February 2012
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The latest issue of Museum & Society is now... →
Contents include:
Museums and the Embodiment of Human Rights. Louise Purbrick
The Museological Side of the Conflict: Israeli Exhibition of Terror and the Palestinian Museum of Prisoners. Yonatan Mendel and Alexa Rose Steinberg
Nature, Nation and the Museum: the mid-twentieth century New Zealand experience. Jillian Walliss
When legitimate claims collide: communities, media and dialogue. Klas...
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National Trust Young Curators Programme →
museumsandthings:
A free(!) opportunity for people 18-24 yrs old with an interest in a future as a curator or elsewhere in arts and heritage - don’t miss out!
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Do museums still matter? →
Canadian current affairs show “The agenda with Steve Paikin” held a debate with some big names in the north American museum business:
Increasingly, our world is filled with tablets, smart phones and lap tops. We move at a pace that would have been unimaginable only a few decades ago. Steven Conn’s book “Do Museums Still Need Objects” uses museums as a lens to explore...
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Museum Professionals - Omar Khan Massoudi, Kabul →
museumstudies:
The Museum Director - a video interview (with transcript, pictures and video clips) of Dr. Omar Khan Massoudi, General Director of Museums and Director of the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul. This interview is part of the series Kabul, A City at Work - A portrait of a city through its working people.
Very interesting. Thanks, Michal Przedlacki, for sharing this link!
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WatchReal Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship is a National Geographic exhibition opening Science Museum of Minnesota. Combining marine archaeology, history, theatre and interactives for children the exhibition deals with history of the ship and how it eventually was recovered and conserved over a period of years.
I have never been to a National Geographic...
Top 10 museums to throw a party →
With prices ranging from a modest $1000 to a less discerning $12000, these museums represent premium locations for parties and events.
*Disclaimer: This is a purely theoretical exercise not a competition, I unfortunately can’t arrange your dream event…
I would have a sleepover at the British Museum, or a VE Day themed birthday party at the Imperial War Museum Lambeth. If you could have your...
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WatchAssembling a skeleton
Stop motion video by the Museum of London Osteology Team.
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Call for submissions: MIDAS a new open source... →
“MIDAS – Museum Interdisciplinary Studies invites everyone who works in museums or their work is about the museum world to contribute to MIDAS’s first issue. MIDAS is a new interdisciplinary and reflexive journal dedicated to the study of museums, with peer-review, published twice a year and is fully open access. MIDAS has an international scope, and is particularly committed to enhance and...
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The Rise and Fall of the Curator →
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US Troops before and after D-Day in colour →
For those of you who enjoyed the trench pictures, thought these might also be of interest. What a difference colour photos make in making the events seem less remote and much more human.
UPDATE: Changed the source link as the original source didn’t include all the pictures that the LIFE gallery does and the LIFE gallery also has more information without the infuriating comments section of...
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Vienna's Mumok (Museum of Modern Art) online... →
Vienna’s Museum Moderne Kunst (MUMOK)
The link above is to the English page featuring videos, podcasts and library search. For those who can handle German, the German page has back issues of the museum’s magazine and newsletters. I’m adding it to the list I’m compiling of ‘Museum Multimedia’. Any other illustrious examples I should add?
January 2012
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