Good news: Museum Blogging has returned from its hiatus. Blog “curator” Leslie Madsen-Brooks has completed her Ph.D. in cultural studies and is now ready to take this blog to another level.
Future plans (6-month to 1-year timeframe) include interviews with leaders in the museum and cultural resources fields, podcasts, book reviews, forums for museum professionals, […]
Webcast September 28-30
The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s symposium, American Art in a Global Context, will be webcast live on September 28th through the 30th. Viewers may launch the webcast each day from the symposium home page, which also includes the schedule of program events. The symposium opens at 2 p.m. on September 28th. Each […]
What can Second Life do for your organization?
That’s the question that’s been floating around the blogosphere of late. I think, though, that the question needs to be asked in two ways.
1. What can your museum do for residents of Second Life?2. What can participating in Second Life do for your museum?
Once you answer […]
Ana of Le carnet d’Ana blogged today about the Virtual Museum of Canada’s AGORA Learning Center. She writes,
Je trouve cette initiative importante parce que de plus en plus d’information muséale destinée aux enseignants est disponible et des heures sont nécessaires pour les trouver et les interpréter. Or, les enseignants n’ont pas ce temps. Il […]
The Natural History Museum, London’s Antarctic Conservation Blog has been describing some interesting pieces of material culture.
Coop of Positive Ape Index is totally in love with some old tools. Really.
Mister Jalopy salivates over a Christie’s auction that includes a Laughing Drunkard Coin Operated Automaton–and he kindly provides photos. In an earlier post, […]
In the series “Found Objects,” I’ll be sharing sites and blog posts that may be of interest to museum professionals.
The folks at Ideum have begun a central clearinghouse for museum blogs, MuseumBlogs.org. Be sure to check out the other museum blogs listed there, some of which you may have already discovered through the blogroll […]