Museumbots: An Appreciation
Meet the museumbot. Museumbots tweet random objects from museum collections, four or five objects a day. I know of three
Collections, Digital humanities, History of Museums, Museums
Collections
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Call for Papers: Lost Museums Colloquium
In conjunction with the year-long exhibition project examining Brown University’s lost Jenks Museum, the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public
Collections, History of Technology, Technology
21st-Century History of Technology: Fashioning a Usable Past
Yesterday the MIT Museum and the Hagley Museum and Library ran a fascinating workshop on “Doing the History of Technology in
Collections, Exhibits
Authenticity, and bears
The scene: Roger Williams Natural History Museum, Providence, Rhode Island. A group of twenty third-graders has just arrived. The docent
Collections, Exhibits
A rock’s story
I’ve been following closely (this may sound odd) the story of a rock. Not just any rock, and not just
Collections, Exhibits
“Facing the Museum,” Completed!
I’ve written about Faces – now called “Facing the Museum” several times on this blog. It started with the discover
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Cataloging in Public
CultureLab is almost done, and we’re refining the activities we’ll start off with. We’ve got artifacts for a half-dozen courses
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An update on “Facing the Museum”
I’ve written before about the discovery of “ethnographic busts” in the museum’s collection, and about my plans to use them
Collections, Management
What I want from my collections management system
One of the first problems I identified on becoming director of the museum was its collections management system. It infuriated
Collections, Exhibits
“Ethnographical busts”
This plaster cast is one of eight in the collection of the Haffenreffer Museum. They’re a bit of a mystery;
