Calling all museum fans! Here’s a challenge guaranteed to make 2015 a little more fun. Whether you are someone for whom a week doesn’t go by without visiting at least one museum in their home town, or someone who reserves visiting museums as a holiday pursuit; whether you enjoy taking part in guided tours and events, … Continue reading
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“Black Lives Matter Black Friday”, Photo by The All-Nite Images. Flickr.com. Since posting the Joint Statement from Museum Bloggers & Colleagues on Ferguson & Related Events, so many threads of amazing conversations have occurred. For me, the discussions have been thought-provoking, challenging, and restorative. So let’s keep it going,…
The recent series of events, from Ferguson to Cleveland and New York, have created a watershed moment. Things must change. New laws and policies will help, but any movement toward greater cultural and racial understanding and communication must be supported by our country’s cultural and educational infrastructure. Museums are a part of this educational and … Continue reading
Tim Grove is Chief of Museum Learning at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. He recently wrote about his twenty-year (and counting) public history career in his new book A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History. He is an active participant in the History Relevance Campaign, an effort underway to … Continue reading
Last summer I wrote a blog post titled 4 Things Museums Can Learn From Sharknado. It was fun to write, a little bizarre, and still one of my top read (and searched for) posts. Why? Because a Sharknado can happen anywhere. No, I haven’t completely fallen off of my rocker. Nor am I pulling a Tara Reid … Continue reading
Lori Byrd Phillips is the Digital Marketing Content Coordinator and the former Wikipedian in Residence at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Lori is a leader within the GLAM-Wiki initiative, an international group of volunteer Wikipedians who help cultural institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) broadly share resources through collaborative projects with Wikipedia. Her research centers … Continue reading
An Ingenious Museum Design That Turns Visitors Into Creators In theater, the “fourth wall” is the invisible barricade at the front of the stage, through which the audience observes the action while the players act as though the audience isn’t there. If such a thing exists in museums—and it does, in the form of glass … Continue reading
Last month I had the great pleasure of moderating a panel on pop culture and museums at #AAM2014 in Seattle. The session, “Pop Culture is Your Friend!” was just as fun to prepare as it was to present (I’m being totally serious). My fellow esteemed panelists were: Bethany Corriveau, Cleveland Museum of Art Brindha Muniappan, … Continue reading
My first AAM conference was #AAM2010 in Los Angeles. Yes, there was a hashtag (and it wasn’t nearly as popular as #AAM2014). I had been to LA before – which helped keep me focused – but was in awe of the conference experience. I had never been surrounded by so many museum people. At that … Continue reading
1. I have not been abducted by Aliens. 2. I cannot wait to tell you all about my recent Seattle conference experience (see #AAM2014 in Pictures for a sneak peak). 3. Currently, I’m stuck wrapping up a few projects. 4. I’ll be back. Continue reading
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