Tate Modern has entered into an extensive partnership with investment bank UBS, under which the museum will showcase works from the bank’s extensive art collection. But as much as Tate Modern may need UBS’s money, doesn’t such a deal indicate a betrayal of the museum’s core mission? “Tate Modern belongs to the British people. Its space cannot be sold, its codes must not be breached simply because the government doesn’t care to support it as it should.” An article on this issue already appeared on sunday and was cited by the ArtsJournal the same day, but the content is to important to leave unnoticed here.

Read full article (The Observer, May 13, 2007)

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Last sunday the American Association of Museums announced the winners of the 2007 MUSE Awards recognizing excellence in all varieties of media programs produced by or for museums. Among the innovative projects to receive a prize were an animated Native American folktale, a weekly science news podcast, a sunken treasure map game, a Chicago blues audio tour, a butterfly habitat simulator, an opportunity to play photojournalist on a breaking story and a stock-market simulator game .

The MUSE Awards, now in their 18th year, are open to entries from museums around the world, and besides American museums three of the gold medal winners in the 11 categories were museums in Mexico City; Taipei, Taiwan; and Melbourne, Australia.

A complete list of the 2007 MUSE Award winners and judging criteria is available on the Web site of the American Association of Museums.
Read the press release