' Museum of Computer Disasters

The Global Museum is an excellent resource for museum news, resources, podcasts, museums, jobs in museums, and an online bookshop. They have an ezine, as well as a list of accredited museum studies courses.

Global Museum

Museum Stuff is a wonderful museum web directory. You can search by US state, topic, artist, or museum name. It also has a category for museum shops, articles, virtual museums, and games.

MuseumStuff.com : 1000's of Museums Online : Best Art and History Educational Websites

Musematic is a museum blog all about museums and and trends. It has several authors and contributors, all experts in the field.


Musematic

Pongo appears to be a type of clay. This site features a collection of figurines made out of pongo. Great fun.


pongomania