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.
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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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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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August 8th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
One of the problems for museums that want to display contemporary medicine is that many medical devices are hopeless as museum artefacts because they are so damned anonymous.
Take CT scanners for example: huge white or light blue plastic/metal boxes, that’s all.
People who have been scanned for some serious condition may have strong personal feelings about such artefacts —
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August 7th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Sorry, there was no posting yesterday. Some of my co-contributors are on vacation, some are busy-busy writing chapters for our forthcoming book, and one is one parental care leave. And I didn’t post because I spent my spare-time yesterday reading a blog that I’ve never heard about before — Nina Simon’s Museum 2.0.
I found it because I had a chat
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July 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
How to handle human remains is a key issue for us and for other (medical) museums (see earlier post here, here, here and here). Last February, the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris organised a series of round-table discussions about the ethics of collecting and displaying human remains. Now the full text
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June 8th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Yesterday morning, before our session on art and science, I took a walk through the beautiful old Charité area — now the joint medical campus of Humboldt Universität and Freie Universität — with 19th and early 20th century buildings spread out in a large park.
When I passed by one of the buildings that houses some of the veterinary departments, an aluminium-box
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May 26th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The new Centre for Museums, Heritage & Material Culture at University College London is organising an afternoon workshop on Wednesday 25 June 2-5pm on the theme ”Heritage and Wellbeing”. The purpose of this workshop is to bridge the relevant work of
academics in various disciplines, medical professionals, researchers, museum, library and archive workers, and arts curators by exploring common
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May 14th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
What makes these everyday things—a food storage container, a measuring cup, a cake keeper, a beverage bottle, etc—potential contemporary medical museum objects?
Well, it turns out they all contain bisphenol A, a rather simple organic molecule used as a key monomer in the production of polycarbonate plastics.
In addition to being a very useful hard plastic…
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May 13th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
If I were an American I would probably have rushed to my computer already last Tuesday night to proudly announce on this blog that I and Medical Museion had been given Medicoprisen. The prize has been awarded annually by the industry organisation for medical devices in Denmark (Medicoindustrien) since 2001. The industry exports for more than
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