(cross-posted from The Clutter Museum) There’s been a ton of talk over the past year about how participating in social media—whether through blogging, social bookmarking, Twitter, Flickr, or whatever—can be a form of curatorial practice. And I totally get the appeal of that particular metaphor. In fact, I understand that some people mean to use [...]
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What will the museum of the future look like?
I wrote this post for a more general audience at BlogHer, but the post ended up including a nice round-up of links, so I’m sharing it here as well, along with a couple of provocative questions near the end of the post. Late last year, the American Association of Museums released a discussion paper titled [...]
Millennials in the museum: an educational dilemma
Although I teach in a museum studies graduate program (and wish I could do it full-time), my primary job is to help faculty become more thoughtful about teaching undergraduates at the University of California, Davis. Since I began working in the university’s Teaching Resources Center, faculty have come to me for assistance with myriad issues, [...]
Confluence, Context, and Community (Part II)
This post is the second in a series. Be sure to check out Part I for more explanation. After September 11, there was much ado in the media about people not wanting to be out and about in public places and the resulting trend of “nesting” in one’s home by outfitting it with greater personal [...]
What I learned about museum exhibits in the self-service copy shop
I spent a good chunk of this afternoon in my local FedEx-Kinko’s copy shop, copying articles and chapters for my reader for the museum history and theory course I’m teaching this fall. While most customers were in the copy shop for 10-15 minutes, I was there for nearly an hour and half, and I find [...]