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Comment on All the world’s a…museum? by museumjodi

museumjodi — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:01:02 +0000

That’s great! Street Museum is just the sort of application of this that I think would work well for history museums. Its my hope that this sort of low-overhead programming (with high-impact potential) will trickle down to smaller museums– the kind with limited budgeted, limited open hours, and not enough staff– so that they can be reaching out to more people without overtaxing their capacity. First the Museum of London, then your local town history museum!

Comment on All the world’s a…museum? by Molly

Molly — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:35:44 +0000

The Museum of London does just this! Their mobile phone app is called Street Museum and its highlight is being able to pull up historic photographs of city streets while you are standing in those same streets http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Resources/app/you-are-here-app/home.html

Comment on Pop goes the museum! by The Exhibition List

The Exhibition List — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:37:39 +0000

I will

Comment on Pop goes the museum! by museumjodi

museumjodi — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:40:28 +0000

Keep us updated! We love to hear what other museum adventurers are up to.

Comment on Pop goes the museum! by The Exhibition List

The Exhibition List — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 06:26:39 +0000

I’m hoping to do some pop-up exhibitions durning my MA course, so this made for an interesting read… Thanks

Comment on Big Ideas from Small Packages? by Molly

Molly — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:30:59 +0000

It’s tiny! That is amazing. You’ll have to let us know how well it works.

Comment on Finding A Spark. by mplsgossipgirl

mplsgossipgirl — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:14:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I had to be up early the next morning and I really wanted to participate. Thanks for sharing all the neat things you did!

Comment on Unbound, unframed, and unplaqued! A Rant. by museumjodi

museumjodi — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:22:30 +0000

Oh, I forgot about the glass cabinets! My own museum has three of them…all now in the shed. I agree that there can be a certain museumy atmosphere with what could be termed old-fashioned display methods like cabinets of curiosities. Some examples that come to my mind are the National Museum of Natural History in Dublin, Ireland and the Bell Museum of Natural History in my own city of Minneapolis. The former is wall to wall and ceiling to ceiling with taxidermied animals– mostly shot by (the guides of) landed gentlemen or officers serving or visiting Africa. At the Bell Museum, the big items are the lifelike dioramas of wildlife (more taxidermy!). There is indeed something charming about a museum’s history being part of a museum’s display. Recent research even shows that things like dioramas are often part of the “sticky memories” that are formed between ages 6-8 that are the kinds of things kids remember most about museums. If I do return a glass cabinet to the gallery, I’ll be sure to fill it with taxidermy!

Comment on How I Found My Way into Museums by Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:15:23 +0000

Oh, how I wanted to be Felicity! I wish I could have gotten to Williamsburg before I knew enough to be distracted by anachronism.

Comment on Asserting Yourself with Humility as an EMP by How I Found My Way into Museums « museum unbound

How I Found My Way into Museums « museum unbound — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:07:19 +0000

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