OLD TOWN — History graduate students from across Interstate 8 will help reopen the landmark Junipero Serra Museum this weekend.

A team of interns from the University of San Diego history program will strengthen their résumés while operating the oldest arm of the San Diego Historical Society. A recent graduate will be paid to lead the group, acting as curator….

“It’s the birthplace of California as we know it today, where Father Serra and the missionaries settled at Presidio Point,” said Joey Seymour, the curator. “It’s one of the most historical places in California.”….

OCEANSIDE — After leading the Oceanside Museum of Art through a dozen years of growth, including the opening last year of a $6 million wing that quadrupled the facility’s size and dramatically expanded its programming possibilities, director James “Skip” Pahl has announced his retirement….

 
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The Hard Rock Hotel has created “The Great Wall of Las Vegas.” This is the mother of all touch screen video walls — 72 square feet. Step right up and explore every digital artifact (photos and videos) in the Hard Rock collection:

This could solve conundrums faced by a lot of museums — how do you provide access to the collection, without building a facility the size of the Las Vegas Convention Center (roughly 3 Malls of America, with the New Orleans Superdome for “backstage”)? And how do you present media-based artifacts — film, video, audio? Something like this provides an elegant solution that will appeal to “digital natives” who have never known a world without Google, Grand Theft Auto and Facebook.