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Museum Blog Survey

Jim & Seb are conducting a Museum Blog survey in advance of Museums & the Web. The purpose of the survey is to capture a snapshot of the technologies, aims, policies, uses, and impact of blogging in the museum sector. 2006 has been an amazing year for the field, what were 20 blogs back in [...]

It’s 5pm on Christmas Eve – Do you know where your digital images are?

Via Günter @ hangingtogether.org The latest RLG DigiNews is a special issue on Managing Digital Assets in US Museums, and in guest-editing, I took special care that it would be just what you need at this time of the year. The three articles from the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the Center [...]

Ancient History

I remember with clarity the day I got connected to this mysterious new thing called the World Wide Web: 1.1.95. Three of us had persuaded our reluctant administration to let us try this thing, reporting that museums were starting to “go on-line,” whatever that meant. (I think I still have the text-only print-out I had [...]

Museums in Transition

via Ideum Gyroscope, an exhibit design firm based in Oakland, CA has just released a report on how museums are using “new communication technologies to enhance and extend the visitor experience.” The paper Museums in Transition: Emerging Technologies as Tools for Free-Choice Learning was commissioned by the Science Museum of Virginia. Based on reviewing available [...]

Showbusiness

I voted in the recent AVISO survey ‘In hiring a new CEO, which of the following is most desirable to you?’, the choices were: Museum studies degree, Discipline-specific degree (art, history, etc.) or Management degree. I thought the results were very interesting. Two thirds voted for the desirability of a Museum studies or a Discipline-specific [...]

The glowing deer in my neighbor’s yard and a lingerie shop in Brighton…

Illumination!  That’s what I’ve been looking for.  It’s been weeks since my last post–lots of work and nothing inspiring me to write.  So this evening, on the way home from dinner at the local neighborhood bar/restaurant, I saw something that did finally inspire a post. We (my son and a friend) were driving back through Cleveland Heights neighborhoods [...]