January 2011
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Women in leading positions in Austria's cultural... →
Jan 31st
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Anonymous asked: Any comments on this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12308952
Jan 31st
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Video showing damage caused to the Egyptian Museum.
Jan 30th
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Rather dramatic photos of the new Liverpool Museum... →
Jan 25th
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Women in Museums Network →
Women In Museums Network At last year’s MA Conference a session on Leadership Lessons for Women was held by the WLM (Women Leaders in Museums) which raised many important issues, including the need for a wider support network for women in museums, and this has led to the creation of a new online forum called ‘Women In Museums’. It is free to join, we already have over 50 members and...
Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Museums + Crafting = your chance to feature in the... →
Do you have a passion for fashion? We want to showcase Liverpool’s unique style in the new museum. To do this we are looking for talented local people to create an outfit or ‘Liverpool Look’ in miniature. We’ve had this discussion before about the fact that museum people also tend to be crafters. If you want to apply, click the link above. And, if crafting isn’t...
Jan 23rd
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Exciting new project! Can you help?
An open to plea for the highly qualified help of the Museumy Tumblr community: I am hopefully going to be involved for a short time with a research project dealing with permanent exhibitions, particularly exhibitions that have been designed in new and innovative ways (most immediate example that comes to mind is the V&As British galleries which were designed specially to accommodate different...
Jan 22nd
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Short BBC video about "First time out" exhibition →
Short video from the BBC, description: First Time Out is an exhibition of five previously unseen exhibits, from five of the UK’s leading cultural and scientific institutions. Over the next six months the objects will rotate around the Science Museum, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Natural History Museum, Wellcome Collection and the Horniman Museum. When each object moves to a...
Jan 22nd
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historyfound: Check out this map of the geography of faith across history. You can see the spread of 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds. This video’s got an easy-to-follow timeline on a subject that’s so large scale it’s often tricky for students to wrap their minds around. 
Jan 22nd
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Museums: Including audiences to reduce risk and... →
Whilst we all like to think of museums as something permanent, established and solid they are a thriving, fizzing, ever-changing collection of disparate interests. They are subject to the same changes as everything else: political and financial circumstance, paradigm-shifts and reassessment of the events, people and frameworks they represent and reinforce. Not to mention the physical threats they...
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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New Museum of Liverpool: Behind the scenes picture... →
Words can simply not describe how excited I am about the new Museum!
Jan 19th
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Free online Museum Studies Resources
I am lucky to be a student and have access to JSTOR and other online journal facilities. But those things are expensive for people who are working for institutions that don’t pay for access or people who are simply interested or trying to break into the sector. And so I give you: the Museumsandstuff list of free, online, high-quality museum related literature. None of the websites require...
Jan 19th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Museum Studies day at British Museum
Museum studies student day Thursday 24 February 2011, 11.00–15.30 Tickets £10 British Museum staff give a behind-the-scenes insight into the running and organisation of an internationally celebrated museum. Education, curatorial and collections management staff discuss museum theory and practice, particularly in relation to the special exhibition Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian...
Jan 14th
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MIT put free courses and materials online →
OCW Scholar MIT OpenCourseWare has published five OCW Scholar courses, the first of twenty such courses that will be published over the next three years. These courses have been designed to support independent study without the need for additional resources, and include multimedia such as video and simulations. Learn more about OCW Scholar.
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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FIHRM add resources to their homepage →
The Federation of International Human Rights Museums (FIHRM) has added resources to their website and will continue to add information and perhaps podcasts from the inaugural conferenc to their resources homepage. The first case study (Exhibitions dealing with the legacies of slavery in the Bicentenary year of the abolition of the Slave Trade Act) was written by yours truly. It’s a bit...
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Museum Education Monitor wants you!
Museum Education Monitor wants you! via the Attic Have you recently completed a dissertation or thesis or major paper on a subject related to museum education or interpretation? Do you know someone who has? Maybe you’re already on the MEM list! Check it out at http://bit.ly/h8m65n MUSEUM EDUCATION MONITOR (MEM), the e-newsletter, is celebrating recently completed (2009-2010) major papers,...
Jan 8th
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Jan 4th
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