I want to bring up a comment about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame from the last music thread, all the way back in late July. The RnR Hall of Fame is a legitimately bad museum - it's not kid friendly (which is not...
museums
I spent the weekend in Michigan, where I was chairing a plenary session at the American Federation of Teachers Higher Education Conference. As I am always one to take advantage.
Minnesota's Fort Snelling is one of those places where a lot of things have happened that make it hard to construct some sort of triumphant narrative. It's where Dred Scott.
My birthday is coming up later this month. I think some presents are in order! Politicians like to say they cannot be bought. But this weekend, here amid the rolling Civil War battlefields and the kitschy souvenir shops, anyone can buy a politician — a...
The children of Martin Luther King care about one thing: money. That's why the new African-American history museum at the Smithsonian has no important artifacts from King. When the museum.
Our national need for a Civil War museum consisting of battle reproduction scenes with cat figurine soldiers has finally been fulfilled. In September, in the shadow of the historic battlefield.
When I lived in Texas, I kept wondering if I should go to the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville. It was both horrifying and fascinating at the same time. Why would someone go see an electric chair in a prison largely dedicated to celebrating law...
Museums are inherently elite spaces. This is not a good thing. They usually cost money to enter. They may not actually require specific knowledge to enjoy them, but like drinking.
Historic homes of famous old white people was one of the first ways Americans began remembering their past. But they have tons of problems. Largely, those problems can be summed.
A central piece of the rhetoric about taking the Confederate flag down from state property and official state symbols is that "it belongs in a museum." Actually it doesn't belong in a museum either unless it is properly contextualized and interpreted, unless you don't want...
I visited the Smithsonian U.S. history museum last week and was amazed at how corporate-controlled it has now become. I am working on a larger article on this topic that.
The fact that a wealthy white man would buy an antebellum Louisiana sugar plantation and turn it into a no punches pulled museum on slavery, the first museum dedicated wholly.