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Recollection: A Collaborative Tool For Sharing And Visualizing Cultural Data

A new service from the Library of Congress lets you build maps, graphs, timelines, and trees from the collective digital and digitized history of an entire nation.READ MORE›

The Google Art Project: Like Street View for Museums

Visitors can zoom in, navigate through galleries, and build their own "collection of masterpieces."READ MORE›

"Ask a Curator" Makes Museum Twitter Feeds Fun Again

Jim Richardson is taking Twitter out of the marketing department and putting it in the hands of curators.READ MORE›

Meet the New MOCA Logo, Same as the Old MOCA Logo

The Museum of Contemporary Art in L.A. has just quietly reverted to a 30-year-old logo which was designed by icons Ivan Chermayeff & Tom Geismar. What's up with that?READ MORE›

Anne Frank House Goes Virtual to Celebrate 50th Anniversary

The Anne Frank Museum has launched a virtual tour of the house where the diarist hid from the Nazis during World War II. The reconstruction shows the Amsterdam house as it was over 60 years ago, and has a bunch of extra features, ...READ MORE›

SFMOMA's Expansion Plans are Shockingly Safe

After his dream for a museum in the Presidio went nowhere, Gap founder Don Fisher turned his 1,100-piece contemporary art collection over to SFMOMA. It'll make SFMOMA into an art-world force on the level of MOMA or the Tate Modern, and as such, it'll need its own flashy new box.READ MORE›

Four Ways to Keep the Museum Experience Relevant

Can a museum change the way a city sees itself? A recent exhibition in Portland, Oregon made a case for how museums can continue to engage and energize their audiences.READ MORE›

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Saving Colombia, One Building at a Time

And expansion of Medellín's Museum of Modern Art brings the city's history of brilliant public spaces into its wealthier neighborhoods.READ MORE›

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Vitra Unveils Its Stunning New Museum [UPDATED WITH 3-D TOUR]

The German furniture-maker maker adds another jewel to its starchitect-studded corporate campus.READ MORE›

Dear Jeffrey Deitch: Free Ideas for Your New Museum

The New York gallerist is bringing his knack for spectacle to Los Angeles. To welcome him to town, we asked a dozen experts what Deitch-produced events they'd most like to see at MOCA.READ MORE›

New MOCA Director Deitch Will Close His Gallery But That Doesn't Quiet Angry Art Mobs

Jeffrey Deitch will close his gallery before he begins work as MOCA's new director on June 1. That's no consolation to critics who think it's a dangerous choice for the museum--and art.READ MORE›

MOCA Names Jeffrey Deitch as New Director [UPDATED]

The once-troubled Los Angeles institution rocks the art world with a radical new model for museum leadership and a high-profile new leader.READ MORE›

Cooper-Hewitt Names Laptop Inventor and IDEO founder as Chief

A grand-daddy of interaction design will lead the National Design Museum.READ MORE›

Murder Under the Alexander Calder Sculpture! (And 60 Other Reasons to Visit Museums)

A day of artistic interventions at Los Angeles museum LACMA has been published as a book.READ MORE›

MOCA Shakes Off Blue Phase With a 30th Anniversary Party

The Los Angeles museum looks bravely towards the future with a new exhibition and a new attitude.READ MORE›

All Coat-Checks Should be This Cool

Wieki Somers has just won the 2009 Dutch Design Golden Lion, for turning a museum coat check into a full-fledged art installation.READ MORE›