Museum - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

In 1995, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts reopened its grand front entrance on busy Huntington Avenue. The symbolism was hard to miss. After decades of attracting a scholarly, sophisticated, highbrow crowd to its side entry, the MFA was... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2005
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S.F.’s New Museum

Bradley Photo Courtesy MOAD The executive director of the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), which opened in November in San Francisco, is V. Denise Bradley (MBA ’86). Bradley (right), who came to MoAD from London’s South Bank Centre... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2007
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Allston to Get Harvard Museum

A new Harvard art museum will join the University’s planned life-sciences complex on Western Avenue across from HBS — the first two structures in Harvard’s long-range expansion plan in Allston. University officials announced the selection... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jul 2009
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Upgrading the Computer History Museum

18 Apr 2017
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New Revolutionary War Museum Aims To Illuminate The Past

01 Apr 2016
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Basseches New CEO of Royal Ontario Museum

Keywords: Basseches, Joshua

01 Mar 2017
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The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum

lend his business savvy to help found a museum dedicated to American writers similar to the Dublin Writers Museum of O’Hagan’s native Ireland. The museum, which includes a children’s books exhibit,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 Oct 2016
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With $50m, Bloomberg thanks Boston's Museum of Science

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

27 Oct 2014
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Supporting new art by bringing private funding to public museums and spaces

collective of patrons who work directly with artists to back a variety of projects. Some are major site-specific installations in prominent public spaces, and biennale and museum contexts. Other grants support the entire creative... View Details

04 Dec 2019
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Don’t call it the Freer/Sackler. Call it the National Museum of Asian Art.

01 Dec 2019
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Turning Point: Living History

was no museum to learn about this period in history, and nowhere for those affected to record their experiences for the benefit of others. I grew up with my maternal grandparents—the generation that lived through Partition—and saw that... View Details

Keywords: museums; India; nonprofits; career paths; leadership; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

15 Jun 2021
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Action Plan: Come as You Are

Josh Basseches (MBA 1992), director and CEO of Canada’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). “The experience of going to a museum is about encountering and connecting with authentic objects and with people.”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; museums; art; cognition; diversity; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment