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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October 4th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and others recommend that we set our thermostats at 68°F in the winter and F in the summer. Some people are comfortable at home with these temperatures and some or not. So how can we save energy and still be comfortable?
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Read the full post at QUEST Community Science Blog
Posted in Health, energy, KQED, QUEST, Partners, Environment, Physics, heating, Engineering, conservation, cfl, home energy, heat | Comments Off
September 26th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
A post the other day on Eye Level, rather subtly announced that the Lunder Center is now using Twitter. You probably know that Eye Level is a blog produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and that it focuses a lot on the work that is done at Lunder Center, which
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Read the full post at The Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog
Posted in Facebook, ima, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Technology, New Media, Richard McCoy, social media, conservation, Twitter, Eye Level, Lunder Center, Modern Art Notes | Comments Off
September 25th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
We use to think of hospitals and clinics as almost history-free zones. But sometimes medical historical images, artefacts and records show up in the most unexpected medical spaces.
Like last week, when I spent a couple of days with our daughter in the neonatal clinic at the Danish National Hospital, i.e., where they care for babies
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Read the full post at Biomedicine on Display
Posted in displays/exhibits, curation, Museum Studies, conservation, acquisition | Comments Off
September 13th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Though I’m writing this post from NYC I don’t want you to get the impression that I travel a lot. The vast majority of my days are spent down in the “service level” of the museum conserving objects. But today is a rare exception: I’m at the Conflux Festival for the
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Read the full post at The Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog
Posted in ima, Indianapolis Museum of Art, New York City, artists, Richard McCoy, conservation, New York Times, Current Events, Andrew Johnson, Calvin Johnson, Candle 79, Conflux Festival, John Cage, Kurt Gochstalk, Lucas Murgida | Comments Off
August 28th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
National Museum of Health and Medicine’s Mike Rode (’A Repository for Bottled Monsters’) writes in a comment to Søren’s post the other day that he ”feels good about” the fact that our storage problems “amazingly enough, appears worse” than theirs. I’m glad he says “amazingly enough”
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Thus, medical museums-in-arms we are, struggling to glean nuggets
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Read the full post at Biomedicine on Display
Posted in curation, Museum Studies, conservation, material studies | Comments Off
August 26th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
I have just finished an upload of a new set of Flickr images assembled by Andrea Mason, an IMA conservation intern. She worked this summer with a contracted furniture conservator named Mark Minor to return a sideboard by Eliel Saarinen to its original glory.
Here is an excerpt from Andrea’s description of…
Read the full post at The Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog
Posted in Flickr, ima, Indianapolis Museum of Art, design, conservation, furniture, Andrea Mason, architect, Eliel Saarinen, Mark Minor | Comments Off
August 23rd, 2008 by AutoAggregator
I’ve been a cheerleader for compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) in this blog and will abandon the technology in a millisecond. When it comes to technology, my loyalties are short lived.
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Read the full post at QUEST Community Science Blog
Posted in energy, KQED, Partners, Environment, mercury, conservation, cfls, homeenergy, LED, light bulb, light emitting diode, lighting | Comments Off
August 20th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
How much water does it take to produce a steak? How much water does a leaky toilet waste? Test your water knowledge in this quiz.
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Read the full post at QUEST Community Science Blog
Posted in KQED, kqedquest, TV, water, conservation, drinking water, toilet, wastewater | Comments Off
