Announcing a new timeline of museum history
I’m pleased to announce a new timeline of museum history. The timeline starts in the 17th century, with the 1628
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History of Museums
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Lost Museums, in Museum History Journal
An article in Museum History Journal, co-authored with Lukas Rieppel, Kathrine Duffy, and Ann Daly. Open access now. When it goes behind
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Primary-source twitter
As I research my book on museums I tweet some of my sources. Gathering them here for your museum-history pleasure.
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“Collecting and Collections” course & stamp exhibit
Head over to the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities blog for a post Sarah Dylla and I wrote about
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Design Objects in Museums
[my talk to the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium, RISD, March 2015] The call for papers placed this conference in the context of RISD’s
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Building a skiascope
“The theoretic value of the skiascope is incontestable.” —Benjamin Ives Gilman In
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“The Curator Rules”
These are the slides and my notes from my talk at Marymount University, the Bissel Lecture in the Humanities, presented
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History of museum exhibitions; a Pinterest experiment
When I taught a course on the history of museums, I found it useful to have a ready source of
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The Curator Rules
Museum curators have certain ways of doing things, certain rules they follow. It’s important to know what these rules are
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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
