January 2012
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Podcast: The age of slavery apologies →
Podcast from Liverpool Museums:
“Dr Mark Christian, associate professor of Sociology and Black World Studies at Miami University uses the case study of Liverpool’s apology for its role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade to explore the concept of slave apologies.”
Other podcasts on the most diverse subjects can be listened to here.
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Routledge Museum Studies Publication Catalogue... →
Looks like there will be some interesting new museum books this year! I’m especially excited about “Museums Equality and Social Justice” and “Post Critical Museology”.
Anyone know of any other good reading lists like this online? I could always add a tab on the home page like the free resources one, along the lines of “required reading”.
What would you...
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Museum Diary: Audience research: a job in numbers →
jennifuchs:
6 January 2012
While we’re still on the subject of looking back and reflecting on the year that was, I thought I’d re-blog the following post, which was was featured on the National Museums Scotland blog The Feast Bowl last year:
My name is Jenni Fuchs, and until recently I was the…
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December 2011
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Some more free onlines resources
A quick Sunday evening post for those who like to spend their online time learning about the most diverse things.
Open Culture - a quick one stop shop for a wealth of online resources for language learning, interesting podcasts, free ebooks and classic films, etc.
Khan Academy - mostly science lessons and exercises, but also has a growing collection of history, art history and American Civics,...
November 2011
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WatchThe Guardian has series interviewing photographers about what they consider to be their best shot. Haven’t made my way through them all yet, but the reasons that people give and the background to photographs is really interesting and worth a browse.
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Imagined Lives at the National Portrait Gallery →
From the Telegraph:
Julian Fellowes, Alexander McCall Smith, Tracy Chevalier, Joanna Trollope and Terry Pratchett are among the authors who have created imaginary biographies to accompany the works.
The gallery has a number of paintings which were purchased in the 19th and 20th centuries in the belief that they represented famous people, only for the identities of the sitters to be disproved...
October 2011
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Royal Society Opens Online Archive; Puts 60,000... →
Maggie Koerth-Baker writes:
60,000 peer-reviewed papers, including the first peer-reviewed scientific research journal in the world, are now available free online. The Royal Society has opened its historical archives to the public. Among the cool stuff you’ll find here: Issac Newton’s first published research paper and Ben Franklin’s write-up aboutthat famous kite experiment. Good luck getting...
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Soliman Exhibition at the Wien Museum, Vienna
I finally made it to the Angelo Soliman exhibition today at the Vienna City Museum. I was right to be excited. The exhibition is the closest I’ve ever seen in Austria to my ideal of what museums are and what they should do.
By way of background, Angelo Soliman (c.1721 - 1796) was an African (exact details of his early life are unknown beyond that) who came to Europe as an enslaved child....
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Cultural Equality Now Conference at British Museum →
Join some of the UK’s most interesting thinkers, including Mark O’Neil, Bernadette Lynch, Bonnie Greer, Sandy Nairne, Helen Weinstein and Rita Mclean to tackle the questions facing museums, galleries, heritage sites and libraries and archives today.
This conference is for practitioners, policy makers and researchers interested in diversity in the cultural sector. The talks will focus on keeping...
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“[The majority of arts funding supports large organizations with budgets greater...”
– Troubling findings in the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy’s new report, “Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change: High Impact Strategies for Philanthropy”, which was released Monday. (via iteeth)
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Connections at the Met →
museumuse: “Really interesting site, profiling curators from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
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Federation of International Human Rights Museums -... →
The theme of the conference was “Museums fighting for human rights” and it was a really inspiring and thought provoking conference. It was just what I need this time last year, battling to get into the field, trying to get published and facing lots of apathy in Austria about the museum and social agency in this way. It really recharged my batteries. It’s just a shame that they...
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Coming up this week on Museumsandstuff:
Dear all,
I am back from an unplanned trip to the UK and a planned trip to Berlin for my brother’s 30th birthday and I am determined that you wonderful followers and commenters will get some serious attention from me this week.
As such, here is a taster for the coming week!
Exciting new temporary exhibition at the Vienna city museum addressing the city’s African residents in the...
September 2011
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Google Puts The Dead Sea Scrolls Online (in Super... →
Thanks to Google and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, you can now fire up your browser and start taking a good, close look at The Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient biblical texts found between 1947 and 1956, right on the shores of the Dead Sea. The Scrolls were originally written between the third and first centuries BCE, and they constitute the oldest known pieces of the Hebrew Bible. Since 1965,...
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“I am one of the most published writers in the museum field. Do you know how that...”
– Elaine Guarian (via museumuse)
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Object Biographies: Fascinating letter via the... →
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a wall calendar called “Everyday Object: Enduring Legacies” which features a range of objects including cameras, headphones, shoes etc that have a connection to the Holocaust and a story to tell.
This piece of paper has two letters, one from a Jewish man being deported in a cramped railway car, the other from the railway worker who...
August 2011
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Museumsandstuff has questions for you! →
I’m gearing up at the end of the week to write an article about what you lovely people had to say in response to the questionnaire. Those of you who have been meaning to do but haven’t had the chance, might want to consider doing it now! Thank you in advance!
museumsandstuff:
As mentioned in the previous post, I’ve whipped up a little poll as an experiment in reader participation. I...
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Thoroughly unrelated to museums but nevertheless a... →
My sister is a Senior Staff Nurse at London’s Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. At the moment she is on the way home from 3 weeks voluntary work in Honduras for the International Children’s Heart Foundation.
One case has touched her and her friend and they are trying to raise money to buy the milk needed for her recovery. If anyone would like to help, click the link above...
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Exhibition: The Homemade Revolution →
All the links in this post are to German language homepages, sorry! But I’m sure that google translate does a good enough job for you to get the gist of a page.
The Frankfurt Museum of Communication in Germany will be opening a special exhibition on the 25th August about the DIY revolution. The exhibition will look at the rise and relevance of the amateur crafters and why and to what end...
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A grumble: Just when you think you are cresting...
I recently got a smartphone. It wasn’t the iPhone that I so desperately wanted, but then androids have come on in leaps and bounds in the last years and almost all apps are available for both.
I was now able to download and play with all the museum apps I have been reading about for what seems like an age. Museum of London’s Streetmuseum for example, a great app that I can’t...
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Museumsandstuff has questions for you! →
As mentioned in the previous post, I’ve whipped up a little poll as an experiment in reader participation. I want to pick your brains about what you like about museums, what really ticks you off and what you would like to see more of.
There are but six very general questions, none of them are compulsory. Fill in what you want, leave what you think is none of my darned business.
And if...
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July 2011
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3D Tour of the Giza Pyramid Complex →
This a a fully navigable tour of the Great Pyramid and the whole Giza complex. What’s also cool is how - if you have a pair of 3D glasses handy - you can switch to 3D mode.
This would make a pretty amazing immerse experience in a museum. I haven’t had chance to have a full play with it yet. Does anyone know of museums using this kind of things for other sites?
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On Curating "Curating Critique" - Free online... →
The reader presents a cross-section of the voices that populate the ongoing debate about, on the one hand, how and in what terms curating functions as a critical cultural practice, and on the other, what methodologies and histories exist with which we can critically analyse curatorial work today. This collection of essays was first published in 2007 by Revolver, in Frankfurt am Main and ICE,...
WatchIs there a specific scheme set up? And do the students have a different curriculum than other university-only degrees? And, do students respond to a call or are they often employees (The question is perhaps more: do you think museums would just let people approach them with the suggestion, it seems like it might be a lot of work for them?)
You just appointed yourself Resident Expert by replying...
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WatchShould more PhDs study at Museums?
Video from the New York Times which looks at students studying for their PhDs at the Natural History Museum, rather than typical universities. I’ve never heard of this happening in the UK or in Austria (feel free to correct me!), but this sounds like a fantastic way for museums to expand their collections research and make the most of the collections that...
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Museum World Book Collection: Chapters →
I know, I know. I am still not posting as much as I would like to, but I’m still rushed off my feet! Sorry!
But, readers and subscribers, I saw this and thought of you:
We’re currently updating this list with all the chapters and authors that appear in the Museum World Book Collection. There are lots so it may take a little time!
You can also gain exclusive free access to one...
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June 2011
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Wimbledon 2011: History of the Wimbledon queue →
A new exhibition to celebrate 125 years of the championships looks at the tradition of The Queue at Wimbledon.
trivialrecords asked: Very exciting about the book. Where was the photo of the horse armour used on the info page taken? Looks a fantastic place!
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Dear Museumsandstuff followers,
I am so sorry that I haven’t been very present in the last couple of weeks, things have been very hectic! It might take another few days before I’m back posting, but I wanted to keep you up to date, lest you think I have forsaken you!
I went on a research trip to the UK, visiting and interviewing curators at Kelvingrove, Wellcome Centre, the new Museum of Liverpool (not even open...
Is the abuse of human rights the legitimate... →
May 2011
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