Museums are places to forget
Museums are places to forget. An essay, illustrated with poems and images, on the ways that museums are used to
Museums, Public humanities
Museums
Inside the Lost Museum book, Museums
New book!
I’m thrilled to announce that my new book is almost out! You can pre-order it on Amazon! Find it at an
Digital humanities, Museums
Catalog History: The New York Crystal Palace
A four part series on Medium, “Cataloging History,” on the history and practice of museum catalogs, focusing on the publications of
historic preservation, history, Museums, presentation, Public humanities
What might historic preservation learn from museums?
Every year, the Providence Preservation Society sponsors a symposium on key issues in historic preservation. This year’s symposium, on the
Curation, Exhibits, History of Museums, Museums, Public humanities, teaching
“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
Exhibits, History of Museums, Museums, Technology, Uncategorized
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
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
AMST2650, Criticism, Exhibits, Museums, Public humanities
Considering the 9/11 Memorial Museum: One visit, three ways
(some advice I gave my students before our visit last week, updated after the visit) When you visit the museum—when
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
