Short videos on collections
Two more short videos prepared for my “Methods in Public Humanities” course. These address museum collections, one on registration and
Collections, Collections management systems, Digital humanities, Public humanities
Collections
Collections, Exhibits, Museums
New essay: Exhibiting Absence
I’ve posted to Medium a new essay, on the challenges (and possibilities!) of exhibiting things museums don’t actually have. Sometimes,
Collections, featured, Museums
The Whaling Museum’s Collections Development Plan, done!
The Jacobs Family Gallery at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. From Wikimedia Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kobo.jpg It’s done! For the past year
Collections, Curation, Education, Exhibits, Museums, teaching
A class about collections
We’re halfway through the semester, and my collections class is deep into the stamp exhibition project. I’m teaching a course titled
Collections, Collections management systems, Digital humanities, Museums, Public humanities
The dark ride (on search)
For a search engine to work well, it needs to know where to look. The streetlight effect offers a
Collections, Collections management systems, featured, Museums
The Find-me-another machine (On Search)
[my presentation at the RISD Museum / Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology “On Search” Conference] I’d like to tell you about
Collections, Curation, Exhibits, featured, History of Museums, Museums
“The Curator Rules”
These are the slides and my notes from my talk at Marymount University, the Bissel Lecture in the Humanities, presented
Collections, Education, Exhibits, History of Museums
The Curator Rules
Museum curators have certain ways of doing things, certain rules they follow. It’s important to know what these rules are
Collections, History of Museums, Museums, Public humanities
Writing about the past, thinking about the future: National Museum of American History
My article on the history and philosophy of collecting at the National Museum of American History has been published in
Collections, Exhibits, History of Museums, Museums, Technology
Collecting the History of Technology at the National Museum of American History
Collecting for history museums is challenging work, and there needs to be more research and writing on both its history and
