As I reported last week, I have been very impressed by the apparently instinctive decision on the part of a large number of protestors in Tahrir Square to risk their safety, maybe their lives, to form a human chain around the Egyptian Museum to prevent looters from escaping and to prevent any more looters from …
As a person who loves to visit museums and has made a career out of producing documentary television about museums, I am fascinated by the emerging story of what happened at the renowned Egyptian Museum, just off Tahrir Square, the focal point of the current revolutionary activity in Cairo. The museum is the home of …
GREAT MUSEUMS: NEW ORLEANS: A LIVING MUSEUM OF MUSIC, the latest episode in the acclaimed public television documentary series, GREAT MUSEUMS, was recently awarded the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award for Documentary Excellence in Arts & Entertainment for the 2010 competition. This is the 10th CINE Golden Eagle Award for the GREAT MUSEUMS series since …
DR. MARGARET BURROUGHS, FOUNDER, DUSABLE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY Four years ago, in 2006, I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Margaret Burroughs for our GREAT MUSEUMS special titled “Riches, Rivals and Radicals: 100 Years of Museums in America.” Margaret Burroughs was one of the radicals. The DuSable Museum of African American History, which …
Above: Executive Producer Marc Doyle prepares to interview Lisandro Otero at The Hemingway House. FINCA VIGIA: MUSEO ERNEST HEMINGWAY Ada Rosa Alfonso Rosales, director of Finca Vigia, The Hemingway House Museum, was “the hostess with the most-est,” as we say back home in Deep South Mississippi. One minute we were toasting our GREAT MUSEUMS of …
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May 1998: After a year of thinking about producing a cultural TV series about museums, Marc and I were finally in a position to actually do it. Before we initiated the field production, we attended the American Association of Museums’ annual meeting in Los Angeles. We just signed up, paid the registration fee, and went. …
MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS ‘Great Museums’ takes to the streets of New Orleans to reveal that the city is a ‘living museum of music’ Originally printed: Saturday, May 15, 2010 With visits to more than 40 museums stamped on its passport, the public-television series “Great Museums” steps outside for its latest installment. “New Orleans: A Living …
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‘Great Museums’ takes to the streets of New Orleans to reveal that the city is a ‘living museum of music’ Originally printed: Saturday, May 15, 2010 With visits to more than 40 museums stamped on its passport, the public-television series “Great Museums” steps outside for its latest installment. “New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music,” …