Max van Balgooy

New NEH Interpretive Planning Grant for Small Organizations engagingplaces.net/2023/05/11/new…

Planning for the 250? This Webinar Will Help You Get Started engagingplaces.net/2023/05/09/pla…

The Field of Local History at Your Fingertips—Free! engagingplaces.net/2023/02/07/the…

Reimagining Historic House Museums Workshops Returning in 2023 engagingplaces.net/2023/01/27/rei…

Hagia Sophia: An Experiment with Virtual Tours engagingplaces.net/2023/01/19/hag…

Elon Musk’s treatment of employees is unethical and unprofessional. I’ll be moving from #Twitter. Subscribe to EngagingPlaces.net in the meantime. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/11/04/tec…

How much are they paid: exhibition coordinator at the Whitney #Museum of American Art. New law requires posting of #salary ranges via @NYTimes #equity nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Emily Dickinson’s house #museum in Amherst, Mass., gets a vibrant, historically correct makeover, underlining that she was not just a reclusive woman in white. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/10/28/art…

If those admission preferences were ended, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch observed, “We just would have a crummy squash team and no art #museum. Then what?”…Fairness would suggest that ending preferences for the wealthy and well-connected is a better remedy. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

“The hours part us but they bring us together again.” Found on a headstone in Sperryville, VA. Happy halloween!

Indonesia has demanded that the Netherlands hand back valuable collections of fossils and jewels from its #museums, including the famous fossilised hominid skull of Java Man and valuables looted by troops from a Balinese palace. via British Sunday Times

Staffers at the Columbus #Museum of Art in Ohio voted to unionize last week, joining the growing wave of unionization at art museums in the United States. Next up: contract negotiations. Via @Artforum

Where’s Kitty Cary? An amateur historian searching for her roots unlocked an extensive Black #history that Richmond tried to hide. Now on the National Register. #preservation Unfortunately, not unusual. Many more to be revealed. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/…

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: The way that you celebrate Christmas or the foods that you cook, the foods that you eat, the way that you worship have been inherited from our ancestors. So the more you learn about those ancestors, the more you learn about yourself. washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/…

@gardnermuseum I’m working with the Mercer Museum on community engagement and we’d like to learn from you. Who should I contact?

200 celebrities, social media stars & fashion influencers gathered at the Huntington #Library, Art #Museum & Botanical Gardens to celebrate Ralph Lauren’s debut in Southern California. The event included a runway show & Polo burgers. #classy washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Weekslong Philadelphia Museum of Art strike ends. The workers’ #union said they will now have higher raises, longevity pay to recognize length of service to the #museum, more affordable healthcare, and four weeks of paid parental leave. apple.news/A2nvtM153QXSWK…

Think about art as a form of embodied culture — energies already released and captured in an object, just as buildings embody carbon. If art is embodied culture, we are compelled to consider its preservation and lasting value even during times of peril. washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…

Rockville's The Shops at Congressional Village sells at auction. @WashingtonBusinessJournal Affects Verizon, Healthy Back, My Eye Doctor, Kindle and Boom, Mosaic Cafe. bizjournals.com/washington/new…

“If you say ‘yes’ to one request, you suddenly find the British #Museum would be empty.” The UK House of Lords debating legislation to prevent some nationally funded museums from returning objects to their countries of origin. #decolonization washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/…