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lostsplendor: Suit, c. 1774. French.  Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Suit, c. 1774. French.  Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art

#fashion  #The Met  #Museum  #French  #1700s  
1 year ago on February 23, 2011 at 10:16am
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musesofdesign: Architecture Photography: River of Death and Discovery Dinosaur Museum / Teeple Architects - 01 (113993) – ArchDaily  This is so cool.

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Architecture Photography: River of Death and Discovery Dinosaur Museum / Teeple Architects - 01 (113993) – ArchDaily

 This is so cool.

#museum  #museum architecture  #Dinosaurs  
1 year ago on February 23, 2011 at 10:19am
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unwinnable: In March 2012, the Smithsonian plans to curate an exhibit called the “The Art of Video Games.” In true democratic fashion, they’ve put the game options up for vote. The Art of Video Games exhibition will explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects, the creative use of new technologies, and the most influential artists and designers. We want you to help us select the eighty video games that will be represented in the exhibition. Remember, this is an art exhibition, so be sure to vote for games that you think are visually spectacular or boast innovative design!  Ohhh, I want to see this already! I’m a bit of a geek, and I love video games!

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In March 2012, the Smithsonian plans to curate an exhibit called the “The Art of Video Games.” In true democratic fashion, they’ve put the game options up for vote.

The Art of Video Games exhibition will explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects, the creative use of new technologies, and the most influential artists and designers. We want you to help us select the eighty video games that will be represented in the exhibition. Remember, this is an art exhibition, so be sure to vote for games that you think are visually spectacular or boast innovative design!

 Ohhh, I want to see this already! I’m a bit of a geek, and I love video games!

#games  #gaming  #museum  #art  #smithsonian  #geek  
1 year ago on February 23, 2011 at 09:26pm
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I’m currently in the process of trying to obtain an Internship…

I’m applying to a Children’s Museum to be their Childhood Education & Programming Intern for the summer. They want me to fill out a volunteer application and submit a resume, which I have to re-write from scratch, but I said I’d have it to them by the end of the week, so I will. I also said I’d be able to work the whole summer - I have no plans for the summer right now, and I’m available all hours. Of course, it’s unpaid so…I won’t be making any money, but I’d love to get this internship. I’d get to work on the summer classes and with lesson planning and so on. The kids are generally ten and younger, which is about the same age range I’m working with now at the smaller Children’s Museum I’m volunteering for. It’s a bigger Museum and I’m especially excited because they have a dinosaur exhibit. I never outgrew that one!

My fingers are crossed! If this doesn’t work, I’m going to contact the Art Museum and ask about their internships program.

#intern  #internships  #museum  #education  #children  #museum educators  
1 year ago on February 23, 2011 at 09:49pm
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There is nothing frustrating about a child who needs time to learn something - but there are a lot of frustrating things about an adult who has to has to negatively comment on it.

Before I crack into polishing my resume/essay/chinese homework, I thought I’d make a brief post about my night, and what I’ve learned so far in working with children. Thursday nights, I walk down to a little museum called Discovery Depot for the Knox-DD Connection: College students mentor kids ages 4 - 7. We do different activities with them, or help them do homework, and so on, and it’s quite a bit of fun. Knox runs the trimester system, so we do the program every term, and so far I’ve had a girl who was four, and this term a boy who is 7.

I’ve been pretty happy with the spectrum! It’s fun, and they’re all great kids. But my experience this term, and my experience last term were totally different, and not because of ages or genders. You see, as my title points out, I haven’t ‘lost my cool’ or gotten frustrated yet, no matter how many times I’ve had to repeat the directions or help out, or whatever. The kids are actually really quite smart, and if they need help, that’s what I’m there for. (I’m also there to try and get them to do it themselves, but I can certainly help.) I’m not too concerned if they can’t cut in a straight line, or if they do everything perfectly.

But last term, my little girl’s parents and babysitting friends of her parents were quick to point out that she was “a bit of a problem.” They said “She doesn’t listen” and that “she’s trouble. She’s a handful - a wild child and she doesn’t pay attention.” They complained about watching her, about how it didn’t work out, and how she was a bit ‘slow’. This was of course, in front of her (a four year old child!) and the Museum programmer I work with. Susan pulled me aside and asked if I was still going to be okay to do this, and if I could handle it. I said yes, I would be fine. Did this little girl have problems concentrating? Yes, I sometimes had to get her to come back in to focus with what we were supposed to be doing. Did she sometimes repeat me without understanding the question? Yes, she sometimes did. But she was nothing but sweet and well-behaved. Not loud, not unruly, and she was able to do most of the activities, even though she was the youngest of the bunch. At four, I don’t know what her parents or friends of the family were expecting, but she was never rude and she was always happy. It was fun working with her - and I told anyone who came and picked her up that.

This term, the boy I’m working with is also a joy. Except this time around, his mother and family friend didn’t introduce me with how “horrible” he was. And even more awesome, this time around, his mother requested me to work on specific things with him (reading and writing).

I find that there’s something frustrating about parents or adults who write children off as “bad” and then don’t get to see them when they’re being “good”. But there’s always something great about parents who have some investment in their child’s learning and are willing to keep track of their strong suits and weaknesses at the very least.

There was something gratifying about being able to show off how awesome child #1 was to the adults, but since I haven’t seen her since, I genuinely don’t know how well that will “stick” with everyone. Her family’s friend gossiped a bit about her mother and family when they didn’t show and I don’t know that they stayed in town at all.  

Still, does anyone else run into parents/adults like this who are quick to over-emphasize a child’s flaws? Just curious… My museo friend says one of the best parts of Museum Education is the ability to not have pre-conceptions of who’s the “bad” or “good” kids and let them all shine - she mentioned that it’s easier to not have them “act to the expectation” as well, and I think I agree.

#education  #children  #learning  #teaching  #museum  #museum educators  #kids  #adults  
1 year ago on February 24, 2011 at 07:31pm
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Sweet Accomplishment:

I’ve applied for two Internships - Indianapolis Children’s and Tucson Children’s.

I could apply for more, but I think it might be wise at this point to instead just wait a week or so, and then email Tucson Art about their internships. While my main focus this round was Museum Education, Exhibit research & development fascinates me, and I have been working in Special Collections & Archives so curatorship isn’t completely foreign to me. While I feel like I have a general direction I prefer, I’d also love to dabble, as I’m only a freshman in college, and I think my experiences will be stregthened if I understand all aspects of a museum.

#internships  #children  #kids  #education  #museum  
1 year ago on February 24, 2011 at 11:16pm
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geekoutwithyourspockout: foreheadtittaes: -dunham | broadwaypants | voraciousexpectations | plenilune | gingerbreadcottage: Back in high school, I was looking up Victorian etiquette for a project, and I stumbled upon this game on a Canadian museum website. You pick a gender and then go through little scenarios where you’re quizzed on the proper Victorian way to act. It is the greatest thing. And usually it’s more fun to pick the incorrect answer, because sometimes NINJAS AND ALIENS pop up. I’m not even kidding. GO PLAY IT. YOU DIDN’T MENTION THE VOICES, OH LORD. IT’S LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN MONTY PYTHON ANIMATION AND WONDERMARK, COMPLETELY ON CRACK OPIUM WHILE STILL UNFAILINGLY COURTEOUS. I KEEP LAUGHING UPROARIOUSLY AT MY SCREEN. THIS IS A RIDICULOUS DELIGHT. I’m firmly convinced this is the companion game to the Oregon Trail, chronicling the predicaments of those who chose to not make the journey. Fraught with peril, to put it quite simply. And then Cthulu shows up and eats everyone I WOULD MAKE A BOSS VICTORIAN WOMAN.  All I’d have to do is say the exact opposite of what I’m thinking or just not talk.  Ever. BEST. GAME. EVER. I stayed up all night yesterday playing it. If that doesn’t say something then I don’t know what si. I’M SORRY I AM NOT FIT FOR POLITE SOCIETY LOLZ I AM THE PICTURE OF POLITENESS.  This is put out by the Musee McCord Museum and I managed to be fit for polite society. Go on and try it! It’s one of the most fun ways I’ve seen to learn about history recently. I’m spazzing at about the same level as everyone above!

geekoutwithyourspockout:

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-dunham | broadwaypants | voraciousexpectations | plenilune | gingerbreadcottage:

Back in high school, I was looking up Victorian etiquette for a project, and I stumbled upon this game on a Canadian museum website. You pick a gender and then go through little scenarios where you’re quizzed on the proper Victorian way to act.

It is the greatest thing.

And usually it’s more fun to pick the incorrect answer, because sometimes NINJAS AND ALIENS pop up. I’m not even kidding.

GO PLAY IT.

YOU DIDN’T MENTION THE VOICES, OH LORD. IT’S LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN MONTY PYTHON ANIMATION AND WONDERMARK, COMPLETELY ON CRACK OPIUM WHILE STILL UNFAILINGLY COURTEOUS.

I KEEP LAUGHING UPROARIOUSLY AT MY SCREEN. THIS IS A RIDICULOUS DELIGHT.

I’m firmly convinced this is the companion game to the Oregon Trail, chronicling the predicaments of those who chose to not make the journey. Fraught with peril, to put it quite simply.

And then Cthulu shows up and eats everyone

I WOULD MAKE A BOSS VICTORIAN WOMAN.  All I’d have to do is say the exact opposite of what I’m thinking or just not talk.  Ever.

BEST. GAME. EVER. I stayed up all night yesterday playing it. If that doesn’t say something then I don’t know what si.

I’M SORRY I AM NOT FIT FOR POLITE SOCIETY

LOLZ I AM THE PICTURE OF POLITENESS.

 This is put out by the Musee McCord Museum and I managed to be fit for polite society. Go on and try it! It’s one of the most fun ways I’ve seen to learn about history recently. I’m spazzing at about the same level as everyone above!

#games  #museum  #history  #victorian era  #museums  
1 year ago on February 24, 2011 at 11:22pm
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joshrobinsonblog: I’ve always found the Met to be an underachiever of sorts. Sure, it houses a must-see collection, puts on must-see shows and sits on a must-see stretch of Central Park real estate. But, it’s also responsible for must-get-lost wayfinding, a must-be-the-90s Web site and a must-speak-in-hushed-tones vibe. For me, this makes the Met a particularly challenging, but exciting, lab for museum innovation. That’s why I was heartened to see this article in the New York Times earlier this month. In it, the director of the museum, Thomas Campbell, talks about modernizing the Met’s approach and enhancing its connection with visitors. The article notes that the museum has released its first app, will relaunch its Web site in the summer, is wiring its building for Wi-Fi and is trying to reach out to multiple audiences, not just art experts. Sounds like a good start to me. In this post, I want to take some of these themes and expand on them. My goal is to contribute a modest wish list for the museum as it charts this new future.  ———— Theme #1:  Reaching a Broader Audience Wish List:  — Develop an app that offers brief, accessible primers on major art periods and artists and a dictionary of significant terms. The app should be customized to the Met’s collection so that visitors are accompanied by a reliable guide as they move throughout the museum space. The app should also, where possible, include an option to ask museum staff a question and sign up for an e-mailed response. This would help build a human connection between the museum and its visitors.   — Internally, put together a general checklist to be used while creating interpretive materials and features. Some suggestions: Have we featured the artist as a human being, not just as an artist? (See a case study here) Have we told a story compelling enough to share? Would curators or visitors be more impressed with what we’ve written? Is it clear to visitors what they should do and why they should care? (For example, the Connections feature is a great idea. However, its opening page doesn’t offer much in the way of instant orientation or meaningful entry points. Relatively unknown names and single words like “Black” and “Virtuosity” aren’t enough. I would recommend adding an opening sentence or two about the feature and a bit more promotional copy with each video — as a start.) ———— Theme #2: Improving Navigation and Collecting Wish List: — According to the article, 40 percent of people visit the Web site before visiting the museum. So develop an easy-to-use method for people to add exhibits and galleries to a custom itinerary that they can e-mail to themselves and use to navigate the museum.  — Similarly, visitors should be able to collect items during their visit for post-visit exploration. Though it has been widely discussed in the museum community, I have yet to experience effective in-space bookmarking. At minimum, I would like to be able to use my mobile device to record my favorite pieces, share those pieces with others and then use my collection as everything from a simple souvenir to a foundation for more research. Too daunting to develop for the whole collection? Roll it out slowly. Anything would be better than the status quo. ———— Theme #3: Having Fun With Technology Wish List: I’ll keep this one simple. And I’ll use the museum’s Guitar Heroes Web feature as a case study for pushing technology. First, I should note that the Guitar Heroes package is absorbing, informative and entertaining. It represents a giant step beyond most online features I’ve seen the Met develop. In this section, I want to offer just one suggestion for how to push it even further.  Here’s the idea: Enable Web (or mobile) visitors to play the exhibit’s instruments virtually. The museum would provide sample sounds from the guitars and the interface for composition. Users could then either pluck just a few of the guitars or go all the way to create an original work from a combination of guitars. They could also share their songs and experience what others have composed. Beyond injecting a jolt of energy into the exhibit, this interactive feature would allow visitors to come as close as possible to experiencing the guitars themselves. What’s more educational and enriching than that?

joshrobinsonblog:

I’ve always found the Met to be an underachiever of sorts.

Sure, it houses a must-see collection, puts on must-see shows and sits on a must-see stretch of Central Park real estate.

But, it’s also responsible for must-get-lost wayfinding, a must-be-the-90s Web site and a must-speak-in-hushed-tones vibe.

For me, this makes the Met a particularly challenging, but exciting, lab for museum innovation.

That’s why I was heartened to see this article in the New York Times earlier this month. In it, the director of the museum, Thomas Campbell, talks about modernizing the Met’s approach and enhancing its connection with visitors. The article notes that the museum has released its first app, will relaunch its Web site in the summer, is wiring its building for Wi-Fi and is trying to reach out to multiple audiences, not just art experts. Sounds like a good start to me.

In this post, I want to take some of these themes and expand on them. My goal is to contribute a modest wish list for the museum as it charts this new future. 

————

Theme #1: 

Reaching a Broader Audience

Wish List: 

— Develop an app that offers brief, accessible primers on major art periods and artists and a dictionary of significant terms. The app should be customized to the Met’s collection so that visitors are accompanied by a reliable guide as they move throughout the museum space. The app should also, where possible, include an option to ask museum staff a question and sign up for an e-mailed response. This would help build a human connection between the museum and its visitors.  

— Internally, put together a general checklist to be used while creating interpretive materials and features. Some suggestions: Have we featured the artist as a human being, not just as an artist? (See a case study here) Have we told a story compelling enough to share? Would curators or visitors be more impressed with what we’ve written? Is it clear to visitors what they should do and why they should care? (For example, the Connections feature is a great idea. However, its opening page doesn’t offer much in the way of instant orientation or meaningful entry points. Relatively unknown names and single words like “Black” and “Virtuosity” aren’t enough. I would recommend adding an opening sentence or two about the feature and a bit more promotional copy with each video — as a start.)

————

Theme #2:

Improving Navigation and Collecting

Wish List:

— According to the article, 40 percent of people visit the Web site before visiting the museum. So develop an easy-to-use method for people to add exhibits and galleries to a custom itinerary that they can e-mail to themselves and use to navigate the museum. 

— Similarly, visitors should be able to collect items during their visit for post-visit exploration. Though it has been widely discussed in the museum community, I have yet to experience effective in-space bookmarking. At minimum, I would like to be able to use my mobile device to record my favorite pieces, share those pieces with others and then use my collection as everything from a simple souvenir to a foundation for more research. Too daunting to develop for the whole collection? Roll it out slowly. Anything would be better than the status quo.

————

Theme #3:

Having Fun With Technology

Wish List:

I’ll keep this one simple. And I’ll use the museum’s Guitar Heroes Web feature as a case study for pushing technology. First, I should note that the Guitar Heroes package is absorbing, informative and entertaining. It represents a giant step beyond most online features I’ve seen the Met develop. In this section, I want to offer just one suggestion for how to push it even further. 

Here’s the idea: Enable Web (or mobile) visitors to play the exhibit’s instruments virtually. The museum would provide sample sounds from the guitars and the interface for composition. Users could then either pluck just a few of the guitars or go all the way to create an original work from a combination of guitars. They could also share their songs and experience what others have composed. Beyond injecting a jolt of energy into the exhibit, this interactive feature would allow visitors to come as close as possible to experiencing the guitars themselves. What’s more educational and enriching than that?

(via museumuse)

#the met  #museums  #museum  
1 year ago on February 27, 2011 at 08:44am
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Don't Forget Tomorrow is Museum Advocacy Day! ›

#AAM  #museum  #museums  #politics  
1 year ago on February 27, 2011 at 01:00pm
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penzerparty: museum of sex NYC  I actually met/know a girl who’s father is a visiting(?) curator of sorts here. I thought that was really cool…he’s a Professor of Media studies, I believe and he studies pornography.

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museum of sex NYC

 I actually met/know a girl who’s father is a visiting(?) curator of sorts here. I thought that was really cool…he’s a Professor of Media studies, I believe and he studies pornography.

#Museum of Sex  #Museum  #Sex  #New York  
1 year ago on February 28, 2011 at 12:00pm
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Atlanta History Center: History of the AHC ›

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Atlanta History Museum, Atlanta History Center

Welcome to our new blog! Since this is our first post, I thought it’d be fitting to write about the history of the AHC.

The Atlanta History Center, originally know as the Atlanta Historical Society, was chartered in 1926. The founding 14…

Oooh, a History Center with a tumblr. I love it - I think quite a few places could stand to implement tumblr as part of their press/social media networking.

Just an FYI - I try to keep a tag of any place/museum on the post it’s on, so if the AHC comes up again (and I suspect it will, since it now has a tumblr), you’ll know how to find it again.

#history  #Atlanta History Center  #museum  #museums  
1 year ago on March 01, 2011 at 01:44pm
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A Sense of Science: Museum specimens to the rescue! ›

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100-year-old specimens at California museum help determine when avian pox hit Galapagos

The research team, led by Dr. Patricia Parker of the University of Missouri–St. Louis, examined 3,607 finches and mockingbirds collected in the Galapagos between 1898 and 1906 that are currently held…

#science  #galapagos  #museums  #museum  #birds  
1 year ago on March 02, 2011 at 04:00pm
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Positively Persistent Teach: Virtual Field Trip Must-Visit List. ›

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1. The Great Wall of China Virtual Tour

A 360 degree your of parts of the wall. You can advance on the wall as if walking.

2. Ellis Island Interactive Tour

Explore different rooms in the main building at Ellis Island and view original photographs, listen to audio,…

 Love the list - although I would definitely add:

  • Google Art Project - 17 Museums and 1000+ paintings, from places like the Tate, MoMa, Uffizi Gallery, The Palace of Versailles…etc. The close-ups you can do are stunning, and while it’s not “finished” and still clearly being worked out, I can’t help but love it. You can navigate the Museums in street view, and view certain paintings up close - they link important and relevent videos from youtube if they’re available, and give info panels. Best of all, you can create personalised collections of art so you can find the ones you want over and over again.
  • The National Women’s History Museum - Unfortunately, the National Women’s History Museum doesn’t have a building of its own to use. On the bright side, however, it means that it’s a great online museum, so you can look at all the exhibits they have up, the information they have, videos, etc.
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#education  #museums  #museum  #resources  #technology for the classroom  #history  #women  #National Women's History Museum  #google art project  
1 year ago on March 03, 2011 at 02:18pm
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Museums, Museos, Art, & More Directory:

I’ve compiled a list of Museum/Museo, Librarian, Art, Archaeo/Paleo-loving bloggers (and any other related fields) and keep them as a directory for everyone’s benefit. If you see yourself on here, and do not want to be on the list, please send me a message, and I will take you off the list. If you don’t and would like to be added, please tell me as well! Furthermore, if you think you should be re-catagorized, or given a different interest/area tag, just say the word! Please Note: Many of these blogs are personal in nature. Keep that in mind! :)

Tumblr blogs are unmarked. Blogs and twitter accounts elsewhere will be marked as such in their tags.

Archivists/Archival Work:

Curators/Curation:

Conservation/Conservators:

Libraries/Librarians:

Museum Education:

Museum Technology:

Museos & Museum Lovers:

Blogs run by Museums/Museum Societies/Galleries:

Art/Arts:

Other/Related:

#archives  #art  #curators  #directory  #education  #history  #index  #librarians  #libraries  #museos  #museum  #museums  #archaeology  #anthropology  
1 year ago on March 04, 2011 at 06:15pm
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