Photo: Ron Mader, Mexico City’s Anthropology Museum (some rights reserved)
What would those in the know like others understand about museums? Updating relevant links in a somewhat random fashion:
Headlines
The myth of continuity – @thisisaaronland
Welcome to my micro museum
China insists Genghis Khan exhibit not use words ‘Genghis Khan’
Open access to collections is a no-brainer – it’s a clear-cut extension of any museum’s mission – Apollo Magazine
Questions
- Which museums do a great job of modeling sustainable practices?
- What happens when museums receive more visitors through their website than through their front door?
Incluseum
incluseum.wordpress.com – @incluseum
Subverting the hetero-normative museum
Mass Action Reading Group
Museum Two Blog Spot
http://museumtwo.blogspot.com
http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2015/09/fighting-for-inclusion.html
@artlust
Mentioned
ilam.org – @sospatrimonio
museoshaghenbeck.mx – @mhaghenbeck
Quotes
At this point I wish to emphasize what I believe will ultimately prove to be the greatest value of our museum. This value will not, however, be realized until the lapse of many years, possibly a century, assuming that our material is safely preserved. And this is that the student of the future will have access to the original record of faunal conditions in California and the west, wherever we now work.
– Joseph Grinnell, 1910, The Uses and Methods of a Research Museum (source)
It’s ironic that the term “world class”–which should embody an international panoply of forms of expression, presentation, and exploration of museum content–is instead used to hew to a singular vision of excellence.
– Nina Simon, Why is “World Class” so Classist?
Visitors are people. They are not numbers. They are not dollars. They are not deliveries. They are people who have experiences with art in art museums. I’m dismayed that the same critics who decry Deitch’s disregard for artists and curators treat the public as an unimportant commodity in museums. Why do these critics care so much about the influence of money and so little about the influence of audiences? Why do they focus on what bait is presented to lure visitors in and not on what opportunities are made to engage them?
– Nina Simon, museumtwo.blogspot
He who views only the products of his only country may be said to inhabit a single world while those who see and consider the productions of other climes bring many worlds in review before them.
– Carl Linnaeus (1754), cited by Roger Fyfe Macmillan Brown Lecture #1, 2010
Recommended Listening
The 2010 Macmillan Brown Lecture Series features Associate Professor Roger Fyfe (Senior Curator Anthropology, Canterbury Museum). He surveys the development of museums in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, asking “who owns the past?” in a series of lectures recorded at the Christchurch Art Gallery.
The Museum Life – Museums attract millions of visitors and employ thousands. The Museum Life, hosted by Carol Bossert, charts the growth and development of this cultural business. Museum Life showcases leaders in the field who provide perspective on current issue as well as creative thinkers who are impacting the future of museums. Join the conversation every Friday at 10 AM Eastern Time/7 AM Pacific on the Voice America Variety Channel.
Flickr
World Museums Collection
cambodia4kidsorg
melisub
Flickr Groups
World Museums
Brooklyn Museum (USA)
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum – Flickr
Help curate a show @ Brooklyn Museum…
Brooklyn Museum Mut Expedition Photos
Web 2.0: Building an On-line Community at the Brooklyn Museum
USA
midatlanticmuseums.org
nps.gov/history/museum
Powerhouse (Australia)
Powerhouse Museum
Powerhouse – Flickr
New Zealand
The NZMuseums website, www.nzmuseums.co.nz, profiles approximately 360 New Zealand museums and related culture and heritage organisations.
Te Papa
Our Space
Our Space Group – Flickr
England
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41006267@N06
http://www.flickr.com/groups/blackcountrymuseums
Colombia
Oro
Mexico
Oaxaca City Museums
Mexico City’s Anthropology Museum
Mexico el de Arte Popular MAP
Antropologia
arqueologico en Jalapa Ver
Repatriation/Black Panther
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/black-panther-museum-heist-restitution-1233278
https://jhuexhibitionist.com/2018/02/22/why-museum-professionals-need-to-talk-about-black-panther
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum – Flickr
Building an On-line Community at the Brooklyn Museum: A Timeline
Graffiti Exhibit – Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum
Australia
National Museum of Australia
National Gallery of Australia
Nimbin
Nimbin
Powerhouse Museum
New Zealand
Our Space – Flickr
South Canterbury Museum
Mexico
Más museo revista digital
Elsewhere on the Web
aam-us.org – @AAMers
Museums Give Science the Spark of Life
New Curator
A day at the museum – how much do children actually remember?
5 ways for Museums to use YouTube
http://www.museumsandtheweb.com – @museweb
National Museum of the American Indian
Mint Museum of Art
Hobo Museum (Iowa)
Charles M. Schulz
Bridge Museum Sarajevo
Southwest Museum of the American Indian
Beyond the Silos of the LAMs – Diane Zorich, Gunter Waibel and Ricky Erway
http://www.museumhack.com – @MuseumHack
http://www.museum.gov.rw – @RwandaMuseums
Videos
Bingo
Admission – Authentic – Collection – Conversation – Curate – Curator – Culture – Diorama – Entrance Fee – Exhibit – Future – Gift Shop – Heritage – History – Inclusion – Learning – Loan – Museums – Pop-up Museum – Postcards – Private – Public – Shoebox Archive – World Museums
Wikipedia
Museum
GLAM (industry sector)
Planeta.com