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
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
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
You could say Diana Zlatanovski has a bit of a thing for objects-all aspects of her work revolve around collections. When she isn’t researching artifacts at MFA, Boston, she is photographing objects at Typology or blogging about them as The Typologist. Do you work in a museum? If not, where do you work? Tell us … Continue reading
Are you a #MuseumBlogger attending #AAM2014? Let’s get together! When: Monday, May 19 at 7:30am Where: Espresso Caffe Dior (small cafe at the entrance of the convention center) Why: Why not? Meet some fellow museum bloggers. Connect – chat – catch up. P.S. I’ll have swag. Interested in joining? Shoot me an email at MuseumMinute@gmail.com … Continue reading
#svegliamuseo is an experimental project created to “wake up” Italian museums online, exploiting the power of the web to generate a network effect. By acting primarily on online channels, #svegliamuseo convenes experts and enthusiastic by providing a platform for conversations and exchange on technologies, media and online communication in the museum and cultural sector. The … Continue reading
Elizabeth Rynecki is Moshe Rynecki’s great-granddaughter. She has a BA in Rhetoric from Bates College (’91) and an MA in Rhetoric and Speech Communication from UC Davis (’94). Her Master’s thesis focused on children of Holocaust survivors. Elizabeth is passionate about sharing her great-grandfather’s paintings with others. To this end she is working on the … Continue reading
If you engage with anything mildly museum-centric on Twitter, you may have noticed that today is #MuseumBlogs Day. Museum 140 and I partnered, in celebration of their third birthday, and have tweeted our #MuseumBlogs hearts out to, and with, the world! It’s been quite fun. To mark the occasion there have new posts from the following Museum Blogs: Cabinet … Continue reading
As #MuseumBlogs Day gets kicked off on Twitter (just received a tweet from Australia!) I want to say thank you to all of the Museum Bloggers out there. Thank you for sharing your adventures, experiences, experiments, failures, ideas, jokes, memes, passions, pictures, points-of-view, presentations, reports, reviews, successes, surveys, stories, studies, theories, videos, and simply, yourselves. The time … Continue reading
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