It Lives! DAM next Tuesday 27 February 2024 at Aeronaut

Cross-posted from Facebook:

It’s been a long, long time coming, but Drinking About Museums, Boston: The Next Generation will kick off next Tuesday at Aeronaut Brewing in scenic Somerville! Kellian Pletcher and I will be there at 6 PM and see if we can score some good seats. Come and join! And tell your friends. I’ll probably be wearing a hat.

And, as I always like to remind folks, enjoying Drinking About Museums: Boston doesn’t require alcohol consumption. All it requires is you to want to hang out and socialize with other museum and museum-adjacent culture lovers!

March 19th at 6PM at the Museum of Medical History and Innovation!

Museums and Healthcare, Part Two

The amazing Tegan Kehoe has invited us to the MGH museum to continue our discussion on the role of museums in healthcare. The doors will open at 5:45 and a tour of the museum and the Ether Dome will go from 6 to 7, after which we’ll head across the street for dinner.

We were thinking about going across the street to either Seoul (which served us well when we were at the Otis House and there was a game gumming up all the bars) or Hulun Beir, one of Kellian’s favorite hotpot places- amazing food but no drinks.

Any thoughts??

See you there!!

Ed and Kellian

Drinking About Museums!

November Drinking About Museums @ Otis House!

Thursday, November 21, 2019
6:30PM – 9:30PM

6:30 for the tour
7:30 for food and drink

West End Adventure awaits!

This month we’ll be continuing our historic house visits with a backstage tour of the Otis House Museum, conveniently located near MGH and the Charles Red Line stop! Come visit one of the oldest surviving buildings in the West End. We’ll gather at 6:30 and head off to eat and drink around 7:30.

With a special treat!
But wait! There’s more! The Museum has just installed two original Joseph Blackburn paintings of James and Ruth Otis in the Otis House dining room. James was a firebrand revolutionary, and Ruth was a staunch Tory, so there’s probably a couple of good relationship drama stories to be learned!

Hope to see you there!
Ed & Kellian

We’ve migrated our focus over to the Facebook group due to popular demand. If you’re not already a member of our FB group, head over to the Facebook event page and join up!

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October Drinking About Museums!

October Drinking About Museums @ Eustis Estate!

Tuesday, October 22, 2019
6:30PM – 9:30PM

6:30 for the tour
7:30 for food and drink

The Eustis Estate
1424 Canton Ave, Milton, MA 02186-2418

Hey guys! So we’re revealing our mystery location— The Eustis Estate!

The Eustis Estate is one of Historic New England’s latest museums to open to the public, it only became part of the organization in 2012. Before that point it was occupied by three generations of one family, leaving almost all original parts of this gorgeous 1878 Aesthetic Movement home in tact.

Historic New England chose to refurbish this impeccable house with accurate, usable reproductions of pieces that might have lived in the home- meaning you can sit in the chairs, read the books and walk around freely.

After taking a tour of the place and learning the ins and outs from the fantastic Karla Rosenstein, we’ll head to Steele and Rye.

Ping us on Facebook if you’d like to carpool. We’re gathering a car list.
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Reminder: DAM is tomorrow, 1/29!

Next Drinking About Museums: Boston
#TakingRisks Edition
Tuesday, January 29th, 6PM

The weather outside might be frightful, but at the bar, it’s so delightful! Especially if you spend it with your museum friends, and new friends! And this month, we’ve got another great special guest, Hillary Spencer, coming to join us. So, mark your calendars, brave the elements, and join us at the Hong Kong next Tuesday!

Hillary Spencer is the Director of Nomad Exhibitions. Hillary recently left the American Museum of Natural History to open the US office of Nomad. She has been moderating conversations on risk and leadership while developing a new business strategy for traveling exhibitions. She’s an alum of the Getty Leadership Institute Next Gen program, and a tireless champion for museums taking more risks.

What is #takingrisks?

The act of risk taking is of increasing importance in both our professional and personal lives. Taking risks on an institutional level requires not only personal vision, but also institutional support. Risk can small and quiet, or it can be loud and dramatic. What risks are you willing to take?

Hong Kong Restaurant
1238 Mass Ave
Cambridge MA 02138

Come join us and we’ll have a lively discussion with Hillary and your colleagues and try to get a bit more fearless!

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December Drinking About Museums

Come say hello/goodbye!

It’s that time again! Time to brave the cold and practice your holiday small talk! We’ll have not one, but TWO great reasons to come this month!

Say Hello to David!

I’m pleased as punch to announce that David Nuñez from the MIT Museum has joined me as your Drinking About Museums co-instigator for 2019! He’s got ideas for the future of DAM, and would love to hear yours!

 

 

Say Goodbye to Lauren!

I’m also happy/sad to announce that Lauren Vargas is moving to London to take a position with the One by One project in the UK to help build digitally confident museums! Let’s give her a great send off!

 

 

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Hong Kong Restaurant,
Harvard Square, Cambridge
Wednesday, December 12th, 6:30PM

 

October 24th: Drinking with new friends from JHU!

Greetings, friends!
Tis that time of the month again, and this month, we’ve got a special treat in store for you. Gail Ringel is in town with her class from Johns Hopkins University Museum Studies program.

They’re studying authority and engagement in museums, and on a whirlwind tour of the city and its cultural organizations. Come meet new friends, find out what’s new in the Boston museum scene and get out and relax with us!

Hope to see you there!

Ed

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The Details
When: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 6PM
Where: The historic Hong Kong Restaurant,
1238 Mass Ave., Cambridge MA 02138

Next Drinking About Museums: Boston – Weds., Sept. 26th

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Hola, comrades!

Three things to announce; the next DAM, the October DAM, and a special announcement from the Museums and the Web conference organizers. Onwards!

September Drinking About Museums!

Summer’s over, school’s in session! Time to come out and hang with your DAM friends on Wednesday the 26th! We’ll catch up on the Summer’s news and reviews, share what’s happening around town, and generally have a good time. Tell your friends!

Drinking About Museums: Boston
9/26/18 6PM
Upstairs at the Hong Kong Restaurant
1238 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02138
in historic Harvard Square

Save the Date! October 24th

We’ll be having a special October DAM, to welcome a group of Johns Hopkins University Museum Studies students to the Boston area. They’ll be in the midst of a grueling days-long exploration of museums all over the Boston area, so come out and say hello!

Museums and the Web 2019 will be in Boston!

The deadline for proposals is the end of this month, so don’t delay! It promises to be an exciting time, as hundreds of colleagues from around the world descend on us to learn about what’s new and exciting in museums! Additionally, the organizers have asked me to spread around the news of the Show Your Badge program they’re working on for MW2019. If your institution is interested in extending free admittance to conference goers while Museums and the Web is in town, they’ll be happy to add your info to the conference website, and literature. Win-win! Details are here: Show your MW badge program 2019.

See you at the Kong!

July Drinking About Museums:BOS 7/23 6-10PM at Alley

AR/VR in Museums!

Hola Friends!

Curious about AR and VR? Interested in what local companies and labs are working on around AR and VR in museums? Have we got the event for you!  Jeffrey Jacobson, a longtime DAM:BOS attendee, and VR guy, invited us join the Boston Virtual Reality Meetup group for an evening of augmented and virtual reality lightning talks, demos, drinks and snacks.

If you’ve wanted to learn more about AR and VR, and try out cool demos, now’s your chance!

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Details:

Monday, July 23, 2018, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM at Alley in Harvard Sq. 

Since we’re cohosting, there are a couple of things that are different from the usual DAM:BOS event:

1. We’d like you to sign up on the Boston VR Meetup event page here.
2. There’s a $6 door charge for pizza and drinks. Sustenance will be necessary so you can try all the toys and see all the talks. We’ll head off after to somewhere congenial to drink. Suggestions welcome!

Hope to see you there!
Ed

Your DAM June and July updates!

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June and July events

Summer is almost upon us, friends! Let the vacationing and trips to beaches commence!

It doesn’t mean we’re going to ease up, though! Far from it! Our May Drinking About Museums at the MIT Museum was a great time! About 35 of us enjoyed a tour of their new Cajal exhibition and the service at Asgard afterward. I’m very grateful to David Nuñez for organizing and Anne Neumann for leading the tour. They were excellent hosts!

June DAM in Plymouth

After a bit of a hiatus, South of Boston (SoB), Drinking about Museums is back!  Aside from good cheer in historic Plymouth, the evening will focus on what museums are we doing (or would like to do) in our work around race, gender equity and social justice.

For more details, visit the all-important Evite sign in page. Please do RSVP if you’re going, so they can know how many to expect.

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July DAM/Boston VR event

The Boston VR Meetup group is having a museum-themed event in July that we’re cohosting. It will be on Monday July 23rd at Alley in Cambridge. Lots of room for talks and demos, then drinking afterward.

More details to come, but if you’re interested in demoing or speaking, let me know! And sign up on the Boston VR Meetup page, so we know who to expect.

Hope to see you out and about this summer!

Ed!