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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July 24th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The British Museum has undergone some extensive work over the last year or so. One of the latest additions are British Sign Language videos which were produced by students from Frank Barnes Primary School for Deaf children. They worked with Museum staff to give their own interpretations of African masks and
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Posted in british museum, Fort St Julien, Frank Barnes Primary School for Deaf, Norway, Tara Found Sri | Comments Off
July 21st, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The forthcoming Hadrian exhibition is now starting to generate quiet a lot of coverage in the press. The RSS feed from Yahoo! (Google has tables in their markup and that ruined my aesthethics ) incorporated into this post updates with the latest news stories relating to the exhibition. Happy reading
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Posted in hadrian, british museum, Google, Dan Snow, http://tinyurl.com/5ruupl | Comments Off
July 17th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
This just came through in our office notices and might be of interest to those with a Romanist stance.
‘Hadrian’ - Saturday 19th July, BBC2, 20:00
As the British Museum prepares to launch its spectacular exhibition on the emperor Hadrian, Dan Snow takes us on a journey around Hadrian’s vast empire. As he
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July 16th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
I just saw this on the Britarch list, in amongst the ire being directed at the awful Bonekickers series. In a roundabout way, we’re sort of connected to this…..
The 1st September will see the deadline for this year’s Young Archaeologist of the Year Award 2008 entries. This competition is organised by
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Posted in british museum, united kingdom, Isle of Man, Roger Bland, Wales, Channel Islands, Scotland, The National Trust, Victor Ambrus | Comments Off
July 16th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
On the 24th July, the British Museum’s eagerly awaited exhibition on the life of the Emperor Hadrian is due to open in the Round Reading Room. This follows on from the blockbusting ‘First Emperor’ exhibition that closes a few weeks ago and garnered much critical acclaim and helped the BM to
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Posted in News, china, hadrian, bath, british museum, united kingdom, The Times, Frank Basford, Isle of Wight, Britain, David Walker, Italy, Lazio, Pantheon, Qin Shihuangdi, Rome, Sam Moorhead | Comments Off
July 10th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
On July 1st 2008, the British Museum Review for 2007 - 2008 was released. The Scheme features prominently on pages 46 - 47 with details of the two gold aurei of Carausius found in Derbyshire, a Pilgrim’s badge depicting Saint Thomas Becket (or classical name St. Thomas a Becket) from Lincolnshire,
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Posted in News, research, british museum, review, portable antiquities, Portable Antiquities Scheme, carausius, cautopates | Comments Off
July 10th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Roger Bland passed this information onto me for publicity and it seems like a very useful source of funding for the acquisition of artefacts for museums.
The Headley Trust, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, is delighted to announce that following the success of the Headley Museums Treasure Acquisition Scheme, it
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Posted in british museum, united kingdom, MLA, GBP, Albert Museum, Headley Museums Archaeological Acquisition Fund, Neil Macgregor, Purchase Grant Fund, Roger Bland, Sainsbury, The Headley Museums Archaeological Acquisition Fund, The Headley Trust, V & A Purchase Grant Fund, Wales, www.sfct.org.uk | Comments Off
July 7th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
We are pleased to announce the 5th AHRC collaborative PhD award related to the Scheme, details are below. It is a much needed piece of research work that will add to the validity of our dataset.
AHRC Collaborative PhD in analysis of the distribution of Portable Antiquities Scheme data: Archaeology, University of
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Posted in british museum, Belfast, Chris Lloyd, European Union, GBP, Geographic Information Systems, Graeme Earl | Comments Off
