#museum-education

#museum-education

This short captures Tim Bovard, the staff taxidermist for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, as he reflects on over five decades spent perfecting his craft. Sparked by a childhood fascination with the museum's dioramas that never faded, Bovard has devoted his career to shaping what he calls the 'illusion of life' - a process that requires both scientific precision and imaginative interpretation.

Sheila Berenson is an educator, writer, and visual artist based in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her professional journey spans decades of teaching, writing, and creating art, all guided by one consistent principle: curiosity fuels understanding. Art has always been a part of Sheila's life, shaping her approach to learning and inspiring her to connect with the world in meaningful ways. Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee,

There is something quite addictive about Thomas Schlesser's Mona's Eyes ( Les yeux de Mona in French). Once you start reading it, you cannot stop, even though nothing much happens over the course of its 300 pages, and the 52 chapters all follow the same pattern. Written in the vein of Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World (1991), a fictional survey of Western philosophy as seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl, Schlesser's novel, a bestseller in Europe, offers a similarly compact, often exhilarating cruise through the last few centuries of Western art.

Connect with nature at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, a place for learning, explorationand building community located in a beautiful building right on the beach in Santa Cruz. Permanent exhibits include wildlife and habitat displays, artifacts and cultural exhibits of the Ohlone, a garden learning center, plus exhibits on the geology of Santa Cruz, and Monterey Bay marine life.

Kat Lloyd stands in the dim light on the first-floor staircase of a dilapidated, New York City tenement building. Before her: a tour of wide-eyed teens on a field trip from their high school in Queens. Their guide, Lloyd, encourages the students to imagine the building's 22 apartments when they were new, back in 1863, and brimming with mostly German immigrants.

Sabrina Higgins, an associate professor of Aegean and Mediterranean societies and cultures at SFU, tells The Art Newspaper that she has had "a huge amount of interest" in a course she has designed for the autumn semester around the unique find. Students will get to analyse the designs and materials with a view to identifying where and when the items originate from.

With a new grant, the Oakland Museum of California hopes to welcome tens of thousands more students through its doors over the next few years for lessons in California art, science, and history. Museum leaders announced Thursday that OMCA will offer free field trips for all Oakland Unified School District schools over the next three years. As part of this effort, the museum will double its transportation scholarships, which pay for buses or transit fares.