Edward Tufte’s course on Presenting Data and Information, Storified
You can see my notes from the course, storified, here.
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Should you get a Ph.D to work in a history museum? – Part 3: How might we make it useful?
Part 3: How might we make it useful? How might we fix the Ph.D. so that it is more useful
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Should you get a Ph.D to work in a history museum? – Part 2: Is it useful for the job?
Most curatorial jobs do not require a Ph.D., but is it useful? Does it make one a better curator? The
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Museums and the Crisis of Education
Just a link here to a post I did for the Center for the Future of Museums blog, on the
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Contemporary collecting risky – but important
In which I come to the defense of Carlene Stephen’s blog post on collecting Stanley, and mostly disagree with Thomas
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Questions to ask when visiting a museum
Some of my students recently made a field trip to a local museum. These are some questions I suggested they
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The quotable museum
By popular demand: the quotes from my United States Naval Lyceum research that I’ve been tweeting the last week or
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United States Naval Lyceum
The folks @bldg92 – the Brooklyn Navy Yard visitor center and museum – have posted a blog version of my
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My new blog!
With the ending of my two-year term as director of the Haffenreffer Museum and the start of my sabbatical, I’ve
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Two final blog entries
June 30 marks the final day of my two-year term as director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. TIme for
