About MuseumBlogs.org
MuseumBlogs.org is a directory of museum and museum-related blogs as well as a space for re-postings and roundups. The purpose of the site is to raise awareness and increase the authority of blogs focusing on museum issues. Authority is used by search engines to filter results. The more links, the more authority and more visible a blog will become.
The Directory
A publicly editable, moderated directory provides a central website for listings to museum and museum-related blogs.
The Blog
We encourage re-posting from qualified blogs and bloggers. The aim of MuseumBlogs.org is to drive visitors to other museum blogs and increase their authority. If you're interested in re-posting or creating roundups which focus on the museum blog world, please feel free to contact us for password and log in information.
Who and Why?
This site was developed by Ideum. We're a small design company that develops interactive exhibits and websites for museums. The idea for MuseumBlogs.org came about after we developed a survey of museum blogs & community sites in March of 2006. One of the major outcomes was that the vast majority of museum blogs lack authority which was covered in a follow up post on the Ideum blog. It's our hope that MuseumBlogs.org will help increase communities’ awareness and authority.
Policies
MuseumBlogs.org is run as a public service and encourages community participation. The site does not accept commercial advertising of any kind.
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April 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Sorry about the errant entry notification sent earlier today. I made some updates to that entry and the upgraded software decided that was enough to send out a new notification, so I’ll have to figure out how to suppress that in the future.
Here’s today’s entry, written by Connor:
Also known as orache…
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April 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
As I get ready for another busy summer of maintaining the outdoor sculptures here at the IMA, I thought I would share some information about some work I completed last summer with the fine help of intern Cydney Campbell (she is also an undergrad at Herron and a world-renown Irish dancer
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April 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Maxwell L. Anderson, the director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art published a manifesto of sorts about technology in museums this last year. Jennifer Trant, on of the organizers of the Museums and the Web conference says that his work is a key reason that Museums and the Web will
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April 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Domestic violence shocks us for a number of understandable reasons. Not least because the home, usually a place of shelter and love, becomes cruelly violated, turned into a site of moral disaster by its touch. And as familiar as I have become with the raw and uncensored evidence of wrongdoing the
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April 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Lettice, MaudeSummer, In Playfair Park1965.182.001 Period 20th century Object Name painting Medium watercolour; charcoal Support light cardboard Height 30.5 Width 25.5 Culture Canadian Subject landscape trees hillside Saanich Vancouver Island B.C. Canada Credit Gift of the Artist
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April 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Well it’s been about a month since the first post about the garden in my backyard. Things are going super awesome and its so fun to see how much growth can happen in just one month. A few weeks ago we saw white flowers on the pea plants. They seemed a
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April 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
What emotions do these photos conjure up? Does one connote a noble symbol of freedom and the other a urban nuisance? Where do these ideas come from?
Here’s a neat article that I read today in the NY Times science Tuesday by one of my favorite science writers, Natalie Angier, about the
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April 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
There is, again, a fair amount of buzz about the health of the Art market these days. Robert Frank at the Wall Street Journal recently raised the spectre of a decline, based on the 50% fall in Sotheby’s share price over the last 6 months. He points
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