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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May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
What is a prototype?
A prototype is a rough mock-up of your current approach to your project (be it for a website, an interactive, or something else).
It doesn’t have to be full of content. In fact, we often test with a mixture of guide content and lorem ipsum placeholder text, and it’s
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May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Another thank you to Krystyna Szulecka for contributing another one of her photographs to BPotD (posted in this thread via the BPotD submissions forum). See more of Krystyna’s images by searching for “Krystyna” on the FLPA web site.
Today’s image was photographed in the Branklyn Garden of Perth, Scotland, well-known for its…
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May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Have you ever gotten that feeling of eating ice creamtoo fast and then feeling like your head was going toexplode? Would you like to have that feeling almostevery day? Then move to Antarctica, where ice creamheadaches are the norm. It seems like the wind is always blowing in
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May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Unknown ArtistMan’s Court Robe1976.012.001 Period late 19th century Era Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Object Name robe Object Type Man’s; Court Material silk; satin Width 188.5 Length 111.2 Culture Chinese Credit Given in memory of Miss Muriel J. Wallace by her nephews David & Anthony Wallace DescriptionIn terms of style, this coat is rather similar to the semi-formal court coat represented on p 44 of John Vollmer’s 5 Colours of the Universe.
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May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Since 1874 our 29cm refractor telescope with optics by Hugo Schroder from Hamburg and with locally built tube and mounting designed by Sydney Observatory’s famous astronomer Henry Chamberlain Russell has been in use every day and night. As can be imagined it has over the years suffered a few scrapes and
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May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
On Friday 13 June, Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine at McGill, will give a talk at Medical Museion about her new book ’The age of anxiety: A history of America’s turbulent affair with tranquilizers’ (forthcoming on Basic Books). Among her earlier books are Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives
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May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
At last, we have put together a list of books, articles and unpublished PhD-theses with relation to the ‘Biomedicine on Display’-project published between 2005 and 2008. Unfortunately, very few of these publications are yet available online. If you want a copy of any of these, contact the author.
Only publications with relation to the BoD-project
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May 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Here’s an amazing video by Italian street artist Blu: Muto, “An ambiguous animation painted on public walls”, painstakingly produced in Baden (02007) and Buenos Aires (02008), and full of astonishing transformations and lovely interplays between 2D drawn space and 3D, physical elements…
Animation plays with how we experience time by constructing an…
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