Financial TimesAshmolean Museum opens to publicBBC NewsThe Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, in Oxford, which first opened in the 17th Century, was renovated to double the gallery space. Oxford's revamped Ashmolean can now "do drama"ReutersNew Oxford museum opensNST GroupAshmolean in Oxford re-opens this weekendTG Dailyguardian.co.uk -Country Life -Architects' Journalall 23 news articles »
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Museum directors will have state convention in Sioux City - Sioux City Journal
6 Nov 2009 | 10:12 pmMuseum directors will have state convention in Sioux CitySioux City JournalSIOUX CITY -- Sioux City has landed another convention -- the Iowa Museum Association Annual Conference, which will be at the Sioux City Convention Center and more » -
Events in Connecticut - New York Times
6 Nov 2009 | 9:14 pmEvents in ConnecticutNew York TimesGREENWICH Bruce Museum “Calder Family Day,” gallery hunt, art-making activities and an interactive performance by Carlton van Pyrz. Ages 5 and up. Nov. and more » -
Veterans Day events scheduled at National WWII Museum - Mesothelioma.com
6 Nov 2009 | 9:03 pmVeterans Day events scheduled at National WWII MuseumMesothelioma.comWorld War II veterans will be the center of attention at the National WII Museum in New Orleans this coming Wednesday. A full schedule of events has been WWII Veteran: 'I Was Scared As Hell'WDSUall 6 news articles » -
National World War II Museum rallies the troops - Los Angeles Times
6 Nov 2009 | 7:29 pmWashington PostNational World War II Museum rallies the troopsLos Angeles Times6, in New Orleans to inaugurate the expanded National World War II Museum, which has doubled in size and added a theater with a film experience that Museum expansion provides realistic experienceSunHerald.com (registration)National World War II Museum building dedication glorifies the fighters, not NOLA.comTom Hanks and Patricia Clarkson Attend WWII Museum's ExpansionTheCelebrityCafe.comWDSU -FOX 8 News WVUE-TV -The Canadian Pressall 247 news articles »
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5 Nov 2009 | 9:51 pmBroadway at the Beach's annual Tree Lighting Ceremony takes place Saturday from 6- 7 p.m. on the south side of Broadway at the Beach near the IMAX 3D Theatre. -
2009. 11.6 MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
5 Nov 2009 | 9:32 amSEOUL MUSEUM OF HISTORY, Jongno District To Nov. 8: Reminiscence of Seoul. This exhibition displays images of Seoul from the last century photographed by three foreigners: Albert W. Taylor, Fred W. Dykes and Nomura Motoyuki. -
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5 Nov 2009 | 1:04 am"When in Rome," lecture series featuring "Rome: The Age of the Popes," with Tom Loughman, assistant deputy director, 5:30 p.m., 225 South St., Williamstown, 458-2303. Mount Holyoke College "Documentng the Documented: Narratives of Diasporic Andeans in Southern/ Mediterranean Europe," with Esther Cuesta, Five College Women's Studies Research ... -
How techology and artistry gel in photos
4 Nov 2009 | 8:25 pmPHOTO TECHNOLOGY of the digital age has yet to exhaust its filmless possibilities. -
Once-divided Berlin has roared back to life
31 Oct 2009 | 3:00 pmThe Allied powers - the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union - divide Germany into four occupation zones.
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Guggenheim Museum News
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Winners of Art Awards Announced at Guggenheim Museum Ceremony
30 Oct 2009 | 10:00 amWinners of Rob Pruitt’s First Annual Art Awards Announced at Guggenheim Museum Ceremony Top honors went to Mary Heilmann and Connie Butler at Rob Pruitt’s The First Annual Art Awards during a ceremony at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Thursday, October 29. Top honors went to Mary Heilmann and Connie Butler at Rob Pruitt’s The First Annual Art Awards during a ceremony at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Thursday, October 29. The painter Heilmann, named Artist of the Year, was the subject of a recent, celebrated retrospective that saw the last stop of a nationwide tour at the New… -
Carmen Giménez Named Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art
27 Oct 2009 | 10:25 amCarmen Giménez Named Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art Giménez, who has been Curator of Twentieth-Century Art since 1989, will assume her new expanded position immediately. Carmen Giménez, Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art. Photo: Lina Bertucci Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, has announced that Carmen Giménez has been named Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, a position formerly held by the late Robert Rosenblum from 1996 to 2006. Giménez, who has been Curator of Twentieth-Century Art… -
Guggenheim Announces Short List for the Hugo Boss Prize 2010
23 Oct 2009 | 7:51 amGuggenheim Announces Short List for the Hugo Boss Prize 2010 Established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art, this biennial award is administered by the foundation and juried by an international panel of museum directors, curators, and critics. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and HUGO BOSS AG have announced the short list for the Hugo Boss Prize 2010. Established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art, this biennial award is administered by the foundation and juried by an international panel of museum directors, curators, and… -
Design It: Shelter Competition Winners Announced
21 Oct 2009 | 11:38 amDesign It: Shelter Competition Winners Announced On the occasion of the Guggenheim Museum's 50th Anniversary, we are pleased to announce the winners of the People's Prize and the Juried Prize for the Design It: Shelter Competition. Over the course of the summer, Design It: Shelter Competition received submissions from people in 68 countries for a total of nearly 600 entries that met competition requirements. On the occasion of the Guggenheim Museum's 50th Anniversary, we are pleased to announce the two winning entries: David Mares's CBS – Cork Block Shelter, which won the People's Prize… -
Guggenheim Launches Kandinsky Forum
15 Oct 2009 | 12:13 pmGuggenheim Launches Kandinsky Forum Guggenheim Forum is an ongoing series that brings together experts from a variety of fields to discuss and debate topics related to major museum exhibitions, with the public invited to comment on the conversation and take part in live chats. Inspired by the exhibition Kandinsky, The Spiritual Re(Turn) examines the role of the spiritual in modern art and considers the possibilities for its reappearance today. “To miss the sacred shadow of the secular is to misunderstand our era,” Mark C. Taylor writes in his opening statement for the latest installment…
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Smithsonian Mag: Around the Mall
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Weekend Events: Teacher Appreciation Day at the Zoo, Early Color Photography
6 Nov 2009 | 1:25 pmHead out to the National Zoo in honor of Teacher Appreciation Day! Detail of Class learning about the Sahara Desert, Washington, D.C. (1957) by the Scurlock Studio. Friday, November 5: Sorry kids, no special evening events happening at the Smithsonian tonight. Saturday, November 6: Teacher Appreciation Day After spending a week at school, teachers need a day of fun just like the kids they have to put up with, er, nurture for seven hours a day five days a week. In honor of Teacher Appreciation Day, the National Zoo has put together a special lineup of programs especially for educators,… -
Sweatin’ to the Smithsonian: Exercise With Folkways
6 Nov 2009 | 9:10 amAerobics for Everyone (1982). Image courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways. Autumn is upon us, which means we must once again turn our thoughts to the Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas triumvirate of culinary evil. No matter how much goodwill you show to your friends, family and neighbors, it won’t save your waistline from the smorgasbord of rich foods that you traditionally encounter this time of year. That said, let’s turn our thoughts to a bygone era, that of the 1980s, that age where you could don shoulder pads large enough to create the illusion of having a slimmer midsection that… -
Portraiture Now Series Gets Communal
5 Nov 2009 | 12:56 pmJim by Rebecca Westcott (2003) / Jim Houser, Philadelphia, PA / NPG, SI “If one paints someone’s portrait, one should not know him if possible. No knowledge. I do not want to know him at all,” German Expressionist Otto Dix once said. With that kind of detachment, it’s likely Dix wouldn’t have approved of the new Portraiture Now: Communities exhibit, where artist and subject are pals and everybody seems to know everybody, and in fact, a whole town, from the mayor to the fireman, hangs together like the neighbors they are in the museum’s gallery. The exhibit opens tomorrow,… -
The Coolest Straw I Ever Saw at American History
5 Nov 2009 | 8:07 amThe ease of positioning the Flex-Straw made it appealing for hospital use. Joseph B. Friedman Papers, NMAH Archives Center They are everywhere. Those quirky, bendy straws that make the satisfying crunching sound when flexed. They are in every soft drink, every restaurant… even when we don’t ask for them, those bendable straws magically appear in front of us. They’re one of the most undistinguished of utilitarian items of our time, yet few have surely ever paused to think about how they came to be. Thankfully, for all those now hung-up on the history of the FlexStraw, the American… -
Elderly Sloth Bear Dies at National Zoo
4 Nov 2009 | 1:29 pmMerlin, the National Zoo's 27-year-old sloth bear, died this morning. Photo courtesy of the Zoo. It’s a sad day at the National Zoo. Merlin, the National Zoo’s 27-year-old sloth bear, died this morning after a 48-hour illness. Merlin was born at the Zoo in 1981, and helped to introduce millions of visitors to this fascinating, but unfamiliar, bear species. On Monday morning, Merlin underwent a routine physical examination. The examination went well, but Merlin did not fully recover from the anesthetic by the afternoon. Veterinarians also noticed that he had vomited some fluid…
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Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition
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A Lunch-time Encounter with Michelle Obama
5 Nov 2009 | 1:02 pmYou never know who you'll meet around the National Mall. SITES registrar Juana Dahlan had a chance encounter with Michelle Obama while picking up some lunch at the Department of Energy today. Gotta love it. -
African American Art Show Closes
2 Nov 2009 | 8:19 amSo goes another popular SITES exhibition, Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum, ended its national tour in mid-October at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina. Like most exhibitions that include fine art, the exhibition run was only two years--a measure to safeguard the collections from light, temperature, and humidity exposure. You know the rules, but parting is still such sweet sorrow. The objects have now safely made their way back to the American Folk Art Museum in New York. But people are still talking about the collection of… -
Time TESTED!
26 Oct 2009 | 11:22 amSITES' crates meet the test of time. Sometimes we're asked why our shipping crates need to be built to such exacting standards. Our usual response is that we've learned over many years how to best protect loaned objects as they travel. In addition to keeping exhibits safe over the course of many shipments, now we can add long-term storage to the list of unintended, yet valuable assets that our crates can provide. Recently, our colleagues at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art asked us to track down tour details from an exhibition SITES circulated in 1960, featuring works by esteemed… -
Where’s the Fire? (or Stop, Drop, and Roll)
13 Oct 2009 | 9:25 amFire Prevention Week 2009 was last week, and SITES staff was . . . wait for it . . . fired up! But what do traveling exhibitions and fire have in common, you ask? First of all, every exhibitor that hosts a SITES show must fill out a detailed facility report. Naturally, one of the primary sections has to do with the facility’s fire protection measures. Information about alarm systems, sprinkler placement, and emergency exits–just to name a few–helps us to assess the safety of an exhibition and its objects in any given space. Plus, some of the info required is need-to-know for anyone, not… -
Obamas Choose 4 William H. Johnson Paintings for the White House
7 Oct 2009 | 1:24 pmThe Obamas love the art of Willam H. Johnson--and so will your museum visitors. On Tuesday, October 6, the White House announced the list of artworks that will now grace their famous walls, and Johnson is prominently featured. In a happy coincidence, SITES is launching a new exhibition, William H. Johnson: An American Modern, a collection of 20 extraordinary paintings that span the artist's career, from the James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University. Four works by the 20th-century American artist were included on the Obamas' list--all painted around 1944, and all…
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Creation Museum News
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In Search of the Humpback Whale
6 Nov 2009 | 10:46 amTomorrow The Ocean Adventure returns to the Creation Museum. Once again Wayne and Karen Brown will lead an exciting adventure diving into the ocean. The last time they came to the Creation Museum they showed us an expedition to the Caribbean Sea; and this time they’ll return in search of humpback whales! You can journey along with the Browns on a thrilling adventure in search of humpback whales in the warm waters of the Silver Bank by the Caribbean Sea! Using unique props, specimens, breathtaking photography, storytelling techniques, and audience participation, this presentation will… -
Chameleon lays eggs
5 Nov 2009 | 12:45 pmOne of the chameleons in the museum exhibit drew a small crowd of employees this evening as she dug a hole, into which she deposited nine eggs. After five months of development, babies will emerge from the tiny eggs. The babies are remarkable because they are fully developed, with the complex eyes, tail, and other features of the adult chameleons, even at an incredibly small size. It is surprising that so many complex parts can fit into such a small package. The chameleons on display at the museum now are called quadricornis, or four-horned, chameleons. The museum’s male actually has 7… -
Fall Photography Workshop
31 Oct 2009 | 9:09 amOur fall photography workshop may have been just a bit smaller than other workshops, but the participants received great instruction from AiG photographers Deb and Marty Minnard. Not only did they have the opportunity for photography, but some of the time revolved around the editing of their images with some interesting results. Here are some of their pictures. From Joy M. From Amanda K. -
Chick-fil-A Visits
27 Oct 2009 | 8:00 amLast week the Creation Museum was visited by Chick-fil-A. To help promote the opening of their new restaurant in Florence, Kentucky (see their website here) representatives came to the Creation Museum and gave free sandwiches away to staff and guests. Eagerly awaiting the arrival of sandwiches! Staff were happy about a different lunch from Chick-fil-A! The car finally arrives. Many sandwiches! Appreciative staff and guests enjoyed the delicious food. -
Noah’s Flood: Washing Away Millions of Years
26 Oct 2009 | 5:30 amThis popular presentation first explains the Biblical evidence that Noah’s Flood was a historic, global catastrophe. Then Dr. Mortenson explains some of the growing geological and fossil evidence for this event, along with reasons for not trusting radiometric dating methods, which evolutionists claim as proof of millions of years. People will see that they have been brainwashed by the evolutionary establishment. Presented at 3:00 on Thursday, October 29, this presentation is part of the Museum’s Answers Speaker Series and is free with Museum admission or membership. Seating is first come…
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Museum of Science News
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Connect the Dots: A Museum Educator Designs a Special Tour for Your Next Visit
4 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pmMike Alexander, director of visitor programs, knows a thing or two about the Museum — he's been here for over 30 years! So he was happy to design an Exhibit Halls tour for our visitors. Follow Mike as he connects the dots between our Museum exhibits and some of the key scientific discoveries that led to our current understanding of physics and chemistry. The Big Bang "Everything around us — people, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, and rock — is obviously made of different substances," says Mike. But where did these substances come from? How did it all begin? Astronomers… -
Museum President Ioannis Miaoulis Marks 40th Anniversary of Moon Landing With Call to Action
19 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pmToday is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and in a recent Washington Times op-ed, Museum President Ioannis Miaoulis finds renewed inspiration in one of our country's greatest achievements. "[W]hen Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the dusty lunar surface, the United States reached a pinnacle of scientific exploration enabled by engineering ingenuity," he writes. "But times have changed. Teachers no longer usher students into auditoriums to watch wide-eyed as the space shuttle takes flight... Perhaps we need to take a look back in order to move forward... "I believe that… -
Calling All Curious Teens
31 Mar 2009 | 5:00 pmAh, to be young in Boston. The Museum runs programs for young people that adults can only envy. From overnights to courses to paid internships, teens can discover great science perks at Science Park. Hands-On Fun at the Clubhouse Would you like to create an animated cartoon, a video game, or your own Web page? The Museum's flagship Computer Clubhouse is a unique drop-in center for city youth ages 10 to 18, featuring Girls' Day every Monday and open after school and on weekends. For 15 years the Clubhouse has provided a safe environment where young people gather to create animation, movies,… -
Science in Action: Researchers Live!
7 Dec 2008 | 4:00 pmThe Museum of Science is fortunate to be located in a region alive with leading developments in many exciting fields of science. Our proximity to world-class colleges and universities, hospitals and laboratories, established companies and start-ups gives us access to accomplished researchers based in the Boston area and drawn here from all over the world. How do Museum visitors benefit from the wealth of knowledge of these researchers? Let us count the ways... Living Labs Museumgoers can participate in live scientific research through our Living Laboratories, within the Human Body Connection… -
Firefly Watch Website Wins MITX Award
20 Nov 2008 | 4:00 pmFirefly Watch, the Museum's online Citizen Science project, has won a 2008 Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX) award in the education and learning category. More than 1,000 Internet professionals were on hand for the annual awards ceremony, which honors interactive technology achievements in the New England area. Emily Bottis, the Museum's director of interactive media, accepted the award along with members of the Museum's Web development team. "My goal is to have a team that is capable of doing work at the same high production level as the competition," says Bottis of the…
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Raffles Museum News
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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2009)
5 Nov 2009 | 1:25 amThe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2009) was released on 3 Nov 2009. According to the list, 17,291 species out of 47,677 assessed are in danger of extinction. This is about one third of the number assessed. For details on the 2009 list, please visit the IUCN website. Our very own contributed to the 2009 list. They include RMBR Director Professor Peter Ng and DBS Instructor Dr Darren Yeo who contributed to the findings on Crabs while Dr Tan Heok Hui contributed to the data on Freshwater fish. Our research associate Dr Maurice Kottelat also lent his expertise to the Freshwater… -
Specimens make their mark at the ASEAN Wetland Management Training Course
26 Oct 2009 | 4:31 pmSpecimens from the Raffles Museum do not always stay in the museum, some get to travel! Research specimens typically move in and out with some frequency, typical to any research collection. Specimens may be loaned out for special occasions such as the recent loan to National Heritage Board of the large, old specimens from the former Raffles Library and Museum for display at the Asian Civillisations Museum for their “Hunters and Collectors: The Origins of the Southeast Asian Collection” exhibition. Smaller specimens typically also travel out for public education events with the… -
Research Assistant/Technical Support Officer opportunities with the Department of Biological Sciences, NUS and the Public Utilities Board (PUB)
22 Oct 2009 | 2:06 amAs Singapore is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world, water management is critical. The Public Utilities Board recently commissioned the National University of Singapore’s Department of Biological Sciences to develop a lentic macro-invertebrate biotic index for the island’s waterways, with an emphasis on shallow tropical lakes. This will now complement the extensive water quality sampling regime already in place. We are seeking three Research Assistants and/or Laboratory Technicians to assist a team with monitoring freshwater invertebrates in Singapore. The candidates… -
Visit by Prof Chan Tin-Yam and company from Taiwan, ROC
12 Oct 2009 | 8:57 pmRMBR warmly welcomed Prof Chan Tin-Yam and his team of scientists and graduate students from Taiwan ROC on 7 Oct 2009. Based at the National Taiwan Ocean University, Prof Chan is an expert on lobsters and other non-brachyuran crustaceans while Ms Yang Chien Hui is a graduate student working on crustaceans. The rest of the delegation comprised members from the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica: Ms Tsai Pei Chen (Dr Benny Chan’s research staff) who works on barnacles; Dr Liao Yun Chih, Postdoctoral Fellow (marine fishes) who works for Taiwan’s leading fish expert Prof Shao Kwang… -
New Guidesheet – The Hidden World of the Fungi
1 Oct 2009 | 10:17 pmThe latest guidesheet “The Hidden World of the Fungi” has been launched. Part of the series of ten guidesheets on Singapore’s natural history sponsored by ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, it is for sale to the public at $5. For the full range of RMBR-ExxonMobil publications, please visit the website http://exxonmobil.rafflesmuseum.net/.
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Bay Area Discovery Museum
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Get Groovy with the Banana Slug String Band this Saturday
3 Nov 2009 | 10:55 amYouTube Be part of the musical fun as the Banana Slug String Band performs their earth-loving songs. This duo plays music that is so infectious that children can’t help singing, dancing and laughing along as they learn about this home we call Earth. Music, theater, puppetry and audience participation create a rich experience for the entire family. Get groovy this Saturday, November 7, at 11 a.m. Tickets are Members $5; General Child $10; General Adult $12 (includes Museum admission). Buy tickets online. -
Contest Celebrating 1,000 Facebook Fans
2 Nov 2009 | 12:18 pmIn celebration of our 1,000th Fan, we're giving away prizes! We'll randomly pick 5 winners from our Facebook fans and award prizes including a Museum Passport membership, performance tickets and other goodies. The Fine Print: To win, you must be our fan on Facebook. On Friday, November 6 at 9:30 a.m. we'll use a random number generator to pick 5 random numbers from the total number of Facebook fans of our page at that moment. Our fans are listed in the order they became fans, so we'll use the numbers to pick the winners with our first fan counting as #1, and moving up from there to the total… -
Online Book Club: NurtureShock Chapter One
2 Nov 2009 | 9:18 amWelcome to the first installment of our Online Book Club, featuring NurtureShock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. Everyone is welcome to join in at any time, either here or on our Facebook page. We’ll cover the 10 chapters one at a time over the next couple of weeks. We welcome your thoughts and personal experiences in the comments. If you have a question you’d like to ask of the authors, either include it in the comments or email Jennifer at jcaleshu(at)badm.org and she’ll pass it along. First a quick introduction – I’m Jennifer Caleshu, Director of Communications at the Bay Area… -
Animal Secrets Opens Saturday
29 Oct 2009 | 10:53 amWe know you've been waiting so patiently to see what we're installing in Discovery Hall next. Opening this Saturday, come check out Animal Secrets! Where does a chipmunk sleep? What does an eagle feed its young? How do mother bats find their babies in a cave? In Animal Secrets, families will learn the answers to these questions and more as they explore the hidden habitats and secret lives of forest animals. Using imaginative role-play and hands-on activities, children will discover nature from an animal’s point of view in naturalistic environments, including a stream, meadow, woodland,… -
New Afternoon Drop-in Activities
28 Oct 2009 | 10:43 amStop by after naps for new activities created by our innovative Discovery Educators. Come get creative with your kids as you explore, discover, immerse, imagine and connect through hands-on programs including:Mobile-Making with StarfeatherAutumn Wreath-Making with Jenn and RaquelShadow-Play with AmyMusic Parade with MattBoat-Making with DanielleParachute Games with Jason and MattWandering Wizard Stories and Poems with PaganThese activities mostly take place in the afternoon and are all free with Museum admission. Check out the listings on our Drop-In Activities page or on the Calendar.
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HMNS Expansion: Breaking Ground Nov. 19!
6 Nov 2009 | 12:12 pmWe’re breaking ground on our new Duncan Family Wing on Nov. 19, 2009 – but we still have $25 million more to raise before we can complete the expansion.We need your help! We’ve come a long way in 100 years- and we’re going even farther. We’re expanding science education in Houston for the 21st century and working to build the finest science museum in the country. And we need your help! We’ve raised over $60 million from generous individuals, foundations and corporations that are committed to our mission of science education, and know how important science and a… -
100 Years – 100 Objects: Zuni Pottery
6 Nov 2009 | 11:07 amThe Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 – meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series, our current curators have chosen one hundred exceptional objects from the Museum’s immense storehouse of specimens and artifacts—one for each year of our history. Check back here frequently to learn more about this diverse selection of behind-the-scenes curiosities—we will post the image and description of a new object every few days. This… -
Moths: Butterflies’ Mysterious Cousins
5 Nov 2009 | 2:07 pmphoto credit: e³°°° Butterflies are probably the most popular insects ever! But what about moths? What’s their story? Why are they less popular than butterflies, considering the fact that there are nearly 250,000 species of them compared to only about 20,000 species of butterflies? This is one fact among a plethora of others that I’m sure you all would like to know about moths! The question we get asked the most here at the CBC is what is the difference between butterflies and moths? It can be a little tricky to explain. They are two completely different types of insects. -
Find Fun Fossils at Dino Days 2009! This Saturday
4 Nov 2009 | 1:26 pmJoin us Saturday, Nov. 7 for HMNS Dino Days, a family paleo festival that features fossil related activities and arts and crafts. Museum paleontologist Robert “Bob” Bakker will be on hand to answer any of your dinosaur questions. This is a great chance for enthusiasts of all ages to come learn and discuss dinosaurs. We encourage you to bring in your own rocks, fossils, and other unique objects for identification. While you are here, take some time to help our volunteers sift through soil to recover bone fragments, teeth, and claws spanning 287 million years of natural history. Some of…
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Biomedicine on Display
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Psychiatric museums and the history of psychiatry
6 Nov 2009 | 6:18 amPsychiatric museums have come a long way since their early days. Before the 1980s, private collections of aficionados made up the field. Since then, several psychiatric museums have emerged. Today, these institutions have turned into modern museums creating numerous exhibitions and reaching large audiences. The most successful of the psychiatric museums have more than 140.000 visitors a year. In addition, collaboration between various psychiatric museums has become an important issue, especially for the museums in Europe. In June 2009, the joint project “Connecting the European Mind” was… -
Does a university museum have to be elitist?
6 Nov 2009 | 12:00 amIn one of his last blog posts Thomas argued that university museums are basically elitist institutions. Thomas argues that the basic success criterion for museums is the popularity of their exhibitions and number of visitors where on the other side the success criterion for a university museum is the quality and originality of their research. Of course I can’t speak on behalf of all the museums out there but I could easily imagine that many museum professionals could be offended by that statement. Actually I’m quite certain that a lot of great research is done by curators who are not… -
Scientific instruments in the history and philosophy of (medical) science
4 Nov 2009 | 11:00 pmThe creative editors or Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science (see earlier mention here) are planning a focused discussion section on scientific instruments in a forthcoming issue of the journal. With the “practical turn” in history and philosophy of science came a renewed interest in scientific instruments. Although they have become a nexus for worries about empiricism and standards of evidence, instruments only rarely feature as primary sources for scholars in the history and philosophy of science. Even historians of technology have been accused of… -
What’s a university museum?
4 Nov 2009 | 12:00 amUniversity of Copenhagen has several museums (among them Medical Museion). And our university isn’t alone. Many, if not most, universities around the world have their own museums, or at least historical collections. There are in fact so many of the kind that the international museum council (ICOM) has set up a subcommittee specifically for university museums and collections (UMAC). What defines a ‘university museum’? The only criterion for membership in UMAC seems to be that the museum shall be part of a university organisation — contentwise it can be… -
Contested categories — life sciences in society
2 Nov 2009 | 11:00 pmTwo years ago, in January 2007, our own Susanne Bauer co-organised a meeting titled ‘Contested Categories’ here at Medical Museion. Now, a proceedings volume with the same title, co-edited by Susanne and Ayo Wahlberg (formerly BIOS, LSE), has been published by Ashgate. From the back cover: Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day realities of life sciences categories. In doing so, it shows how such categories remain contested and dynamic, and that the boundaries they create are subject to negotiation as well as…
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Addison Gallery
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Scenes from the Work Site
19 Oct 2009 | 6:26 amConstruction continues at the Addison and its new addition at a feverish pace, so much so that we are unable to cover everything on our website with our weekly image post. So, to bring our readers up to date, here are some additional "scenes" from the work site. Click the images to make them larger.The tall, green fences surrounding the site have been removed and landscaping has begun in earnest. Old walkways are being reconnected (see above, left, and bottom), pavers are being laid at the base of the Addison's steps (see above, right), and new trees and shrubbery, chosen months ago, are… -
The Addison in your neighborhood
6 Oct 2009 | 6:00 amThe Addison may still be closed for renovation, and our touring exhibition Coming of Age may have concluded, but selections from the Addison's collection can still be seen hanging on the walls of various museums across the country as we continue to lend our objects to other institutions' exhibitions.Two of our Winslow Homers, Shepherdess (see left) and Beach Scene, will be on view at the Syracuse University Lubin House in New York City from October 30th through December 6th. This is the second venue of Syracuse University Art Galleries' show Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and… -
The Museum Project
22 Sep 2009 | 4:00 am- What is a collection? What kinds of things do people collect – and why?- What does a museum collect?- Why are museums important?Throughout the school year, the Addison’s Education Department will be working with the Kindergarten Prep class at the Children’s Place, a Bright Horizons child care and early education center located on the campus of Phillips Academy, to explore these ideas. In addition to learning about the Addison Gallery, the students and parents of Kindergarten Prep will be visiting the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, The Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology at… -
Update on the Addison Expansion and Renovation
17 Sep 2009 | 4:00 amI had the privilege to walk through the museum and work site (see left, click images to make them larger) recently and found myself stunned and amazed at how much progress had been made in the Addison's renovation and expansion.The outside of the building is coming together. Brickwork is nearly complete on all exterior surfaces, including the new truck and accessible staff entrances on the north side of the addition (see right). Chapel Avenue has been reconfigured to allow tractor-trailers to easily turn and back into our new loading dock. The front steps have been reinstalled and are now… -
Coming of Age – Coming Home to Andover
8 Sep 2009 | 4:00 amPosted by Brian T. Allen, The Mary Stripp & R. Crosby Kemper DirectorWith the Addison construction project nearing its close, so, too, is the Addison’s traveling exhibition, Coming of Age, which features seventy of our greatest paintings and sculptures. The show’s “grand tour” began at the Addison in the fall of 2006 and subsequently traveled to the Meadows Museum in Dallas, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art. The show is currently installed at its final venue, the Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec…
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Brooklyn Museum
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Terence Koh Performa 09
5 Nov 2009 | 8:35 amTerence Koh’s Untitled, a stack of thirty-three glass cases, is a striking presence in the Contemporary galleries. Almost every case contains an artifact that’s been painted white. Some of these date back to the artist’s childhood while others are from friends and lovers, or flea markets. The sculpture is like a shrine that preserves meaningful relics from various chapters of Koh’s life. Unlike many artists, he embraces the effects of entropy and decay on his work, such as mold, or glass shattered in transit. Terence Koh (born China, 1977). Untitled (Vitrines), 2006. -
Calling all photographers November 7th!
4 Nov 2009 | 9:41 amI am really looking forward to November’s Target First Saturday, which takes place on November 7th and highlights our special exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present. Rock music and rock journalism are two of my passions and I’m excited to see them coming together with the programming around this exhibit. As a public programmer I’m always looking for new entry points into an exhibition’s content and how to make that content accessible and engaging for Museum visitors. In conversations about public programming for the exhibit… -
1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for November 2009: Cass Bird
2 Nov 2009 | 8:51 amWhen Shelley and I went to visit Cass Bird at her Brooklyn studio last week, we weren’t sure what to expect. We had known her work via Global Feminisms and our Feminist Art Base and there are some artists that our curators think would be great for the Twitter Art Feed—Cass was one of them. Cass is a photographer, but what we ended up discussing was how photographs and other images (books, advertisements, diagrams, etc), when juxtaposed, can create something really interesting and appealing. Cass Bird (American, born 1974). I Look Just Like My Daddy, 2004. Chromogenic print, 40 x 30… -
Psychedelic Rock Posters from the Vault
29 Oct 2009 | 6:15 amWith the exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, opening tomorrow at the museum, I thought now would be a great time to acquaint our readers with the museum’s vintage collection of psychedelic posters. I started documenting these posters a few years ago after I noticed a wooden box high up on a shelf in the museum’s Works on Paper storage area. In this box I found close to three hundred stunning posters. Norman Orr (American). [Untitled] (Poco - Siegal - Schwall), 1970. Offset lithograph, Sheet: 21 7/8 x 28 in. (55.6 x 71.1 cm). -
Groupon and Discounting Membership
20 Oct 2009 | 6:35 amIn an ongoing effort to be as transparent as possible, I want to take a minute to explain the Membership promotion we’re doing for today only with Groupon: a one-year Family and Friends membership (normally $85) for $35. Groupon (the word combines “group” and “coupon”) is a website that offers discounts on products and services in various cities by promising businesses a minimum number of customers. By harnessing collective buying power, Groupon is able to match up customers to businesses so both sides get something out of it. Though many Museums discount…
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Children's Museum in Easton
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Resources for Parents & Teachers
6 Nov 2009 | 10:12 amThe children's museum offers support to parents and teachers. Parenting workshops held at the museum offer up to date information and current resources for parents on important developmental issues. The workshops are led by highly qualified nurturing practicioners in a variety of fields. Click here for topics and schedules for the Winter 2009 series. The museums bulletin boards offer babysitters for hire, play groups to join,family oriented services to look into, arts and entertainment to enjoy. Be sure to check them out when you visit.If you haven't checked it out yet, you must see the… -
Brewing Up Some Halloween Fun!
4 Nov 2009 | 9:00 amFriday was an excellent day to "drop- in" to the museum! The got milk? team stopped by to share their favorite chocolate milk recipes with us and snap some milk mustache photos. Local processors HP Hood and Midland farms provided chocolate milk and chocolate milkshakes for everyone to enjoy and get their chocolate milk mustache going on! There were also sticker mustaches for those who didn't delight in the chocolate milk deliciousness. Once everyone's chocolate milk mustache was in place, milk mustache photos were taken in a spooky and fun Halloween setting. While waiting for pictures to… -
Making Everyday Activities into Learning Games
14 Oct 2009 | 12:16 pmChildren are constantly learning.What may seem like an ordinary daily activity to you can be an opportunity for your child to discover understandings about the world around him and develop skills to build on.Our job as caregivers is to provide opportunities and support for these discoveries.Here are a few activities you can try at home as you go about your day. Most toddlers and preschoolers just love to ride on swings.The rhythm of swinging back and forth lends itself to an essential pre-reading activity: rhyming.Research shows that being able to rhyme is a good predictor of reading… -
Its Spooktacular! Its Spectacular! Its Halloween Time at the Museum!
13 Oct 2009 | 8:45 amIt is October and Halloween is right around the corner and the Museum is sure getting ready for it! We have some great events coming up that we would love for you to attend!First up is the Graham Cracker Haunted Houses Class! Taking place on Thursday October 22 is a fun time- full of creativity and candy! If you have been to one of the candy house workshops in December then your kids will love this! Using graham crackers, frosting and Halloween treats kids can create their own Haunted House masterpiece- that is not only cool to look at but delicious to eat!It is a class and pre-registration… -
Golf Fore the Kids!!
29 Sep 2009 | 10:51 amOn October 12th (Columbus Day), at the Easton Country Club the Children's Museum in Easton will be holding our annual Golf Tournament! This is our fifth tournament and this years looks to be the best ever! It will be fun for everyone no matter the age or skill at golf.There are a bunch of cool activities you can take part in. First up is nine holes of golf in two teams made up of a child and adult partner. So it can be Mom and sister against Dad and brother for instance! There is going to be two separate flights of nine holes, one for a novice team (for any beginner golfer 7 years or older)…
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City of Las Vegas NM Museum
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Exhibit Design 101
20 Oct 2009 | 10:56 amWe’re in the last days of installing our new exhibit, Git fer Vegas , Cowboy! Exhibit development includes ingredients of staging a play and of creating a book. The writer, or curator, establishes a storyline. Inspiration comes from any number of sources — a song, a person, a newspaper article. In this case, our curator found a compelling story in the programs and poetry of the Cowboys’ Reunions. The curator chooses pieces of the Museum’s collection as illustrations. Next, the story and the “illustrations” are turned over to the exhibit designers. This team decides how the… -
Western Women's Saddlery
19 Oct 2009 | 5:39 pmIn Europe, sidesaddles have been in use since the Middle Ages primarily to provide women the opportunity to ride with modesty. Over the centuries, women adapted sidesaddles to their personal preferences. In 1915, Mrs. Esther Stace, riding “aside,” cleared a 6’6” jump.In the early days of Western American expansion, “no lady straddled a horse,” but many expert horsewomen rode the prairies, ranched, and performed trick riding in their sidesaddles. After witnessing a severe riding accident, Charles Goodnight (1836-1929), a well-known cattle rancher, approached his friend and expert… -
Play Time at the Museum Brings Las Vegas Alive!
6 Oct 2009 | 2:10 pmLast Thursday we had another group visit, and it might have been the most successful trial of Las Vegas Alive yet! A group of home school children, along with their parents, participated in playing Las Vegas Alive!, and all seemed to enjoy it. We began in the morning with a tour of the museum, and then separated everyone into three groups for the learning stations. At station one the children learned to wash clothes using a wash board and bucket, at station two they learned how to make butter and had a tasty treat, and at station three the children sewed their own money bags, which they used… -
Cowboys’ Reunions—The Artists & Writers
28 Sep 2009 | 4:50 pmThe annual Las Vegas Cowboys’ Reunions drew rodeo celebrities like Tex Austin, “Foghorn” O’Malley,” Prairie Rose Henderson, and Jim Shoulders, but the Reunions also attracted many artists and writers who came and produced works for or about the Reunions. Uncovering this information was like being a detective on the trail of a mystery. I’d come across a name or a sketch or a poem in the Museum’s archives then trace it to flesh out the story. Internet sources were helpful but sometimes contradictory, so then I’d hunt for corroboration in newspapers, books, and photographs.The… -
Saddles
23 Sep 2009 | 10:06 amThe Museum collection includes some interesting saddles. One of them was produced some time between 1873 and 1928 by Frank A. Meanea. This saddle is one of the items that will be featured in the upcoming exhibit, Git Fer Vegas, Cowboy!Frank A. Meanea (1849-1928) was one of the most accomplished saddle makers of the territorial period. He was born in Missouri and made his way to Cheyenne, WY around 1868. There, he worked with his uncle E.L Gallatin in the Gallup & Gallatin Saddlery. By 1873, Frank had taken over the business. He developed innovative aspects of saddles, including the…
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Job: Webmaster / Social Media Expert: International Museum of Women
29 Oct 2009 | 1:36 pmWeb Master / Social Media Expert International Museum of Women Position: Web Master / Social Media Expert Full time, Exempt. 6 month contract with potential to extend. The International Museum of Women is seeking an energetic, web-savvy multimedia professional with a flair for words and a passion for using social media to inspire social change. read more -
Job: Electronic Records Archivist: Cleveland Museum of Art
28 Oct 2009 | 6:47 pmElectronic Records Archivist Library and Archives read more -
Job: Cleveland Museum of Art: Director of Information Management and Technology Services
28 Oct 2009 | 6:45 pmDirector of Information Management and Technology Services The Director of Information Management and Technology Services fulfills five key areas of responsibility: + Creation, ongoing iteration and advocacy of a vision for how technology and information assets should be best applied in service of the museum’s mission read more -
cfp: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) London 2010
27 Oct 2009 | 7:12 amCall for proposal deadline: 15th January 2010 read more -
CFP: Taking Stock: Museum Studies and Museum Practices in Canada
26 Oct 2009 | 9:45 amhosted by the Museum Studies Program, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada April 22-24, 2010 http://takingstockmuseumstudies.ischool.utoronto.ca/ Proposals due: November 30, 2009 read more
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McKinley Curator
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New storage building!
4 Nov 2009 | 9:04 amWork has begun on our new conservation gallery and storage building! (Of course work on this project HAS been going on for more than a year -- it's just not the kind of work that you can SEE!)The Museum was closed yesterday while our electrical system was upgraded in anticipation of the new addition to our building.The new building will be located behind our current building and will be accessible to staff and volunteers through the second floor.Our collection has grown so much over the past few years, we have run out of space! This project is one of many things funded by our Capital… -
Museum featured in The Suburbanite
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Dollhouse program is finished!
2 Nov 2009 | 7:12 amI have just completed the program for the next Tea with the Curator on the history of dollhouses! (November 16 at 10:00 AM -- call for reservations!)What a fun program to work on! Lots of little things to explore...We will learn about the history of dollhouses from ancient Egypt to the present, and how the miniature world has transformed from a hobby into an art form!We will look in-depth at Queen Mary's Dolls' House, Colleen Moore's Fantasy Castle, and John Zweifel's Miniature White House.The program will conclude with a tour of the Keller Gallery exhibition Life in Miniature, featuring 23… -
Goodbye Lisa!
30 Oct 2009 | 5:23 amToday is Lisa Lazar's last day at the Museum. We are going to miss her! She has been the Assistant Office Manager for quite a few years. She is leaving us for a job with more hours at the hospital. Although we will miss her, we are excited for her new opportunity. Good luck Lisa! -
Tea with the Curator -- History of Dollhouses
28 Oct 2009 | 5:16 amWhat FUN this program has been to research!I'm having a blast reading through old miniatures magazines to prepare my program for the next Tea.If you'd like to come, please call soon because there are only about 10 spots left! The Tea will be November 16 at 10:00 AM. You can call 330-455-7043 to make a reservation. Cost is $10 per person and includes breakfast sweets, a program and a tour of the dollhouse exhibit.It will be a lot of fun!
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Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project
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Praise from London; Film from Italy
5 Nov 2009 | 12:36 amThe newly formed London Peregrine Partnership has an excellent website, well worth a browse. In particular, go to their 'Peregrines on the web' page where they say (completely unprompted):"The Derby Cathedral site is by far the best in the UK, with regular updates, good notes and some excellent pictures."Obviously we knew this anyway but it great when someone else 'in the business', so to speak, thinks so too!Well done that man at the museum - you all know who he is! What a star!Herewith also the photo of the church in Exeter where peregrines have nested for many years and which was the… -
Brief flirt with catholicism?
25 Oct 2009 | 1:34 am( Update 2nd Nov. We are aware of a power failure affecting our webcams today. We will try and restart our equipment over the next 24 hours)The peregrines have switched to their usual winter diet already. This morning I found three redwing heads and one of a fieldfare below the tower, as well as a common snipe's beak. As you can see, most of its skull has gone - the brains are rich in protein. Redwings and fieldfares are absent from Derbyshire in summer, returning here from Scandinavia each winter, some never to return of course.I also saw a peregrine (the falcon) perched on the tower of St… -
Burton neighbours
18 Oct 2009 | 1:16 pmHere are some photos sent over to us of the Burton on Trent peregrines that nest high on the brewery tower in the middle of that town, some eight miles SW of Derby. Apparently they had three young this year.The box was put up several years ago and the person who was responsible for it initially has now retired from the brewery. As you can see the box (just left of the bottom left of the red sign) is quite small compared to ours and it's no wonder that some juveniles come down to ground. Apparently any fallers are quickly collected and taken up onto an acccessible flat roof where the parents… -
Various updates
17 Oct 2009 | 12:22 amA couple of days ago, a birdwatcher reported seeing three peregrines on the top of the police HQ aerial, barely half a mile from the cathedral. The adults are on and off the tower as usual at this time of the year, just keeping an eye on things as it were.We continue to monitor the prey species being taken. Corncrakes have appeared in the diet recently. These birds, while scarce in the UK, are not quite so uncommon in Eastern Europe where old-style farming is still practiced - eg in countries such as Poland and Estonia. These are migrants and when there's anticyclonic weather, the easterly… -
Cathy doing well
21 Sep 2009 | 12:25 pmColin took this photo of Cathy (010) recently and isn't she looking well? More photos are promised soon.Down under the tower on Sunday morning I found the lovely, recently moulted peregrine feather shown below as well as several prey feathers.These included those of teal (a small duck) and woodcock (a wader) both of which are typically winter food for our birds....the year is definitely turning now.....Just as well peregrines are not migrants (though they do get shot at in the UK of course - more on this later).....To read about a terrible massacre of raptors in Malta see this report from…
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Doctor Dada
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Trying to sell a bad interface
10 Oct 2009 | 5:05 amIn our local newspaper the other day I saw an advertisement for a new website created to support the NSW Central Coast’s waste collection and recycling system. (Click the image to see it.) The main thrust of the ad was that the “fastest way to book your bulk kerbside collection is online”. And to show how “fast” it is, the ad listed an eight-step “Bulk Kerbside Checklist”:Visit www.1coast.com.au - 24 hours a day, 7 days a weekSelect the ‘Click here to book a bulk kerbside collection button’Review the collection guidelines & proceed to the booking pageFirst time visitors… -
I don't know much about the web but I know what I like
8 Oct 2009 | 12:46 amThe Web is a bit like an art museum: an amazingly rich resource which is too easily squandered. I have just posted an article on my website (originally presented as a paper at the Ark Group Information Architecture Forum, and at Oz-IA 2009), which introduces principles and techniques used in art museum education and shows how they can be applied in web construction, writing and design. It offers insights into:transforming information chaos into information ordereliminating inessentialsmaking personal connections with visitors (or users) through relevance and participation, while minimising… -
Challenging some myths about art
13 Aug 2009 | 12:12 amI thought, for a change, instead of writing about museums and multimedia, I’d write about art – specifically, art appreciation. (This is actually how I came into the museum-web world.)Art is a contradiction for many people. On the one hand it surrounds us all the time: most houses have at least one painting hanging on the wall, even if it’s just a reproduction; and one art form in particular – photography – seems to be everywhere around us. On the other hand, art is regarded by many as mysterious and rarefied, something for that special group of people: the “artistic”. Ask… -
100 Best Curator and Museum Blogs
21 Jul 2009 | 5:22 pmThis blog has been listed in the “100 Best Curator and Museum Blogs” page on the Online Universities site (#16 under “Resources & Advice”). It’s in good company, although I wonder why Seb Chan’s Fresh+New(er) is missing? -
New Australian Museum website
8 Jun 2009 | 6:16 pmHave you seen the new Australian Museum website?australianmuseum.net.au(New URL, too; www.austmus.gov.au and www.amonline.net.au now redirect to it.)It has an interesting What's on functionality: Tabs for different audience types: "General", "Kids", "Under 5s", "Teachers", "Members", "Tourists", with exhibitions, (permanent) displays, events and tours listed together.All 'end-pages' (that is, pages with content, as opposed to links to content) have 2 buttons: "Add comment" and "Add tags" right after the page heading (you have to be registered with "My museum" to use them) and many of them…
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Egypt at the Manchester Museum
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Curator’s diary, Friday 6th November 2009
6 Nov 2009 | 8:27 amI’m back in the office after two weeks in Egypt taking a lecture tour round all the major sites. The group of 22 people, myself and my wonderful guide, Hesham, visited the sites at Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel and in and around Cairo. It was very hot indeed, hitting 42 degrees at Abu Simbel, but the group kept on despite this, and everyone had a wonderful time. Here are some images taken on the tour – the middle one is of me with my guide, Hesham. Since getting back into the office, I have been getting on top of research enquiries into Predynastic pottery, funerary stelae and Old… -
Big Saturday Oct 2009: Ancient Egyptian Technology
5 Nov 2009 | 7:36 amOn Saturday 17th October, the Museum hosted an ancient Egyptian Big Saturday looking at technology, with everything from mummifying oranges to making faience and constructing a shaduf. Senior Conservator Sam Sportun painting on a wedjat-eye, or Eye of Horus, symbol of protection Dr Lindy Crewe, the Museum's Cypriot archaeologist, overseas excavation of artefacts Demonstrating how to use a shaduf to lift water -
Building pyramids and mummifying oranges…
14 Oct 2009 | 3:02 amBig Saturday: Ancient Egyptian Technology Saturday 17th October, 11am-4pm Smash pots, learn to apply Egyptian eye make -up and how to make faience, build a pyramid and a shaduf, mummify an orange, with story telling, object handling and much much more, at The Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. Free entry -
Curator’s Diary, Wednesday 7th October 2009
7 Oct 2009 | 9:24 amWe hosted the Egypt in its African Context event at The Manchester Museum last weekend, 3-4 Egypt in Africa: a Sudanese cat on excavation October 2009, and heard papers from scholars from the United States, Nigeria, Spain and the UK, discussing the African cultural aspects of ancient Egypt, with much hearty debate. The event included a wine reception and a screening of the documentary film by Louis Buckley, Nubian Spirit: The African Legacy of the Nile Valley. Many thanks to all the delegates for making it such a successful and illuminating event. We filmed some of the key speakers, and will… -
FIlming Asru at The Manchester Museum
10 Sep 2009 | 7:32 amA German film crew have been in the Museum this week, filming the mummy of Asru with Moving Asru from the gallery Professor Rosalie David for a short film to be shown in October on German TV, and also to make footage for a longer film on phramacy and medicine in ancient Egypt, showing how the analysis of mummies can help us find out more about life in ancient Egypt. On Tuesday evening, we removed Asru from her case and took her out of her coffins. She spent the evening in Conservation, and the following morning was transported to the KNH-Cenre for Biomedical and Forensic Egyptology where…
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Electronic Museum
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Managing and growing a cultural heritage web presence
6 Nov 2009 | 4:24 amI’m absolutely delighted (and only slightly scared) to announce that I’ve been commissioned to write a book for Facet Publishing. Ever since I started working with museums online, I’ve felt that there is a need for strategic advice to help managers of cultural heritage web presences. There are of course hundreds of thousands of resources if you’ve got technical questions, but not many places where you can ask things like “how should I build my web team and structure my budget?” or “how do I write a strategy or business plan?”. Facet approached… -
Museum in a day
19 Oct 2009 | 6:49 amI’m delighted to announce the beginning of what I hope will be an exciting (and useful!) mini-project. Museuminaday is a concept which Dan Zambonini and I have come up with to support our workshop “The Lightweight Museum” at the DISH conference in December. Hopefully the name should do most of the work in explaining what museuminaday is about: we intend to build a museum website in 12 hours, start to finish, documenting the techniques we use and the things we discover along the way. Most of the work will happen during a single day (2nd November 2009 – and we’ll… -
“Can I find it on Google?”
16 Oct 2009 | 5:52 amLet’s ask this: Just what do museum website users want? Actually, before we do that, the biggest question is “who is our audience?”. Wait. Before we do that, let’s assume that – what – 70-80% of museum website users want to find out some logistical stuff: “what’s on? how do I get there? how much is it?”. Let’s assume that this bit is solved with a page or two of dull but useful information. Let’s ignore the 70-80%. They’re boring. There’s only so much you can do with a map and some opening times, right? Now… -
Many me
7 Oct 2009 | 4:36 amI first joined Twitter in 2007. In fact, if www.whendidyoujointwitter.com is correct, I joined on 20th February 2007. My first account was @dmje. I tweeted in that way that everyone seems to first tweet – a sporadic few “just what the hell is this Twitter thing all about?” followed by a long gap, followed by a re-emergence as more people I knew found themselves on it. I also, of course, blogged (“All Noise, No Signal“) and have been slowly eating my words (some of them, not all) ever since. For a long time, my @dmje account worked well. But after a while, I… -
The whole NPG / Wikimedia thing
15 Jul 2009 | 2:11 amThere’s acres and acres of stuff to read and write about the whole National Portrait Gallery legal action threat against Wikimedia contributor Dcoetzee and his addition to the Wikimedia collection. I’m not going to try and add to the noise too much but it would seem apposite to at least comment given my current thread of presentations and posts is all about freedom, openness and MRD. As always (just like the argument currently brewing about Free), there are two possible dangers in any debate like this. First, we go into too much detail and lose the view of the house because…
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Exploratorium Explainers
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Pilots Hub
6 Nov 2009 | 5:16 pmHey Explainers, I just invited you (over email) to the Pilots Hub, an online international Explainer community. It’s like a facebook for Explainers. Whether you decide to join or not, it’s a cool place to check out- there are discussions on demos, photos, and videos from Explainers all over the world (mostly Europe right now). If you want to, you can make your own profile and you can blog there. http://pilots-hub.ning.com/ -
We’re not the only ones turning 40
5 Nov 2009 | 12:07 amAs the Exploratorium prepares to celebrate our 40th anniversary this weekend, I recently discovered (through a google headline made of big bird’s legs) that we are in elite company as Sesame Street also turns the big four-oh the same weekend. I know that the show was one of my first educational experiences and if you don’t remember how great it was, take a trip down memory lane with these classic clips. -
Size and Scale
3 Nov 2009 | 10:26 pmCheck out this Prezi-like graphic that Alicia sent in an e-mail that explores size and scale. While nano days flashcards are pretty fundus, this is super cool. -
Showdown
3 Nov 2009 | 10:22 pmCheck our the article that was in the New York Times today about the differences between the Exploratorium and the Cal Academy of Sciences. It’s nice to hear some of our values articluated in a way that contrasts with more traditional museums and science institutions. Edward Roststein writes “Oppenheimer created a palace of experiments, a conceptual playground in which it is impossible not to be engaged, amazed, frustrated or amused. You learn principles but are not told how you must use them. You are given a sense of interconnected phenomena, but are not directed to behave in a… -
Hey Buddies
7 Oct 2009 | 6:35 pmI miss you all! Magic Tricks on Daily Show Yesterday
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Indianapolis Museum of Art
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“Goodnight Garden” (sincere apologies to Margaret Wise Brown)
6 Nov 2009 | 6:59 amIn the great green garden-room There was an elephant ear alocasia And some blue and white balloon flowers ….” Brilliant red of the native sourwood tree with the clear yellow of Photinia in the background. IMA/Oldfields border garden near orchard. Arisaema and sourwood leaves It has been a long gentle slide through a beautiful autumn here in the gardens. Cool sunny days and no heavy rain storms meant outstanding leaf color on trees and shrubs around the campus. But the bright yellow has now fallen from the sugar maple outside the Deer-Zink Pavilion, the needles of the great… -
Dancing with Choreographer Oguri
5 Nov 2009 | 4:43 amThis Saturday, November 7, choreographer Oguri and the L.A.-based dance company Body Weather Laboratory bring Caddy! Caddy! Caddy! to The Toby. Named for a character in William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and The Fury, the performance features slow movements drawn from the modern Japanese art of Butoh. In the interview below, Oguri puts his work in context. Interview with Oguri What’s your mission, or hope, as an artist? Dance. Basically I feel inspired to dance. I began dancing with Body Weather and Tatsumi Hijikata’s work, but it was not to learn a kind of tradition or to be a… -
This Saturday, I Dare You to Come
4 Nov 2009 | 6:56 amLast Sunday, The Toby overflowed with thirsty fans lapping up the sounds of edgy string quartet Osso and Bloomington-based songster DM Stith, with his sweet voice and dark ideas. They also couldn’t stop watching The BQE, the first film by musician Sufjan Stevens, who jammed the screen with a triptych of imagery in homage to a crazy traffic artery in New York called the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. I had to be the one to stand at the Toby doors and turn people away for this sold-out show – I hated doing so and was very bad at it. A full house (Photo by IMA Photography Dept.) Osso (Photo by… -
Transparency and Museums – Walking the Talk Part 1
3 Nov 2009 | 3:00 amOne of the things I’ve been proud of during my time here at the IMA is the museum’s commitment to institutional transparency. It’s always just made sense to me to concentrate on doing the right thing first, and then sharing as much as possible with others. (See, Mom… I wasn’t tuning you out all those years) If you’ve followed this blog for very long, you’ve probably heard us talk about the IMA’s Dashboard a time or two. Well, it’s hard to believe, but the Dashboard turned two years old in October! I thought this would be a… -
The Pharmacy
2 Nov 2009 | 6:59 amThe Pharmacy prescribes the following links to combat Monday online anemia. Blog: Vogel Appliance Blog Flashy? No. Practical? Oh yes. If you’ve ever wondered how much dish soap you really need, this blog is for you. This local appliance blog gives you tips and tricks that might help you save serious moolah come the winter season. And it’s coming soon. ArtBabble Video: Jean Shin: Common Threads Artist Jean Shin and Curator Joanna Marsh discuss the exhibition Jean Shin: Common Threads at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Topics include: new work commissioned by the American Art…
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Museum Anthropology
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Staff Curator (Museum Management)
6 Nov 2009 | 1:19 pmThe U.S. Department of the Interior is in search of a candidate to become a Staff Curator (Museum Management) for the Office of Acquisition and Property Management’s Interior Museum Program. If you have comprehensive knowledge of museum and collection management practices and standards, then this could be the job for you!If selected, you will be working for the U.S. Department of the Interior, -
Research Fellowship in Museum Anthropology
4 Nov 2009 | 8:26 amThe Bard Graduate Center and the American Museum of Natural History announce a Research Fellowship in Museum Anthropology. The fellowship provides support to a postdoctoral investigator to carry out a specific project over a two-year period. The program is designed to advance the training of the participant by having her/him pursue a project in association with a curator in the Division of -
Museum Anthropology Re-Design
2 Nov 2009 | 1:03 pmThis spring, the Council for Museum Anthropology's Board of Directors voted to approve funding for a complete design overhaul of Museum Anthropology. Below is a sneak peak at the near-completed re-design. Many thanks to the CMA Board and the journal's new Editorial Board for all their input and advice! -
Threats to World Heritage Sites
27 Oct 2009 | 3:02 pmA release of the 2010 World Monuments Fund list of global architectural treasures at risk from urban development, tourism, neglect and bad planning. The latest list comprises 93 sites in 47 countries, including ancient structures but also 15 that were built in the 20th century and are already deemed endangered classics. -
The Repatriation Card
24 Oct 2009 | 8:40 amThe New York Times' Michael Kimmelman consistently writes against repatriation; he is back at it with "When Ancient Artifacts Become Political Pawns," published today, focusing on recent Egyptian repatriation claims. In particular, he suggests that the claims by Egypt’s chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, are a kind of political payback for election loss of the Egyptian culture minister, Farouk
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Museum Exhibit and Design News
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100″ Multitouch Table Exhibit Exploring The Electromagnetic Spectrum
28 Oct 2009 | 11:12 amThis week we are installing a number of new technology-based exhibits for the Wonders of the Universe | Space Chase Gallery exhibition at Adventure Science Center in Nashville, Tennessee. One the exhibits we collaborated on includes a large-scale multitouch table that allows visitors to explore and learn about the Electromagnetic Spectrum in new ways. Taking advantage of a super-wide screen format, we’ve created a digital representation of the EM Spectrum from radio waves to gamma rays. Visitors can move images across the table to see how they are imaged in each waveform and… -
A View of the Moon from Chaco Culture National Park
12 Oct 2009 | 10:51 amLast week, I was part of a group of amateur astronomers who attempted to capture NASA’s LCROSS mission impact from Chaco Canyon. As I mentioned in a post early last week, I first tried my hand at astrophotography the weekend before the event. The photograph below, we taken just after the spacecraft impact early in the morning on October 7th. Unfortunately, the event was not visible from any of our telescopes. (You’ll have to visit NASA’s LCROSS site to see the effects of the impact.) A full-resolution version of this image is available on Ideum’s Flickr site. -
Ideum Featured in Trend Magazine
7 Oct 2009 | 9:20 amIdeum is featured in latest issue of Santa Fe’s Trend Magazine. ”Trend explores and celebrates the unique and fascinating intermingling of cultural influences, tradition, and innovation in art, architecture, and design—in Santa Fe, the Southwest, and beyond.” We are in the Business Profiles section and the article talks about our multitouch table and other interactive exhibits. You can see the article here. -
Best Use of Web 2.0 – New Media Award
5 Oct 2009 | 12:35 pmWe just learned that the KQED Quest website won the Best Use of Web 2.0 / New Media Award at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. We worked closely with the KQED Quest team to develop this site which makes extensive use of Google Maps and Flickr photos. You can visit the KQED Quest Website or learn more about the project on the Ideum portfolio site. Other finalists in the category were Expedition: Blue Planet, Save Our Seas, and Wild Earth. -
Viewing the Moon from Chaco Canyon
5 Oct 2009 | 11:26 amChaco Culture National Historic Park is a great place for amateur astronomy. Its remote location, climate, altitude and facilities have made it a popular destination for night sky viewing. This weekend I was lucky enough to try my hand at astrophotography. Having (literally) photographed nearly every place in Chaco Canyon over the last decade (see Traditions of the Sun) it seemed natural to try to point my camera skyward. The photograph below is my first attempt at astrophotography. Early Friday morning at 5AM, I’ll be trying again. I’m hoping to capture NASA’s LCROSS impact…
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Elkhart County Historical Museum
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Historical Society Annual Meeting
5 Nov 2009 | 8:35 amThe Elkhart County Historical Society will hold its annual meeting on Sunday, November 8th at 2:00pm. The meeting will take place at the Elkhart County Historical Museum and will feature guest speaker Randy Ray, Executive Director of the Northern Indiana Center for History. The program will also include the election of persons to serve on the Historical Society’s Board of Directors, as well as unveil the museum’s busy 2010 event and exhibit schedule.Randy Ray’s speaking topic will discuss why history museums matter in a high tech world. With so much information available at our… -
Photos from the Barn Dance
26 Oct 2009 | 1:37 pmThese are some shots from our barn dance held on October 17th. Everyone from couples to families to friends gathered together in the auditorium and danced the night away to the tunes of the Barn Owl String Band. Caller Bev enthusiastically led the group through several fun contra dances that had just about everyone up and dancing the night away! -
Gathering at Five Medals
19 Oct 2009 | 11:22 amStep back in time at the Gathering at Five Medals, a reenactment about the history of the Midwest from the 1660s to 1815. The event will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday, October 24 – 25 at River Preserve County Park (next to Benton Elementary School on C.R. 31). Saturday the open hours are from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and on Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to wear walking shoes because the reenactment will cover several acres and includes some walking trails. The event is sponsored by the Elkhart County Historical Society, Elkhart County Parks, David… -
Mapping Elkhart County Officially Opens
6 Oct 2009 | 11:16 amThe ECHM had its grand opening of its latest temporary exhibit last weekend. Everyone had a great time as they viewed the exhibit, munched on treats, chatted with friends, and listened to music by pianist Denny Olsen. If you haven't seen the exhibit yet, come and check it out!The cutting of the ribbon to officially open the exhibit. Elkhart County Historical Society members enjoying the refreshments while they chat and listen to the music.Visitors using a magnifying glass to get a better look at the great detail on some of the early maps.Museum volunteer Wanda Hoffman examines a plat map of… -
Mapping Elkhart County
24 Sep 2009 | 1:24 pmLocal history enthusiasts will not want to miss the upcoming maps exhibit at the Elkhart County Historical Museum. 30 seldom before-seen maps from the Historical Society collection will be displayed from October 2 at 4:30 p.m. – March 5, 2010 in the museum’s temporary exhibit gallery.“Our temporary exhibit program is intended to highlight special items in the collection, but also tell a story about Elkhart County’s fascinating history,” says Museum Director Nick Hoffman.The map exhibit will undoubtedly convey interesting pieces of local history.Elkhart’s earliest known plat map…
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Exhibit Files Blog
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Heart warming
3 Nov 2009 | 4:40 amThe Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology in Oslo received ASTC’s Leading Edge Award for Visitor Experience last week for Klima X, an exhibition about human-induced climate change. Among the exhibition’s striking features: large blocks of melting ice that represent the melting Arctic icecap, and the yellow boots vistors put on before they enter. Jon Haavie shared a case study of the exhibition on ExhibitFiles in March. Jon encourages us all to visit before the exhibition closes December 31. Congratulations, Jon! -
Pure gold
31 Oct 2009 | 9:25 amExhibitFiles members gathered in Forth Worth October 30 to celebrate the growth of the community and its collective resources over the last year. Tom Nielsen of Tucson and Jason Jay Stevens of San Antonio received this year’s “golden” awards in recognition of their recent contributions. Tom wrote in July about his recollections of soap bubble exhibits at the Exploratorium. “‘Exploratorium’, I think, nails it—exploration for the joy of it, up to your elbows in soapy water, shoulder to shoulder with other visitors. If there are discoveries, if there is… -
ExhibitFiles in Fort Worth
16 Oct 2009 | 10:03 amIf you’ll be in Fort Worth for the ASTC Annual Conference, please come to the ExhibitFiles Happy Hour on Friday, October 30, 5:00-6:30 pm, at Shula’s Bar, in the lobby of the Sheraton Fort Worth Hotel (cash bar). We’ll be recognizing some of the outstanding contributors to the site over the last year. KC Cole, author of the recent biography of Exploratorium founder Frank Oppenheimer, also will be there to give a signed copy of her book to an ExhibitFiles member who’s helped keep Frank’s memory alive in a post on the site. Between now and then, we hope you’ll… -
Remembering Frank
27 Jul 2009 | 11:53 amA new biography of Frank Oppenheimer by K.C. Cole is out this summer, just in time for the Exploratorium’s 40th anniversary. We invite the ExhibitFiles community to help celebrate – and to take time to revisit and reflect on Frank Oppenheimer’s exhibit philosophy and practice. Over the next three months, contribute a case study or review of an exhibit that was developed by Frank himself, or in his spirit. Then on October 30, at the ExhibitFiles Happy Hour at the ASTC Annual Conference in Fort Worth, we’ll recognize the most highly rated contributor with a copy of… -
NAME journal available online
7 Jul 2009 | 4:17 pmEric Siegel, president of NAME (the National Association for Museum Exhibition here in the United States), writes with news that back issues of the NAME journal (The Exhibitionist) are now available for download on the NAME website. While NAME is generously making this material available to all, new issues will still only be available to NAME members. Gretchen Jennings, an early contributor to ExhibitFiles, is editor of The Exhibitionist.
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Exhibitricks
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I (almost) lost my voice ...
6 Nov 2009 | 6:29 amIn both a physical and metaphorical way, I (almost) lost my voice during the recent ASTC conference (the international gathering of science center folks.) My laryngitis is mostly better now, but I'm still mulling over why I felt like there were more hucksters and monument-builders dominating the conversation at the conference than usual. Is it the effects of the poor economy, or an inexorable shift in the science center field itself? It was a little sad to be surrounded by so many people (in presumably the same business as me) who seemed completely willing to rationalize bringing any… -
Kathy McLean's Exhibit Manifesto
1 Nov 2009 | 10:25 pmKathy McLean wants you to help create a revolution in exhibition design. And she has issued her manifesto. Kathy gave a thoughtful presentation the other day during the Pecha Kucha session at the 2009 ASTC conference. You can see an earlier version of her talk entitled "Manifesto for the (r)Evolution of Museum Exhibitions" on this webpage. Kathy has hurled some great challenges to exhibit developers and designers like "strive for mutations" and "work smaller" but during her Pecha Kucha presentation she has also challenged all exhibit developers and designers to add to her… -
Happy ASTC Halloween!
28 Oct 2009 | 6:05 amThe international "gathering of the clans" of science center folks called the ASTC Annual Conference starts in Fort Worth this Saturday. Which as my four children have repeatedly reminded me is Halloween. So here is a great "trick or treat" (without the trick!) opportunity for any intrepid ExhibiTricks readers who will be in Fort Worth --- I've got several decks of Harry White's Exhibit Aphorism cards (kindly provided by Harry) to give away. To find out how to snag your own free deck, just keep reading .... Here's an excerpt from a previous ExhibiTricks interview with Harry about… -
Exhibit Design Inspiration: The Dyson Air Multiplier
24 Oct 2009 | 10:02 amA classic science center exhibit involves a lightweight ball or balloon trapped in a fast-flowing stream of air to demonstrate (ostensibly) the Bernoulli effect. However most fans or blowers are loud, and involve blades that don't respond well to pencils, visitor's fingers, and other foreign objects. Enter Sir James Dyson's latest invention, The Air Multiplier --- which basically is a "bladeless" fan that sends out a smooth continuous stream of air as opposed to traditional "bladed" fans that send out choppy bursts of air. (Sir James explains it all in this video.) While the Dyson… -
Museum Mission Pop Quiz (First In A Series)
21 Oct 2009 | 2:16 pmPop Quiz: Do the two statements below belong together? Why or why not? STATEMENT 1: The Mission of the Museum of Science: The Museum's mission is to play a leading role in transforming the nation's relationship with science and technology. This role becomes ever more important as science and technology shape and reshape our lives and world, and it means we: Promote active citizenship informed by the world of science and technology Inspire lifelong appreciation of the importance and impact of science and engineering Encourage young people of all backgrounds to explore and develop their…
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Digital Heritage
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CfP Museums and Restitution
21 Oct 2009 | 3:00 pmMuseums and Restitution is a two-day international conference organised by the Centre for Museology and The Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester. The conference examines the issue of restitution in relation to the changing role and authority of the museum, focussing on new ways in which these institutions are addressing the subject. Restitution is one of the most emotive and complex issues facing the museum world in the twenty first century. Its current high profile reflects changing global power relations and the increasingly vocal criticisms of the historical concentration of… -
‘Manchester on Display’ Exhibitions – The Video
6 Jul 2009 | 8:33 amThe video of the ‘Manchester on Display’ student exhibitions 2008-9 is now available. MA students in Art Gallery & Museum Studies curated four exhibitions on the theme of ‘Manchester’ in the Museology showcase in the foyer of the Mansfield Cooper Building. Each exhibition was up for a week from November to December 2008. Images of the installations are also available on Flickr. -
Agents of Cultural Change
20 Apr 2009 | 3:42 amby Angelina Russo* (Visiting Blogger) Who or what are the agents of cultural change for the cultural institution sector? Over the past 20 years, the communication of cultural materials has undergone a number of transformations: - early shifts from single institution, building-bound collections to first generation online cultural networks: CHIN, CAN, The European Library - recognition of the need to link content to communities through compelling stories; the development of second generation cultural networks which incorporate user innovation. Culture Victoria, NMOLP - third generation: shift… -
Fieldtrip to Churchill Museum
8 Apr 2009 | 12:05 pmHello everyone, and sorry for the delay. As you can see, instead of wasting time on a nice walk in the park and the first sunbathe of the year I am using the Eastern break to play catch up with writing and laboriously forge texts for the profit of the others and myself. In the beginning, I will remind you all the aim of this post: almost a month ago we visited Churchill Museum and, by the chance, adjacent Cabinet War Rooms. Thus, I would like to share some of my personal feelings, and if you will find below something deserving any notice, to spark further discussion. The first observation… -
The River Song in a Winter Day
1 Apr 2009 | 4:24 pmNothing to do with museums or digital heritage; just wanted to share those videos by two friends back in my home city Trikala. Yannis is in the videos; Kostas is behind them. Great stuff guys!
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Digital Campus
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Episode 46 – Theremin Dreams
28 Oct 2009 | 5:43 pmHow and why do a critical mass of people adopt new technologies such as virtual worlds or the Theremin? That’s just one of the issues we discuss on a freewheeling podcast featuring another two “irregulars,” Steve Ramsey and Bryan Alexander. The news roundup includes an analysis of the Nook and the Droid, among other oddly-named devices, and an exploration of what real-time search could do for researchers. Running time: 54:10 Download the .mp3 -
Episode 45 – Wave Hello
13 Oct 2009 | 5:51 pmWhile Dan is distracted and rendered unintelligent by his first experience with Google Wave, Mills, Tom, and newcomer Lisa Spiro manage to have a cogent discussion of whether Wave will have any (positive) impact on education, update the ongoing Google Books saga, examine Chrome within Internet Explorer, highlight the Kindle underperforming on campus, debate the FTC’s ruling on bloggers accepting gifts (including university presses giving free books to bloggers), and look at advance of net neutrality. Picks of the podcast include a wiki for seeing into the future, an assessment of… -
Episode 44 – Unsettled
30 Sep 2009 | 8:38 amIn this installment of Digital Campus, we couldn’t decide if we were happy with Google or mad at Google. Tom, Dan, and Mills were so confused about our feelings on the whole Google issue that we invited two new “irregulars” to join us — Jeff McClurken and Amanda French — but they proved to be just as unsettled as we were. Even though they didn’t help us much on our core problem, we enjoyed having them on the show so much that we’ve decided to ask them back on the show again along with some other irregulars to be named later. All five of us also… -
Episode 43 – Summer Wrap-up
14 Sep 2009 | 12:07 pmThe Digital Campus team is delighted to be back after a summer hiatus with a new podcast covering the many important developments from the past few months related to academia, libraries, museums, and technology. We cover and make pointed (and occasionally wisecracking) commentary upon the status of the Google Books settlement, ebook readers, and cameras on student devices, among other topics. We also cover shiny new things like Google Wave, RSSCloud, and PubSubHubbub. Picks include a new blog, an article on the future of journals, and how to take command of the command line. We’re… -
Episode 42 – The Real World
21 May 2009 | 10:17 amDan and Mills welcome Tom back from paternity leave with a whirlwind roundup of the last month’s news. The regulars try to keep it real, exposing a scandal in scientific journal publishing, assessing the buzz surrounding the launch of a new computational search engine, questioning recent applications of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and delving once again into the Google Books settlement and some late breaking developments at the University of Michigan Library. Other links mentioned on the podcast: Cohen and Rosenzweig, Web of Lies? Historical Knowledge on the Internet U.S.
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Blog @ the Nelson-Atkins
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Southwestern Explorations
3 Nov 2009 | 9:39 amGallery 214 is unique. The space is hall-like. It is relatively narrow, long, and muted in color. The works of art are often smaller, which I have learned is typical of the predominant media represented: lithographs, pastels, etchings and woodcuts. The sizes of earlier prints, particularly those of the 19th and early 20th centuries (pre-1945), were quite likely dictated by available materials, the desire to sell or distribute reproductions, or the desire to create more intimate viewing experiences. I have been told that some contemporary print artists (for example, Tom Huck) are experimenting… -
Hallowed Ground
29 Oct 2009 | 11:05 amWorking at an art museum requires a certain level of creativity. Whether it is in the way we present the collection, put on an event or even how we direct people to the restrooms, we like to think of the most interesting way to do it. Every year, we have an employee Halloween party and I must say, every year I am so impressed with the level of individual creativity and skill found in my group of co-workers. There are always a few folks who create elaborate interpretations of pieces of art in the Museum collection. See the above homage to Claes Oldenburg's Soft Switches from 1964. Vincent van… -
Noguchi Rocks On
27 Oct 2009 | 1:26 pmIf you saw the recent entry about Museum volunteers helping the conservation team clean the Noguchi Fountain, you may have thought the job was finished. It turns out the plumbing system that helps drain and recirculate the water needed some attention. Once again, volunteers removed and cleaned ALL of the rocks. When that was finished, they turned their attention to the grates under the rocks. The metal pieces were thoroughly scrubbed with an ethonal solution to kill any living organisms that were present. Below you can see volunteers Dean Dixon and Michael Mullarky using toothbrushes to… -
Breaking Through Ceramics
21 Oct 2009 | 1:13 pmOne of the luxuries of working at the Museum is the opportunity to daily challenge my preconceived notions of art. In the interest of cracking the "code" of ceramics, I made it one of my missions this week to seriously consider the ceramic works of art in the featured exhibition, Asian Influence on American Ceramics. Kenneth Ferguson’s Four-Legged Vessel, 2004 is prominently placed. It is large, green and contains rabbit and turtle imagery. Rabbit heads face upward and their ears cover the vessel legs. I am aware that rabbits play an important role in Asian mythology, and are assigned… -
Why Textiles?
13 Oct 2009 | 12:52 pmTaking a moment to consider the current Nelson-Atkins textiles exhibition Worldy Luxuries: Repetition in Renaissance Textiles was a rewarding part of my week. Gallery P6, or The Treasury, is small and securely tucked into the European galleries and P7’s Cloister. The objects in Gallery P6, including the current exhibition's textiles, embody a piece of glitz and glamour 15th-17th century style. Many of the objects are religiously oriented, and all objects are delicately engraved and embossed. Visitors are transported to a period of elaborate reverence and given access to objects that few…
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COGAPP
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All together now
30 Oct 2009 | 8:03 amIt seems like only days ago that I was writing a post about search engines and social recommendation, and that’s because it was only days ago. Since then – decades in internet time – some interesting developments have taken place. The hype around real-time search, particularly focussed on everyone’s favourite micro-blogging service, has certainly caused the major search engines to take note. The power of real-time data, most obviously encapsulated in Twitter’s trending topics, seems to prove itself weekly (or, if you like, instantly). At the core of my previous… -
Internal Digest 9
20 Oct 2009 | 4:31 amNow that I’ve got your attention, it’s time for a rundown of musings from the corridors of Cogapp in our latest and greatest Internal Digest. Aside from the surfing dog above from Tristan, here’s what else has been captivating the collective Cogapp mind of late: Joe dug deep into the back-end of Google Maps, scouring miles of code and a nigh on infinite amount of pictures to find the deeply hidden algorithm that reveals how Google Street View works according to Google Japan:Click here to view the embedded video.Sam, meanwhile, was too busy practicing his pool technique to be… -
Mountain TTOP
15 Oct 2009 | 8:08 amTo those of you looking for Top of the Pops who have come to this blog-post accidentally I say “fret not wandering searcher”, for you have stumbled upon a treasure far more substantial than the much-mourned TOTP. You have stumbled upon Cogapp’s TTOP: Tech Tuesday Outreach Program. Firstly, let’s a get a bit of background out of the way. Tech Tuesday is a fortnightly occurrence here at Cogapp central. The Technical Department gather round Japanese food in our conference room and discuss all manner of tech related trivia, from iPhones to ICONS and anything else… -
i-Design, u-Design, we-Design
13 Oct 2009 | 7:10 amA few weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend i-Design, a one day conference and showcase for anyone with an interest or passion for interactive design and the digital arts. The programme certainly lived up to its aims as I came away truly inspired and entertained as well as being somewhat perplexed too! The day kicked off with a panel debate centred around the idea of ‘Post Digital’ asking the question, ‘If everything is digital, then what’s next?’ In a world where everything references digital media, how does our industry need to respond? This was a fascinating insight… -
Pech-app Cake-cha 2: Revenge of the Pecha Kucha
12 Oct 2009 | 1:47 amLike a traveling salesman making his rounds, Pech-app Cake-cha rolled back into Cogapp town this week. Hot on the heels of last month’s successful Cake Thursday/Pecha Kucha hybrid, we once again sat down in out seats, picked up our forks, opened our ears and readied ourselves for 2400 seconds of joy! First up to the stand this time around was resident User Experience Consultant Cathy. Giving a presentation on the CERN Common Control Centre and some work she conducted there before she joined Cogapp, Cathy’s talk taught us all a little about physics, a lot about user-centred…
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And Did Those Feet
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Interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist
4 Nov 2009 | 3:25 amThis is an interview with the famous curator who is now at the Serpentine. Thanks to Evi for the link.artfacts.net: News: Artfacts.Net Interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Centenary of Bermondsey suffragette protest
4 Nov 2009 | 3:07 amThis is a report of a piece of direct action by a Suffragette who attacked ballot papers in the local elections. She accidently poured acid over one of the tellers harming his sight.Centenary of Bermondsey suffragette protest [28 October 2009] -
Dickens 2012 Bicentenary
4 Nov 2009 | 2:00 am2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' Birthday in Portsmouth. There is going to be a big celebration which I guess will encompass London, Chatham, Broadstairs, Portsmouth and all other Dickensenian places.I hope I'm going to be doing a Dickens tour for Elderhostel/exploratas.Facebook | Dickens 2012 Bicentenary -
love letters Project by Asia Wong
27 Oct 2009 | 3:47 am300 loveletters written to strangers - lovely project by Asia Wong pointed out by Nicole:love letters -
Interiors - Valeria Hedman - rising star
26 Oct 2009 | 3:59 pmDesign week has nominated an ex-student - Valeria Hedman as a 'rising star' of the design industry. She and her partner Falko designed my book 'In their Own Words'Interiors - Valeria Hedman | Features | Design Week
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Artiflection
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Michigan Capitol and Detroit Institute of the Arts
26 Oct 2009 | 2:51 pmI can say now with conviction that there's no better time to visit the Michigan Capitol than on a rainy day with 25 parochial-school 4th-graders from ultra-rural Beal City. Accompanied by a good friend from California, I tagged along on a tour given by a retired special-education teacher who excellently maintained control and interest of both the students and the adults. Together, we learned that the current Michigan Capitol, a grand, neoclassical domed structure, completed in 1878, is the third capitol to house the Michigan legislature. The first capitol was located in Detroit. A new… -
Mackinac Island
11 Oct 2009 | 4:48 amIt's the dawning of my second full day on Mackinac Island in Lake Huron where Michigan's mitten meets the upper peninsula, connected by the thin, but elegant filament of the Mackinac Bridge. Mackinac Island is Michigan's most popular tourist destination; it's been in the trade since the mid-19th century and has managed to maintain its niche through a unique mix of historical interpretation, natural beauty and family-oriented resort attractions.Mackinac Island is small, only 9 miles in circumference, and expresses a unified self-awareness spanning over a century. In the 1890s, shortly after… -
MSU Museum, Botanical Garden and Travellers' Club
28 Sep 2009 | 1:29 pmMy apologies for not posting sooner-- the past month has indeed been taken up with moving to my new home in Haslett, Michigan. Luckily, through the providence of visiting relatives, I have a had a chance to explore a few of the steadfast institutions in the area, although I have yet to experience the more turbulent and controversial Michigan Historical Center, currently undergoing reorganization.The MSU Museum is your classic university natural and cultural history institution although uniquely a Smithsonian affiliate. Although the 1980s evolution timeline in the basement along with a rather… -
The High Line
4 Aug 2009 | 6:51 amI made my inaugural trip up to the High Line on the west side of New York City last Saturday night. I'd like to return around sunset some time in early fall. This elevated-railroad-turned-urban-greenspace is a place like none other. Its creators thoughtfully populated the natural contours of the railroad bed with native flora and constructed spaces for casual relaxation beside the promenade using the remnant rails and slatted wood.In addition to its artistic attention to detail, the High Line seems to embody the uniquely New York desire to occupy a place in a new way, to adjust perception in… -
Woman of Letters at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
25 Jun 2009 | 7:59 amIf you haven't gone yet, you should definitely check out Woman of Letters at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. If you go, though, I strongly recommend that you read Suite Francaise. The exhibit is more of a companion piece than a stand-alone experience. Plus, I think Nemirovsky's writings are in conversation with the curatorial voice of the exhibition in an interesting way...The exhibition derives its power from the artifacts of everyday life-- salvaged letters, a water-logged valise and the bureaucratic documents that so brutally recorded the movement of prisoners from precincts to…
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How Learning Comes in to Play
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Continuing to Support Families
30 Oct 2009 | 7:15 amIn previous posts, we shared stories about the Wakanheza Project, launched at the Museum a year ago. This past week we revisited some of the principles and tips that help to support an adult visitor in the Museum. Our morning meeting was used to discuss how to apply Wakanheza tips such as using empathy and non-judgment, offering verbal encouragement, and appreciating the job of parenting by -
Supporting Families and Children
23 Oct 2009 | 7:30 amThe mission of the Museum has always been about supporting the adult-child learning partnership. Last year we took our mission one step further and embraced the Wakanheza Project. Wakanheza is the Dakota word for child, literally translated it means "sacred being." The central focus of this project supports the idea that if we regard children as "sacred beings" and if our actions reflect this, -
Lending a Hand to Parents
15 Oct 2009 | 8:55 amThe Scenario You are a parent visiting DuPage Children's Museum. It seems like it's been raining forever, so a trip to the Museum is a good plan. The boys build an elaborate structure with blocks. "Wow," you think, "one of them might just become an architect." As your thoughts drift to their future, you suddenly realize the boys have disappeared. You feel your anger rising as you begin searching -
An Early Introduction to the Performing Arts
2 Oct 2009 | 7:45 amOur new Interact with Art Gallery, The Play's the Thing, has been open for almost a month! Visitors explore the dramatic arts and stretch their imaginations through the use of props, set designs, puppets, costumes and storybooks. For younger children, this exhibit spurs ideas for pretend play. For older children, who are ready for or excited to try a performance, the gallery provides a venue for -
Finding Science in Play
25 Sep 2009 | 7:30 amHumans are Born CuriousPick up a dropped spoon for an infant in a high chair and suddenly the classic game "I drop it and you pick it up" becomes a lesson about cause and effect, a basic scientific principle. When the baby shakes a rattle, he makes the discovery that the rattle produces a sound. He shakes it again; the sound happens again. The infant is learning to make predictions, another
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Museum Collections Up Close
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Conserving Minnesota’s Battle Flags
3 Nov 2009 | 3:37 pmThe Minnesota Historical Society recently began a project to conserve several Civil War and Spanish American War battle flags. Doug Bekke, Assistant to the Textile Conservator, explains the painstaking process of examining and treating each of these historic banners. -
Preserving Death: Funerary Objects
19 Oct 2009 | 3:17 pmWe get into the Halloween spirit with a podcast on death-related objects in the Society’s collection. Curator Matt Anderson provides an overview of changing funeral customs, and then shares a look at a casket, a hearse, tombstones, and more. -
Good Government through Digital Infrastructure and Preservation
8 Oct 2009 | 10:54 amThrough the Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) the Minnesota Historical Society and its partners are developing a way to preserve and provide access to the digital records of state legislatures. Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and Robert Horton, Minnesota Historical Society’s Director [...] -
The Ferrell Collection: Cataloging and Photography
9 Sep 2009 | 3:09 pmCollections Assistants Jane Wong and John Fulton discuss their efforts to catalog and photograph more than 3,000 different objects in the Richard Ferrell Flour Milling Industry History Collection. The size of the collection, together with some of the unusual items it contained, presented special challenges. You can learn more about the collection from Mr. Ferrell [...] -
The Biggest Thing in the Collection
6 Aug 2009 | 9:16 amOne of our most frequently asked questions is, What is the biggest thing in the Society’s collection? Objects Curator Matt Anderson provides the answer in this podcast. It certainly stands out - even among the various cars, boats and wagons in the collection.
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Museum Marketing
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Museums on Twitter – Nov 09
4 Nov 2009 | 9:52 amFor the sixth month I have looked at museums on Twitter and the number of people following them, the latest research can be downloaded here. There are now 654 institutions on the list with 808,750 people following them. -
Twitter dance?
28 Oct 2009 | 7:12 amYesterday I mentioned the Twitter Opera and the large amount of press coverage that it had generated for the Royal Opera House, today I discovered something similar using dance. The Dance Workshop Theatre ask their Twitter followers to send them a movement which they then choreograph in to one dance and film. This seems like a nice, fun way to engage with their audience on Twitter. This seems to me like an inventive way for The Dance Workshop Theatre to build links with their audiences, and I am sure it will be more effective then just using Twitter to advertise performances. -
This man
28 Oct 2009 | 3:46 amOne of the interesting ideas to come out of the MuseumNext workshops that we ran last week came from Ferry Piekart of NAi in the Netherlands. He was trying to create a buzz around an exhibition and his conclusion was to create a marketing campaign that suggested a mystery existed, and that not knowing what the campaign was about would keep the buzz going. In the paper this morning I noticed something similar. ‘Is this the man of your dreams’ the headline reads before outlining the story of a new website trying to trace a mysterious man who has ‘appeared in hundreds of… -
Opening the stage to a new audience
27 Oct 2009 | 7:43 amI think this is a lovely use of Twitter, not only to engage new audiences, but also as a promotional tool. Just how much is the press coverage that this idea generated worth to the Royal Opera House? -
Upcoming talks
26 Oct 2009 | 1:50 pmI will be delivering a number of keynotes in the next two months, and in preparation I have cleared my diary as much as possible over the next few weeks to order my latest thinking on how the expectations of arts audiences are changing and how museums should respond and are responding. If you are attending one of the following conferences, be sure to come and say hello: Kom je ook? 3 – Amsterdam – 26 November 2009. AMA Digital marketing day – London – 30 November 2009. Museum Association, Social Media & Museums – London – 7 December 2009.
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Museum of Life + Science
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Big Word of the Month: Euthanasia
2 Nov 2009 | 5:14 pmThe big word of the month is a hard one to talk about. Euthanasia comes from Greek and means "good death". I doubt any two people can agree on what exactly a good death is, yet it is a discussion we have to have in the Animal Department from time to time. When an animal is ill and our veterinarians have run out of treatment strategies we have to consider quality of life issues. Deciding when an animal is suffering too much is not a precise, scientific process. Ultimately, we all have to rely on our experiences and feelings.One of the earliest posts we made on this blog was about our beloved… -
More Out of the Pocket Than in the Pocket of a Keeper: Volume the Third
30 Oct 2009 | 9:00 amFall is in the air at last(ish)! I really enjoy this time of year when everything is cooling down again (although in our case it's more like colding down and then heating up and then finally, maybe, cooling down a little, for now, if we're lucky and don't jinx it. Oops.). Regardless, October is definitely one of my favorite months because it's such a transition month (my other favorite month is March for the same reason. Have you heard the phrase "in like a lion, out like a lamb"? My birthday's also in March, so maybe that's why I'm partial to it...). There's a period of time in October where… -
Just friends?
30 Oct 2009 | 8:32 amHere's a little something that I walked in on the other day when we had one of the box turtles out on the floor for some exercise... -
Help an Animal Shelter
29 Oct 2009 | 11:22 amThe Animal Rescue Site is having a contest. They are awarding grants to pet shelters. You vote for your favorite animal shelter and they might just have enough votes to "win" some $. You can vote for whatever you want, but if you'd like to honor PIG or MISS PIGGY, you could vote for Pig Pals of NC. (Miss Piggy came to us from Pig Pals).Want to vote? Click here: help an animal shelter -
Spotlight: Queen Wilson
29 Oct 2009 | 6:35 amI had been planing to write this month's spotlight on our operant conditioning specialist who I mentioned several posts ago, or Jill Brown, the last of our animal keepers for you to learn about, but something happened today and I thought I would tell you about Queen. (The picture is purposefully not great as Queen was very upset when I said I would be posting about her on the Blog).Queen has been working at the Museum for OVER 28 YEARS! Queen has been helping me for years. She answers the phones, sorts the mail, orders supplies, and does just about anything anyone asks of her, AS LONG AS IT…
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Museum People
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4 Nov 2009 | 4:20 pm
4 Nov 2009 | 4:20 pmHi! I'm taking an archaeological ethics course and I'm doing a research project on the effects of eBay and online markets on archaeological sites and artifacts. I have created a really quick survey and if you could take it, it would really help me out! Thanks so much! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=oR4ppCPNbjPOn_2fjdUDTCgA_3d_3d -
4 Nov 2009 | 3:57 pm
4 Nov 2009 | 3:57 pmNow a month or two away from graduate admissions deadlines, I'm feeling more lost than I was before I started the search for schools, or even before I found employment in a museum. Getting a masters in Museum Studies feels like a risk. Venturing out in the job market without it feels like a risk. With a BA in Anthropology, I'm now employed part-time as a researcher and writer for a medical museum. Given our small staff, I've been more involved with exhibit design, conceptualization, and grant writing than I thought I'd be (When I was hired, I thought I'd just be the person to write the… -
thank you for the great advice
4 Oct 2009 | 7:32 amOne more question, i hope i'm not pestering you all too much. But, I need to do a five page research report on the careers you can get working at a museum and just what museology is in general and i was wondering if anyone could recommend any good books or actual intelligent websites that provide good information,history, or anything about museology and the careers? I just hate using google search engine for everything... And i am not a fan of sources like wikipedia... anyways thankyou all again. -
New here
4 Oct 2009 | 12:06 amHello, I am new here and was curious if anyone could help me?I am a senior in highschool was assigned to do a project on the so called, " dream career" I have chosen to do my project on Museology/ job oppertunities in working in museums. Part of the task includes interviewing someone actually in this feild of study/ works/interns or something at an actual Museum... I live in washington state...and I have to like call museums to set up interviews so i can ask them really actual intellectual and curious questions about the Museology feild of study and jobs. But, I am… -
Elginism / universal museum
30 Sep 2009 | 2:09 pmCan anyone help me find out who is the owner and developer of http://www.elginism.com? I've tried to look the pages through. I see the donate button, I see that the is only one person who is updating the blog... but who & what is he?I am writing an article on "crisis of the concept of universal museum" and I need to know at least the name...Cross-post to Elginism
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Museum Planner
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Voters Will Decide On Natural Science Center Bond
3 Nov 2009 | 6:02 pmBy Meghan Packer Posted November 2, 2009 Voters Will Decide On Natural Science Center Bond “Greensboro, NC — When voters head to the polls Tuesday, they’ll have a chance to vote for more than a mayor and city council members. They can also choose whether to support a $20 million bond referedum for the Natural Science Center.” -
Follow up to an Open Letter
2 Nov 2009 | 6:25 pmPhoto and project posted to Make Projects by Sean Michael Ragan By Mark Walhimer Bangkok, Thailand On Monday I posted an Open Letter about the creating an online database of Science Center exhibits. The more I think about the issue the more I realize that there is already an existing model; Maker Projects. I continue to believe the future of Science Centers is creating a Maker Faire like attitude. Maker Projects is an online listing of projects, the projects are submitted to Make Magazine and the editors select the projects to post. One thought would be to create a partnership with… -
Being Real
2 Nov 2009 | 4:36 amby Mark Walhimer Bangkok, Thailand From Wikipedia: “The concept of gross national happiness is an attempt to define quality of life in more holistic and psychological terms than gross national product. The term was coined in 1972 by Bhutan’s former King Jigme Sigme Wangchuck, who has opened up Bhutan to the age of modernization, soon after the demise of his father, King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk. It signaled his commitment to building an economy that would serve Bhutan’s unique culture based on Buddhist spiritual values. Like many moral goals, it is somewhat easier to state than… -
An Open Letter
2 Nov 2009 | 12:27 amBy Mark Walhimer Bangkok, Thailand I am enjoying the clarity distance offers. It seems that from the other side of the world I have a better view of the condition of Science Centers in the United States. I have posted my predictions 2010, 2011, 2012. Why don’t we have standards in Science Centers? In 1997 Joe Ansel lead a session at ASTC called “Who’s Idea is it anyway” as far as I know the field of Science Centers has not moved forward on this issue one bit. Thanks to Jim Spadaccini of Ideum we now have Exhibit Files as a data base to review exhibits. But, as far… -
Science Learning Center in the works
1 Nov 2009 | 11:32 pmScience Learning Center in the works By: alisonb@spokesman.com The Spokesman Review November 2, 2009 A North Idaho nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting science and technology education plans to build a 20,000-square-foot science center in Rathdrum…
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Museums-Now
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Scale & Context: a follow-up
2 Nov 2009 | 6:04 pmBy Scott Moulton, LEED AP I was compelled to follow up on the Scale / Context post. I love the way it points out both the way that design matters and has real consequence but also lives and dies by it's context or constraints. There is (or was?) a real interest in architecture to using the site as the starting point for a design. If you abstract that a bit and consider site as context, I think all good design starts from this point. For me context includes the site or whatever existing point you are starting from, the social conditions and the client. It is the moment of deciding what you've… -
Part 1: the smaller of the 2
30 Oct 2009 | 1:54 pmSince winter approaches, thought a quick post about a museum in Northern Iceland might be just the thing. This summer I visited the Sigurgeirs Bird Museum on Lake Myvatn (which I touched on in an earlier post. Will come back to it). They were about to open an adjacent building created specifically to house one of the earliest boats used on the lake, and let us in take a look. For me it was really a tribute to experience through design. This isn't a place where you want to add your story, make your mark or be a part of a larger whole through dialog. It's a place for reflection, and calm and a… -
Project Opening: Columbia Memorial Space Center
27 Oct 2009 | 10:42 amBy Ron Davis, Principal and LEED AP This past weekend marked the opening of the Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey California. Gyroscope has been working on this project from its inception five years ago, and we are pleased to have seen the very first visitors enjoy the interactive exhibits at the Center. Downey was one of NASA's technology and production facilities and grew out of the early aerospace industry there. Among its notable achievements was the development of much of the Apollo program space vehicles, and the crew compartment of the space shuttle. The project is named… -
In Consideration of Scale and Context
26 Oct 2009 | 5:20 pm"A dynamic moment in American architecture — the explosion of art museums, concert halls and performing arts centers that transformed cities across the country over the last decade — is officially over. The money has dried up, and who knows when there will be a similar boom." - Nicolai Ouroussoff, An American Architectural Epoch Locks Its Doors, The New York TimesIn my last post, I wrote about the influence of city --> neighborhood --> architecture --> on exhibit experience in the context of a visit to the EMP. Mr. Ouroussoff’s recent article provides a… -
Environmental Impact on Exhibit Experience
23 Oct 2009 | 3:07 pmThis week, I was back at the EMP (Experience Music Project). I loved the fact that I could get my hands on real gear and PLAY. For those that haven't visited, there is an entire zone of the museum where you can try your hand at guitars, drums, keyboards in open "pods". You can also go into sound isolation booths and "learn to play", and record. While that was super fun, it felt a bit finished and sleek an environment for a me as a novice. The contrast between the environmental design and what I brought to the table was... dramatic. Sort of like asking me to sculpt in the white…
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Nasher Museum Blogs
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A Place in the Sun: Trevor Schoonmaker Goes to Miami
4 Nov 2009 | 12:04 pmBy Bessie Zhang Each fall, art aficionados Dennis and Debra Scholl kick off the Miami art season by inviting a curator to Miami to hang an exhibition. The twist? They offer up their own home as a blank canvas, and the curator is given access to every work in the Scholls’ [...] -
Dispatches: Dario Robleto
31 Oct 2009 | 7:56 pmWith Dispatches, every now and then we check in with artists connected with the Nasher Museum to find out about their most recent projects. Our latest news from Texas-based artist Dario Robleto since the Yo La Tengo record release party in New York is a new exhibition of his work at [...] -
Fred Wilson: Q and ?
30 Oct 2009 | 9:15 amBy Jerstin A few questions are still on my mind regarding the insightful artist talk on Tuesday at the Nasher Museum by Fred Wilson. So, I thought I would throw them out onto the blog. You never know. Fred obviously does a great deal of curating and organization of data [...] -
Fred Wilson: Guardian of art
28 Oct 2009 | 6:09 pmBy Elisabeth Redmond Fred Wilson’s work in museums is about context and sending a deliberate message. Whether he is arranging objects in spaces or creating artwork labels, Wilson asks the questions that museums might not ask themselves. In his lecture at the Nasher Museum last night, he talked about his [...] -
Fred Wilson at the Nasher Museum
26 Oct 2009 | 8:32 amBy Michelle Cho Fred Wilson is not a typical artist. He takes other artists’ work and manipulates the way it is organized in a museum setting. He considers curatorial practices of museums in his exhibitions and projects. He encourages visitors to explore beyond the representations of art as museums present them. What [...]
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National Heritage Museum
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Susan Eisenhower Speaks on Issues in Foreign Policy this Sunday, November 8 at 2 pm. Free.
5 Nov 2009 | 12:19 pmJoin us for Susan Eisenhower's lecture, “Challenges in American Foreign Policy from Eisenhower to Obama,” this Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 2 pm. Ms. Eisenhower will also be on hand following her talk to sign copies of her book, Mrs. Ike. The lecture is free. Susan Eisenhower was a founding director and the first president of the Eisenhower Institute where she became known for her work in the former Soviet Union and in the energy field. She is currently the Eisenhower Institute’s Chairman of Leadership and Public Policy Programs. The lecture is presented in collaboration with the… -
Guess what this tray is made from...
5 Nov 2009 | 6:00 amThis tray's colorful design features a central Masonic square and compasses motif. The colors are vibrant, but the texture seems unusual – not paint or ink. Several of the tray’s motifs were made using butterfly wings. The wings form the background and the small beach scenes at the corners. The design is supplemented with black and gold elements that are reverse-painted on the glass that covers the bottom of the tray. While at first glance this object might seem unusual, butterfly wing collectibles have been sold as travel souvenirs for decades. Jewelry, trays and framed… -
William Hogarth: An Interpretation of one of his Masonic Engravings
3 Nov 2009 | 6:00 amEarly Years William Hogarth (1697-1764) was born in Smithfields, London, the son of Latin teacher Richard Hogarth. At first, Hogarth apprenticed as a silverplate engraver. Later, he met a man who was to prove an inspiration for his future career, artist Sir James Thornhill (ca.1675-1734). Hogarth attended classes at Thornhill's free art academy in Covent Garden, became friends with the artist, and eventually married his daughter, Jane, in 1729. A talented draughtsman, Hogarth took up the ambitious trade of engraving on copper for reproduction. Throughout the 1720s, Hogarth… -
The Massachusetts Women's Corps
29 Oct 2009 | 6:00 amThe uniform seen here was originally worn by Anne E. Gedges (1916-2007), a member of the Massachusetts Women’s Corps (MWC) during World War II. As Gedges explained in a letter years later, the MWC offered local women a way to assist the war effort: “Women wanted to do something to help end the war so we volunteered to serve coffee + doughnuts on the Boston Common, collected money for the U.S.O. at the Boston Garden + other theaters, worked Sundays at the Soldiers’ Home in Chelsea…We marched in parades and felt we were better than the National Guard staying in step.” The uniform… -
Tempus Fugit
22 Oct 2009 | 7:00 amLexington’s own Nathaniel Mulliken (1722–1767) likely trained Benjamin Willard (1743–1803), the maker of this clock--but not for long. Mulliken died in 1767, only a year or so after Willard is thought to have arrived in Lexington. Willard lived in Lexington, perhaps off and on, to make clocks with Mulliken’s teenaged son, Nathaniel, until December 1771. Analysis of the numbers and locations marked on Benjamin Willard’s surviving clocks—this one is number 80—suggest that he made over 20 clocks per year before colonial tensions with Britain, a weakening market and…
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National Museums Liverpool
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See Hear at the International Slavery Museum
5 Nov 2009 | 8:15 amBBC’s See Hear filmed at the International Slavery Museum last month as part of Black History Month. They brought a group of people with hearing impairments from London to see the museum for the first time. You can watch their very moving response on BBC’s iplayer. -
Winning Wirral
5 Nov 2009 | 6:54 amForget the Oscars and the Golden Globes they’re for tanned people with abnormally white teeth. Last night the Wirral Tourism Awards celebrated the real people who make a difference to our days out. Two members of staff from the Lady Lever Art Gallery were rightly rewarded for the brilliant work they do on a daily basis. Sarah Lynch, admin assistant won the Unseen Hero Award. This award is given to staff who show a positive, committed and willing attitude to their organisation and who demonstrate positive communication skills. Jenni Whiteside, assistant manager in the Lady Lever Art… -
Oh Come All Ye Women!
3 Nov 2009 | 4:33 amThe Singh Twins next to Ranbindra's painting 'Oh Come All Ye Re-eds' Is football a new religion? Can being a female artist be an advantage in some cultures? These are just some of the subjects covered in a brief interview I did with acclaimed local artists The Singh Twins. I chatted with Rabindra and Amrit at the private view of the Walker Art Gallery's latest exhibition The Rise of Women Artists, where Ranbindra's painting 'Oh Come All Ye Re-eds' is on display. One of the main things I was interested to find out was whether they ever actually define… -
Emigrant motives
2 Nov 2009 | 6:40 amEmigrants on the Guion Liner, Wisconsin. Image courtesy Liverpool Daily Post and Echo. The nearest I’ve got to emigrating is briefly wanting to flee to the Isle of Man - in the summer it matches any other exotic island in the sun. It was a bright sunny day and I was taking a lunchtime stroll while covering a heavy-going criminal trial at Liverpool Crown Court. Balmy breezes drifted off the sea. Down at the Pier Head the Manx ferry was waiting with last boarders being called. I was sorely tempted to dash up the gangplank but then common sense kicked in. Emigration is a drastic step into the… -
Our Day Out!
30 Oct 2009 | 3:55 amI thought my school days were over, but last week I was very excited to be able to join our class of Little Liverpool Designers on their very first school trip! I had a lovely morning spent with Class R reception class from Kingsley Community School in Toxteth, touring Liverpool familiarising themselves with Liverpool’s famous landmarks to inspire artwork for the Museum of Liverpool’s dedicated children’s gallery Little Liverpool, opening 2011. They will be working with illustrator Kate Pankhurst to develop the final artwork for display in Little Liverpool as part of our work with the…
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Science Museum of Long Island
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Halloween Family Fun Party
2 Nov 2009 | 7:24 amOver 100 people filled the haunted halls and spooky forest of the Goldman mansion on Friday, October 30th. The Science Museum’s Halloween Family Fun Party was back, and costumed trick-or-treaters were there to prove it. After a two year hiatus, the staff at the Science Museum thought it was time to bring back the annual Halloween party, and boy were we right. More than two weeks in advance, the event that was scheduled to cover the entire grounds with eight different activities was completely sold out. Guests were greeted by Rosemarie in the mansion lobby, assigned to a group, and… -
Member Appreciation Events kick-off: Movie by the Bay
22 Sep 2009 | 2:30 pmEarlier this year, staff at the Science Museum of Long Island thought long and hard about our members, the most loyal patrons of the Science Museum. Our institution is dedicated to nurturing children’s interest in science through hands on learning and elevating science literacy, but can only do so with the help of the community. Our programs run seven days a week because our members and the local community show support for our mission. Year after year, schools, families and scouts register for programs, demonstrating their awareness of the value of SMLI’s mission… and… -
Science at the Sid Jacobson JCC
13 Aug 2009 | 1:18 pmFor the past three years I have been bringing exciting after school science workshops from the Science Museum of Long Island to the Sid Jacobson JCC in Roslyn.The program runs 3:45 to 4:45 several days a week.On Monday and Thursday I meet with the kindergarten and first graders.Wednesday I meet with students in second grade and up.Monday and Thursdays class is called “SMILE for Science,” which covers a variety of science topics.This year we will explore such topics as volcanoes, animals, papermaking and so much more.Wednesday’s class is “It’s a Physical World.” Students will have… -
Execution Rocks Lighthouse Tower Climb
20 Jul 2009 | 5:46 amWe will be having the tower climb on NATIONAL LIGHTHOUSE DAY, August 7th, 2009 for EXECUTION ROCKS LIGHTSTATION, NY Friday, 10:00am at the Port Washington public boat dock a half a block north of Louie’s restaurant on Main Street! Be there at 9:30am sharp please! For reservations please call 215 906 5103 Must be able to climb a ladder from the boat. No children under 12. $50.00 for the trip, half for the boat half as a donation for the lighthouse restoration fund. Pack a lunch! The trip will last about 2 and a half hours! Craig Morrison morrisoncraig@yahoo.com… -
A Report from the Head Groundskeeper
19 Jun 2009 | 10:54 amAs spring returned to the Science Museum, our grounds crew and many friends and volunteers began to help the preserve get itself into shape. Many of our nature trails have been given a fresh layer of wood chips and our beach has had an extensive clean up. This spring, the grounds of the museum have witnessed life renewing itself. Many Robins, Starlings and Sparrows have been nesting and raising their young in and around the buildings on the property.Several baby rabbits have been spotted at different ends of the property, a pair of Osprey has been nesting on the beach and Terns have also been…
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Singapore's Heritage, Museums & Nostalgia Blog
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Toying With All Hallow’s Eve
6 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm"I'm a MAC! I'm Minnie! I'm also a MAC!" On 31 October each year, most Western cultures celebrate Halloween. The festival has both Celtic roots, that mark the end of summer and the bounty of autumn’s harvest, and Christian influences, through the observance of All Saint’s Day, which falls on 1 November. Halloween has since become a secular holiday with the popular folklore belief that the day is when otherworldly beings travel into our world. Hence the practice of dressing up as monsters and spirits to blend in and not be spotted and harmed by malevolent… -
Tonic season
5 Nov 2009 | 4:43 pmIt’s that time of the year folks, where hundreds (or maybe thousands?) of anxious parents force-feed their exam-going children with a special tonic originally invented to prop the health of an overweight drunk. That tonic is of course, Essence of Chicken, which is given to children with the intent of boosting their mental capacity and intelligence for the end-of-year exams. Laokokok (who has a couple of kids going through the exams now) takes us through the history of Essence of Chicken in Singapore, particularly on one ubiquitous, ahem, brand. Essence of Chicken comes in a pretty… -
Thank goodness for food safety!
5 Nov 2009 | 4:01 pmFriends from Malaysia often like to take a jibe at Singapore food for being too ‘clean’ and ’sterile’, but it’s stories like Edward’s that make me feel thankful for ours strict food safety rules! Kopitam Tables by Chang'r Edward’s story is from the 60s, and reads like a culinary horror story: The owner of the coffee shop was a Chinese man who wore a singlet, pyjama shorts and slippers. He had huge lumps on his shoulders and back which looked like benign tumours. He was obviously not concerned about the effect of its appearance on his customers. -
Jump for joy - Explore Singapore! 2009 is here!
4 Nov 2009 | 8:01 amFrom CEO - NHB Michael Koh (left), musicians Jack & Rai to even Peranakans - there’s something about museums that everyone loves! Each November spells an exciting time for museums in Singapore because of the annual Explore Singapore! campaign. This year, Explore Singapore! is adopting the theme I Love Museums. With a plethora of activities at more than 20 museums around the island, expect to fall in love with museums, make new friends and discover more about our young, vibrant nation. For war history buffs, join us on War On Wheels, a unique experiential guided tour that traces the… -
Horror on a deliciously oriental premise
3 Nov 2009 | 5:10 pmThe Chinese woman in the iconic red qipao waves her fan in a mockingly coquettish manner behind the tombstones — half her face mangled and malignant as she turns to reveal the other side of her pretty cheek. The Japanese soldier’s spirit shambles along, screaming ‘Banzai!’, refusing to believe the war was long over, forever trapped in the past. The pale, long haired Pontianak cradles her baby, weaving wordlessly in the crowd of teenagers and youths as they queue in front of the museum. Spooktacular at Sentosa comes with a local twist. Exploiting Singapore’s rich…
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Tacoma Art Museum
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Urgent: Docents needed for Friday (Chihuly Walking Tour and concise History overview) and Saturday (museum overview)
4 Nov 2009 | 12:01 pmHello wonderful docents, As you can see from the subject line, I am urgently in need of a fill-in docent for a Chihuly Walking Tour on this coming Friday, November 6 at 1 pm. Also, our Concise History overview group tour has requested a second docent as their group size has grown. The concise History tour will be broken up into two groups, for a total of four tours- I need one more docent at 12:30 (two groups) and one more at 1:30 pm (two groups). I just received a call about a tour this coming Saturday, November 7 at 1:30 pm. No one has picked up the… -
TAM Docents: exhibition calendar
30 Oct 2009 | 1:54 pmHello Docents- I thought you might enjoy this “preview” of upcoming exhibitions. Please read on for more details…. -Jana Jana Wennstrom Manager of Education and Volunteer Programs & Interim Co-Director of Education TACOMAART MUSEUM T: 253.272.4258 x3030 From: Zoe Donnell Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 1:47 PM To: All Employees; All Interns and Workstudies Subject: exhibition calendar Hi everyone, I am writing to let you know about a number of updates to the exhibition calendar on the H drive. Most of these pertain to FY11,… -
TAM Docents: Training Nov. 14th
30 Oct 2009 | 1:20 pmHello Docents- Sharon asked a very good question about the November 14 program. As it is a required training, it will be free to docents. I look forward to seeing you there! Thank you, -Jana Jana Wennstrom Manager of Education and Volunteer Programs & Interim Co-Director of Education TACOMAART MUSEUM T: 253.272.4258 x3030 From: S BERENS [mailto:slb1949@q.com] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 11:33 AM To: Jana Wennstrom Subject: Training Nov. 14th Hi Jana, Since the Nov. 14th training is "required", do we need to purchase tickets to attend? -
TAM Docents: January/February Docent Opportunities
28 Oct 2009 | 12:24 pmHappy almost Halloween/Dia de los Muertos, Docents! I am in need of 2 docents to lead gallery tours of Concise History of Northwest Art on Wednesday, January 6 at 12 pm following a lecture given by the Washington State History Museum staff. Also, I will need 2 docents to lead a large group split into 2 groups on Thursday, February 25, at 12:40 pm. This will be a museum overview tour. Please let me know if you are available for either of the dates listed above. Thank you for all you do for Tacoma Art Museum! Best, Allison Allison Baer Education… -
Thursday, December 3, 6:45pm and at 7:30pm tours
23 Oct 2009 | 3:21 pmHello Docents, We have received a request for a docent to lead tours during a holiday party private event that is being held here at the museum on Thursday, December 3 from 6-9 pm. They have requested tours be available at 6:45pm and at 7:30pm. Please let me know if you would be available to lead these two gallery tours on this evening. Thank you! Allison Allison Baer Education Assistant TACOMA ART MUSEUM 1701 Pacific Avenue Tacoma, Washington 98402 T: 253.272.4258 x3018 F: 253.627.1898 www.TacomaArtMuseum.org
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The Burke Museum Blog
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1,000 Sugar Skulls Made for Dia de Muertos
6 Nov 2009 | 10:38 amWhat can you find when walking through the hallways of the Burke Museum? Many exciting and interesting projects! Community involvement is a very important part of our work here at the Burke, and last week many dedicated staff, students and volunteers came together to create 1,000 sugar skulls for the Burke’s table at the Dia de Muertos Festál at Seattle Center last weekend. Isaac Hernández Ruiz led the group through the sticky process, as sugar and meringue were mixed and molded to make the skulls. Burke educators then took the skulls to the Dia de Muertos: a Mexican Remembrance event at… -
Tribal leaders to meet with Obama for summit
4 Nov 2009 | 3:28 pmOn Nov. 5, a number of Washington State tribal leaders will join other representatives of 562 federally recognized tribes from across the country who have been invited to meet with President Obama for the 1st Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference. The purpose of the conference is to facilitate interactive discussions between Obama Administration officials and tribal leaders in the areas of economic development and natural resources, public safety and housing, and education, health and labor. A schedule and a live video feed of the summit can be found here.Just a few days ago, President… -
Why does Hollywood Love the Ice Age?
29 Oct 2009 | 11:48 amWhy is the ice age such a popular topic for Hollywood? The ice age (or Pleistocene period, from 2.7 million years ago to 10,000 years ago) is a period of great interest to archaeologists because of the numerous watershed events in human evolution that occurred before the ice melted and the climate became more-or-less what it’s like today. For most parts of the world, the ice age is also the time of the classic cave-dwelling humans. Film-makers have also shown their enthusiasm for this lengthy and cool period of human history. Right from the earliest days of motion pictures, depicting human… -
Why sustainability? Why now?
27 Oct 2009 | 10:05 amThis post is part of a Burke Museum Blog series called "Green Museum" that explores what sustainability means to the Burke Museum.As a founding member of the Burke Sustainability Action Committee (BSAC), I was asked to answer the basic question, why did you join the committee?Lots of reasons:· To feel we’re making a difference· To know we’re making a difference· To work with people in the museum I don’t usually work with· To learn about on-the-ground actions we can take – and then take them· To have fun. (I’m still surprised by this: this is actually fun work!)As the BSAC… -
Dinosaurs at the Burke
23 Oct 2009 | 1:11 pmHave a passion for dinosaurs? Then come to one of the many events the Burke Museum offers about these magnificent prehistoric creatures.Our first event is Dinosaurs on Ice: Jurassic Dinosaurs from Antarctica, a lecture for those who are interested in an academic viewpoint of dinosaurs. On Thursday Nov. 12, 7 pm at the Burke Museum, the museum is honored to have Dr. William Hammer of Augustana College, Illinois speak at the event. What started as a trip to Antarctica in 1977 in search of fossilized vertebrates has blossomed into over 30 years of research and numerous expeditions. For more…
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The Port Moody Station Museum
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Find us on Facebook and Twitter
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No Boo-seum This Year
27 Oct 2009 | 5:18 pmThe Port Moody Station Museum will not be having the Boo-seum this halloween. Trick or Treaters are welcome to stop by between noon and 4pm on Friday or Saturday for candy. -
A Report On a Field Trip to the Museum
23 Oct 2009 | 5:23 pmHere is a blog item I found on the net about a field trip to our museum by a teacher. I believe it to be written by a Vancouver Elementary School teacher, but do not know for sure: Field trip to the Port Moody Station Museum The Port Moody Station Museum is a very important and interesting historical site. It is a direct link to B. C.'s past. Without the railway, who knows what Canada would look -
2009-2010 Executive
30 Sep 2009 | 9:02 pmAs of the recent AGM here is the current Executive and Board of Directors for the Port Moody Heritage Society:President Wayne BeggsVice President Darrell PennerTreasurer Irene ReidSecretary Al DaviesPast President Dianna BrownDirector Mary Anne CooperDirector Curtis FullertonDirector Pamela HagenDirector Ann HulbertDirector Dexada JorgensenDirector Amanda MaplethorpDirector Bruce -
Odds and Sods Donations Needed
25 Sep 2009 | 10:40 pmDo you have leftover pieces of ribbon, lonely buttons or other odds and sods around your house? The Museum is looking for donations of these items to use in our pumpkin decorating and /or clothespin dolls crafts. If you have items you would like to donate, please bring them to the Museum Monday – Friday between 9:30am and 4:30pm or Saturday and Sunday between noon and 4pm.Thank you for your
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The Uncataloged Museum
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What I Learned about Museums from my Seat in the Jury Box
29 Oct 2009 | 5:43 pmI spent this past week performing a duty I'd never done before--I served on a jury. I did pay attention, I promise, but in some of those long pauses for one thing or another, I realized that the court had some lessons for me about how visitors might think about our museums.What did I learn?It's a hard thing to be a first-timer. You're not quite sure where to go, what to do, and who all the other people are. And of course, there are guards--a little intimidating to be sure. First-time museum visitors must feel the same. But it's awfully nice to have to perform my civic duty in a beautiful,… -
Demographic Digging
27 Oct 2009 | 5:16 amI'm not necessarily a numbers person (okay, almost every museum person I've ever met says the same thing) but I've found myself increasingly interested in both demographic data and information that can be gained from relatively informal online surveys done by small organizations. Earlier in my career I spent lots of time with manuscript censuses from the 19th century--looking for information like how many barrels of apples did a farm produce, or how many mills were in a community. But now my emphasis has changed.When doing strategic and interpretive planning, I work with organizations to gain… -
Whipped Cream and a Cherry on Top
21 Oct 2009 | 6:42 pmThis week brought a convergence of ideas. Yesterday, at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums conference, in a session on sustainability, Elizabeth Merritt of AAM's Center for the Future of Museums spoke long-distance in a session on sustainability. She spoke about a number of trends, but then encouraged us all to consider a game-changer. Some change in the future that would change everything--and she suggested that the "what if?" could be "what if there was a revolution in education?" a total change in the way we educated our citizens.Today, Thomas Friedman's op-ed piece in the New York… -
Stuck for Ideas?
18 Oct 2009 | 3:37 pmWhere do exhibit ideas come from? Sometimes they're collection driven, sometimes the project is driven by a donor's ideas, sometimes it's driven by a desire to spotlight a previously ignored part of community history. I believe that almost anything can be made into an interesting exhibit, given enough thoughtful discussion in the planning process. Here's two recent exhibits--one online and one not, that demonstrate that idea.First, the real world exhibit--the National Building Museum has just opened an exhibit called "House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage." The exhibit's big idea… -
More Fun, Less Text
16 Oct 2009 | 8:14 amHave you ever been in a conversation about changing behavior in a museum or exhibition? Questions like How can we get people to start an exhibit in a particular direction? how can we get them to participate in interactives, what if they touch they objects? are usually a part of that conversation. And too often the answer turns out to be some sort of text.Thanks to my friend Sarah Crow, here's a video from the Copenhagen subway. Perhaps the solution to all these dilemmas is more fun, without label text!
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A Repository for Bottled Monsters
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Einstein correspondence
6 Nov 2009 | 4:12 pmThis week, or maybe it was last week, I found two letters that were signed by A. Einstein. I think they may have been form letters because they were addressed to Dear Friend, but it looks like the signatures are original. Maybe an expert out there can make a guess. -
James Carroll turns up again
6 Nov 2009 | 10:01 amI think I wrote about James Carroll, who volunteered to be bitten by a mosquito carrying yellow fever. He contracted the disease which had long-term effects on his health and when he died, several years later, his widow was unsuccessful in securing a government pension. His name turned up again just now. We got a request for some information on a soldier wounded at Little Big Horn, which led me to pull the accession file that includes an article written about skeletal remains at the battlefield. There's a photograph of a skull and the caption says it was discovered by hospital steward… -
International Museum of Surgical Science featured
4 Nov 2009 | 4:38 pmI visited the International Museum of Surgical Science about a decade ago. They've got some neat collections and were headquartered in an old mansion near the lake in Chicago. Here's a pictorial on them. Note that the collection isn't all surgery - there's an iron lung and patent medicines shown in the photos. -
Have you ever heard of the Isthmian Canal?
3 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pmMy education is sorely lacking. I never heard the Panama Canal referred to as the Isthmian Canal, but saw a reference to it today when I went through a truly fascinating set of lantern slides from the William Gorgas era of the Canal. Here are two of several dozen that date from about 1902 to 1914. I wish I could scan them all.This first one is a lovely hand-tinted lantern slide of Spanish laborers.This second one is a chart (table?) showing a marked decrease in fatalities from various diseases, supposedly when sanitary measures were put in place- such as covering food, digging drainage… -
Lecture on Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building
30 Oct 2009 | 8:16 amThe Army Medical Museum and Library building, demolished in 1968, had the same architect. - MikeThe Latrobe Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historiansproudly presentsWhat's New in What We Know About the Smithsonian's Arts & Industries BuildingPanel Discussion led by Cynthia Field, Emeritus Architectural Historian, Smithsonian InstitutionMonday, November 9, 2009Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives6:30 P.M. - light refreshments, 7:00 P.M. - lectureFive years ago, Cynthia Field thought she told us everything there was to know about Adolf Cluss and his fascinating masterwork, the…
