Researchers at the New York Law School are working on a whitepaper that addresses the intersection of digitized museum collections and the law. From the project site: The Digital Museums Project is dedicated to the examination of legal and policy issues relating to the digitized activity of museums. The members of this project will produce [...]
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Do you qualify as a curator?
Lately I’ve been pondering the question, “Who qualifies to be a curator?” I suppose I’ve been thinking about this issue since I first walked into a museum as a child, looked up at a dinosaur mount, and thought, “I want to get my hands on that!” Michelle Kasprzak’s Curating.info post “Agile and open – DiY [...]
Round-up of American Studies Association session on curating and community
Last week I attended an American Studies Association conference session titled “Curating Community: Navigating the Terrain between the Museum World and the Communities.” I left the panel once again considering the big question that has been on my mind for some time: Who gets to be a curator? What counts as curatorial work? The panel [...]
Found objects
Podcasts I hadn’t visited MuseumPods for some time, so I was delighted today to rediscover their extensive catalog of museum podcasts. Go check it out! Podcast User Magazine offers tips to both those who produce and those who listen to podcasts. Issues are free PDF downloads. (via Past Thinking) Also, The Museum Detective now has [...]
MuseumBlogging.com coming off hiatus, plans to expand
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, [...]
News of Note from the Smithsonian
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 [...]