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Historical Fiction – making history fun Working in history education is great fun, especially at a place like Sovereign Hill . I ended up working in this field, I believe, largely because of my love of reading and watching historical fiction. I have not trained as a historian or a conservator, but I like to think of myself as having a little bit of both inside. But I’m not a purist. I love history for the fun, fascinating stories about the past.
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This is Day 6 from the Diary of a Russian museum curator. In my head right away arise lines from school assays in English and German languages, when in 20 sentences I had to tell about my usual order of the day. Always didn’t like this task, hypocritical till stupefaction, because everybody would end up with the same essays, following the same schema, and of course, nobody ever lived according to this mythical order of the day. So, by 9 am I arrive at my work place. In my dear room, there are 5 desks, but due to unstandardized working week, usually in the room sit 3-5 people. The room is for two departments, but this is good too because the second department, scientific-educational work – is closely connected with mine.
Last week, Barbara Stauffer shared with us the challenges of orchestrating a participatory design experience in an institution with well-established organizational procedures and hierarchies. For her, inviting the input of over 800 community members involved a lot of time, finesse, diplomacy and sensitivity to organizational culture. Maria Mortati, project manager and senior exibit developer at Gyroscope Inc., took a different tack, founding the San Francisco Mobile Museum, giving her the freedom to experiment with many ways of making the audience part of the museum design experience. Working and Playing In 2009, I was a museum exhibit developer in search of an audience. I had tested out an exhibit at a Maker Faire a year prior, had fun and learned a lot.
Using Your Audience as Exhibit Designers
Best of the Web Nominations 2011 | conference.archimuse.com
Registered users will choose a site as People's Choice , by voting for their favourite, between March 25 and April 7, 2011. Each registered user on conference.archimuse.com may nominate one site each year in the Best of the Web Awards . Sites are reviewed by a Panel and awards will be given April 8, 2011 at Museums and the Web .
A talk I was asked to give at Culture Hackday in London, talking about the thinking that’s been going on in the latest project I’m a part of; Artfinder.
What if you could see through the walls of every museum and something could tell you if you’d like it?
Join licensed NYC tour guide, native Brooklynite, history geek, beer nerd and bicycling enthusiast Matt Levy on a 15 mile bike ride through the wilds of Staten Island Berlin, Germany Learn how to make you own street art & graffiti with local experts & special international guests. Get an insight into this amazing underground art culture!
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And so it was that I found myself in the warm fug of the day before Christmas Eve visiting some friends of friends. There, in a group of 15 or so professional, intelligent, educated and culturally-engaged people, the topic turned to my profession and the current economic climate. And almost from the off, the conversation was profoundly disturbing.
If you're looking for miniature cities, glass flowers, books bound in human skin, gigantic flaming holes in the ground, bone churches, balancing pagodas, or homes built entirely out of paper, the Atlas Obscura is where you'll find them. A collaborative project anyone and everyone is welcome and encouraged to add a place for inclusion , and to edit the content already in the Atlas. Whether searching for an upcoming trip, taking a trip with the Obscura Society, or just reading places great stories: we want to help your adventures happen. In an age where everything seems to have been explored and there is nothing new to be found, the Atlas Obscura celebrates a different way of traveling, and viewing the world. There is plenty out there to discover, so lets start looking!
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Even though it is still only a few short years since the introduction of multi-touch technology in the first iPhones, already we have become familiar with the way that communications devices seamlessly integrate the internet’s vast information resources and social media networks. High-end interaction technologies are now so commonplace that many of us carry them around in our pockets all day long. And with the rise of smartphone apps, we now routinely expect these products to be endlessly adaptable and updatable. For museums and galleries looking for new and inspiring ways to generate interactions between visitors and collections, this democratisation of technology is perhaps both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, visitors are no longer wowed by touch-screen and computer software installations per se. On the other hand, the availability of adaptable, mass-market products gives museums easy access to cleverer hardware for less money.
What can the iPad do for museums? | MuseumNext
The first step in exploring the mobile world for your business is to optimize your website for viewing via a mobile device. Serving up your regular desktop site to a mobile user doesn’t cut it in this day and age. Prepare a mobile optimized version of your website – either create an XHTML simple version of your website or ensure that your CMS (Content Management System) platform can be optimized for mobile.
3 Strategies for Getting Found in a Mobile World
Kathy Cremin’s involvement with museums is a recent development in her career. She has only been working with the institutions for about 8 years. Over the course of her years as a professional she has worked with libraries, museums and theatres and has focused mainly on the topic of literature.
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For Walker Open Field , we wanted a way to collect community submitted events and display them on our site. We have our own calendar and we discussed whether adding the events to our internal Calendar CMS was the best way, or if using an outside calendar solution was the direction to go. In the end, we decided to do both, using Google Calendar for community events and our own calendar CMS for Walker-programmed events. The Open Field website is based on the lovely design work of Andrea Hyde, and the site is built using WordPress, which we use for this blog and a few other portions of our website. WordPress is relatively easy to template once, so it makes for quick development. WordPress also has a load of useful plug-ins and built-in features that saved us a lot of time.The inaugural Conference and Masterclasses were a great success, with over 120 attendees from cultural agencies around Australia and beyond. Click here for a special issue of M&GNSW’s publication the MAG , based on the conference findings. Copies of the conference presentations can be downloaded from the presenter biographies below. Please address further enquiries to Conference Chair, Associate Professor Angelina Russo Update: since the Conference, the Cultural Ministers Council has committed to the development of cultural indicators to assist policy development.