Have you been enjoying the warm weather? Thinking summer already? School’s going to be out soon enough and that means it is time to think about summer. Many parents look to summer camps to offer a range of activities and playmates for their children during the summer.There are two basic types of camps – day and overnight. There are camps designed to meet almost every child’s individual interests and needs – parents have lots of choices when selecting summer programs for their kids. There are camp specialists you can hire to help you choose, websites that list camps and the tried and…
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Bruce Museum arts fest - Greenwich Time
MUSEUM NEWS - Google News16 May 2012 | 12:46 pmBruce Museum arts festGreenwich TimeAn archaic Greek Panathenaic prize amphora, about 525-500 BCE, in terracotta, in one of the treasures on view in a new Olympics exhibit at the Bruce Museum, which is hosting its 27th annual outdoor crafts festival May 19-20.and more » -
Erebuni To Join The European Night Of Museums
Search for "MUSEUMS"16 May 2012 | 4:13 amEREBUNI TO JOIN THE EUROPEAN NIGHT OF MUSEUMS news.am 15.05.2012 16:12 The 8th Night of Museums will start in Europe on May 19 at 6 p.m. and will continue till midnight. -
"Follow Your Bliss": Reflections on 30 Years of Photographing the Guggenheim
News16 May 2012 | 12:47 pmThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, exterior view. Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, night view. Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Installation view: The Art of the Motorcycle, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 26–September 20, 1998. Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation David Heald,… -
Past and Present Clash in Ai WeiWei’s “Fragments”
Around The Mall16 May 2012 | 1:15 pmAi WeiWei's "Fragments" is now on display at the Sackler Gallery. Between 1990 and 1995, floor space under construction surged by 750 percent in Beijing. This real estate boom, coupled with new housing deregulations, “radically changed the landscape of post-Tianenmen Beijing,” says Sackler Gallery curator Carol Huh. In the rush to modernize China, ancient structures were torn down and replaced with brand new houses and apartment buildings. Chinese artist Ai WeiWei noticed the abundance of antique wood that flooded the market from this widespread demolition and began…
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Bruce Museum arts fest - Greenwich Time
16 May 2012 | 12:46 pmBruce Museum arts festGreenwich TimeAn archaic Greek Panathenaic prize amphora, about 525-500 BCE, in terracotta, in one of the treasures on view in a new Olympics exhibit at the Bruce Museum, which is hosting its 27th annual outdoor crafts festival May 19-20.and more » -
No sex, please — it's Ottawa: museum raises age limit for racy exhibition - Canada.com
16 May 2012 | 12:43 pmSun News NetworkNo sex, please — it's Ottawa: museum raises age limit for racy exhibitionCanada.comOTTAWA — A museum sex exhibit designed to educate teenagers was just fine in Regina, but it's too hot for Ottawa. The Canada Science and Technology Museum has raised the unaccompanied age of admission for Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition to 16 from 12.Ottawa museum opens 'sexhibit' for teensSun News NetworkAnything goes in museum sex showOttawa CitizenMuseum's sex-ed exhibit offending some parentsCTV.caMetroNews Canadaall 55 news articles » -
Slavery Museum Wins OK For New Bankruptcy Date - WRIC
16 May 2012 | 12:41 pmSlavery Museum Wins OK For New Bankruptcy DateWRIC(AP) - A judge has rescheduled a confirmation hearing on a bankruptcy reorganization plan for the debt-ridden US National Slavery Museum. US Bankruptcy Judge Douglas O. Tice Jr. on Wednesday set the hearing for June 27. It had been scheduled for June 6 and more » -
NY's Met Museum visitors climb to cloud nine, via rooftop art by Argentinian ... - Washington Post
16 May 2012 | 12:21 pmNew York Daily NewsNY's Met Museum visitors climb to cloud nine, via rooftop art by Argentinian Washington PostOn the rooftop of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Cloud City” welcomes visitors. Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno created the 16 stainless steel-framed bubbles, accessible via transparent staircases that take visitors on a journey up, NY's Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud nineWall Street JournalNY's Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud 9CBS Newsall 149 news articles » -
'Cloud City' on NYC's Met Museum's Rooftop - Washington Post
16 May 2012 | 12:04 pm'Cloud City' on NYC's Met Museum's RooftopWashington Post16, 2012 - 38-year-old Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno's latest exhibit can be found on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 'Cloud city' is made up of 16-stainless steel bubble like modules linked together by acrylic and more »
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Erebuni To Join The European Night Of Museums
16 May 2012 | 4:13 amEREBUNI TO JOIN THE EUROPEAN NIGHT OF MUSEUMS news.am 15.05.2012 16:12 The 8th Night of Museums will start in Europe on May 19 at 6 p.m. and will continue till midnight. -
MOMS Club members remember role models on holiday
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2012-05-05 05:00 PM. Theft on 5800-5899 WESTHEIMER RD, Houston, 77057, TX
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Works by Gloucester County Art League, Porecelain Painters of...
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Scarborough takes part in Museums At Night
3 May 2012 | 5:50 amMUSEUMS and galleries in Scarborough have joined together to take part in Museums At Night, an annual after-hours celebration.
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"Follow Your Bliss": Reflections on 30 Years of Photographing the Guggenheim
16 May 2012 | 12:47 pmThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, exterior view. Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, night view. Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Installation view: The Art of the Motorcycle, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 26–September 20, 1998. Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation David Heald,… -
Artist Faith Ringgold Discusses "Tar Beach" on "Craft in America"
9 May 2012 | 8:18 amArtist Faith Ringgold, whose seminal story quilt Tar Beach has been in the Guggenheim Museum's collection since 1988, is the subject of the season-four premiere of Craft in America's "Threads" episode, first airing on PBS on Friday, May 11, at 9:00 pm (check local listings for times and additional dates). Craft in America is a Peabody Award–winning series dedicated to exploring the rich fabric of the United States' craft history and contemporary currents in craft art. Season four's premiere episode of "Threads" features Ringgold, as well as craft artists… -
The MUSE Awards Honor BMW Guggenheim Lab Website and Its Urbanology Game
4 May 2012 | 2:30 pmThe BMW Guggenheim Lab website and its interactive game, Urbanology, were recently honored by the 2012 MUSE Awards, presented by the American Association of Museums (AAM) to recognize digital-media achievements and innovation by museums. Urbanology, an online game that invites the public to role-play as city planners, won the Gold MUSE Award for Games and Augmented Reality, while the Lab's website earned an honorable mention in the Online Presence category. Developed by Local Projects and ZUS, Urbanology is an interactive game in which players confront the challenges and trade-offs of… -
Cold Cave Performs at the Guggenheim
1 May 2012 | 12:49 pmIn a darkened rotunda amidst work by John Chamberlain, the new wave-influenced band Cold Cave played before a packed audience at the museum on Friday, April 27, as part of the Divine Ricochet music series. After an opening DJ set by curator Nat Trotman, Cold Cave singer and principal songwriter Wesley Eisold, backed by Dominick Fernow, took to the stage. The duo performed a short set of original ambient music before turning to the band's signature brooding synth pop, filling the rotunda with melodic, aching vocals, wailing guitars, and driving beats. A lucky group of 223 people who were first… -
Vote Daily to Restore the Frank Lloyd Wright Doors
26 Apr 2012 | 11:12 amThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is one of 40 historic buildings, icons, and landmarks in New York City selected to participate in Partners in Preservation, a program from American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to raise awareness of the importance of historic places. Each year at the Guggenheim, more than 1.3 million visitors enter and exit through our doors to behold Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiraling architecture. After years of constant use, the single revolving door and adjacent double doors of the museum require immediate attention. Through Partners in…
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Past and Present Clash in Ai WeiWei’s “Fragments”
16 May 2012 | 1:15 pmAi WeiWei's "Fragments" is now on display at the Sackler Gallery. Between 1990 and 1995, floor space under construction surged by 750 percent in Beijing. This real estate boom, coupled with new housing deregulations, “radically changed the landscape of post-Tianenmen Beijing,” says Sackler Gallery curator Carol Huh. In the rush to modernize China, ancient structures were torn down and replaced with brand new houses and apartment buildings. Chinese artist Ai WeiWei noticed the abundance of antique wood that flooded the market from this widespread demolition and began… -
How a Fallout Shelter Ended up at the American History Museum
15 May 2012 | 10:46 amIt its collection, the National Museum of American History has a fallout shelter, exhumed from a yard in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Image courtesy of NMAH. “We do not want a war. We do not know whether there will be war. But we know that forces hostile to us possess weapons that could destroy us if we were unready. These weapons create a new threat—radioactive fallout that can spread death anywhere. That is why we must prepare.” -The Family Fallout Shelter (1959), published by the United States Office of Civil and Defense mobilization The Andersons of Fort Wayne, Indiana, were… -
Events May 15-17: Words, Earth and Aloha, merengue and méringue, and ZooFari
14 May 2012 | 10:58 amSliders served at last year's ZooFari benefit. Image courtesy of the National Zoo. Tuesday, May 15 Words, Earth and Aloha Celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month with the American Indian Museum’s May Daily Films. Words, Earth and Aloha celebrates the Hawaiian composers who flourished between the 1870s and the 1920s, exploring the poetry and play of Hawaiian lyrics as well as the places and features of the natural world that inspired songs that remain beloved to this day. The documentary is directed by Eddie Kamae, the legendary Hawaiian musician who helped launch the Hawaiian… -
Transforming War and Trauma Experiences Through the Arts
11 May 2012 | 1:55 pm"Breaking Rank" by Drew Cameron (Army) and Drew Matott (Civilian) is made from the artists' shredded uniforms. Image courtesy of the Combat Paper Project – Collaboration with Green Door Studio, Burlington, VT. Young veterans returning from the prolonged and grueling wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are finding new ways to cope with post-military life and they’re doing it through art. As a part of the Arts, Military + Healing: A Collaborative Initiative (AMH), veterans and civilians at the forefront of this movement are joining with national cultural institutions, art… -
There’s a Happening Tonight at the Hirshhorn
11 May 2012 | 11:07 amIf you haven’t yet seen Doug Aitken’s SONG 1, the nightly spectacle projected on the Hirshhorn‘s outside walls, tonight might be the right time to swing by. For one night only, the museum is shutting off the speakers and replacing the normal soundtrack with a special live concert called “SONG 1: A Happening.” Against the backdrop of the 360-film loop, the bands Geologist, High Places, No Age, duo Tim McAfee Lewis and Leo Gallo, sound collagist Oneohtrix Point Never, and minimalist composer Nicolas Jaar, all covering the Flamingos’ song “I Only Have…
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Notice: Entrance of Science Drive 2 to be closed from 5-25 May
6 May 2012 | 10:00 pmDear visitors, please note the following: Due to construction works between blocks S14 and S15 from the 5th to 25th of May, the entrance of Science Drive 2 will be closed to traffic. This closure will affect vehicles turning in from Lower Kent Ridge Road into Science Drive 2. An alternative route through Science Drive 1 will be provided and traffic controllers will be deployed during this period to ensure proper and safe traffic flow. This alternate route in indicated in the diagram below. -
Professor Peter Ng’s featured interview! Why you should care about Singapore’s natural history
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Orthoptera in the Bukit Timah and Central Catchment Nature Reserves
4 May 2012 | 3:19 amA new book by M. K. Tan on Orthoptera in the Bukit Timah and Central Catchment Nature Reserves (Part 1): Suborder Caelifera has been published and is available for download [PDF, 9.06 MB] -
New articles on Nature in Singapore website
4 May 2012 | 2:55 amThe following articles have been uploaded to the Nature in Singapore website (http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/nis/index.html). Adult male of Pericnemis stictica. See Ngiam and Leong, 2012. Low, B. W. & K. K. P. Lim, 2012. Gouramies of the genus Trichopodus in Singapore (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Osphronemidae). Nature in Singapore, 5: 83–93. [PDF, 1.07 MB] Ng, T. H. & D. C. J. Yeo, 2012. Non-indigenous frogs in Singapore. Nature in Singapore, 5: 95–102. [PDF, 624 KB] Ngiam, R. W. J. & T. M. Leong, 2012. Larva of the phytotelm-breeding damselfly, Pericnemis stictica Selys from… -
We have a bug visitor for a change!
3 May 2012 | 6:10 amJohn with some of our bees John Ascher from the American Museum of Natural History is visiting the department this week as part of his interview process and swung by the museum this afternoon! Being a bee man, he could not resist checking out our modest collection and shared with us interesting factoids about his favourite animals. For example, did you know some bees species possess night vision? We never knew that! We look forward to sharing what we learnt from John with you at our Open House! Amongst the many things John has published, he has compiled an interactive checklist of world bee…
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It’s Family Space Day at the George on Saturday: Take your family to the Moon!
16 May 2012 | 10:59 amWant to go to space? We can take you. Say hello to the Challenger Learning Center and Family Space Day. The Challenger Learning Center opened at HMNS in 1988 after the tragic last flight of the space shuttle Challenger. A living, teaching memorial to the crew, the Challenger Center continues to teach children about space and space flight and perpetuate all the things the crew loved. Originally designed for schools and groups, the Challenger takes up to 40 participants to “space” as they experience real astronaut training during their missions to the Moon or Mars. Groups perform… -
Introducing Lane, a mummified Triceratops with a new address at 5555 Hermann Park Dr.
14 May 2012 | 4:17 pmAs the final countdown to the June 2 opening of our new Hall of Paleontology continues, we’ve introduced you to a few of our new roommates here at HMNS. We’ve shown you Wyrex, a T. rex with some seriously spirited fingers; and Priscilla, a mastodon with a gender identity crisis. Now it’s time to introduce you to the head honcho, the most impressive specimen we’ve got. Meet Lane, the mummified Triceratops. That’s right, mummified. As in this guy was preserved with large swatches of his skin intact. That’s dinosaur skin, y’all. Not only is Lane a rare,… -
What’s in a name? Prizes, for one thing! VOTE for your favorite moniker and grant the submittor a guided tour of the new paleo hall
14 May 2012 | 12:38 pmYou’ve made your nominations, and the academy has deliberated. We even put the top five names you guys submitted for our new T-Rex Trying mascot in crisp ecru envelopes and everything. We hired a calligrapher and borrowed ball gowns! I’ve gotten carried away, haven’t I? Well this much is true: We’ve selected our favorite five name suggestions, and now it’s up to you to pick the winner. Our favorite picks were *drumroll please*: Tex Huey Tiny Amigo Sam Whether the names were inspired by our city, our state or our sense of irony, we loved the outpouring of… -
Dinosaur dialogue: Watch our own David Temple talk paleo on Great Day San Antonio
12 May 2012 | 7:15 amWe don’t know if you’d heard, but our new Hall of Paleontology is kind of a big deal. It has many leather-bound books, and smells of rich mahogany contains more than 60 brand new mounts, including a few that are ground-breaking in the field of paleontology. One of those, Wyrex, we’ve already told you about. The other … well, the other you’ll have to wait until Monday to see. In the meantime, though, to whet your whistle, here’s a segment from Great Day San Antonio featuring our very own Associate Curator of Paleontology, David Temple. Check him out as he…
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The inability of contextualism to explain disruptions and surprises
15 May 2012 | 1:47 pmLast time I presented a paper criticising contextualist thinking was at the annual History of Science conference in Washington DC in November 2007 — that’s almost five years ago! I haven’t had much time over to think about the individualism/contextualism/holism issue. This museum, and a couple of kids, have taken all my time. But a recent talk by Graham Harman has reinvigorated my spirits. Here the abstract to an audio of a keynote titled “Everything Is Not Connected” that Harman gave in Berlin, 2 February 2012: The idea that everything is interconnected has become a… -
Cultivating followers on social media when you want to communicate science
14 May 2012 | 2:35 amHow do you explain why social media can be a good thing for researchers to look into? What advantages and what challenges are important to highlight? This week, I’ll be introducing social media for science communication to the Danish Public Health Sciences Alumni (in Danish). It always helps being quite convinced yourself of what you are talking about, but reading other people’s arguments can also help. Especially, if they are in line with your own experiences. I was therefore delighted to read a blog post on Nature’s community guest blog, Soapboxscience, by Matt Shipman, a… -
Look again…
11 May 2012 | 3:08 amHave you ever walked into a museum and photographed the shadowy corner of the room rather than the glass case in the middle? Have you ever stopped to look at the seemingly boring medical stuff that surrounds us – from dentures to rollators? And how often do you think about the fragility of the bones that support us into old age? On Thursday 26th April, accompanying the opening of Experiences of Ageingwe invited guests to investigate some of the overlooked aspects of medicine with their pen, lens, and hands, guided by photographer Mette Bersang, sculptor Joanna Sperryn Jones, and Lucy Lyons,… -
What would a material history of drug addiction read, look, sound, smell etc. like?
10 May 2012 | 8:01 amToday we had our weekly MUSE workshop with in-house historian of psychiatry, Jesper V. Kragh, who spoke — under the title “Changing Gender Differences: Morphine in Denmark, 1860-1960″ — about the gender dimension in his current research project on the history of drug abuse in Denmark. The discussion generated a lot of discussions — and a lively Twitter-stream, including some thoughts about a possible material history of drug addiction. (thumbnail photo credit here) -
Lucy Lyons: Artistic research
8 May 2012 | 10:53 amOn the 27. of April we opened our new exhibition ‘Experiences of Ageing‘ featuring drawings and objects from a 2-year postdoctoral research fellowship by the London artist Lucy Lyons. At the opening seminar Lucy gave a general introduction to her work in artistic research and to the exhibition. Watch this short video from the opening to find out why rollators are beautiful, how drawing can help science, and what artist research is all about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Wd9K_OEM8 An online version of the exhibition is available here. To watch the full presentation click…
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Santi Moix
15 May 2012 | 2:36 pmPerched high on a lift in the fourth floor contemporary galleries, Brooklyn-based artist Santi Moix is drawing directly on the wall with charcoal to create a striking piece entitled Huckleberry Finn, “I don’t take no stock in mathematics, anyway.” A lush tree resembling a fish is already visible. The final drawing will depict Huck Finn sitting on a hammock strung between two trees. Brooklyn-based artist Santi Moix is drawing directly on the wall with charcoal to create a striking piece entitled Huckleberry Finn, "I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway."… -
Connecting Cultures Through Books!
15 May 2012 | 11:17 amThe presence of three books in the new Connecting Cultures installation gives me a welcome opportunity to talk about these key works that are in the Library collection. This is the first of a series of blogs that will discuss the books on view as well as other ways information has been culled from the Libraries and Archives to enhance this installation. Art books have an advantage over other books since they offer many components that have an intrinsic quality. Hand colored images, good paper quality, innovative typography, overall design, types of binding—these are all elements that… -
A Sunset for 1stfans
11 May 2012 | 12:02 pmIt’s been roughly three and half years since Will Cary and I started the 1stfans Membership program at the Museum; come July, the program will come to a close with a sunset—quite literally. How do you end a program with personal ties? You throw a party and, in the case of 1stfans, that will be our annual rooftop ice cream social where we watch the sun go down; this was the scene at last year's event. The program was announced in December of 2008 and was created for the Brooklyn Museum visitor who wanted something a little different than the traditional Membership structure. -
Where is our Bird Lady?
9 May 2012 | 11:41 amMany of you may be wondering where our beloved Female Figurine, nicknamed the “Bird Lady” is. One of the stars of our Egyptian collection, she normally greets visitors to the Egyptian Galleries’ Predynastic section and she’s the signature image for the second phase of our reinstallation, which opened in 2003. For this reason and because she is the most complete example of this type of figurine, the “Bird Lady” traditionally does not travel on loan to other institutions for special exhibitions, but she has taken her first voyage out of the Brooklyn Museum to be part of The Dawn of… -
The Big Picture(s)
2 May 2012 | 1:26 pmAs Kevin mentioned in his last post, Connecting Cultures is presented in thematic sections: Places, People, and Things, in addition to an Introductory Center. Since the artwork was curated cross-collection, the question for me as a designer was how to visually unify artworks that spanned 5 millenia, and were products of so many unique artistic practices from around the world. The easy solution would have been to choose one color for each section, but since the room is 24-feet high, and most of the art is under 4-feet tall, that would have left a lot of empty visual space, even after…
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Selecting a Summer Camp
30 Apr 2012 | 1:57 pmHave you been enjoying the warm weather? Thinking summer already? School’s going to be out soon enough and that means it is time to think about summer. Many parents look to summer camps to offer a range of activities and playmates for their children during the summer.There are two basic types of camps – day and overnight. There are camps designed to meet almost every child’s individual interests and needs – parents have lots of choices when selecting summer programs for their kids. There are camp specialists you can hire to help you choose, websites that list camps and the tried and… -
Make an Earth Day Splash
11 Apr 2012 | 4:38 pmWith Earth Day approaching and our area experiencing near drought conditions, now is the perfect time to teach your child some simple ways to “Save the Earth”, starting with a tangible resource your child uses every day, water. For starters, help your child realize just how much we use water every day.Young children may only think of really obvious uses, such as drinking or bathing.As you go about your day, challenge your child to notice when you use water: doing laundry, washing dishes, and see what else she comes up with.When outside, notice all the plants and animals that need water as… -
Art Project Ideas
23 Mar 2012 | 2:32 pmSo you and the kids are ready to get creative, but what to do?I have found checking websites (search preschool arts and crafts and many sites pop up) to be inspiring, but can slow down the immediate – “I want to make something now” mood. By simply providing a work space with a variety of materials, and playing some back ground music such as; classic, reggae, jazz or upbeat rock n’ roll, you’ll be good to go!Start with cups of water, watercolors, brushes and a stack of paper – simply allow the kids to paint as they see fit. Offer comments on use of color, use of space or a… -
How to build self esteem in children
20 Mar 2012 | 2:20 pmAs individuals, we often strive to master the balance between nourishment and exercise, and as parents, we are forever trying to teach our children what it means to live a truly balanced life. However, with unlimited societal pressures to be thin, children are no longer listening to their bodies’ need for satiation, but rather are trying to be too thin. It is becoming more and more evident that negative body image affects children and young adults’ self-esteem, and creates a multitude of problems.Self esteem is how we feel about ourselves. Human beings have a deep awareness of self. It is… -
Art Closet Staples
3 Feb 2012 | 3:03 pmAll dressed up and no snow to go to?….well before that happens (or before the spring rains come) again take a look in your art and crafts bin and stock it up for the next time you hear “ What can I do?” I keep a set of metal shelves and bins in a reachable area in our closet, that waykids get easy access to the materials to be creative and the supplies stayed housed and out of sight when not in use. I keep laminated “workspaces” for my kids to use, but old laminated place mats, an old plastic table cloth or plastic placemats from a dollar store will all work well, too. My kids tend…
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Digital Asset Management Specialist - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
9 May 2012 | 11:41 amInitially, this position will be deeply involved in the administration and technical oversight of MediaBin, the museum's digital asset management system. read more -
Digital Assets Manager Missouri History Museum
3 May 2012 | 5:14 pmThe Missouri History Museum in St. Louis is seeking a Digital Assets Manager. http://www.mohistory.org/employment read more -
DBA, Web Developer (2 positions posted at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights)
1 May 2012 | 8:36 amThe Design + New Media & Collections department of the newly established Canadian Museum for Human Rights (Canada's new national museum) is looking to fill 2 new career positions. Both positions are full-time, indeterminate and report to the Manager, Web Presence. Database Administrator http://tbe.taleo.net/NA4/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=HUMANRIGHTSMUSE... Web Developer read more -
Thoughts on Museums and the Web 2012
30 Apr 2012 | 7:34 pmMuseums and the Web 2012 stands out as one of the best conferences I have attended -- for digital media, or for any topic. I've summarized some of the top take-aways. First of all, thank you again to the organizers, sponsors, volunteers and participants. It was a pleasure to meet so many folks who are fired up about what the future holds for galleries and museums using digital technology. read more -
Wanted: Web Developer at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
25 Apr 2012 | 9:40 amWeb Developer The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown MA) read more
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McKinley cartoons
3 May 2012 | 10:13 amI've had a lot of fun going through our collection of McKinley political cartoons in preparation for our next Keller Gallery exhibition Campaigns & Cartoons. Lots of interesting commentary on the Spanish-American War.We will be supplementing this traveling show from the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site with campaign items from our own collection. It's going to be a fantastic exhibit!This is one of the cartoons that I have incorporated into the exhibit panels about McKinley (dated March 6, 1901):INAUGURAL BALL, MARCH 4th, 1901 — ENGAGED FOR ANOTHER DANCE -
We've hired a conservator for Ida's dresses!
3 May 2012 | 10:07 amGREAT NEWS!We've hired textile conservator Chandra Obie to do an assessment of our collection of Ida McKinley gowns! She will review each dress, prioritize the work, and recommend options for treatment.Chandra comes highly recommended by the people she has done work for in the past. We are thrilled to have her involved in this project, and we can't wait to get started!Remember, you can make a donation to this important project IN ANY AMOUNT by sending a check to:Ida McKinley Dress Restoration ProjectMcKinley Presidential Library & Museum800 McKinley Monument Dr NWCanton OH… -
Campaigns & Cartoons -- coming soon!
30 Apr 2012 | 2:48 pmNow that the Bridal Show is over, I'm on to new projects!Next on my list is the upcoming Keller Gallery exhibition Campaigns & Cartoons: The Role of Caricature in Political Persuasion. It is a traveling exhibition from the collection of Julian and Sue Ridlen in cooperation with the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site.The exhibit includes 36 original political cartoons, plus information about some major cartoonists of the time.I am preparing a special section on McKinley's campaign cartoons, based on our collection. I am currently selecting cartoons to include, and I am… -
New Facebook page for Ida McKinley dress project!
27 Apr 2012 | 8:37 amI just set up a new Facebook page dedicated to our First Lady Ida McKinley Dress Restoration Project! Click here to check it out!We will be featuring updates on the project, profiling the dresses in our collection, and pointing out our conservation concerns as we move forward. It will also be a one-stop shop for all of the publicity associated with this project. So far, we've been fortunate enough to receive media attention from the Repository (Gary Brown's story was on the AP wire, so it spread across Ohio and beyond!), WVIZ, and writer/librarian Betsy Butler's blog (she is… -
Peek behind-the-scenes
11 Apr 2012 | 8:17 amThis is what our Board Room looks like right now!These are the dresses for this year's Bridal Show, steamed with trains laid out flat, all ready to go!Each dress is steamed before the show to remove any wrinkles that formed while they were folded up in their boxes. The goal is to make them look as beautiful as they did the day the bride walked down the aisle!All of the colored papers you see on the hangars indicates the model who is wearing the dress. There are also two tags hanging on each dress -- a yellow tag with a letter, which is assigned as the dresses come in, and a pink tag with a…
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Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project - 2012
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Watch Points on The Green and a report on day one
15 May 2012 | 1:33 pmTomorrow (16th May) sees the start of this summer's Watch Points on Cathedral Green (on Full Street behind the Cathedral). For a report see the end of post.With telescopes set up, anyone who comes along can see the birds really close up and'for real'! The four chicks will soon be poking their heads above the front of the nest platform and be visible from the ground...exciting times ahead!These 22 events are run by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust on behalf of the partnership, which also includes The Cathedral, Cathedral Quarter and Derby City Council (which hosts the web cams for us).The Watch… -
May Contain Bells
9 May 2012 | 3:46 pmWe now have four healthy peregrine chicks at Derby Cathedral. A couple of the pictures below are repeated from our previous blog post which also contained some great video clips, and is well worth checking out if you've not already done so..Comments were made by some blog readers on Tuesday about apparent feeding by the male of the female whilst she was nestling the downy white chicks. Not recollecting seeing this behaviour before, I went up into the cathedal tower today to check the footage. And sure enough, there was the evidence for all to see. So I've retrieved and embedded it below for… -
Fourth Chick Arrives in Derby (video #2 now added)
8 May 2012 | 1:36 amThere will be many children returning to school today who will be excited to learn that a fourth peregrine chick hatched very early morning (8th May). There will probably be many adults in the same situation, too! A gap of three days between eggs hatching is quite unusual, and it had begun to look as if the last egg wouldn't hatch, but finally it has done so. Obviously the last chick will be smaller than its siblings but peregrines are good parents and there's every chance they will rear all four. Video clips will be obtained during the day..... The first photograph below was taken at 03:57am… -
Three chicks - and pictures from viewers
6 May 2012 | 5:02 amFalcon on chicks and eggs - male wanting to take overClose-up of Derby's falcon on day-old chicks and eggsBy Saturday evening we had two newly hatched peregrine chicks, with a third having arrived on Sunday morning.Here are some pictures, many screen-grabbed from people's computers and posted to our Flickr Group. (Most recent first)Three day-old chicks being fed (with one egg still unhatched)Pipped egg - suggesting fairly imminent hatchingRSS feed footer: http://www.derby.gov.uk/peregrines The Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project and their partner organisations cannot endorse any site using… -
First Chick Arrives in Derby
5 May 2012 | 2:36 amReports came in this morning that our first egg had hatched. Empty eggshell was showing and the female was sitting tightly on her clutch. Checking the video recorders inside Derby Cathedral revealed the first chick hatched around 3 am this morning, though nothing was actually visible - just faint cheeps (for want of a better word) from under the female. A video captured around 4.15am today shows the first evidence of our new arrival.This PC screen capture from rejsharp shows two chicks around 5.20pm this afternoon (Saturday).Well done to those schoolchildren who have been watching so keenly…
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Egypt at the Manchester Museum
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ACCES Seminar in Swansea: More than Musty Mummies – Novel Approaches to Egyptology and the Public
15 May 2012 | 11:12 amOn Friday the 15th of June, the Association of Curators for Collections from Egypt and Sudan (ACCES) will hold a free seminar at the Egypt Centre in Swansea. More Than Musty Mummies: Novel Approaches to Egyptology and the Public Often display of mummies is seen as the obvious way to get the public involved in Egyptology. This seminar intends to highlight some of the more innovative approaches to inspiring the public with all things Egyptological. Sessions include: Thomas Cadbury and Jenny Durrant A learning process: The creation and use of a new Ancient Worlds gallery at the Royal Albert… -
Object biography #5: A double-sided painted mummy portrait (Acc. No. 5381)
10 May 2012 | 10:14 amAcc. no. 5381 © Paul Cliff This delicate wooden panel (41 x 32.5 cm) is one of 13 painted mummy portraits in the Manchester Museum. Such panel portraits were produced during the Roman Period (c. 55-220 AD) and are amongst the most evocative images to have come from Egypt. Most were painted using an encaustic method, in which pigment is mixed with hot wax and applied directly onto the surface of thin wooden panels. The panels were attached over the head of the mummy, held in place with bandages around each edge. Whether they were painted during life, and if they were displayed prior to being… -
Curator’s Diary 7/5/12: CT-scanning the mummies (I)
7 May 2012 | 9:30 amMummy 1767 is prepared for CT-scanning Last week I followed in a proud Manchester Museum tradition when I accompanied four of our mummies to the Manchester University Children’s Hospital to be CT-scanned. The use of Computed Tomography (CT) has become an established method of non-invasive investigation of Egyptian human remains. The current work is part of a wider programme of investigation, using state-of-the-art methods, undertaken on the Museum’s Egyptian mummies by Prof. Rosalie David, former Egyptology curator at the Museum and authority on mummy studies, and Prof. Judith Adams,… -
MAES Lecture 14th May 2012: Egypt’s Developing Delta – Tombs, Treasure and Railways!
5 May 2012 | 11:20 amManchester Ancient Egypt Society will host its annual AGM and a lecture by Dr. Penny Wilson of Durham University on Monday the 14th of May 2012, at Days Inn, Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester, 7.15pm The lecture will look at the political and social development of major cities and archaeological sites in the Delta from the Late Period through to the modern day. The capital cities of Tanis and Sais introduced the notion of city-states and temple burials to Egypt, while the move to the western side of Egypt, especially at Alexandria opened Egypt to the trade networks of the Aegean… -
Curator’s Diary 26/4/12: Ancient Egypt for the visually impaired
30 Apr 2012 | 5:09 amOn Thursday I met with a group of around 30 visitors from Henshaws, a charity that provides support for blind and visually impaired people. I confess to a little trepidation at the task of describing in sufficient detail objects that I am used to presenting in primarily visual terms – through photos or line drawings. We tend to speak of Egyptian ‘visual culture’ rather than ‘tangible culture’, and most museum displays assume that objects – because they are usually behind glass – are only viewed by sight. But what if you are blind or visually impaired? The selection of objects…
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Exploratorium Explainers
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Hands-On Consciousness
7 May 2012 | 2:23 pmExplainers, monks, and Exploratorium teachers exploring sensory exhibits in small groups in preparation for co-facilitating the monks’ World of Your Senses exhibit for Exploratorium visitors. Explainers and monks working out a problem about mirrors during a morning training session. Explainers and monks sharing magic tricks with each other and the Exploratorium visitors. Explainer and monk dissecting a cow eye together for Exploratorium visitors. What is the purpose of science museums? Is it the democratization of science learning, increasing public science literacy, inspiring people to… -
Disagreeing About Color
29 Apr 2012 | 12:05 pmOver my spring break from school, I visited the explo and had the privilege of attending their morning Paul D. training. Training with Paul D. is something I have missed this year, as Thursday mornings with him always gave me an outlet for my curiosity, lots of entertainment, inspiration for experiments I wanted to try, opportunities for bizarre thought experiments, and new questions to think about all week long! That Thursday, we went to the exhibit Disagreeing About Color–an exhibit I feel like I have heard Paul D. explore lots of times, but I always come away with more. I stumbled… -
Size and Scale and…. S P A C E !
24 Mar 2012 | 1:38 amAs a former Explainer slash current first year science teacher, I have lots of awesome kids to share all of my love and inquiry for science with. I also have lots of science questions that I can no longer just ask Paul D when I see him, especially awesomely creative questions that kids come up with during class! So now I go to the internet. The question, “How big is space?” randomly came up this week, and “really big” didn’t seem like a good enough answer. Luckily, my googling turned up THIS SITE. It reminds me a lot of this size and scale prezi-esque… -
happy vernal equinox!
20 Mar 2012 | 3:54 pmMarch 20th, the first day of spring, and the day when the sun should rise exactly between two column of the rotunda when viewed from the center of the dome. even though clouds were forecast, Anne, Khamara, and I headed out to see what we could see. I arrived a bit before 7 am. the lights were still on, and bats were flying about. the cloud cover continued all morning but we could see a bright spot rising between the columns. although we didn’t get to see the sun, it was still a magical morning. there is something special about watching the world wake up in such a beautiful location. -
It’s Pi Day (and it’s Einstein’s Birthday too)!
19 Mar 2012 | 7:40 pmHappy Pi Day, everyone! On March 14th, we celebrated the 24th annual Pi Day at the Exploratorium. The Field Trip Explainers joined in the festivities by writing and performing a Pi Day song. The core band is called Buffon’s Needle (a nod to the mathematician that came up with a probability problem as a method to estimate pi, check out the Pi Toss exhibit). So proud to be a part of a celebration so joyous and geeky! Still find myself humming 3.141 592 653 589… Check it out: Pi Day Song
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Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog
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Lettuce Give You a Prize
11 May 2012 | 11:28 amToday is National Public Gardens Day. As many of you know, this is the day we are giving visitors some lettuce for a salad or a BLT. One of the reasons we are giving away food is because unlike a huge majority of public gardens, we cannot give free admission today. WE ARE FREE EVERYDAY! I strongly suggest you take advantage of that fact often. Now it is true the lettuce is only available this afternoon between noon and 4. And it is true that only today is National Public Gardens Day. However, it is also true that if life prevents you from attending today’s activities you can still… -
American Impressionists Seen by French Critics
9 May 2012 | 1:28 pmClaude Monet's Home and Garden in Giverny in Spring. Photo by Ariane Cauderlier Frederick Carl Frieseke, Richard E.Miller and Louis Ritman, whose paintings you can admire in the American Impressionist Gallery of the IMA, lived in France in the early twentieth century. They settled in the Normandy countryside town of Giverny, which had become a colony of artists attracted by the quiet living and beautiful landscapes revealed twenty years before in Claude Monet’s paintings. In France, these painters would participate in local exhibitions and develop a network of friends and buyers. -
Thoughts from AAM
8 May 2012 | 8:24 amLast week, I was lucky enough to attend the American Association of Museums Annual Meeting in Minneapolis with 5,000 of my closest museum friends. What an experience! One reason I enjoy going to this conference is the opportunity to connect with colleagues from across the museum field. There’s nothing like a little cross-departmental collabo to broaden your perspectives about what can be done in a museum. A packed schedule of events Sunday, I met up with several hundred #musetech friends as the Media and Technology committee announced winners at the 23rd Annual Muse Awards. The… -
Working to Restore a Wetland
1 May 2012 | 10:13 amReflecting on the past four months, which has been a fantastic learning experience and undoubtedly great fun, brings a smile to my face. Through my internship with the Horticulture Department, it was my task to design a wetland restoration project at the Lake Terrace area in the IMA’s 100 Acres: Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park. Before this project, the area was underutilized, had minimal native vegetation, and suffered from the aggressive nature of several invasive species. So what did I do exactly? Let’s take a walk. Starting at the lake, several species of grasses and… -
Seven Chances: A Meeting of Art and Engineering
27 Apr 2012 | 10:01 amWhen Buster Keaton’s classic comedy Seven Chances was released in 1925, it contained a brief three-minute sequence in early Technicolor. In those days, Technicolor was still experimental and used only two of the three primary colors, red and green. For technical reasons, it was impossible to complete the spectrum and add blue until 1934. in 1925, Technicolor film prints were made by a clumsy process that involved gluing two pieces of film together. The red part of the image was actually glued to the green part, and this extra-thick film went through a projector. It did not work very…
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Museum Anthropology
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The 95 Percent Solution
13 May 2012 | 5:03 pmA fascinating article in The American Scientist, with clear implications for museum anthropology:School is not where most Americans learn most of their scienceThe scientific research and education communities have long had a goal of advancing the public’s understanding of science. The vast majority of the rhetoric and research on this issue revolves around the failure of school-aged children in -
Repatriation Battle Continues
11 May 2012 | 5:01 pmThe fate of the nearly 10,000-year-old remains unearthed in 1976 during renovation work at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) chancellor’s house in La Jolla, California are still undecided.A federal court judge in San Francisco granted a temporary restraining order March 30 that prevents UCSD from giving the remains to the Kumeyaay. Last week three University of California -
Lords of Time
9 May 2012 | 3:02 pmFor those worried about an apocalypse supposedly predicted by the Maya calendar and coming at the end of the year 2012, there's very good news at a spectacular exhibition that opens in the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology this weekend. That notion of the world's end is firmly debunked in "Maya 2012: Lords of Time." So those stressed about what might happen come late December can exhale -
Opening: Curator of Global Indigenous Art
7 May 2012 | 3:01 pmThe Spencer Museum of Art seeks an innovative, team-oriented, and highly motivated Curator of Global Indigenous Art. The Spencer Museum of Art (SMA) forms a vital part of academic life at the University of Kansas (KU). The Museum supports research and promotes education across the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences through the growth and preservation of its collections, the development -
New Director of Penn Museum
4 May 2012 | 3:00 pmPresident Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Julian Siggers as Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, effective July 1, 2012. Dr. Siggers is currently vice president for programs, education, and content communication at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada’s largest research museum. He
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ExhibiTricks: A Museum/Exhibit/Design Blog
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Portland Takeaways (InterActivity 2012 Impressions)
13 May 2012 | 8:24 amWhat do a Chinese Garden and a Children's Museum have in common? That's one of the things I'm thinking about as I ponder the conversations, lessons, and visits that have taken place this past week in Portland, Oregon as the annual InterActivity conference draws to a close. Over 800 Children's Museum professionals from around the world came to share the stories, triumphs, and challenges of their existing (or emerging) institutions. Aside from obvious themes like the power of play in the lives of children, here are a few other common threads that I noticed during InterActivity: • The Maker… -
Posting from Portland (InterActivity 2012)
10 May 2012 | 9:57 amI had a great day (and night!) in beautiful Portland yesterday to kick off the 2012 InterActivity conference for Children's Museums. The highlight (besides meeting old and new museum friends from around the world) was the evening PechaKucha event. I'm a great fan of the 20x20 presentation style (each participant gets 20 slides of 20 seconds each to make their presentation.) We had an incredibly diverse set of topics courtesy of 10 amazing presenters! Amongst the highlights: Kari Jensen from OMSI started us off by talking about Green Exhibit Design (and sharing information… -
Looking Ahead to Portland for InterActivity 2012!
3 May 2012 | 1:02 pmI'm looking forward to the gathering of the Children's Museum clans, otherwise known as InterActivity. This year the conference will be in beautiful Portland, Oregon and will welcome folks from around North America and many international visitors as well. I'll be giving both my brain and mouth a work out during the conference, and reconnecting with friends from Bulgaria as we start down the road to creating the new Children's Museum of Sofia! I'm thrilled and excited to be co-hosting the conference kick-off event of PechaKucha on the evening of Wednesday May 9th in Pavilion… -
Occupy AAM?
26 Apr 2012 | 8:47 amI must admit I've become extremely ambivalent about the annual AAM Conference. As time has gone by and the strictures (on methods and modes for presentations) and control (especially of the former "Standing Professional Committees") from AAM have increased, I often question the value (to me, at least) of attending the AAM Conference. For those of you in the 1% (or thereabouts) of the museum profession who will be attending the festivities in the Twin Cities, I hope you'll take some time to think carefully about, and press AAM leadership on, whether changes to the Standing Professional… -
Designer Toolkit: 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People
19 Apr 2012 | 9:35 amAuthor Susan Weinschenk has put together a great reference for every type of designer called "100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People." Inside this pithy volume, Weinschenk gives 100 examples of the psychology of design and why some design choices work better than others. Dividing her 100 examples into thematic sections such as "How People See" and "How People Remember" the author not only provides illustrated examples of design approaches but provides links to research, websites, and online talks that let you explore specific design topics in more depth. For example in item #12…
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Digital Campus
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Episode 86: Ya Big MOOC
15 May 2012 | 9:19 amThe Oxford English Dictionary defines “mook” (with a ‘k’) as “An incompetent or stupid person”; apparently it’s a word that achieved notoriety from its use in the 1973 film Mean Streets. But we’re not discussing that kind of “mook,” no sir: on this episode of Digital Campus, we’re discussing Massive Open Online Courses with Audrey Watters of Hack Education. We argue that there are MOOCs and then there are MOOCs, speculate about the purpose and future of MOOCs, and (at least in Audrey’s case) relate our own experiences as… -
Episode 85 — Book ‘em, Bezos
1 May 2012 | 2:49 pmIn this edition of the podcast, Dan, Amanda, Tom, and Mills are joined by Tim Carmody, senior writer for Wired, and it was very refreshing to record what we called a “fact-based” podcast for a change. At the top of the show, we got Tim’s take on the lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice against Apple and several of the major book publishers. Sharp-eared listeners will remember that we discussed this topic in the previous podcast–when it had first arisen. This time around, we were able to take advantage of Tim’s deep knowledge of this complex topic. In… -
Episode 84 – The One Where We Didn’t Say G****e
16 Apr 2012 | 10:19 amThis week we consider the question of whether Apple and five major publishers colluded to fix e-book prices and the prospect of a Department of Justice Anti-trust suit against them. We also argue the question of whether buy-in from Blackboard will be good or bad for open source learning management projects Moodle and Sakai and join the chorus of praise lauding the online release of the 1940 U.S. Census. On the lighter side, we check in on the ongoing saga of @FakeElsevier. Finally, we celebrate our unintentional, but surely very welcome, neglect of a certain not-evil web search and services… -
Episode 83 – Spring Broke
16 Mar 2012 | 12:32 pmGet out your sunglasses and tanning lotion, because it’s time for the spring break edition of the podcast. Tom, Mills, Amanda, and Dan bask in the warm retina-screen glow of the new iPad and wonder if tablets are about to take over the classroom. We revisit our slightly mocking pronunciation of certain new online education start-ups, and whether their model of video instruction actually instructs. Finally, we pour libations for the print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Links mentioned on the podcast: Tablet Ownership Triples Among Students ASU Professors Sue Over Online Course… -
Episode 82 – Haranguer for Hire
28 Feb 2012 | 10:24 amWe report on a new CLIR / NITLE project to develop a technical infrastructure for publishing new-model digital scholarship, what’s coming in the next version of Mac OS X and other operating systems and what their cloud centrism might mean for universities and their privacy concerns, and canvas the current (and historic) situation with regard to open access. All best wishes for speedy recovery of your voice, Mills. Editor’s Note 2/27/2012: Soon after we recorded the podcast on 2/24/2012, Elsevier withdrew its support for the Research Works Act, and news subsequently spread that…
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Cogapp blog
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DrupalCamp 2012
11 May 2012 | 10:28 amRecently I’ve been having a Drupalish time with conferences – first it was DrupalCon London, and now DrupalCampUK has come to Brighton. Whilst on a smaller scale, it's just (if not more) exciting to meet people from local agencies who share our love for Drupal. Read moreread more -
The pencils get sharper
9 May 2012 | 6:40 amThe judging for the D&AD 2012 awards is now over for another year. This year, I was privileged to be on the Digital Design jury - a new discipline for the awards. D&AD celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Hard to believe that in 1962 a group of creatives came together to raise the standards in the design and art direction industry. The group included David Bailey, Terence Donovan, Alan Fletcher, Bob Gill and many others, but there's more on Bob Gill and the judging week later. Read moreread more -
Low Cost Digital Engagement Conference
30 Apr 2012 | 6:34 amOne of the things that I really love about working in the digital sector is that still, after more than 12 years, I have regular moments of surprise and delight where something unexpected happens and I am once again reminded why I do what I do. Read moreread more -
Museums and the Web 2012 – Epic Fail?
24 Apr 2012 | 6:53 amNo, not the conference, which was a most enjoyable three days in San Diego last week. This was the title of the plenary session in which five brave volunteers came onto the podium and told us all about their projects that flopped. A sympathetic audience (with no access to wifi and with a promise not to tweet) played ‘epic fail bingo’ as we competed to identify nine common reasons for project failure. Read moreread more -
Why digital literacy in the third sector matters
4 Apr 2012 | 10:04 amAnyone who knows me will know that the subject of digital literacy is one that is close to my heart. It’s a subject that I have already written about in an article for the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network, and one that I will unapologetically keep on writing about, because I believe that a lack of digital literacy is a significant problem for charities. Read moreread more
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And Did Those Feet
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The Old Operating Theatre Museum - the quirkiest museums in London? - Telegraph
15 May 2012 | 3:23 amWhat are the quirkiest museums in London? - Telegraph -
Low Cost training - a casualty of the Arts Council
12 May 2012 | 7:53 amMuseums in London used to get access to inexpensive training - this has ended as a result of the change over from MLA, London to the Arts Council.It beggars belief how incompetently this change over has been managed. -
Museums and the future
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MA slams proposal to scrap DCMS and national museum funding | Museums Association
25 Apr 2012 | 10:13 amThe Museum Association reported:'MA slams proposal to scrap DCMS and national museum funding | Museums Association: The Museums Association has strongly criticised a proposal put forward yesterday by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) calling on the government to scrap the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and funding for national museums.The free-market thinktank claimed that taxpayers would save £1.6bn if all spending on DCMS ceased. This saving could be used to slash the rate of corporation tax, cut fuel duty by 3p or partly abolish inheritance tax, the report… -
American Postcards | By Ronan Haughton | Category: Arts & Photography | Blurb
25 Apr 2012 | 2:51 amAmerican Postcards documents the experiences and impressions of three European photographers in post 9/11 USA (2004 to 2005). It features photography and writing by London College of Communication graduates (BA Photography) Norman Wilcox (UK), Amanda Johansson (Sweden) and Ronan Haughton (Ireland). It also features the work of Art Kaligos (USA), a photography graduate from Parsons School of Design New York. American Postcards also features exclusive writing by Peter D. Osborne, author of 'Travelling Light, travel and visual culture'."Then the police stop us. They’re friendly, they pose for…
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Artiflection
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Dioramas and Cabinets of Curiosities in Milwaukee and Montreal
24 Apr 2012 | 1:53 pmPlaque at the entrance of the Frontier Airlines Convention Center from the Hilton Hotel Skywalk, April 21, 2012What "Good History" Milwaukee has to offer was certainly augmented by the influx of hundreds of historians who attended the 2012 joint conference of the National Council on Public History and the Organization of American Historians this past weekend, April 18-22. I for one was quite intoxicated by the intellectual and social environment of the conference and the city that hosted it. I invite you to read more on the Public History Commons, and I may have more to say about specific… -
National Museum of American Jewish History Part Two
26 Mar 2012 | 6:38 amIn my last post, I went on about how the NMAJH did such a great job of telling specific, authentic stories. Yet, I wouldn't do my visit justice without highlighting two wonderful exhibition features from the first section of the core exhibit, the section focused on the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The first great feature is a children's space on the theme of western migration. The space features letters and diaries from a real family that traveled the Oregon trail in a covered wagon. The exhibit is fun and engaging, with period costumes, cooking pots over a dung-fueled fire, barrels of… -
Jewish History on Independence Mall
25 Mar 2012 | 8:24 pmIn 2010, the National Museum of American Jewish History opened its brand-new five-storey building to the public. A little belatedly, I visited for the first time two weeks ago. I was rife with anticipation, having heard good things about the museum's lay-out, artifacts, and exhibitions. I was not disappointed.The NMAJH effectively accomplishes what the best "ethnic" or "sub-group" narrative museums are able to do better than most history museums that attempt to embrace the entirety of the public. (See my review of MOCA for an example a way in which this does not work… -
Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls
17 Mar 2012 | 3:42 pmFor a little less than a month longer, the Dead Sea Scrolls will remain on display at the Discovery Center in Times Square in New York City. If you can afford the steep entrance fee, I would recommend catching this exhibit before it moves on.As Edward Rothstein of the New York Times points out in his eloquent review, this exhibit stands out because of the depth of its historical content, not because of any one spectacular object, or even a set of objects. Even arranged in an inviting rotunda, fragments of parchment fail to elicit aesthetic wonderment. However, the way in which the… -
Ownership in a World of Intangibles
17 Feb 2012 | 12:09 pmRebecca Skloot's Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks should be required reading for aspiring public historians and medical ethicists alike. It weaves together the story of scientific discovery, the history of American race relations and socioeconomic inequality, and a profile of a colorful family whose members' unique voices lend human authenticity to a larger enterprise.But aside from doing all of these things so well, the story raises questions about ownership, innovation, and capitalism that resonate across a myriad of contemporary debates. One of the biggest debates revolves around…
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How Learning Comes in to Play!
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Gross Motor Skills in Early Childhood
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The Week of the Young Child: YWCA Childcare Resource & Referral Open House
8 May 2012 | 12:03 pmThe YWCA USA is one of the oldest and largest women's organizations in the nation, serving over 2 million women, girls and their families (YWCA, 2012). In recent years, DCM has partnered with the YWCA to extend support through training and other collaborative efforts. Through offices in Glendale Heights, the YWCA offers training and support to parents, caregivers and Early Childhood -
Week of the Young Child: Provider Open House
30 Apr 2012 | 12:07 pmIn honor of the dedication and hard work of early learning professionals, DuPage Children's Museum (DCM) hosted an open house for them on Wednesday, April 25. This is the third year DCM has hosted the event, which is co-sponsored by the YWCA Childcare Resource and Referral. Shadow play Fun with Flight demonstration Student-designed water table, equipped to show flow & function -
Week of the Young Child: WeGo Together for Kids
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Week of the Young Child
26 Apr 2012 | 12:53 pmThis week marks the 41st anniversary of the Week of the Young Child™. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) first established the Week of the Young Child™ in 1971, recognizing that the early childhood years (birth through age 8) lay the foundation for children's success in school and later life. The purpose of the Week of the Young Child™ is to focus
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Animal Department
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A bowl full of mashed chow and banana…
15 May 2012 | 7:00 am…Helps the medicine go down! Keeper Jill wrote a post “Time for your medicine” about all the tricks we use to get animals to take their medicine. She posted pictures of the Red Ruffed Lemurs taking some meds. The Ring Tailed Lemurs aren’t so easy! But I found a very easy mix of mashed lemur chow and banana that seems to mask their dewormer enough for them to eat it. Here's the mashed chow Add mashed banana Add the dewormer Mix it all together Cross your fingers and hope they eat it all Cassandra (in front) and Satyrus eating their dewormer mix Lycus… -
Happy Mothers Day
13 May 2012 | 7:03 amHappy Mothers Day to all the moms out there Here are some great moms of the animal kingdom Elephants: After carrying a baby for 22 months, she delivers 250 lbs of cuteness. Octopus- Talk about self sacrifice,this mom (depending on its species) can lay up to 200,000 eggs. As if that’s not enough work she may decide to eat her own arms because she will not leave the area to look for food. The kicker is after all that she dies when the eggs start to hatch. Sea Louse- This one comes from a scene from Alien…when the babies are ready to go they nosh on mom from the inside out. -
QuikPost: Interesting wolf article
12 May 2012 | 6:48 amIt’s an interesting read- take a look at this interesting yet sad – report of a wolf in Alaska who apparently died of starvation. http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/why-lone-alaska-wolf-traveled-thousands-miles-only-die-starvation And don’t forget, you can still help out red wolves until 11:59 PM on May 15th: The Red Wolf Coalition- the only not-for-profit whose only goal is to advocate for the long-term survival of the red wolf – is part of an Earth Day Fundraiser through Crowdrise. Right now through May 15th, the Coalition is part of Crowdrise’s Earth Day… -
QuikPost: Bear Enrichment
10 May 2012 | 7:00 amI had to make peanut butter pinecones for the Bear’s enrichment the other day and tried something a little different. I rolled the peanut butter pinecones in shredded carrots, added just a few raisins and drizzled with a little honey. Gus Bear loved them! The grass was too high that day for me to get a good picture of him eating them though. Bear Enrichment -
Groundbreaking for Red Wolf Center!
8 May 2012 | 7:46 amKim breaks ground! Kim Wheeler, the Executive Director of the Red Wolf Coalition, sent me some photos of groundbreaking for the new wolf exhibit out in red wolf country. This will be the only facility located in the heart of red wolf country- where red wolves roam free – where people can actually see a red wolf. The enclosure will be finished sometime this summer, and I’ll keep you informed as to when wolves will arrive for viewing. It’s exciting!! truck loads of fencing materials arrived May 7. Installation begins.
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Museum Planning
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Museum Exhibition Design, Part IV
7 May 2012 | 5:44 pmMuseum Exhibition Design, Part IV, Installation “Museum Exhibition Design”, a six part series. Each week, I am writing a post about exhibition design. Last week was Part III, “Exhibition Design – Fabrication”. This week’s post will cover the phases of exhibition installation. Anyone who thinks that exhibition design is the creation of drawings to is only 1/4 correct. The process of exhibition design starts before drawing and continues through to opening day. I have been part of more than forty museum exhibition installations, including, Mexico,… -
Museum Exhibition Design, Part III
20 Apr 2012 | 8:59 pm“Museum Exhibition Design”, a four part series. Each week, I am writing a post about exhibition design. Last week was Part II, “Exhibition Design – Design”. This week’s post will cover the phases of exhibition fabrication. The last post in the series will cover “Museum Exhibition Design – Installation”. Picking up from last week’s post, the team will have completed during “Museum Exhibition Design – Design”: Created an Exhibition Script Researched exhibition content Completed Conceptual Design… -
Museum Exhibition Design, Part II
16 Apr 2012 | 11:48 am“Museum Exhibition Design”, a four part series. Each week, I am writing a post about exhibition design. Last week was Part I, “Exhibition design – Planning”. This week’s post will cover the phases of exhibition design. Future posts will cover “Museum Exhibition Design – Fabrication” & “Museum Exhibition Design – Installation”. Picking up from last week’s post, the team will have completed during “Museum Exhibition Design – Planning”: Understanding the visitor of the planned exhibition… -
Museum Exhibition Design – Part I
10 Apr 2012 | 1:02 amMuseum Exhibition Design – Part I Decided to put together a four part series; “Museum Exhibition Design”. Each week I will write a blog post about exhibition design. Part I is about the first step in exhibition design – Planning. Future posts will cover, the phases of exhibition design, exhibition fabrication and exhibition installation. Before anyone draws anything, the team needs to organize the thinking about and behind the exhibition. Who is the visitor? Someone will need to make a decision to visit the exhibition. They will travel to the museum… -
Museum Trends
2 Apr 2012 | 8:45 pm"Trends Map" from Now and Next Weekly news about museum trends, museum planning, museum exhibition design, the future of museums and interactive kinetic sculpture for the week of March 30,2012. Museum Planner Related: After speaking with an artist who couldn’t afford to visit the museum where he worked posted “Museums are for the Rich” Posted a how to: “Museums and the Internet” Posted video of “Alcatraz: Life on the Rock” at Liberty State Park Created a new group on Linkedin “Museum Planning” hope you will join! Thank…
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Nasher Museum Blogs
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Accessible but Limitless
7 May 2012 | 8:27 amJinky Ang Rosselli of Chapel Hill: "I love Nasher because it’s Duke/Durham’s 'version' of art … accessible but limitless." Thank you, Jinky! -
The Chicken
2 May 2012 | 10:47 amOur education department just had to share this original poem by a Durham Academy fourth-grader who visited "Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art." We are utterly charmed! -
The Magic of Calder
1 May 2012 | 2:10 pm"Yes, there's magic reflected in the eyes of the thousands of students who so far have filed through the Nasher Museum of Art's featured exhibition, 'Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy,' writes the Herald-Sun's Melody Butts. "But as a gallery guide explains the science behind the art, one observes wheels turning behind those gazes of wonderment." -
Nasher Museum Receives NEA Art Works Grant
26 Apr 2012 | 2:06 pmThe Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University has received a $75,000 grant to work with local public elementary school teachers and their students on an art-infused language arts curriculum. -
Why do you love the Nasher Museum?
26 Apr 2012 | 9:19 am"I love the Nasher because it always gets fantastic contemporary art exhibits, which makes this Art History master’s holder happy. I love Calder because of his sense of whimsy. Also, his circus, which I just saw (again) at the Whitney. Always a favorite!"
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National Heritage Museum
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What were wheatless Wednesdays during World War I?
15 May 2012 | 8:00 amThis poster is typical of food conservation posters produced during World War I, many of which especially emphasized saving wheat and meat. Herbert Hoover (1876-1964) Administrator of the U.S. Food Administration (USFA), promoted wheatless days and meatless days for the American people. In April of 1917, the USFA began taking measures conceived to conserve food for the war effort. In particular, Americans were asked to "eat less wheat, meat, sugar, and fats" as shown in this World War I poster in the Museum's collection. These foods were to be saved for the United States Army and its… -
The Prudence Book: A List of All Masons (For Detecting Masonic Impostors)
8 May 2012 | 8:00 amFour years ago, our very first blog post was on the topic of Masonic impostors. Each May since then, we've follow up with another post on the same topic. Our earlier posts looked at Masonic impostors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but today we're going further back in time and looking at the subject of Masonic impostors in 1859.The Prudence Book of Freemasonry for 1859 was compiled and published by Rob Morris (1818-1888), a well-known Masonic author and book publisher based in Louisville, Kentucky. Morris was a high-profile Mason who wrote extensively and served in many… -
A New Discovery About an Old Photo
1 May 2012 | 8:00 amOne of the most exciting parts of my curatorial work is discovering new information about objects in the National Heritage Museum’s collection. Recently, I took a closer look at this photo, which the Museum purchased back in 1989. When it was acquired, the image was cataloged as one depicting a group of African American members of the Order of the Eastern Star, the Masonic auxiliary group for female relatives of Freemasons. It has been identified this way in our database ever since. But, as part of our current photo digitization project (see our post about it), we were able to take a closer… -
Don't Miss Our Lecture: Michael Halleran on Civil War Freemasonry
25 Apr 2012 | 2:58 pmWe would like to remind our readers about the next lecture in our Civil War series. Michael Halleran will join us this Saturday, April 28, at the special time of 1 p.m. to speak on "Gentlemen of the White Apron: Freemasonry in the American Civil War." To learn more about the talk and the speaker, read our previous blog post about Halleran. Here at the Museum, staff has done quite a bit of interesting research on the Civil War. Take a look at some of these previous posts - they are sure to engage your interest. If they do, Michael Halleran's lecture on Saturday may be just the way to flex your… -
Now On View: Riley Whiting Clock
24 Apr 2012 | 9:54 amThe next time you come to the Scottish Rite Massonic Museum and Library, be sure to take a look at some Masonic furniture from our collection, now on view in the hallway cases. One of the items you will see is this tall case clock made by Connecticut craftsman Riley Whiting (1785-1835). We don’t know who originally owned this clock, but in purchasing a tall clock with wooden works, the owners proved they were smart consumers. This clock was a less costly version of than the tall case clocks with metal works that had been sold in New England cities and towns for decades. Always…
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National Museums Liverpool Blog
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Fit for a Queen
16 May 2012 | 9:05 amCampania at the Spithead Review, 1897 by P. Greenwood. Copyright National Museums Liverpool We're all very excited about the forthcoming visit by Her Majesty the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh to the Merseyside Maritime Museum. To mark this momentous occasion, one of the museum’s fantastic paintings will be displayed as a centrepiece for the visit, alongside some objects from the Ismay silver collection which is currently on display in the Titanic and Liverpool exhibition. ‘Campania at the Spithead Review, 1897’ by Parker Greenwood depicts one of the greatest naval occasions,… -
Remembering Lusitania
10 May 2012 | 10:29 amMany flowers were left at the Lusitania's propeller at the service to mark the 97th anniversary of the sinking On Bank Holiday Monday, Merseyside Maritime Museum held its annual commemoration for the sinking of Cunard liner 'RMS Lusitania'. Ellie Moffat, Curator of Maritime Collections, explains why this is an important event for the museum: "On 7th May 1915 'Lusitania' was nearing the Old Head of Kinsale, off the southern coast of Ireland, when she was torpedoed by German u-boat U-20. She sank in only 18 minutes and 1201 lives were lost. It was one of the most horrific incidents at sea… -
Dickens Drama at Sudley House
9 May 2012 | 11:14 amFrom 'The Pickwick Papers' to 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' which is your favourite Charles Dickens story? Ciarán and Holly, Management students from LIPA, have devised a day of performance and interactions that bring some of the wonderful Dickens stories to life. Here they tell us more: Excitement is mounting as we put the final pieces in place for our event based on Dickens' world at Sudley House. On Sunday 13th May from 11am until 4pm, characters from Dickens’ classics will roam the house with the accompaniment of live music and interactive activities for all to enjoy. 'I stole her… -
Spring arrives at Sudley House
8 May 2012 | 9:27 amOne of the most unique things about Sudley House is its wonderful grounds and the garden, which visitors can really make the most of now that the weather is improving! Here is Visitor Host Simon Breedon to tell us more... Visitor Host Simon Breedon admiring Sudley's pond. Fantastic news - Spring seems to have finally sprung here at Sudley House! Tiny creatures are swimming merrily around the pond in the courtyard; birds are tweeting in the trees (who’d have thought that they carry mobile phones!) and the Rhododendron bushes are starting to bloom. In fact most of the trees in the… -
Maritime Tale - Lusitania Survivor
4 May 2012 | 9:46 amA contemporary postcard of Lusitania This is probably my last Maritime Tales blog as I voluntarily leave the museum service in July 2012 to become a freelance. The Lusitania story is one of my favourites because not only does the disaster seem unbelievable to this day but because this was Liverpool’s favourite liner. At my local church – St James’s in West Derby – you can see a unique glass memorial with an image of Lusitania prominently included to symbolise Liverpool’s suffering in the Great War. The strange behaviour of a passenger was followed by one of the…
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Yesterday.sg
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Children’s Season 2012
14 May 2012 | 7:00 pm18 May – 24 June 2012 Since 2008, Children’s Season has been celebrated each year at National Heritage Board museums as part of our International Museum Day (IMD) celebrations. This year, Children’s Season will involve 21 museums, both NHB museums and Museum Roundtable members, throughout Singapore. Enjoy free admission to participating museums on the Children’s Season 2012 Open House Weekends. Jointly organised by National Heritage Board and the Museum Roundtable, Children’s Season 2012 offers a plethora of children-centric programmes and engaging family… -
Sign up for Monumental Walking Tours *free for June*
12 May 2012 | 11:02 pmGather your friends and family and bring them on an exciting and fun journey through historic communities of Little India and Chinatown. For the month of June, we present a new tour of Kampong Gelam, once the historic seat of Malay royalty that’s not just for the history buffs. If you prefer to wander down Telok Ayer Street, once the shoreline, sign up for ‘Mixed Blessings’ and discover the importance of these early community centres to early Singaporeans. Attracted by the colourful murals and decorations of Little India instead? Then sign up for ‘Rediscovering Old Serangoon’ and… -
We’re Made for SAM @ Singapore Art Museum
9 May 2012 | 7:47 pmWe came across and really liked Dee.Y’s photo blog of Singapore Art Museum. Read the full post here. -
Capitol Theatre – Then and Now
8 May 2012 | 7:00 pmJames reminisces of the heyday of Capitol Theatre in his latest post. “Once it was Singapore’s grande dame of cinemas, a destination for three generations of movie-lovers eager to see the latest Hollywood flicks.” Read James Seah’s post on Capitol Theatre. -
NHB’s Collections on Google Art Project
6 May 2012 | 7:00 pmIf you haven’t done so already, check out National Heritage Board’s collections on Google Art Project. There are 150 treasured works of art by 41 artists from Singapore’s National Collection and we must admit that zooming in on the selected artworks on display is quite fun indeed. In some cases, you get to pore over the artworks at a closer proximity than you would if you were at the museum. Visit National Heritage Board’s collections on Google Art Project.
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Tacoma Art Museum Docents Blog TAM Docents Blog
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TAM Docents: June Opportunities
16 May 2012 | 10:33 amHello Docents,I hope you all have gotten a chance to enjoy the warm weather we have been having! I am happy to say almost every shift in June is covered! There are only a handful of shifts that need a docent. Please let me know if you are interested in taking on one of the following shifts:Open Shifts:Late Night Thursday, June 7th, from 5 pm to 8 pm – This is the last late night Shift of HIDE/SEEK! Thursday, June 14th, from 11 am to 3 pm Friday, June 29th, from 11 am to 3 pm Saturday, June 30th, from 11 am to 3 pm I also still need at least 3 docents to help out with the following tours… -
Upcoming trainings & fun opportunities
15 May 2012 | 11:02 amHello docents: I hope you are enjoying the glorious weather we’re having lately! I’ve attached the updated docent training calendar for the next couple months. I will be overseeing docent training—with some much appreciated help from Megan R—until we hire for the new position. We have not yet posted that opening, and as we craft the position and think about what we are looking for in the person who will fill it, I’d love to hear from you about anything you feel is especially important for us to keep in mind. Some things to note about the attached… -
TAM Docents: HELP!! Docent Tours!
11 May 2012 | 4:48 pmHello Docents, Now I am going to start begging for your help! If you are available to help out with the following tour, it would be greatly appreciated! It is a week away and we still are need of a docent! There will be a special gift for the person that is able to help out with this tour! Tour Type: The 10th NW BiennialTour Contact: Shirley Loper 206.323.3382 Organization:… -
A fun opportunity
11 May 2012 | 4:31 pmHello Docents, I wanted to le you know about a fun opportunity coming up next week: Lunch with Frye DocentsFriday, May 18, 12 – 1 pmDocents from the Frye are visiting for a tour (11-12), and invited us to join them for lunch following! Please take advantage of this opportunity to meet and bond with other local docents.Please RSVP to Megan R by May 15. I hope you all are getting a chance to enjoy this fabulous weather! Best,Megan Megan Ristine | TACOMA ART MUSEUMEducation and Volunteer Coordinator T: 253.272.4258 x30261701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma,… -
TAM Docent Needs: May Updates
9 May 2012 | 11:30 amHello Docents, I am still looking for a docent or two to help with one or more of the following tours: Tour Type: The 10th NW BiennialTour Contact: Shirley Loper 206.323.3382 Organization: SAM Volunteers Date & Time: Saturday, May 19,…
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Burke Blog
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Science News Roundup: (Mostly) archaeology edition
7 May 2012 | 1:18 pmSome highlights from science news in the past couple weeks: Penguin from space. Scientists count penguins from space: Scientists have completed the first count of emperor penguins from space by estimating the number of birds using Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite images of Antarctica and collaborating the counts with ground and aerial counts. (Note that these were penguins being counted from space, NOT penguins from space being counted. :-) Using satellite images allows more accurate counts of the penguins, due to their harsh environment. DNA points to common ancestors of modern… -
SCIENCE!!! Comics - Episode Seven: We heart WILD River Otters!
27 Apr 2012 | 11:14 amThis week's comic goes out to all of nature's cute critters that we love and adore and want to take home with us. Still, most animals are better off in their natural habitats. It's better for us to love and appreciate them for what they are—wild animals. You can see wild river otters around Washington state. Try spotting them from a high lookout (like a bridge or the top of a hill) near their feeding areas. Learn more about river otters and how to live with them if you find them as your neighbors (hint: don't let them den under your porch). If you see an otter (or other wildlife)… -
Science News Roundup
13 Apr 2012 | 1:21 pmNitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas A Burke Blog post on the highlights of recent natural history and cultural news: Chemists at the University of California at Berkeley have found the chemical fingerprint of fertilizer in the increase of nitrous oxidea greenhouse gasin the atmosphere; the rise of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere can now be linked to increased fertilizer use. A partial foot discovered in Ethiopia provides evidence of another human-like species that lived at the same time as Lucy, 3 million years ago in northern Africa. Unlike Lucy's foot, the new foot has an opposable big toe… -
SCIENCE!!! Comics - Episode 6: When is a scalloped hammerhead not a scalloped hammerhead?
6 Apr 2012 | 7:00 pmThis week! When is a scalloped hammerhead not a scalloped hammerhead? (or: A tail of two sharks) This week's comic is based on a press release from Nova Southeastern University. Several news sites have covered this story, including Discovery News and Live Science. Learn what makes one species different from another from UC Berkeley - it's a harder and more interesting question than you might think! You can find out more about shark finning, and find out how shark fin soup alters the ecosystem. Shark finning is now banned in the US, but shark products that result from shark… -
Short Take: Recovering Northwest Coastal Indian Food Traditions
28 Mar 2012 | 4:20 pmLast month, traditional foods educator Elise Krohn joined nine other food experts to give a short talk as part of the Burke Museum's "Short Takes on What the World Eats" at the Neptune Theater. She spoke about individuals and organizations working to restore traditional Native knowledge of the tending, harvesting, preserving, and preparing traditional northwest Native foods. Other speakers discussed topics from wild food foraging to eating bugs. If you missed Elise Krohn's talk, you can watch it below, and check out our YouTube channel for more Short Takes. If you enjoyed Elise Krohn's talk,…
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The Uncataloged Museum
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Memorials, Museums, and Each of Us
15 May 2012 | 6:22 pmAt the AAM conference this year I was privileged to be a member of a panel in a session, Interpreting Human Tragedy: In Memoriam, which sprang from last fall's issue of Exhibitionist on the same topic for which we had all written. Stacey Mann of Night Kitchen Interactive took the lead in organizing our session. I joined Stacey, Danny M. Cohen, Ph. D. of Northwestern University, School of Education and Social Policy; Ian Kerrigan, Assistant Director of Exhibition Development at the National September 11 Memorial Museum and Wendy Aibel-Weiss, Director of Exhibits… -
Love Those Minnesotan Labels!
7 May 2012 | 8:52 pmCan labels be creative? Not what's said in them, but what they look like? When I say the word "label" what comes into your head? A white piece of mat-board with text, mounted on the wall? At the Minnesota History Center and Mill City Museum (both part of the Minnesota Historical Society) I saw more inventive, ingenious label installations than I'd ever seen before in a single place. Over and over again, text was displayed in surprising ways, that encouraged me to read more, to explore, and to appreciate the sense of humor and… -
Bridging Distances: The View from Belarus
2 May 2012 | 6:39 pmI have a number of blog posts in my thinking queue as a result of my time at the AAM conference and in Minneapolis' great museums, but I'm very pleased to share this post by Katrin Hieke (kontakt[at]katrinhieke.de) of Bonn, Germany, about her experience in Belarus. It's partly a tale of social media, as I saw her tweet that she was going, we connected, and through some Ukrainian and Fulbright friends and colleagues, the network expanded. Now, where at all is Minsk? In February 2012 and rather surprisingly, I received an invitation to travel to Minsk in Belarus. Even for Europeans,… -
Museums & Creative Practice
24 Apr 2012 | 9:07 pmI'm pleased to announce the start of a new book project with my colleague Rainey Tisdale. Museums & Creative Practice is a our effort to understand how we can be more creative museum workers--how we can embed creative practice in all aspects of our work. Rainey, an independent curator and blogger at CityStories, has been actively thinking about creativity for some time, and over the last year or so, we've begun a lively long-distance conversation about the creative process and how it can be applied to museum practices.We both believe that creative work… -
The Power of Paper
20 Apr 2012 | 8:29 amI'm always packing up paper to take to various workshops. Just today, I put together my paper, markers and scissors for a session at next week's Museums in Conversation conference in Albany. So I'm used to watching people write on big pieces of brown paper, stick up Post-It notes and piece together three-dimensional interactive prototypes from construction paper.But this week, at the Corning Museum of Glass, I was struck by how powerful paper can be when you ask visitors or participants to make use of it. I was at Corning to hold some visitor conversations around a re-doing…
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That Would Be a Dream Come True
8 May 2012 | 8:36 amA new friend sent me an e-mail conveying a thought that made me worry about my new friend. Not about his character but about a state of mind I thought he was conveying. After I sent a worried reply, he responded with an apology and explanation that he was being sarcastic. Oh. I suggested a font would be helpful to understand sarcasm was intended in an e-mail or text. And what do you know. There have been attempts, he informed me, at providing just this type of thing as early as the Sixteenth Century. He provided these links which elaborate on… -
Arab Sails and Frozen Custard
8 May 2012 | 7:04 amSaudi Aramco World. The clumsy name refers to a magazine in a league with National Geographic in terms of scholarship and depth of reporting. It also has spectacularly deep pockets behind it. Sort of a magazine Burj Al Arab. What makes it different from Nat Geo is the exclusive focus on the “cultures, history, and geography of the Arab and Muslim worlds and their connections with the West,” as stated by the publication itself. The array of stories is impressive and designed to make it clear this is not just a bunch of bedouis you’re dealing with, though Bedoin culture… -
Midnight Blue et Rouge
6 May 2012 | 9:53 amEvening in Paris. The name of this perfume created by a long-established French cosmetics company can elicit more memories and stories of the mothers, grandmothers, glamorous aunts, and first girlfriends than you can shake a blush brush at. Bourjois (named for founder Alexandre Napoleon Bourjois) developed the scent decades after his first creation, lightweight makeup for theatrical performers, including the first “blush.” His cheek colorant was long known as “rouge” before a more natural appearing aesthetic developed in cosmetics in the 1960s driven by the Earth Mother of hippie… -
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
19 Apr 2012 | 8:40 pmThere is a type of book published in the 1940s that makes you feel adventurous just opening it. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is one of those. These books typically are autobiographical and perfectly suited to sale after a private club presentation, lecture, or speaking engagement to The Rotary. The leap onto a movie theater screen is easy to anticipate. Bob Considine, self-taught, fast, and prolific, edited (ghost wrote) Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo with Captain Ted Lawson. It is the story of a clandestine bombing mission headed up by Jimmy Doolittle. U.S. Army Air Corps… -
Cuteness Recession
19 Apr 2012 | 8:39 pmMary Engelbreit is an illustrator who once had a studio in a firehouse. It’s still not clear if, in her own lifetime, her work is going to catch fire at a national level. Her work is whimsical, charming, and appears to promote a sort of colorful Twelve Step philosophy without the cigarette smoke and Big Book. ME started out doing illustrated children’s books and branchised out to tea cozies, tea cups, tea spoons, teapots, tea towels, and many, many other non-tea-related items. Her website and online catalogue reveal all: maryengelbreit.com Keri (not her real name) has an amazing ME…
