More information about Maritime Museum towerDoor County AdvocateIn light of some of recent comments concerning the design of the proposed observation tower at Door County Maritime Museum, I thought it might be beneficial to offer some additional background information. First and foremost, the Maritime Museum and more »
Museums
-
Most Topular Stories
-
More information about Maritime Museum tower - Door County Advocate
MUSEUM NEWS - Google News28 Jan 2012 | 3:45 am -
Museums appeal to avoid 'devastating' cutbacks
Search for "MUSEUMS"28 Jan 2012 | 12:55 amMUSEUMS Sheffield was reeling this week after the city was excluded from a list of major centres of excellence among galleries and museums around the country to receive special funding by Arts Council England. -
A Look Back at 2011
News24 Jan 2012 | 12:18 pmThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York welcomed 1,107,054 visitors in 2011, making it the museum's second-highest attended year after the the 50th anniversary in 2009, and the fourth consecutive year with more than one million visitors. The year closed with the popular exhibition Maurizio Cattelan: All, for which the museum offered extended hours throughout December and much of January. In conjunction with the exhibition, the museum developed its first mobile app, which includes dramatic views of the installation, texts about the works, and more than 20 video interviews with Cattelan's… -
Ancient Popcorn Unearthed in Peru
Around The Mall27 Jan 2012 | 10:52 amA recent study indicates that ancient peoples in Peru were eating popcorn. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Popcorn dates pretty far back—way earlier than Orville Redenbacher—according to a study published last week. The paper, which appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and was co-authored by Dolores Piperno, curator of New World archaeology at the Museum of Natural History, reveals that archaeologists have unearthed a number of corn samples from a pair of Peruvian excavation sites. Several of the specimens indicate that among many… -
Elvis is alive in Virginia
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service26 Jan 2012 | 11:45 amOur Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer exhibition has been swinging since Elvis' 75th birthday back in 2010. Enthusiasm for this exhibition, comprised of 56 black-and-white images taken by the acclaimed photographer Alfred Wertheimer, has never wanned. In fact, the buzz about Elvis has become something of a frenzy at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. A few weeks after throwing an incredible Elvis birthday gig attended by nearly 2,000 people, the museum hosted a screening of "Elvis '56," a 1987 documentary film narrated by Levon Helm, the…
-
MUSEUM NEWS - Google News
-
More information about Maritime Museum tower - Door County Advocate
28 Jan 2012 | 3:45 amMore information about Maritime Museum towerDoor County AdvocateIn light of some of recent comments concerning the design of the proposed observation tower at Door County Maritime Museum, I thought it might be beneficial to offer some additional background information. First and foremost, the Maritime Museum and more » -
Pirates return to Galveston in new museum - Your Houston News
28 Jan 2012 | 3:13 amPirates return to Galveston in new museumYour Houston NewsThe new museum opened its doors to the public Friday, Jan. 27, and features storylines of Lafitte and pirates in general. Owned and operated by Joyce McLean and her husband Doug, the museum is located adjacent to Saengerfest Park, just off the Strand and more » -
Chinese lantern workshop highlights Oklahoma City Museum of Art activities for ... - NewsOK.com
28 Jan 2012 | 12:06 amChinese lantern workshop highlights Oklahoma City Museum of Art activities for NewsOK.comYoung children learned to make Chinese lanterns at a class Wednesday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Spencer Mossman, 3, cuts a piece of paper as his mother, Sarah Mossman, helps Wednesday during a Chinese lantern art class at the Oklahoma City OKC: Chihuly exhibition at Oklahoma City Museum of ArtExaminer.comall 2 news articles » -
DPS to reopen Detroit Children's Museum - The Detroit News
28 Jan 2012 | 12:02 amMLive.comDPS to reopen Detroit Children's MuseumThe Detroit NewsBy Michael H. Hodges In 2010, Bridgette Stevens of Redford Township and her brother Nate learn about static electricity by touching the sides of a “plasma tube” at the Detroit Children's Museum. (John T. Greilick / The Detroit News) The cash-strapped Detroit Children's Museum Reopens For Detroit Public Schools, District Severs Huffington PostDetroit Children's Museum reopens after 4-month closureDetroit Free PressTroubled Detroit Children's Museum re-opens -- but only to Detroit Public MLive.comRoyal Oak… -
Art museum in Kansas City opens renovated Chinese galleries - Xinhua
27 Jan 2012 | 11:29 pmArt museum in Kansas City opens renovated Chinese galleriesXinhua27 (Xinhua) -- The Kansas City Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art celebrated Chinese New Year on Friday with the grand opening of two renovated Chinese art galleries. The new galleries showcase the museum's prized collection of jade disks, ancient vessels, and more »
-
Search for "MUSEUMS"
-
Museums appeal to avoid 'devastating' cutbacks
28 Jan 2012 | 12:55 amMUSEUMS Sheffield was reeling this week after the city was excluded from a list of major centres of excellence among galleries and museums around the country to receive special funding by Arts Council England. -
Calendar Picks and Clicks: January 26-February 1
26 Jan 2012 | 8:15 pmTU B'SHEVAT NATURE FEST Grammy-winning band Ozomatli headlines a concert during the New Year for Trees celebration at the Shalom Institute in Malibu. -
Weekend: 113th Golden Dragon Parade
26 Jan 2012 | 5:58 pmGOLDEN DRAGON PARADE: It's year 113 for the grand Chinese New Year parade . Dancers, firecrackers, and the famous lions are back, as are the lucky Lai See packets and colorful floats. -
Museums to receive share of A 20 million
26 Jan 2012 | 3:49 amMUSEUMS in York are to receive a share of a A 20 million funding pot to improve and develop the homes of the city's priceless artefacts. -
Museums will receive 20m to boost business
25 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pmMUSEUMS in Tyneside will get a share of a 20m package to pull in visitors and boost their public profiles.
-
News
-
A Look Back at 2011
24 Jan 2012 | 12:18 pmThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York welcomed 1,107,054 visitors in 2011, making it the museum's second-highest attended year after the the 50th anniversary in 2009, and the fourth consecutive year with more than one million visitors. The year closed with the popular exhibition Maurizio Cattelan: All, for which the museum offered extended hours throughout December and much of January. In conjunction with the exhibition, the museum developed its first mobile app, which includes dramatic views of the installation, texts about the works, and more than 20 video interviews with Cattelan's… -
The Guggenheim Organizes Seven-Hour Finale for Maurizio Cattelan: All
17 Jan 2012 | 8:24 amOn the occasion of Maurizio Cattelan's announcement of his retirement from art making, the Guggenheim is marking the closing of the Maurizio Cattelan: All exhibition by holding a multidisciplinary program called The Last Word on Saturday, January 21, at 6 pm. During the seven-hour finale event, thirty or so prominent representatives from the fields of visual art, philosophy, literature, film, music, economics, law, politics and activism, religion, dance, theater, sports, and fashion will come together to contemplate the subject of voluntary endings. Maurizio Cattelan: All brings together… -
Blog Series To Explore Trends From BMW Guggenheim Lab New York
13 Jan 2012 | 12:37 pmLab | Log, the blog and travel diary of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, has launched an eight-week series called “Lab Notes I: Trends from the New York Lab.” The series will feature Guggenheim curators Maria Nicanor and David van der Leer, journalist Christine McLaren, author Jon Cotner, and a prominent array of guest bloggers—artists, scientists, and journalists—who together will examine four themes that emerged during the Lab’s remarkable ten-week run in Manhattan’s East Village. The Rise of Open-Source Urbanism (January 11–23): Leaders in the fields of design, urban planning, and… -
City of Helsinki Receives Study For Potential Guggenheim Museum
10 Jan 2012 | 8:33 amA new Guggenheim museum in Helsinki would make a distinct contribution to Finland’s cultural landscape, according to the concept and development study that representatives of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation presented January 10 to Helsinki Mayor Jussi Pajunen. The study was commissioned by the City of Helsinki a year ago to explore the possibility of creating a Guggenheim museum in Helsinki. No decisions have been made regarding the proposal set forth in the study. The City Board and the City Council of Helsinki will review the recommendations in a public process that will extend at… -
Learning Through Art Relaunches Website
21 Dec 2011 | 2:58 pmExplore the newly relaunched website of Learning Through Art (LTA), the Guggenheim’s artist residency program that sends working artists into public classrooms throughout New York City. A rich resource for scholars, artists, and educators interested in integrating art into the classroom, the redesigned and expanded site promotes content discovery and exploration by making it easier to find teaching techniques, lesson plans, research studies, videos, and other educational tools. Visit the For Educators section to learn about LTA and the resources it offers, including teaching strategies and…
-
Around The Mall
-
Ancient Popcorn Unearthed in Peru
27 Jan 2012 | 10:52 amA recent study indicates that ancient peoples in Peru were eating popcorn. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Popcorn dates pretty far back—way earlier than Orville Redenbacher—according to a study published last week. The paper, which appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and was co-authored by Dolores Piperno, curator of New World archaeology at the Museum of Natural History, reveals that archaeologists have unearthed a number of corn samples from a pair of Peruvian excavation sites. Several of the specimens indicate that among many… -
Weekend Events Jan 27-29: Iranian Film Festival, Renwick Birthday Party, and Silkscreening Demo
26 Jan 2012 | 12:26 pmIranian director Abbas Kiarostami's trilogy kicks off with "Where is the Friend's Home?" Image courtesy of the Freer Gallery. Friday, January 27 Iranian Film Festival: Koker Trilogy Even if you haven’t made it to the Iranian Film Festival yet, don’t miss part 1 of the Koker Trilogy by internationally acclaimed director and screenwriter Abbas Kiarostami. The first film, “Where is the Friend’s Home?” employs the simple premise of a young boy traveling to his classmate’s village to return a book to weave a potent allegory on friendship, duty and… -
At the American Art Museum: Annie Leibovitz’ Personal Journey
25 Jan 2012 | 2:20 pmGeorgia O'Keeffe's handmade pastels. © Annie Leibovitz. From "Pilgrimage" (Random House, 2011). Throughout her career, world-famous photographer Annie Leibovitz has produced countless stunning portraits of notable figures and celebrities. Her new show, “Pilgrimage,” which opened at the American Art Museum on January 20th, features photography that takes visitors on a biographical tour in a much different way. Rather than showing even a single face or human body, she captures objects and landscapes that shed light on a number of transformative figures in both… -
Remembering “The Beautiful Time” at the Natural History Museum
24 Jan 2012 | 2:48 pmCongolese artist Sammy Baloji combines images of past industry with modern photographs in a patchwork of memory and regret. Image courtesy of the Natural History Museum. In Sammy Baloji’s native Congo, the mid-20th century is wistfully remembered as la belle époque, or the beautiful time. During the colonial era of the 1930s and 1940s, skilled Congolese laborers built a thriving copper mining industry that turned the city of Lubumbashi into a modernized center of wealth and cosmopolitan culture. This period saw unusual prosperity that permeated all levels of colonial society, from the… -
Events Jan 24-26: Annie Leibovitz’s Pilgrimage, Profile America Forum, and Flights of Fancy
23 Jan 2012 | 10:07 amA still life from Annie Leibovitz's Pilgrimage, on view at the American Art Museum. Image courtesy of Annie Leibovitz/Contact Press Images. Tuesday, January 24 Annie Leibovitz’s Pilgrimage Renowned portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz comes to the American Art Museum to discuss her latest project, Pilgrimage, currently on view. Called an “icon-maker” by the New York Times, Leibovitz departs from her usual celebrity portraits to a deeply personal, largely unpeopled study of places and objects that have moved her over the years. Free. This event is sold out, but a…
-
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
-
Elvis is alive in Virginia
26 Jan 2012 | 11:45 amOur Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer exhibition has been swinging since Elvis' 75th birthday back in 2010. Enthusiasm for this exhibition, comprised of 56 black-and-white images taken by the acclaimed photographer Alfred Wertheimer, has never wanned. In fact, the buzz about Elvis has become something of a frenzy at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. A few weeks after throwing an incredible Elvis birthday gig attended by nearly 2,000 people, the museum hosted a screening of "Elvis '56," a 1987 documentary film narrated by Levon Helm, the… -
Test Your Astro-cabulary!
29 Nov 2011 | 7:36 amDo you know the difference between Nylon, Nomex, and Neoprene? What about the relationship between a full-pressure suit and a rubber bladder? Gearing up for space means more than donning a special suit--you've got to learn some special lingo, too! SITES' new Suited for Space exhibition is filled with stunning color photographs and x-rays of NASA spacesuits. But don't forget to read what's written next to the images, too--Suited helps skyrocket visitors' knowledge of astronaut argot with vocabulary lessons sprinkled throughout the show. So while you're stepping in Buzz Aldrin's iconic… -
Conservation of Space Objects
6 Oct 2011 | 2:18 pmDuring the first two Moon landings, astronauts did not have access to drinking water unless they returned to the lander. Starting with Apollo 13, however, spacesuits were equipped with a new accessory: an in-suit Teflon bag with a drinking tube. These drinking devices are the predecessor to today's CamelBak water bottles. One of the most fragile and unique artifacts traveling with SITES' new Suited for Space exhibition is a rare example of these early drinking devices. Although the device has been stored in a climate-controlled environment since being acquired by the…
-
Raffles Museum News
-
Happy Lunar New Year 2012!
20 Jan 2012 | 3:02 am -
Semakau Intertidal Walk for Public Begins Again in 2012!
19 Jan 2012 | 3:10 amWith much anticipation, the Semakau intertidal walk for the public has started once again to kick start the new year of 2012! Our very first walk this year took place in the afternoon of 8 January, with 46 participants from the public and 12 trainees a.k.a. soon-to-be RMBR Nature Guides. Among the participants, some have been waiting and trying to register for a walk at Semakau for more than two years! They were thrilled to be finally setting foot on Semakau Island and being able to explore the intertidal zone. In conjunction with the new season of intertidal walks, we also had six new button… -
Genetic constraints on adaptiation: tales of beetles and bacteria
17 Jan 2012 | 1:31 amClick on image to download pdf. -
Fauna of the Native Garden @ HortPark
16 Jan 2012 | 11:53 pmThe Fauna of the Native Garden @ HortPark: Birds, Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Butterflies, Moths, Dragonflies, and Damselflies has been published by A. F. S. L. Lok, W. F. Ang, H. T. W. Tan, R. T. Corlett & P. Y. Tan (eds.) and is available for download. [PDF, 16.1 MB] -
Wait For It….. (:
13 Jan 2012 | 3:19 am
-
BEYONDbones
-
The Emancipation Proclamation is coming to a museum near you.
23 Jan 2012 | 11:33 amThere is a very brief window of opportunity, from Thursday, Feb. 16 to Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, to see the original Emancipation Proclamation on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Currently the museum is hosting an exhibit on the Civil War, entitled Discovering the Civil War. This exhibit, organized by the National Archives of the United States, went on display in Washington, DC to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the start of the war. It is now touring and Houston is the third stop on the tour. Emancipation Proclamation at HMNS! Thursday, Feb. 16 – Tuesday, Feb. 21… -
HMNS Expansion Update: Finishing Touches From 2011
9 Jan 2012 | 4:38 pmThe push to finish the construction of the Duncan Family Wing is getting underway, and for the most part the visible progress starts to happen on a smaller scale than it has thus far. View of the west façade of the new wing, fully visible from San Jacinto - now that the tower crane has been removed! One big exception to that statement was last month’s removal of the tower crane from the west side of the building. The task required the use of another giant, but mobile, crane to lift each piece of the tower crane up and over the new building, into the delivery driveway for additional… -
Go Stargazing! January Edition
6 Jan 2012 | 11:56 amVenus continues to appear higher and higher in the sky each night, outshining everything but the Sun and the Moon. Look for it in the southwest at dusk, shifting towards due west by next month. photo credit: Mars rises in late evening and is now high in the southwest at dawn. It rises by 10:45 as January begins and by 9:00 at month’s end. Although not nearly as bright as Venus or Jupiter, Mars has brightened enough to rival the brightest stars in the sky, and will keep brightening all winter as Earth approaches it. Saturn remains in the morning sky this month. Look in the south at dawn,… -
Save The Date: GEMS on February 11, 2012!
12 Dec 2011 | 11:42 amWe had a terrific time at the Girls Exploring Math and Science event last year on Saturday, February 19, 2011. The Museum was buzzing with lots of learning – songs about kinetic and potential energy, buzzing instruments made with straws, Popsicle sticks and rubber bands, and lots of “ah-hah” moments throughout the day! We had a fabulous presenting sponsor in KBR and two of their engineers were our featured speakers, Rachel Amos and Elaine Jimenez. Rachel and Elaine shared with the GEMS attendees a bit about their careers in Mechanical Engineering with KBR, their…
-
Medical Museion
-
Why do YOU blog?
27 Jan 2012 | 4:49 amHaving spent four days in the company of researchers, bloggers, journalists, editors, etc. at the annual ScienceOnline conference (Scio12) in Raleigh, NC, I’m now back in Copenhagen and following on up some projects regarding exactly that. Online Science. I’m trying to motivate people within my own institution, my own department, and also other departments at the university to start blogging about their work. This is not an easy task. As highlighted by the session “Why the Resistance to Science Blogging” (by Pascale Lane and Holly Bik) at Scio12, I’m faced… -
The risky business of communicating science
26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 amScience Online 2012 is over, and I must admit that I’m still full of all the inputs, impressions and ideas that almost overloaded my head during those three days in North Carolina. Knowing where to start and where to end when giving highlights of the (un)conference is difficult. A blog post on my general reflections of the conference is coming up, but first I thought I’d just touch upon one of the themes I encountered at #scio12. Risk. How do we communicate it? What is it really? What happens when a calculated, objective risk on paper is processed by a human mind? This is big… -
Film: Rhythm of routine
26 Jan 2012 | 4:48 amWhen listening with the eyes, the laboratory overwhelmed me with rhythm. The rhythm of the steady hands of the lab technicians performing their routines to perfection, leaving no superfluous motion. Focusing on a single movement – emptying the content of one test tube in to another – this video tries to incapsulate the amount of human experience, routine and familiarity incorporated into one simple action performed over and over again. The robot pipetter at the end of the film contrasts the expressiveness of the living hands: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-wxvhPQACg This video… -
Mundane design vs. fine sci-art: two realms of aesthetic practice in science communication
24 Jan 2012 | 7:00 amI’ve been invited by the philosophy of science group in Gothenburg to give a talk to their Theory of Science seminar group on Friday, 3 February — titled ”Mundane Design vs. Fine Sci-Art: Two Realms of Aesthetic Practice in Science Communication”. Here’s the abstract: Sci-art has become an increasingly important dimension of science communication through printed media, museums, science centers and the web. Ranging from beautiful images on scientific journal covers to tissue-engineered wet-art installations, sci-art has become a recognised subgenre of the contemporary… -
The nice and fuzzy feeling of TED talks
21 Jan 2012 | 3:00 amOne of my favourite science bloggers, biochemistry professor Larry Moran (Sandwalk), comments in passing on the TED talks — the global institution which the sci-tech-design-online segment of the creative class loves to attend and watch: There’s a certain mysticism about TED talks that I deplore. In order to be a successful TED talker you need to be articulate and clever. You need to be engaging and just a little bit radical—though not too radical. That’s just about all it takes to get an enthusiastic standing ovation from the people who comes to listen to these 18 talks.
-
Blog Addison
-
Explorations of The Civil War: Unfolding Dialogues to Continue Through the Winter Season
4 Jan 2012 | 12:21 pmGroups from on and off campus, including students, teachers, and many public visitors, have integrated the Addison’s exhibition The Civil War: Unfolding Dialogues into explorations, conversations, projects, and curricula throughout the fall, and we’re excited to announce that these collaborations will continue as the exhibition will remain on view through April 15, 2012!Just as The Civil War: Unfolding Dialogues explores the varying perspectives, both historical and contemporary, that compose the evolving narrative of this seminal event, the connections made by various groups compose a… -
Getting Ready for January
12 Dec 2011 | 11:21 amJanuary is going to be a busy month here at the Addison. Not only are we closing five shows and opening three new shows here, but we’re closing and opening two other shows on the road. To prepare for this flurry of art movement, I’ve been spending the last few weeks working with shippers and contacting art lenders to arrange for their objects to be picked up or returned to them.The shows closing at the Addison are fairly straight-forward. Christopher Cook’s artwork will be returned to him, and Lorna Bieber’s work will be returned to her. The other shows closing are culled from our… -
Gallery Conversation, Nov 15 - The Civil War: Unfolding Dialogues, with Christopher L. Jones
14 Nov 2011 | 3:29 pmA discussion of current Addison exhibition "In The Civil War: Unfolding Dialogues", with Christopher L. Jones, Phillips Academy Instructor in History and Social Science, and Jaime DeSimone, Addison Assistant Curator. The Gallery Conversation, free and open to the public, begins in the Museum Learning Center at 6:30pm on Tuesday, November 15. For more information please call Jaime DeSimone at (978) 749-4038, or email addison@andover.edu.Below: Winslow Homer, The Army of the Potomac - A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty, 1862, wood engraving on wove paper, purchased as the gift of Warren P. Snyder… -
Addison Education Program Back in Full Swing
7 Nov 2011 | 9:51 amThe Addison education department has hit the ground running this fall! Almost as soon as the museum opened, classes from Phillips Academy, Andover, and Lawrence have been zipping in and out, visiting all six of the fall exhibitions. The entire eighth grade class from the Wetherbee School in Lawrence, MA made their first of two visits, focusing on museum practice. Teachers Lisa Stott, Liz McCleary, and Mike Walsh are leading their students on a collections project journey inspired by Keri Smith’s How to Be An Explorer of the World. Their Addison visit was part of their investigation… -
The Ships Are Back
31 Oct 2011 | 11:16 amThe first objects we removed from the museum to make way for our renovations in 2008 were the model ships that graced our lower hallway. Finally, after over three years of being safely packed away in storage, the ships are back on view.The ships actually returned to the museum from off-site storage over the summer with the bulk of our collections. They've been tucked away in our on-site vaults. Their large glass display cases, however, returned just recently. We held off bringing the cases back until now so that we had unobstructed access in our lower hallway, not only to move the larger…
-
bloggers@brooklynmuseum
-
Ready-to-Wear: An Eye on 20s Fashion
25 Jan 2012 | 11:05 amFirst impressions of the exhibition Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties might suggest that the only important article of clothing during the Jazz Age was the bathing suit. Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889–1975). Self-Portrait with Rita, 1922. Oil on canvas, 49 x 39 3/8 in. (124.5 x 100 cm). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Mooney. © T. H. Benton and R. P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / UMB Bank Trustee / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photo: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Art Resource, NY… -
What’s Behind the Green Doors?
10 Jan 2012 | 11:04 amOn the first floor of the Museum, if you look to your left while waiting for the double elevators, you will notice two wide green double doors. Behind the green doors, educators install the Student Exhibition of the Gallery/Studio. If they doors are open, you might see some works of art on the far wall. If you step through the doors you will notice many more artworks filling the gallery. There are sculptures and paintings, artist books, prints, digital photographs, videos, models, and sometimes (for example this January) even interactive works that ask for visitor participation. This is the… -
QR in the New Year?
4 Jan 2012 | 1:57 pmA while back, I reported that we were in the process of a trial period with QR codes. We’ve just taken a look at the stats, so I’m giving a run down of what we’ve seen. If I asked the Magic 8-Ball if we’d continue with QR in the New Year, I think the response might be anything from “outlook not so good” to “don’t count on it” or, possibly, “cannot predict now.” In general, our staff at the Visitor Desk is seeing increased QR awareness among visitors and a rise in demand for the mobile palm card we produced, but stats will… -
In the Gallery vs. Online: How a Split Second Can Differ
28 Dec 2011 | 9:50 amOne of the questions people always ask me is how web differs from what happens in the building and that’s a difficult thing to get metrics on. With Split Second, we are in a unique position to answer that question because we’ve been running the same online activity on kiosks in the gallery. In this final Split Second blog post, I’m going to compare these two sets of data. Visitors were invited to take the online activity using kiosks in the gallery, so the data could be compared. 2600 visitors sat down at the kiosks to take the activity for a spin. You may remember from… -
Split Second: A Curator’s Reaction to the Results
21 Dec 2011 | 8:57 amI’ve had a lot of time to mull over the results of the Split Second, so here are a few of my thoughts—roughly one week before the Split Second exhibition closes. Please bear in mind that I don’t bring any expertise on Sociology or Psychology or Statistics to the picture. What I do bring is many years of experience working with Indian art and with people who are looking at Indian art for the first time. The original intent of the Split Second experiment was to measure people’s reactions to works of art as they encountered 1) objects that varied in degrees of complexity and 2) viewing…
-
museumsandtheweb.com - the on-line space for museum informatics
-
George Eastman House - Manager of Online Engagement
27 Jan 2012 | 4:24 pmread more -
Call for Nominations: 2012 SAA Waldo Gifford Leland Award
26 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pmPlease help us to recognize the best in our profession! Have you read a great new book about archives? Seen an exceptional new finding aid? Encountered a new documentary publication that is head and shoulders above the rest? Has a new web publication really stood out to you? read more -
Position Available - Conference & Events Manager, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ
26 Jan 2012 | 1:02 pmFor the International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture magazine, and a nonprofit organization founded in 1960 to champion the creation and understanding of sculpture, we are seeking a Conference & Events Manager. read more -
Submit your website to the MW2012 Crit Room
19 Jan 2012 | 7:32 pmWe need four plucky volunteers that are eager / willing / wanting to have their organization's website analyzed and critiqued by a panel of critics. We love to look at things old and new, either broadly or with specific questions and concerns in mind. read more -
Newseum Job Opening: Education Multimedia Curriculum Specialist
19 Jan 2012 | 11:59 amPosition Summary: The multimedia curriculum specialist identifies learning programs with high value and interest for the educational community and conceptualizes and creates effective learning programs and quality resources for use onsite and online. Responsibilities, including but not limited to: read more
-
Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project - 2012
-
Tony's Leaving Service and 'do' (and nest clean up)
17 Jan 2012 | 3:33 pmOn Thursday 2nd February, there will be a service in the cathedral to celebrate both Candlemas and Tony Grantham's departure from the post of Head Verger. The service starts at 7.00pm and will be a Communion Service with the choir singing a setting by Widor. There will be 'incense and much pomp & ceremony' apparently! The service should end about 8.15 and it will be followed (after a short pause while the choir and clergy change out of their cassocks etc) with presentations and some sort of a 'party', the details of which have not yet been announced.Everyone is welcome either for the… -
Another 'peregrine' trapped....or was it?
9 Jan 2012 | 3:48 pmThis afternoon (9th January) I received a phone call from Tony Grantham. The owner of a florist shop just down the road from the cathedral reported finding a 'peregrine' trapped behind anti-pigeon netting, tucking into a dead pigeon. Following my pre-Christmas rescue of a male sparrowhawk at the massive Westfield Shopping Centre, I had my suspicions that this bird might also prove to be the same and not a peregrine.I set off for town with gloves and a capture box not knowing what I would find. It was getting dark so I took a powerful torch which, as it happened, proved very useful.The shop… -
Solstice beckons
13 Dec 2011 | 2:28 amAs the days grow ever shorter we huddle round our fires and wildlife tends to be furthest from our thoughts. However, here are some reminders about what is going on out there - and some suggestions about how you might help.First, there's a petition to be signed...especially as Derbyshire has a particularly dismal record when it comes to raptor persecution. An e-petition submitted to the department of the environment has recently been accepted by the government and added to the official list of e-Petitions website. If 100,000 people sign the petition, the issue of 'Vicarious Liability' will be… -
Tony Grantham, an interview with him & a Raptor Rescue
11 Nov 2011 | 9:41 amWebcam Update:Derby City Council whose network connections we use for our webcams has changed its website today. If you are having difficulty accessing the normal webcam pages try: http://www.derby.gov.uk/apps/peregrines/or http://www.derby.gov.uk/apps/peregrines/webcam2.aspHear Tony's long interview on BBC Radio Derby on Monday at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00lw0bf (it's 1hr 8 minutes in)News has reached us that Tony Grantham, the cathedral's Head Verger for the last eleven years, has just resigned from his post and will leave the cathedral's employment at the end of… -
The Big Two Million
7 Nov 2011 | 4:37 pmDerby's peregrine falcons now have a global reach.But can we do more to reach new audiences closer to home?This month saw the number of online visits or “hits” to the Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project’s webcameras top the 2 million mark. This is a real milestone for us, especially as it also marks the start of a new phase in our project. Beginning next nesting season we want to bring live video streaming and sound to the public and to schools, and we want to increase the amount of outreach work we undertake, especially to minority audiences. We would also like to bring live 24 hour…
-
Egypt at the Manchester Museum
-
Scarabs in Ancient Egypt
27 Jan 2012 | 3:24 amIn preparation for the opening of our Ancient World Galleries, I spoke to our entomologist Dr. Dmitri Luganov about the habits of the scarab beetle and its significance in Ancient Egypt. -
Event: After Hours – Ancient Egypt by Torchlight
25 Jan 2012 | 3:23 amAncient Egypt by torchlight Ancient Egypt by torchlight – Mummies, monuments… and mystery! Thursday 26th January, 6.30-9.30pm. Join Curator Campbell Price at 7.15 & 8.45pm for a guided torchlight tour of the highlights from the current Ancient Egyptian Afterlife gallery before it closes for redevelopment at the end of February. http://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:y1o-gv2kktw0-lzwyz5/ -
Lecture: “Ancient Egypt and Modern Science: How Geophysics has Revealed More of Saqqara’s Secrets”
23 Jan 2012 | 11:13 amOn Friday the 27th of January I will be giving a lecture as part of the Daresbury Laboratory Talking Science series. Please note the change of topic: I will be speaking about how the work of the Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project has shed light on one of ancient Egypt’s most important religious and burial sites, Saqqara. The lecture will be between 7 and 8pm. Using radar equipment at Saqqara -
A safe return from a voyage… to Venezuela!
20 Jan 2012 | 5:05 amWhen the priestess Sheri-ankh died in the early Ptolemaic Period (c. 300 BC), she may have hoped to make one final journey: a funeral procession, across the river Nile, to her tomb on the west bank. Perhaps she supposed part of her soul might travel with the spirits of her departed relatives in the sun god’s barque across the sky. It is doubtful, however, that she ever entertained the notion of making a trip to South America. Salford EA7 on display in Caracas Spurious theories about Pharaonic trans-Atlantic voyages aside, it would have been neigh on impossible to make such a trip in 300 BC. -
Liverpool Ancient Worlds Dayschool: How Did Ancient Egyptian Statues Work?
18 Jan 2012 | 6:22 am‘How Did Ancient Egyptian Statues Work?’ SATURDAY 28TH JANUARY, 10 AM-4PM, THE GARSTANG MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY, 12-14 ABERCROMBY SQUARE,UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL. L69 7WZ. Presented by Dr Campbell Price Statues were central to ancient Egyptian religion, but how did the Egyptians use and understand them? This day school will examine stylistic developments in sculptures of non-royal people, deities and kings, and address the meanings behind them through textual sources. We will also study the existence of portraiture, the role of sculptors and the rituals designed to bring statues to…
-
Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog
-
The African Queen
27 Jan 2012 | 9:14 amThe African Queen (1951). United Artists/Photofest ©United Artists. The African Queen (1951) is an interesting anomaly in film history. An American director, with American stars, in a British film. Director John Huston was under suspicion from the House Un-American Activities committee in the early 1950s, and as a result he moved to Ireland. He set up a British film company and made several features before he returned to the US in the early 1960s. This caused The African Queen to be in precarious position for many years. The original negatives, in the old Technicolor three-strip… -
Super Bowl XLVI: More than a Football Game
26 Jan 2012 | 10:11 amIt’s hard to believe that it has been almost four years since Indianapolis was selected to host the 46th Super Bowl. For most of us, the Super Bowl has some sort of yearly tradition tied to it. We get together with friends, indulge ourselves, laugh at a few commercials and watch a football game. It’s one day, maybe two with a lingering hangover, and one event. For a host city, the Super Bowl is much more than this. Pictured left to right, from the IMA’s permanent collection: Untitled, plate 8, Garo Z. Antreasian, 1969. © Garo Antreatsian; Letter L, Edward Lear, about 1862;… -
Gauguin’s Still Life with Profile of Laval: A Modern Freundschaftsbild
24 Jan 2012 | 8:22 amPaul Gauguin, "Still Life with Profile of Laval," (1886). Samuel Josefowitz Collection of the School of Pont-Aven, through the generosity of Lilly Endowment Inc., the Josefowitz Family, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Cornelius, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Betley, Lori and Dan Efroymson, and other Friends of the Museum. 1998.167 Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) presented a painting to his friend and colleague Charles Laval (1862-1894) in 1887. The work, Still Life with Profile of Laval (1886), reinvigorates the longstanding European tradition of painters exchanging Freundschaftsbilder – pictures… -
Tango Tangerine
20 Jan 2012 | 1:58 pmWell, by now it is hardly a secret that the Pantone Color of the Year is Tango Tangerine. courtesy of Pantone. It is a deep shade of orange but here’s a more detailed description. Yes, tango and tangerine all in one color. The tango – filled with sensuality, barely repressed animal sexuality and total control of staccato yet fluid movement. Tangerine – filled with aromatic oils, sticky sweet yet tart juice, and so round and firm in the hand. What a combination! I’m a big fan of orange and the many shades of orange. Here are a few things I found about my house last night. This does not… -
A Matter of Life and Death
19 Jan 2012 | 3:55 pmDiane writes about the film A Matter of Life and Death (1946), screening at the Toby this Friday at 7pm as part of the Winter Nights film series. A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Eagle-Lion Films Inc./Photofest ©Eagle-Lion Films Inc. Photo by Fred Daniels. There are some old movies that just grab you—heart and mind—and carry you away before you even realize it. This is one of those films, a British film made during the final days of World War II, that is still on the favorites list of British filmgoers 60 years later. It is wonderful, especially on a big screen. Oliver Sacks,…
-
Museum Anthropology
-
Opening: Director, Yavapai Indian Cultural Center
26 Jan 2012 | 2:39 pmPOSITION TITLE: Executive DirectorLOCATION: Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe Reservation, Prescott, ArizonaDEPARTMENT: Yavapai Indian Cultural CenterREPORTS TO: Tribal Board of DirectorsSALARY: $54,200 - $67,800SCOPE OF WORK: Responsible for planning, organizing, and directing operations and associated activities for the Tribe’s nonprofit cultural center & museum enterprise. Serve as -
DMNS Internerships
24 Jan 2012 | 10:31 amThe Denver Museum of Nature & Science offers numerous summer and year-round internship opportunities. Check them out here!2012 Teen Science ScholarsAs a Teen Science Scholar, you will collaborate with professional scientists in the field and in the lab at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.Lloyd David and Carlye Cannon Wattis Foundation Internship Program for ZoologyThe Lloyd David and Carlye -
Culture Lab at the Haffenreffer
22 Jan 2012 | 10:28 amNot to be confused with the DMNS Culture Lab, a very exciting development at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology:In February the museum will open CultureLab. I’ve written about it before, when it was just an idea – that post showed a rough floor plan, and reproduced our planning document – a document based on the ideas and interests of museum staff, and also the input of students in my -
Ithaca College Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship for 2012-13
20 Jan 2012 | 10:26 amThe School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College announces a Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship for 2012-13. The fellowship supports promising scholars who are committed to diversity in the academy in order to better prepare them for tenure track appointments within liberal arts or comprehensive colleges/universities. Applications are welcome in the following areas: Anthropology, Art -
Opening: Director
18 Jan 2012 | 10:25 amDirector, Villa Finale Historic Site Posted January 9, 2012 Offered By National Trust for Historic Preservation Department of Historic Sites San Antonio , Texas ABOUT VILLA FINALE:Villa Finale is located in the King William Historic District of San Antonio, Texas, and was once the home of Walter Mathis, an important figure in the historic preservation movement in San Antonio. While the site
-
Ideum » Blog
-
100 Years Exhibition at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
13 Jan 2012 | 10:06 amEarly next month, 100 Years of State & Federal Policy: The Impact on Pueblo Nations exhibition opens at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The exhibit is tied to the state of New Mexico’s Centennial which happens this year. We’ve been working with the Cultural Center to develop two interactive exhibits for the exhibition. We’re designing the software and hardware, the Cultural Center has been been developing media including a series of videos for the exhibit. The Document Table is a multitouch table exhibit that allows visitors to learn… -
Linux Support Coming to the MT55
12 Jan 2012 | 4:29 pmHere at Ideum labs, we’ve been hard at work developing a new Linux driver for our MT Series multitouch tables and displays. Beginning in March, Linux users and developers will be able to take full advantage of the gesture-driven, social features of MT55 Pro table, MT55 Platform table, and the new MT65 Presenter wall display with native multitouch and GestureWorks support for applications deployed in Ubuntu. Running multitouch applications on our devices will be plug and play. Touch data from our driver will be exposed to both the TUIO protocol and by Linux’s native multitouch… -
Happy Holidays from Ideum
22 Dec 2011 | 12:35 pmHave a wonderful holiday season and very Happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you in 2012! Below are a few photographs of winter scenes from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Fajada Butte – All of the vegetation near Chaco Wash is covered with ice following a light snowfall and dense morning fog. Remaining pockets of fog can be seen in the distance beyond Fajada Butte.Chaco Wash originates twenty miles east of Chaco Canyon on the western slopes of the Continental Divide, runs through Chaco Canyon, and joins the Escavada Wash at the canyon’s western end near Peñasco Blanco. The… -
GestureWorks and Touch Revolution at CES 2012
16 Dec 2011 | 3:43 pmGestureWorks built software will be showcased in the Touch Revolution booth at CES 2012 in Las Vegas in January. GestureWorks is our own commercial multitouch authoring framework. If you’re at CES stop by the booth and check out our software and Touch Revolution’s multitouch displays.The Touch Revolution booth will be located at South 1 -20248. Last year, we showed off our multitouch Asteroids game (see below). This year we will have a new demo to show. You can purchase GestureWorks bundled with the Touch Revolution 21.5″ TRū™ Touch Monitor in the TouchRev store. -
GestureWorks 3 Released!
30 Nov 2011 | 10:43 amOur commercial multitouch framework, GestureWorks 3 is now available. There are a lot of new features including the introduction of the Gesture Markup Language, the world’s first markup language for multitouch. GestureML allows developers to rapidly change gesture interaction even after an application has been built. This flexibility helps address challenges in the design process, as creating user interface for multitouch and multiuser applications is still a new endeavor. GestureWorks 3 is completely rebuilt and we greatly improved the way the software analyzes gesture interaction.
-
ExhibiTricks: A Museum/Exhibit/Design Blog
-
ReWind: Building Internal Capacity
25 Jan 2012 | 6:46 pmIn honor of an article I have in the current (January-February 2012) issue of ASTC's Dimensions magazine entitled, "Internal Capacity: Making a Good Museum Great," I thought I'd reprise the post below. Enjoy! If there is one silver lining to the continually oppressive economic news, it's the opportunity for museums and other organizations to focus (or re-focus) on building their internal capacity.It might sound funny for an independent museum professional like myself to advocate for museums being able to develop and create programs and exhibits internally, but I am a strong believer that all… -
What Real World Advice Would You Give to a Museum Education Grad Student?
16 Jan 2012 | 6:57 pmOnce again I'll have the pleasure of teaching the graduate class in Exhibition Development at Bank Street College this semester. While I'm continually impressed by the high caliber of the students I work with, I always feel compelled to share "real world" museum advice with them --- especially with the job market so tight. So I'd like to harness the brain power of all my ExhibiTricks readers and ask you to please share (anonymously if you'd like) in the Comments Section below one bit of advice about the museum business that will help my grad students as they move forward and consider their… -
Turn the Content Around and Around: An Interview with Lyn Wood
10 Jan 2012 | 7:10 amLyn Wood founded Hands On! in 1984 as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation for “the promotion and expansion of science education opportunities through the development of participatory science centers and youth museums,” particularly in communities that do not have such resources for children and families. Shortly after its founding, Hands On! teamed with the Junior League of St. Petersburg, Florida, to co-found Great Explorations, the Hands On Museum, and helped operate it for several years. That accomplished, she spun off Hands On! to apply her knowledge of exhibition design,… -
Who Searches For Museums?
2 Jan 2012 | 8:55 amGoogle Correlate is a type of search engine off-shoot that finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends. For instance, researchers noticed the relationships between "flu related" searches (such as "what should I do if my child has a high fever?" or "what is the best cold medicine?") on Google to the spread of actual flu cases around the U.S. The exploration of such relationships was the genesis of Google Correlate. I thought it would be fun to see what sorts of search correlations show up when the term "museums" was used. As you can see in the screen shot above,… -
Your 2012 New Year's (ExhibitFiles) Resolutions
27 Dec 2011 | 1:04 pmI normally hate the idea of New Year's resolutions. Why wait until January to start making improvements? But here are two easy resolutions for museum/exhibit/design folks to make (and keep!) as the yearly calendar transition approaches: 1) Join ExhibitFiles 2) Post something on ExhibitFiles. What is ExhibitFiles you ask? ExhibitFiles is a website (funded by the National Science Foundation) for museum professionals (and aspiring museum professionals) from around the world to post Reviews of exhibits they've seen, or to post Case Studies of exhibition projects they have been…
-
Digital Campus
-
Episode 80 – Law Soup
27 Jan 2012 | 2:51 pmFriend of the podcast Peter Hirtle stands in for Amanda to give Tom, Mills, and Dan some much needed legal education as we take on SOPA, PIPA, the Research Works Act, and the Supreme Court’s decision in Golan v. Holder [PDF]. We also consider Apple’s attempts to shake up the textbook market and the sad fate of two very old University of Nevada at Reno students’ Facebook pages. Links mentioned on the podcast: Apple Introduces Tools to (Someday) Supplant Print Textbooks Apple’s mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement How Wikipedia Turned Off the Lights… -
Episode 79 – The 2011 Campies
21 Dec 2011 | 9:54 amRoll out the red carpet, because it’s time once again for the Campies, Digital Campus’s beloved year-end review of what has passed and what is to come. Tom, Amanda, Mills, and Dan reveal their picks for the best and worst of the year, and shine their crystal balls to predict with vague and partially satisfying accuracy what will come in 2012. And the Digital Campus accountants force the podcast crew to be accountable for last year’s predictions. Were they right on or way off? Listen in to find out. [Editor's note: We recorded this podcast on December 16, 2011, but released… -
Episode 78 – Death Knell for the Paywall
2 Dec 2011 | 4:05 pmThe clock strikes noon, and that sound might just signal the end of the bright morning for closed systems in higher education. On this week’s podcast, we discuss Coursekit, a free (for now) learning management system built by dropouts from the University of Pennsylvania; Commons-in-a-Box, a free (funded by the Sloan Foundation) academic social networking system of blogs and wikis that will be built by non-dropouts from the CUNY Academic Commons; and the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference, which seems to have convinced not only several universities but also the White House that… -
Episode 77 – #FERPANUTS
21 Nov 2011 | 9:35 amIn an age of course wikis and blogs, is a law written in 1974 up to the task of controlling where student information might go? Why does Google want us to register on their new citation service? And can the recorded lectures of Mills Kelly be remixed to make him look foolish (or is it already too late for that)? Find out on this episode of everyone’s favorite podcast featuring a trio of people named Tom, Mills, and Dan. Links mentioned on the podcast: Georgia Tech Invokes FERPA, Cripples School’s Wikis University of Missouri to limit lecture recording Google Scholar Citations Open to… -
Episode 76 – Siri? How Do I Fix Academic Publishing?
8 Nov 2011 | 1:51 pmIs it just us, or does it seem kind of strange to see people walking around campus, the mall, or the local park talking to their phones as if those phones were actually sentient? Even if it is a little strange, Dan, Tom, Amanda, and Mills spent some time speculating about what such “talk to me” apps might mean for museums, historic sites, and other places digital humanists care about. We also had generally nice things to say about the developer build of Windows 8 and about the recent meeting about the Digital Public Library of America. Our discussion of free content then led to a…
-
Cogapp blog
-
Tech weekly roundup
27 Jan 2012 | 11:20 amEach week we round up what’s been happening in the tech world and share a few of the things we like. This week features Lego Rubik’s Cube solving machines, learning to code, Hollywood movie datasets, creative technologist residencies and the dangers of fracking. Tech News Happenstance: a new residency programme for Creative Technologists Read moreread more -
Tech Round-Up
17 Jan 2012 | 4:24 amEach week we round up what’s been happening in the tech world and share a few of the things we like. This is the first of our weekly round-ups, and features Rube Goldberg machines, ICT education reform, Raspberry Pis, realtime projection mapping, Kinects and Cut The Rope. Launch of the Guardian’s Digital Literacy Campaign and reform of the ICT education curriculum Read moreread more -
In Progress 2011
11 Jan 2012 | 10:45 amThe recent ‘In Progress’ conference curated by ‘It’s Nice That’ held at the Barbican centre in London, was a great one-day event full of inspirational talks. Read moreread more -
Raking ashes: why I hate the Kindle Fire, but might yet learn to love it
20 Dec 2011 | 4:54 amI've had a Kindle Fire for several weeks now. In addition to being a soft southerner and an effete intellectual, I'm also a spoiled Apple user - so naturally I hate it. Read moreread more -
UK Museums on the Web 2011
5 Dec 2011 | 5:01 amThese are tough time for museums, but often that's when the really innovative ideas happen – That was the flavour of the day at the Museum Computer Group annual conference, that @Gavssandwiches Mallory and I attended last week. There was an abundance of ideas and energy bouncing around the Imperial War Museum where it was held, which was the perfect venue for it not least because we could leave the conference space to be inspired by real users of a museum, alive in their native habitat. Read moreread more
-
Artiflection
-
Consuming Culture at Colonial Williamsburg
16 Jan 2012 | 11:36 amOver the week between Christmas and New Years this year, I traveled to Colonial Williamsburg with my family. While there, I attended a concert of chamber music at the governor's palace meant to emulate the kinds of music that the state's upper-crust would have enjoyed in the years immediately preceding the American Revolution. My lack of intense enjoyment of this musical style prompted some interesting conversations with friends who had benefited from Oberlin Conservatory's phenomenal musical education.My friend, Kate, provided an insightful view, introducing me to the scholarship of Bruce… -
At Home with History in Traverse City
7 Nov 2011 | 3:14 pmThree years ago, before I moved to central Michigan, a friend told me about an astonishing adaptive reuse project a few hours north of his hometown. He described this project as "creepy" and even "crazy." Given that the project was to convert a shuttered state mental institution into a mixed-use commercial/residential complex, I didn't doubt his assessment.However, a few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to visit this place with my husband as part of our annual anniversary get-away. The complex is now called "The Village at Grand Traverse Commons" and, although it retains an austere grandeur… -
Telling Stories at Les Egouts and Versailles
30 Jun 2011 | 11:59 pmTwo highlights of my trip to Paris and its environs were the relatively obscure Museum of the Sewers (Les Egouts) and the wildly popular Chateau of Versailles with its gardens. It might seem strange to write about them in the same post, but you'd be surprised by how much they have in common. Both are authentic historical places with rich histories, and both, as interpretive sites, missed opportunities. Les Egouts, accessible via a museum entrance at Pont D'Alma in Paris, are earnest and forthright in the story they tell about the history of Parisien sanitation. The self-guided walking tour… -
A Taste of France
29 Jun 2011 | 7:03 amSorry to disappoint, but this post will not be about cheese. Although, I can attest to its superior qualities judging by my husband's rapturous indulgence as frequently as possible. We Americans are invariably amazed by the comparative svelt-a-tude of the French given their seemingly large portions (even at Paul Bocuse) and their rather continuous consumption of cream.But, enough about food. I'm hear to report on some off-the-beaten path observations from my third trip to France.1) Lyon: the promenade along the Rhone River is divided into unique sections, each with its own navigational sign. -
The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village
13 Jun 2010 | 4:38 pmA visit from my mother last week meant the perfect opportunity to visit the Henry Ford and Greenfield Village, "America's Greatest History Attraction."The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village have long been a favorite topic of discussion among bemused public history graduate students. Like the personality and legacy of their originator, the institution is a conglomerate of populism, boosterism and genuine ingenuity veiled with a touch of obfuscation. From the visitor's moment of entry, it is clear that this place is uncertain about its identity in the cultural heritage spectrum. The Henry Ford…
-
How Learning Comes in to Play!
-
Movement as Art
20 Jan 2012 | 11:14 amDance is common to many cultures as both a form of art and recreation. Dance as art expresses emotion, sets a mood and even tells a story. Some dances consist of symbolic gestures that tell a complete story through carefully choreographed movements. Dance as recreation has long been a source of relaxation, fun and companionship. Dance can help children move, think and feel simultaneously – a -
The Power of Movement
13 Jan 2012 | 9:44 amThe New Year is here and many of us are talking about moving more--moving to reduce weight, moving to increase energy and moving to take better care of our bodies. Movement is a powerful tool for parents, caregivers and educators of young children. Eloise Elliott, Ph.D., creator of a web-based instructional module for intermediate age children on cardiovascular health, Healthy Hearts for Kids, -
Guests Got on Board to Celebrate the New Year!
9 Jan 2012 | 2:15 pmMuseum members and visitors gathered New Year’s Eve morning for our annual Bubble Bash event, Bubble Bash 2011 All Aboard! Next Stop 2012. The event featured live music, train-themed activities, light refreshments and a countdown to noon led by Naperville Mayor A. George Pradel. Naperville Mayor A. George Pradel leads the countdown to noon Bubbles filled the room when the clock struck noon -
Who Counts?
30 Dec 2011 | 10:16 amWho’s counting? Is it the toddler who pulls a sock on each foot? The three year old who cries “Eight, seven, ten! Here I come!”? The preschooler who announces that there are eleven racing cars when there are really only ten? Or the kindergartner who carefully and correctly counts a long row of pennies? The truth is, all three of them are counting. They’re just at different points along the way. -
Get Those Duck in a Row
22 Dec 2011 | 7:28 amMaybe your child’s got her stuffed animals all lined up from biggest to smallest. Or maybe he’s told you that his best friend can jump almost--but not quite--as high as he can, and that another friend can hardly get off the ground. If so, you’re an eyewitness to the emergence of an essential math skill, one that your child will have plenty of opportunities to explore at DCM: seriation. Seriation
-
Museum Collections Up Close : MNHS.ORG
-
History on Ice!
24 Jan 2012 | 11:04 amIce skating has long been part of Minnesota’s identity and winter traditions. In this podcast we examine the beginnings of the sport in the state as well as some early innovators who had national and worldwide impact. Enjoy the history, and then get out there – the ice is perfect! Music credit: Chabrier – España ft. NE Iowa high school musicians (Jason Weinberger & the WCFSO) / CC BY 3.0 -
The Hill House Servants: Life Downstairs
6 Jan 2012 | 5:06 pmNot unlike the divided household of Downton Abbey, we have a dramatic example of upstairs/downstairs life right here in Minnesota. The “Empire Builder” James J. Hill and his family were the primary occupants of 240 Summit Avenue but another, less familiar group of people lived there as well: the 10 to 12 live-in domestic servants who did the cleaning, cooking, laundry, and maintenance work at the house. In piecing together the stories of these servants, information is culled from a variety of sources that can be found in the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. -
Beyond the Doughboy: Minnesota Mascots
19 Dec 2011 | 4:55 pmExplore the curious, cute, weird, and wonderful world of mascots who represent the Great State of Minnesota. From a lumberjack and Twins to a gopher and a duck, the mascots are a recognizable part of life in Minnesota and often our ambassadors to the world beyond. -
Primary vs. Secondary Sources
16 Nov 2011 | 4:40 pmOften students come in to the Library with assignments to do research in primary source materials, but find that they’re not quite sure what a primary source is. This video provides a brief discussion of primary and secondary sources with examples from the Society’s collections. -
A Brief History of Bow Ties
1 Nov 2011 | 9:20 amThis informative piece on the history of bow ties focuses on those in the Minnesota Historical Society’s Collection. Consider updating your look using tried and true retro fashion! Part of the ‘Things Used to be Cooler’ series. Watch for more fashion and living tips from the past coming soon!
-
Classical and fashionate for you
-
American Bath & Body Works Large capacity water red and white striped cosmetic bag admission package
28 Jan 2012 | 3:55 amAnd a Bath Body Works ~ it is the brand of cosmetics is sold,hermes outlet online the price is not high, but this brand of cosmetics bags to come Que Shibi The more specific the high ~ Why? I think it is her sense of design, fashion degree and selected materials, right – got my first impression is a good bright colors oh girl who should have seen another brand with soft pink cosmetic bag, this brand The bag is really quite real, bright distinctive red and white section, with the flashy color, contrast is very endearing – Naval Air oh ~ ~ body is waterproof material Oh, go swimming… -
[Limited] Fu Li-fang silk suit Moisturizing Lotion limited set I
28 Jan 2012 | 3:55 amNote: 1,windows 7 key does not limit the number of purchase; 2, no bargaining, no; 3, full $ 400 save 10 postage; 4, Weight Description: 2=1 kg. QQ: 424175129 Mobile: 13880051158 From Classical and fashionate for you, post [Limited] Fu Li-fang silk suit Moisturizing Lotion limited set I -
CASIO LTP-2069D-2AV
27 Jan 2012 | 9:15 amBeijing,panerai replica watches Wuhan, Dalian Shopping mall full Casio counters include: Genuine + brand new store counter counter original invoices (machine-printed invoices or invoices clip stores, check the IRS website) + + Casio dealer stamped warranty card special bag + Genius service. CASIO Casio LTP-2069D Casio counter counter supply national unity Price: $ 598 Description: 50 meters daily water; 3-year battery, date, week display 12/24 hour display of pure pointer conversion; mineral the glass. Quality Material Specification: New Genuine Original stainless steel case Stainless steel… -
Golden Fox/FOXER Genuine wild soft surface leather new 2011 Women's leather handbag women bags
26 Jan 2012 | 8:29 amToday’s Deal: children music blasting sand shall fall and winter 2011 handbags New England,coach outlet online Europe and folding portable shoulder bag handbags A513 78 $ 101 7. 72 $ 23. 00 1 Ìì 8:23 minutes and seconds Today’s Deal: Le sand child/LESHAER handbags New England winter in Europe and America Arrow Messenger retro shoulder bag A352 78 $ 101 7. 72 $ 23. 00 1 Ìì 8:23 minutes and seconds technical support: super manager Kim Fox/FOXER genuine cow leather handbag 2011 new Women’s fashion leather bag patent leather bag $ 398. 0 authentic Golden Fox/FOXER European… -
Paul Winter 2011 Men's polo new short section of the original single-fashion polo Slim Down Jacket Men
24 Jan 2012 | 7:54 amRefer to table the following sizes: M: Shoulder 45 Chest 115 Length 63 Sleeve 64L: Shoulder 47 Chest 120 Length 65 Shoulder 49 Bust Sleeve 66XL code 125 Length 67 Sleeve 68 (tile physical manual measurement,ralph lauren polo shirts there is an appropriate error is 1-3cm. requires accurate, please carefully shot! ) From Classical and fashionate for you, post Paul Winter 2011 Men's polo new short section of the original single-fashion polo Slim Down Jacket Men
-
Animal Department
-
What do they do when it’s cold?
27 Jan 2012 | 11:00 amHi everybody! Now the time has come once again for the tank tops, flip flops and short shorts to get packed up again for the season (that’s okay, I don’t look so good in short shorts anyway). The end of fall is gone and we’re officially into winter. The weather has been remarkably warm for this time of year, but we’re past Thanksgiving have even knocked out the big holiday part of the year. That’s right, the buy Mikey presents and give him Stuffed Shells to eat time! The tree can come down and the mistletoe can be packed up (ladies, don’t let that… -
All aboard!
25 Jan 2012 | 2:03 pmI was reading the news the other day and ran across this in several publications. Photo This little opossum was found on a the subway system in NYC. From the various articles I read people thought it was a huge rat and the riders had to evacuate the train. I am from NYC and would hope to know the difference between a rat and an opossum. Good ending was that animal control came and was able to re-release the opossum somewhere else. Here is a link to another opossum ending up in places they shouldn’t be! -
Pine Snake breeding
23 Jan 2012 | 6:07 pmWe’re going to be trying to breed Northern pine snakes this spring. We have males and Dan Nicholas Park in Salisbury NC has a female. I’m sure Mikey will write more about the process so look for that coming up. In the meantime, here’s a photo of the female that will be making her way to us in March. She’s about 6 feet long. She’s being held by Mike Lambert, one of her human caregivers. -
Squirrel Appreciation Day
21 Jan 2012 | 9:44 amJanuary 21st is Squirrel Appreciation Day. (I think the wolves appreciate squirrels). I learned about this day too late last year so I have been waiting all year to write this post (and, to be honest, I almost forgot again). There’s an article and photos at Huff Post from last year to acknowledge the day (click here). Michele Kloda, a member of the Museum’s research and development team, interviewed Michael Steele, Professor of Biology and H. Fenner Chair of Research Biology, Wilkes College, Wilkes Barre, PA and learned the following amazing information about squirrels:… -
QuikPic: Auggie and Lightning
19 Jan 2012 | 9:09 amOne of our Master Teachers shared this photo with me. Any thoughts on what the two might be conversing about? (Remember the photo of Lightning and Max?)
-
Museum People
-
Sette cervi d’argento per Papa Silvestro
13 Jan 2012 | 7:11 amIn un rapido passaggio del Liber Pontificalis, relativo al tempo di Papa Silvestro, in riferimento alle importanti donazioni di Costantino al battistero lateranense, si elencano le preziose e pesanti statue che decoravano la vasca battesimale, ovvero un agnello d’oro che effondeva acqua, che pesava 30 libbre; il Salvatore in finissimo argento del peso di ben 70 libbre; il Battista, pure in argento, che spiegava un rotolo ove era scritto Ecce agnus Dei, ecce qui tollit peccata mundi, di ben 125 libbre; sette cervi argentei, che effondevano acqua, ognuno dei quali pesava 80 libbre (Liber… -
Hegel on Athena’s Owl
10 Dec 2011 | 2:37 pmUm noch über das Belehren, wie die Welt sein soll, ein Wort zu sagen, so kommt dazu ohnehin die Philosophie immer zu spät. Als der Gedanke der Welt erscheint sie erst in der Zeit, nachdem die Wirklichkeit ihren Bildungsprozeß vollendet und sich fertig gemacht hat. Dies, was der Begriff lehrt, zeigt notwendig ebenso die Geschichte, daß erst in der Reife der Wirklichkeit das Ideale dem Realen gegenüber erscheint. . . Wenn die Philosophie ihr Grau in Grau malt, dann ist eine Gestalt des Lebens alt geworden, und mit Grau in Grau läßt sie sich nicht… -
Leonardo da Vinci, National Gallery - review
13 Nov 2011 | 10:26 amVirgin territory: the Madonna Litta, c.1491-95, from St Petersburg, an icon modernised, its realism based on drawings from life. The lapis lazuli of her robe is in characteristic breakdown In Vinci, a small town a morning's walk to the west of Florence, on 15 April 1452, Leonardo - famous painter, sculptor, architect, mathematician, anatomist and engineer - was born into a family that had adopted the town's name as its own. He was the illegitimate son of Piero, a young notary (a lawyer of sorts), and Catarina, a local farmer's daughter. What a momentous out-of-wedlock… -
Roald Dahl Museum
14 Sep 2011 | 3:43 pmHello MuseumPeople!There has been a bit of a kerfuffle over the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre's campaign to save the garden hut where the author wrote his stories. The hut and its contents have been untouched since his death 21 years ago, and is now in a state of disrepair. The campaign hopes to raise £500,000 to move it to the Museum where the contents can be conserved and displayed.Sadly for the Museum, it's all gone horribly wrong.Here's the original radio programme link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9589000/9589401.stm and for those of you outside the… -
Официальная программа фестиваля "Музейный гид"/регистрация
24 Aug 2011 | 10:12 am2-3 сентября, 2011ЦСИ Винзавод/Цех КрасногоВход свободный«МУЗЕЙНЫЙ ГИД / MUSEUM GUIDE»международная выставочно-дискуссионная платформа Сегодня официально открыта регистрация на события Фестиваля "МУЗЕЙНЫЙ ГИД"!Заявки высылать на почту museum.guide.fest@gmail.com с указанием мероприятия фестиваля и Вашей контактной…
-
Museum Planning
-
2012 World’s Top 10 Science Centers
24 Jan 2012 | 11:42 amCiti des Sciences et de l'Industrie World’s Top 10 Science Centers, most visited Science Museums, data as of 2010 / 2011 Top 10 Science Centers – Worldwide 1. Citi des Sciences et de l’Industrie 5,000,000 2. Science Museum, London 2,700,000 3. Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, 2,500,000 2. National Science and Technology Museum, Taiwan 2,050,790 4. Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago 1,605,020 5. Pacific Science Center, Seattle 1,602,000 6. Museum of Science, Boston 1,600,000 7. Science City, Kolkata 1,522,726 8. Ontario Science Center 1,509,912 9. -
Museum Exhibitions Change Lives
13 Jan 2012 | 7:21 pmMuseum Exhibitions change lives, maybe more than any other media. Sculpture, painting, film, dance, theater and music, all combined with the visitor into one experience. I believe that museum exhibitions have the opportunity to change lives. Friday, I visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . The building is non nondescript, I was struck by the brutality of the steel and concrete, the architecture is very abrupt and bunker like. Visitors enter through metal detectors. At the entrance is a picture of Stephen Tyrone Johns, I noticed the picture, but didn’t think… -
Museum Trends
9 Jan 2012 | 10:07 pm"Trends Map" from Now and Next Weekly news about museum trends, museum planning, the future of museums and interactive kinetic sculpture for the week ending January 9, 2012. Museum Planner Related: Posted “2010 Top Art Museums”, part of research into “bricks and mortar” vs. online museum experience, Link Posted “Getting Started in Museums”,Link Museum Planner in 2012 Link Just posted about my experience as a juror for the “2011 Solar Decathlon”, Link Uploaded photos of Toyota Mobile Experience” consulted on interactive… -
2011 Solar Decathlon
2 Jan 2012 | 11:13 pm2011 Solar Decathlon Last October I was invited to be a juror for the 2011 Solar Decathlon. The Solar Decathlon is a semi-annual event (next Decathlon 2013) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s – National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) . I was selected as one of three jurors of the Communication Jury. We were given the task of ranking the work of 20 international teams. Each team was given very specific requirements to create a solar home. The Communication jury was tasked with ranking, how the teams “communicate” their project to the public. Being a… -
museumplanner.org had a great 2011 – Thank you all !
28 Dec 2011 | 11:00 ammuseumplanner.org had a wonderful 2011 – Thank you all ! Accomplishments in 2011: Museum Planner has become the world’s most followed resource for Museum Planning and Exhibition Design (Alexa ranking) 2012 Museum Exhibition Cost Survey Continue to define the best practices of museum planning and exhibition design “Museums are Hospitality” most followed post to date on AAM Linkedin Hub Museum concept better defined “Connecting with the Muses” Phases of museums, “Future of Interactivity” Continue to answer the “Fequently asked…
-
Museums Now
-
27 Jan 2012 | 3:35 pm
27 Jan 2012 | 3:35 pmMe in 3D: Live Science Research in a Museum SettingJanet Petitpas, Senior Associate, LondonThe new identity exhibit at the Science Museum in London, Who am I?, includes a gallery called Live Science in which real scientists come into the Museum to carry out their research using Museum visitors as volunteers. The current partnership is called “me in 3D” and involves having one’s face photographed by a three-dimensional camera. The study is in partnership with the National Health Service, the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, and the Institute for Child Health in which they are… -
7 Dec 2011 | 12:45 pm
7 Dec 2011 | 12:45 pmUp in the Canopy, the Treetop walk at Kew GardensJanet Petitpas, Senior Associate, London In 2008, Kew Gardens opened The Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway on International Biodiversity Day. The Treetop walkway is a series of paths and platforms 18 meters (59 feet) up in the air, allowing garden visitors to walk about the tree canopy. At a cost of £3 million, it was designed by Marks Barfield Architects, the firm who also designed the London Eye.The experience starts underground as visitors enter a crack in the ground to explore an exhibit about the natural world beneath the trees. In… -
17 Oct 2011 | 4:50 am
17 Oct 2011 | 4:50 amAdventure Playgrounds: Putting ADVENTURE in the PlaygroundPart 3 in a 3 part seriesJanet Petitpas, Senior Associate, London.There are concerns afloat about whether or not playgrounds have gotten too safe and sterile. A summer New York Times article addressed this issue and discussed how playgrounds and parks that offer some risk-taking can be places that encourage children to address their fears and have the opportunity to conquer them. Have adventure playgrounds in London found the right balance?My observation is that some have worked hard to create environments that are unique and… -
5 Oct 2011 | 1:42 pm
5 Oct 2011 | 1:42 pmWhat Does it Take to Nurture a Successful Human Being and Can Museums Help?Janet Petitpas, Senior Associate, LondonA recent article in the New York Times profiles the Riverdale Country School and its head, Dominic Randolph, as he and his prestigious private school aim to graduate students that demonstrate strong character. As part of Randolph’s exploration of character, he engaged with Martin Seligman (one of the founders of the Positive Psychology movement) and David Levin (superintendent of the KIPP schools in New York City) on the topic of developing character as part of the education… -
30 Aug 2011 | 6:50 pm
30 Aug 2011 | 6:50 pmAdventure Playgrounds: A History Part 2 in a 3 part series Janet Petitpas, Senior Associate, London, Maeryta Medrano, AIA LEED AP, President of Gyroscope, Inc; Chuck Howarth, VP, Gyroscope, Inc. What is an Adventure Playground? The broadest definition of an Adventure Playground is a public open space where children can play and climb on structures usually made of wood, ropes and old tires (Cambridge Dictionaries Online). Early Adventure Playgrounds contained building materials and discarded industrial parts that were used by children to build with, hide in, climb on, or use in any way that…
-
Nasher Museum Blogs
-
Bill Thelen: Top Ten 2011
26 Jan 2012 | 2:05 pmWe always find something new at Lump gallery/projects in Raleigh. There, we love learning a thing or two from Bill Thelen, who is a natural teacher but also as curious and insightful as the best student. It's already been a year since Bill shared his Top Ten in this space. Below is Bill's Top Ten for 2011, exclusive to the Nasher Museum Blog. -
Acey Deucey: It all comes together
13 Jan 2012 | 4:54 pmSome of us knew Harrison Haynes for his music, as the drummer for the art band Les Savy Fav. Others met him through his art. The two sides of Harrison collide in "Acey Doucey," his new solo show at Gatewood Gallery, at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. -
Thank you for the thank you
9 Jan 2012 | 3:31 pmWe have all been smiling all day because of the thank-you note (above) from visiting school children. -
here.
3 Jan 2012 | 2:42 pmBy Wendy It’s no secret that Durham is a 90-minute flight from LaGuardia. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? We asked two Durham-based artists, Harrison Haynes and Stacy Lynn Waddell (a contributor to this blog), to talk about life in Durham and the exhibition “here.” which was [...] -
Milton Rogovin: The Lives They Lived
28 Dec 2011 | 9:28 am"Milton Rogovin dedicated his life to documenting poor people in his community, seeing the great spiritual bond and love between people, finding beauty. So, he's a guy who, spiritually, has a lot in common with Jurgen Schadeberg and Fred Herzog--going into communities where oppression is familiar. This represents a very interesting interplay between photographer and subject that is the major theme in 'Becoming.' "
-
National Heritage Museum
-
“The Bible and the People”: A Temperance Story
24 Jan 2012 | 9:00 amHere at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library, we’ve got a soft spot for temperance organizations. Most of the material in the collection related to this subject has to do with groups like the Sons of Temperance—which at one point in the 1850s claimed more members than Freemasonry—or the Independent Order of Good Templars, but we also hold material related to the temperance movement in general. This includes an example of British temperance propaganda, a mid-1800s folio of colored lithographs called, The Bible and the People. The publisher, Dean and Son of 35… -
A Cowan's X-Rays
17 Jan 2012 | 8:00 amI recently wrote about Auld & Smellie, two eighteenth-century Scottish printers who, it turns out, actually existed and were not, as I had originally suspected, another printer's idea of a practical joke ("old and smelly"). This post takes a look at a book with an author's name that is, in fact, a bit of a practical joke. Let’s put on our x-ray vision glasses and take a look at what’s behind this title page and this author’s name. Writers, more than printers, are the people that one might first think of as using either pseudonyms or pen names. An interesting - and fairly obscure -… -
Funny Fashions
10 Jan 2012 | 8:00 amFor decades, popular television programs and movies have often poked fun at fraternal groups by featuring characters that belong to made-up fraternities with goofy names and even funnier hats and costumes. In the real world, members and non-members alike have often perceived Masonic costume as weird, silly, or outlandish. Most fraternal groups—both real and imagined—took their cues for rituals, symbols, and special clothing from Freemasonry. Masonic regalia—the symbolic clothing that members wear, including aprons, fez, and character costumes—does have an element of wackiness. Yet,… -
Solomon's Temple Samplers
3 Jan 2012 | 8:00 amOne of the National Heritage Museum’s Solomon’s Temple samplers is the cover star for the new issue (Winter 2011) of Sampler and Antique Needlework Quarterly magazine! Pictured below, the sampler was stitched by Margaret Jane Leadbitter in 1846 in Sandoe, England. My interest in Solomon’s Temple samplers began when I started working at the museum in 2006 and quickly came across three samplers in the collection that depict the temple. Leadbitter’s depiction of the temple is prominently placed at the center of her sampler and is clearly identified by her stitched inscription “South… -
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
27 Dec 2011 | 8:00 amScottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library staff and volunteers are currently working to digitize our entire collection of historic photographs. This part of the collection includes over 1,000 images from the 1800s and 1900s, many showing men and women in their Masonic and fraternal regalia. You can browse and search the images that have been digitized by visiting our website. Click on “Collections” and then click on “Online Collections” and “Click here to start a search of our online collection.” You will be taken to a new window where you can search for all of the photos by typing…
-
National Museums Liverpool Blog
-
Volunteer blog: photography fun!
27 Jan 2012 | 9:02 amIt's great to hear that volunteering at National Museums Liverpool can really be a memorable experience for those involved. Here's a blog by a recent volunteer who helped out in our Photography and Decorative Art departments... Adrian in the Decorative Arts store My name is Adrian Foo-Gibney and for the last two weeks I have been on a Year 10 work placement with National Museums Liverpool. During my time here I have learnt many skills, ranging from hands-on skills like photography to communication skills. This was a great experience for me as I got along with all the members of staff and had… -
Michael Bublé and his dinosaur friends
27 Jan 2012 | 7:12 amAfter enjoying the amusing adventures of Michael Bublé and his raptor friend we started trying to imagine what it’d be like if they came to face to face with our resident tarbosaurus! We don’t think he’d be scared! Would you be? If you love dinosaurs and you love Michael Bublé why not print out this photo and keep it in your wallet! And if you want to visit tarbosaurus and some raptors, get yourself down to World Museum before 15 April. Photo credit- Thanks to VancityAllie for the original Michael Bublé photo. -
The letter that never reached the Titanic
24 Jan 2012 | 11:45 amDetail of May Louise McMurray's poignant letter As the title suggests, this year's major exhibition at Merseyside Maritime Museum, Titanic and Liverpool: the untold story, will focus on local connections to the disaster – a side of the tragedy that many people may not be aware of. The liner never visited the port but was registered here and many of the crew were based in Merseyside. The loss of the ship and so many people on board therefore had tragic consequences for many families in the area. For example, Birkenhead-born William McMurray, aged 43, was a First Class bedroom steward on the… -
Ship Model Conservation at the Lady Lever
19 Jan 2012 | 7:52 amOften as a conservator, there are not many opportunities to engage with the public. Working in studios undertaking practical conservation work can leave little time for interaction with those who enjoy and visit the collections. So when I was recently given the opportunity to do a demonstration of ship model conservation at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight Village I was eager to accept. The Gallery is part of National Museums Liverpool, and houses a collection of fine and decorative art. The Lady Lever Art Gallery was founded by William Hesketh Lever, and contains the best of his… -
Capoeira Club starting soon
19 Jan 2012 | 4:31 amNow that we're well into January I bet you've heard the phrase "2012 is the year I'm going to get fit" many times over from different people - perhaps you've even said it yourself. Putting those good intentions and new year's resolutuions into practice can be easier said than done though, as it's hard to motivate youself during the dark days of winter. If this sounds familiar then the International Slavery Museum's Capoeira Club could be just the thing you need. All ages, levels of fitness and abilities are welcome to the friendly classes led by Daniel Baird - whether you have an interest in…
-
Yesterday.sg
-
The Village of Lime
27 Jan 2012 | 6:34 pmDid you even know there was a place in Singapore called the Village of Lime? More accurately, Soonambu Kambam, which refers to the area around the Old Tekka Market, and encompasses much of what we call Little India today. Jerome writes about the Village of Lime during the recent Pongal celebrations earlier this month. Pongal is a major harvest festival celebrated in South India - so no surprise that it is celebrated here since many of our ethnic Indians come from there. The hub of activity in Little India during this period is in Campbell Lane: Wandering around over the weekend had the added… -
100,000 copies sold
26 Jan 2012 | 6:23 pmProducing a song is no small feat. Having sold 100,000 copies of the song in Asia in the 1960s is an achievement! Andy shares the story of Su Yin, whose claim to fame was the hit song Yodelling Cowboy (黃昏放牛). Singaporean singer, songwriter and lyricist Su Yin (舒雲) had a deep, powerful, bass baritone voice suitable for the Mandarin songs that he belted out. Whether it was an Eric Burdon, Engelbert Humperdinck, a Bobby Helms, Mick Jagger, Ray Peterson or even a Blue Diamonds hit Su Yin could make each song his own. And in Chinese. His singing style went down well with local Chinese… -
How to use a typewriter
25 Jan 2012 | 6:30 pmChun See uncovers a typewriter while spring cleaning - do you know how to operate one? It’s not as easy as pressing keys, that’s for sure! How was working on a typewriter different from working with a computer? For one, think of a typewriter as a computer, word-processor and printer all rolled into one. You actually had to be mindful of the paper you were using: It’s been decades since I last used a typewriter. I remember that when you wanted to type a single sheet, you had to use an additional sheet of paper so that the keys would not damage the drum. Of course, if you wanted a… -
How to make a pinball machine
24 Jan 2012 | 6:20 pmHere’s a cool project to make over the weekend - a 1960s pinball machine, with instructions courtesy of James Seah. Board Game at Stanley Street, National Archives of Singapore James blogs about the games kids used to play when they were younger in this post. Also check out Games We Played, a celebration of childhood in Singapore. -
Keeping the pastry tradition alive
23 Jan 2012 | 6:05 pmGastronaut features the story of Mr Chan Kim Ho, the culinaire behind the Poh Guan Cake House in Chinatown - an institution that has been producing Chinese pastries since 1930. The industry in traditional Chinese pastries has seen its ups and downs, especially with the popularity of western-style pastries and mass-market bakeries. Still, Mr Chan and his pastries are not down for the count: What’s heartening to this 68-year-old doyen of Chinese pastry making, however, is the revival among the young of giving out traditional Chinese cakes at weddings. This has an advantage, Mr Chan says with…
-
Tacoma Art Museum Docents Blog TAM Docents Blog
-
TAM Docents: TAM Docents 2012
27 Jan 2012 | 10:56 amHello Docents-Attached is a PDF copy of 2012 docents with ID photos. I have alphabetized by first name. A new copy will be taped up in the back office of the ARC by the Docent Desk.Thank you,-Jana Jana Wennstrom | TACOMA ART MUSEUMManager of Public and Volunteer Programs T: 253.272.4258 x30301701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington 98402www.TacomaArtMuseum.org embrace art in everyday lifeFolk Treasures of MexicoOctober 29 - February 19 -
TAM Docents: ARC printer...
26 Jan 2012 | 6:42 pmHello Docents-We have had an interesting development that I am afraid is going to cause you a bit more work. In approximately the past 6 weeks, the ARC has gone through 2 printer toner cartridges at about $60 each. This is because a lot of printing is being done on that printer/copier and I am suspecting it is because of the vast amounts of material that is likely getting copied by docents. I am asking that, from now on, please take larger print jobs (more than, say, 5 pages) down to the Admin level and use one of the heavy duty printers there. This will save the museum a significant amount… -
More February Tours!
26 Jan 2012 | 4:24 pmHello Docents, I have added one more tour that I need your help with in February and a few other docent shift options. We have a total of three group tours that need a docent! Please let me know if you can help out with one of the following opportunities: Open Shifts If anyone is looking for a consistent monthly shift, the following shifts are available:Every Third Thursday, from 10 am to 2 pm Every Fourth Thursday, from 11 am to 3 pm February Open Shifts Wednesday, February 8th, from 10 am to 2 pm Third Thursday, February 16th, from 10 am to 2 pm… -
Open Shifts and Group Tours in February
25 Jan 2012 | 3:37 pmHello Docents, I have a few open shifts and tours I need your help with in February. Please let me know if you are interested in any of the following opportunities: Open Shifts If anyone is looking for a consistent monthly shift, the following shift is available: Every Third Thursday, from 10 am to 2 pm February Open Shifts Wednesday, February 8th, from 10 am to 2 pm Third Thursday, February 16th, from 10 am to 2 pm Wednesday, February 29th, from 11 am to 3 pm Group Tours I need one docent to help out Randy Hyde with the following Folk… -
TAM Docents: 10th NW Biennial Materials
24 Jan 2012 | 11:21 amHello Docents-I have attached a whole load of materials to start getting you ready for tomorrow's training on the 10th Northwest Biennial. I will make copies to be available at the Docent Desk as well though I may not get them up there before tomorrow's training. Feel free to ask me for them if you need to make copies as they will be at my desk until they get transported upstairs.Thank you,-Jana Jana Wennstrom | TACOMA ART MUSEUMManager of Public and Volunteer Programs T: 253.272.4258 x30301701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington 98402www.TacomaArtMuseum.org embrace art in…
-
Burke Blog
-
SCIENCE!! Comics: Episode 3
27 Jan 2012 | 11:38 amThis week! The Elephant's 6th Toe Learn more!This week's comic was based on a recent science paper, but has been thoroughly covered in the news (including the New York Times and the BBC News). There's much more to learn about the "toe" - like its similarities to the panda's "thumb" - but I was trying to keep this one short and sweet. As usual, any mistakes are mine alone. I drew a female Asian elephant (which doesn't have tusks) and should note that apparently the number of toenails they have can vary. Both the elephant and the bones are a bit cartoony and shouldn't be taken as anatomical… -
Volunteer Spotlight: Fish Collections
13 Jan 2012 | 11:15 amI love profiling volunteers at the Burke Museum because it gives me the opportunity to share unique stories and people who work hard and are dedicated to the museum, all without being on salary! These aren’t usually people you will see in the news, but they do a lot of great work at the museum deserving of newsworthy coverage. Today I’d like to introduce you to Saul Rico, a volunteer in the Ichthyology collections. Jessica: Saul, tell me a little bit about what you do in the Ichthyology collections. Saul: I process newly acquired specimens, loans and loan returns, enter data, re-label… -
Science Behind-the-Scenes: Mammalogy Edition
10 Jan 2012 | 6:28 pmHave you ever been to the Burke and wondered what's in the rest of the building? Behind the exhibits (actually, under them, around them, and above them!) are offices, the exhibit workshop, and enough cabinets full of wonder to make Indiana Jones jealous. In this edition of Science Behind-the-Scenes, meet the Burke's mammal collection and find out why we keep drawers full of flattened animals and their bones! Mammals on display at Meet the Mammals Mammalogy is the study of mammals (a mammal is an animal with a backbone that has hair and produces milk for its newborns). Over 5,400 species… -
Encoded in the Weave: Identifying your Relative’s Native American Basket
6 Jan 2012 | 4:01 pmFigure 1Tlingit berry-basket, late 1800s. Courtesy of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. George Emmons Collection, No. 1702. Amidst the many hours devoted to research papers and projects during my graduate schooling, I became very intrigued with historic photographic images of Native American cultures. As these images filled my moments of contemplation and my laptop’s hard drive, a fire was set alight within me to explore the handicrafts produced by the Native hands depicted in these historical photographs. Each day as I walked through the Burke’s Pacific Voices exhibit en… -
Forgotten Gold in the Ethnology Archives
30 Dec 2011 | 6:38 pmFig 1. Edward Curtis’ Orotone Legacy: Seattle photographer Edward Curtis’ earliest photographic images of Native Americans were along the shorelines of Seattle, dating from c.1895/96-1898, such as this image titled “Homeward.” This orotone is a particularly superlative example of Curtis’ application of dreamy Pictorialist effects: blanketed in a shimmering golden glow, five Native people are silhouetted against a shadowy sunset sky as they approach the shoreline of Puget Sound in a west coast-style canoe. (Orotone housed in the Burke Ethnology Archives, L-4871/1. Edward S. Curtis,…
-
The Uncataloged Museum
-
Learning to Talk About Art
18 Jan 2012 | 7:54 pmWelcome to another guest blogger! Tegan Kehoe is an emerging museum professional who's also a volunteer docent at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as it reopens, with a wonderful new wing, on January 19. This is the first of three posts from Tegan going inside the docent process from learning to doing. As professionals, we spend lots of time talking about docents and what they should/could/might be doing. Here's her inside view.As a museum professional, Ibelieve that working directly with visitors should be a lifelong practice forme. I had thought for a long… -
Learning While Leaving: Unexpected Lessons on the Way Out the Door
16 Jan 2012 | 1:46 pmLate last year I invited readers to become writers--to consider writing as a guest blogger here at the Uncataloged Museum. I was thrilled to have several people take me up on that offer--and very excited to share this post from Leslie Kesler (read more about her at the end of the post). In this and upcoming posts Leslie provides food for thought from an important vantage point that's facing many colleagues these days. Thanks Leslie!On December 1, I learned that my job, historian and curatorat a local history museum and historic house, was being eliminated. Like manyother… -
Dropping in at the Getty
12 Jan 2012 | 9:35 amMy last post about what any museum can learn from the Getty has drawn lots of attention (and thanks to all who retweeted and shared it). So I wanted to share another experience from my visit there because I think, in one small space, it exemplified the museum's thoughtful approach--and again, it's something that almost any museum could do, scaled to fit your own circumstances.As I walked down a hallway, I saw a sign that said Sketching Gallery--and as I approached, there was a buzz of activity. It's a small gallery, filled with art (real art, not reproductions),… -
Five Things Any Museum Can Learn from One of the Big Guys
9 Jan 2012 | 1:17 pmLast week I was in Los Angeles and took the opportunity to visit the Getty Museum. I'd never been before and from the long view, it's a place that you imagine being pronounced THE GETTY, in a deep, sonorous voice, that has more money, more everything, than anywhere else. I imagined it as sort of snooty. And to my delight, I was totally wrong. It is a fantastic setting and few of us have a building designed by Richard Meier and gardens designed by Robert Irwin. Plus, now that I'm back in gray upstate New York, I equally appreciate the sunny… -
Ask More? Ask More!
31 Dec 2011 | 10:00 amI've been thinking about writing an end-of-year post for more than a week as I read other reflections, advice, what-ifs and to-dos. But I realized that thanks to my great group of planning colleagues, I've been doing that kind of reflection for several months. So no top ten list from me. But just this morning, thanks to Anne Ackerson who blogs over at Leading by Design, I read The Bamboo Project's list of six 21st century skills you really need.It's a great list--but I really focused in on one skill for me to work on 2012. It's #2--Asking more…
-
A Repository for Bottled Monsters
-
Walt Whitman in the Civil War article online
20 Jan 2012 | 11:10 pmHere's an article by my former colleagues about Whitman and the Army Medical Museum:Remains of War : Walt Whitman, Civil War Soldiers, and the Legacy of Medical CollectionsLenore Barbian, Paul S. Sledzik, Jeffrey S. Reznick http://lcoastpress.metapress.com/content/2hp4847807u83752/fulltext.pdf -
Fredericksburg medical museum featured in paper
1 Dec 2011 | 3:25 pmBleeding-Edge Technologies Dr. Hugh Mercer used only the best leeches, bone saws and lancetsBy Holly J. Morris on December 01, 2011 http://www.expressnightout.com/2011/12/bleeding-edge-technologies/ -
RB Bontecou's Civil War photos on exhibit
30 Nov 2011 | 7:31 amhttp://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/nov/28/someone-elses-children/ -
Nov 10: Cancer Education Film at the National Academy of Sciences
3 Nov 2011 | 8:15 pmThis is presented by friends of mine who really know their stuff and should be excellent. I'm planning on seeing it.The Reward of CourageThursday, Nov. 10, 6 p.m. (doors open at 5:30 p.m.) Keck Center, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Room 100Join us for a screening of The Reward of Courage , the first public education film about cancer. Released 90 years ago this fall, the film introduced many ideas about cancer that are familiar today. A copy of this hitherto lost silent film was recently discovered, and in excellentcondition. A specially commissioned musical score, performed live by theSnark Ensemble,… -
Dr. William Gardner's death notice
16 Oct 2011 | 1:40 pmToday's Post ran a death notice for Dr. William Gardner, the head of the American Registry of Pathology which supported the AFIP's missions and thus the Museum as well. Dr. Gardener was the ultimate supervisor of over 200 people, and a busy man. I personally got along well with him, and enjoyed it when we talked history together. My condolences to his family.
-
codiyioti
-
Mixed Vegetable
2 Jan 2012 | 9:07 amI cook instead of craft. I forego the pottery, jewelry making, weaving, and painting, though I do identify myself as unusually interested in objects. I cook because I can consume rather than accumulate the product. I’ve seen aging Pharoah’s building their mighty pyramids of sequins, plastic beads, ceramics, and paint too often as they build their Great Loot of Aunt Jill for the ages. They never say it’s to take into the other world, but I think there’s an unspoken element of that. They say it’s to leave behind, so we will have it to keep them “alive” de objecto, I presume. -
Roofline Redux
2 Jan 2012 | 9:06 amCeilings, ubiquitous as they are, haven’t always been there. The ceiling is, of course, an elaboration on the interior of the roofline. Castles, to log cabins, to thatched huts, ceilings weren’t elements engineered separately from the general outline of a structure. The boxed room is a relatively recent, no pun intended, construct. Ceilings took on standardized heights and squared off geometry, if you could afford that sort of thing. They became something of a status symbol, didn’t they? The palace ceiling was celebrated with carved, molded, and gilded adornment. No more inefficiencies… -
Lawrence & Tin Tin
2 Jan 2012 | 9:04 amIn Tin Tin: Land of Black Gold, not only are the Arabs simplistically represented. Everyone’s a tad laughable. The Tin Tin comix probably didn’t have a tremendous obligation to dig real deeply into the Arab soul, though the veiled actors in the drama do reflect some of the players in the incorporation and kingdomification of oil in Araby. And to Herge’s credit, there are all permutations of Anglo and Arab good guys and bad guys. He is said to have been a humanist. T.E. Lawrence’s book, Revolt in the Desert, the unabridged version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom which greatly informed the… -
Cuteness Recession
25 Dec 2011 | 9:26 amMary Engelbreit is an illustrator who once had a studio in a firehouse. It’s still not clear if, in her own lifetime, her work is going to catch fire at a national level. Her work is whimsical, charming, and appears to promote a sort of colorful Twelve Step philosophy without the cigarette smoke and Big Book. ME started out doing illustrated children’s books and branchised out to tea cozies, tea cups, tea spoons, teapots, tea towels, and many, many other non-tea-related items. Her website and online catalogue reveal all: maryengelbreit.com Keri (not her real name) has an amazing ME… -
Midnight Blue et Rouge
25 Dec 2011 | 9:26 amEvening in Paris. The name of this perfume created by a long-established French cosmetics company can elicit more memories and stories of the mothers, grandmothers, glamorous aunts, and first girlfriends than you can shake a blush brush at. Bourjois (named for founder Alexandre Napoleon Bourjois) developed the scent decades after his first creation, lightweight makeup for theatrical performers, including the first “blush.” His cheek colorant was long known as “rouge” before a more natural appearing aesthetic developed in cosmetics in the 1960s driven by the Earth Mother of hippie…
