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All Blog Posts Tagged 'museums' (16)

Museum Sector & Climate Change Interventions - Workshop Compost

Based on the Hot Science Global Citizens ARC Linkage Project workshop 10-11 December 2009 – preliminary results of 1500 Australian interviews and 600 United States discussed over 2 days. From the Statistics – Fiona Cameron, Carolyn Meehan, Ben Dibley, Brett Neilson, Bob Hodge, Scott East, Juan Salazar, David Karoly and Ben Parr - Climate Change – • A significant res… Continue

Added by geoff barker on December 16, 2009 at 2:15pm — 2 Comments

Comfort and the museum visitor experience, part 2

Here's the second part of the series, featuring exhibit elements. For the background on this workshop, read this post.

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Added by Stephanie Weaver on December 7, 2009 at 4:51am — No Comments

Comfort and the museum visitor experience, part 1

On Sunday, October 25 WMA held a pre-conference workshop at San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts called "Getting Comfortable with Visitor Comfort." The goal of the workshop was to help participants and the museum assess how the museum's experience met visitors' comfort needs, and therefore was an experience they might want to repeat. The facilitators (in alpha order) were Paul Gabriel, Vivian Haga, Beth Katz, Steve Tokar, and myself. We were… Continue

Added by Stephanie Weaver on November 21, 2009 at 2:32pm — No Comments

ANN: Get Ready! M&T soon to accept submissions for the 2010 MUSE Awards

Get Ready!! The AAM Media & Technology Standing Professional Committee will soon be accepting submissions for the 2010 MUSE Awards. This year we are adding a new category for “Students.” See the categories and criteria page for more information. http://www.mediaandtechnology.org/muse/criteria.html We will accept online applications from museums and producers on the AAM Media and Technology Web site… Continue

Added by Suzy on November 11, 2009 at 8:22am — No Comments

Making Museums More Accessible: report on Conference Day in Barcelona

How can we help blind people see art? Is there a way for people with impaired hearing to hear the power of artistic expression? How can we enable a person with a mental disability get the most out of art? In short, how can we improve access to museums and exhibitions for everyone? These and many more issues were the subject of a very intense Conference Day on 26 October in Barcelona. The venue: Gaudi’s building, La Pedrera. The speakers and audience: museum professionals and… Continue

Added by Conxa Rodà de Llanza on November 3, 2009 at 2:00am — 1 Comment

Free museum articles for download

I have just added some new articles to my free downloads page that you might be interested in. http://bit.ly/lPZu7 You can also watch my first video podcast about Madrid's Prado Museum: http://bit.ly/2uaAEX Also, I am hosting my first webinar ($35 US) on customer service next WED, July 22 at 9 am Pacific Daylight Time/5 pm London (GMT -7). As soon as there is demand, I will offer them on Tuesday afternoons in California, which will be 9 am Oz time. Here's the link if you are interested: bit.ly… Continue

Added by Stephanie Weaver on July 17, 2009 at 3:18pm — No Comments

Free: The Future of a Radical Price

Chris Anderson's new book, Free- the Future of a Radical Price makes the case that the price of all information and idea related content is dropping to zero. There is a good review of the book by Malcom Gladwell in the New Yorker- http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/07/06/090706crbo_books_gladwell. I couldn't help but think about some of the discussion that has occurred making a case that admission to museums should be free. Museum content after all is simply information organized i… Continue

Added by Jonathan Katz on July 9, 2009 at 9:11am — 2 Comments

Musings from Museums Australia 2009: Works in Progress

In the spirit of my previous post, Do we need to have conferences anymore, thought I'd at least start the ball rolling with observations from the Museums Australia Annual Conference. Well, I don't actually have any at the moment coz I'm only here from today, but we do have a Twitter backchannel happening. My challen… Continue

Added by Lynda Kelly on May 18, 2009 at 9:54am — 17 Comments

2009 4th National Public Galleries Summit, Townsville, Australia

RAISE YOUR VOICE: Fourth National Public Galleries Summit 2009 Join leading Australian and International keynote speakers and colleagues and Raise Your Voice at the Fourth National Public Galleries Summit in Townsville, North Queensland, 9-11 September 2009. Presented by Museum and Gallery Services Queensland, this significant industry event is being hosted by the Townsville City Council and Perc Tucker Regional Gallery. Summit Registration is now open and a quick reminder that the Cal… Continue

Added by Robert on April 30, 2009 at 12:37pm — No Comments

Southside Elementary and VTS

Today, the Education Department at The Wolfsonian hosted a professional development training for educators from Southside Elementary in Miami. Southside Elementary was chosen by the Miami-Dade County Public Schools as a site to be converted to a "museums magnet" some years ago. (To learn more about them check out http://southside.dadeschools.net/). Presently, The Wolfsonian is working with Southside as part of a Youth Arts Enrichment Program Grant… Continue

Added by Claudia Sullivan on April 1, 2009 at 8:12am — No Comments

MUSE Awards

2 Weeks Left to Enter your Project in the 2009 AAM Muse Awards! Recognizing outstanding achievement in museum media, the AAM Media and Technology Committee announces the 20th annual Muse Awards competition. The 2008 Muse Awards competition received nearly 200 applications from a wide variety of museums in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Entries included audio, cell phone and interactive handheld tours, interactive kiosks and multimedia installations, podcasts, blogs, games, website… Continue

Added by Robert on January 20, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Museums cutting back

As the economy is dashed upon the rocks, museums around the world are being forced to cut spending. Among the losses, Freep.com reports that the Detroit Institute of Arts has canceled it's blockbuster exhibit, "Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence," scheduled to arrive this fall. Layoffs are also being considered. Continue

Added by Zaxy on January 19, 2009 at 6:24pm — 2 Comments

Mandatory Site Visits?!

Discussions on the development of a national curriculum at the Learning in Museums Seminar piqued my interest. The potential impact of this on museum education – the opportunities, risks and challenges – could be significant. At times like this it is inspiring to hear how other museum educators are responding to challenges and change. Of particular interest to me is the notion of a museum site visits/museum experience becoming a central, possibly mandatory, part of a national history curriculum… Continue

Added by Gabrielle Edwards on November 17, 2008 at 11:38am — 3 Comments

New at Fresh & New - Conversation, the Commons, museum futures, and 'architectures of participation'

I've just posted a long and slightly rambling (as usual) reflection on the activities of the past few weeks both virtual and physical. I talk about a few things I've been at recently - Museum Australia's Museum Futures, a State Library reference librarians conference - and some things I've been reading. http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.… Continue

Added by Seb Chan on May 28, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

Inclusive Museum conference, Leiden

I'm working on a paper for the Inclusive Museum conference in Leiden in June. The paper will focus on inclusive online museum learning, and the National Museums Online Learning Project in particular. It's structured around four key concepts: reach, relevance, relationship and recontextualisation, and touches on themes of the digital vs physical museum, the shift in museum learning from a focus on objects to a focus on users, what 'quality' means in online learning, tensions in schools between cr… Continue

Added by jen on May 16, 2008 at 2:15am — No Comments