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 7th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The Stedelijk Museum’s mobile Construction Cabin in front of the temporary, and recently abandoned premises of the museum.
For more than four years the Stedelijk Museum was temporarily housed in a former postal building near Amsterdam’s central station. After selling the last ticket on September 30, the museum abandoned the space and
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October 3rd, 2008 by AutoAggregator
From Saturday 4th October 2008 until 3rd January 2009, Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum will be home to the exhibition “Making History: Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007“.
The exhibtion, presented in association with the Society of Antiquaries of London, explores the development of archaeology, from antiquarianism to the rise of modern professional
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Read the full post at Past Thinking
Posted in Exhibition, Making History, Salisbury | Comments Off
September 12th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
“Anatomy of an Angel” (foreground) by Damien Hirst on display at Sotheby’s in London. (Click to watch video)
One thing about the hyped auction of new works by Damien Hirst at Sotheby’s next week is immediately impressive: its sheer scale. It would be wrong to compare this to a private gallery show…
Read the full post at MuseumLab
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August 9th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Developed by the Barbican Museum in London, Game On examines videogames from the game design process, to the culture among gamers and beyond. Visitors can experience the past forty years of electronic gaming, play over 100 games on their original hardware and using the software that would have been used at
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August 4th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
H-Box installation view at Tate Modern in London (Photo: jamesapallister)
Mobile galleries are a current fad sweeping exhibition hubs around the world, like a travelling circus for the cultural crowd. It started with Chanel’s Mobile Art Pod and continues apace with French luxury brand Hermes’ H BOX: a travelling screening space for
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Posted in museum, Art, Media, Culture, Exhibition, Asia, USA, Europe | Comments Off
July 31st, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Italian bishops and government representatives think Kippenberg’s ‘Zuerst die Füße’ is provocative.
A one-metre high sculpture of a crucified frog, holding a mug of beer and an egg, at a modern art museum in Italy has stirred controversy in the predominantly Roman Catholic city of Bolzano. ‘Zuerst die Füße’ by the late
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July 25th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
ART DIALOGUE: JOHN KAUFMANN ON JOSIAH MCELHENY’S THE LAST SCATTERING SURFACE
July 24, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Henry Art Gallery
East Gallery
Writer, actor, and director John Kaufmann leads an informal conversation in the Henry’s East Gallery about Josiah McElheny’s representation of the Big Bang. Kaufmann’s production of Starball married astronomy, poetry, science, Jungian dream analysis, and…
Read the full post at Hankblog
Posted in Henry Exhibitions, Programs and Lectures, Exhibition, General Hank, John Kaufmann, Art Dialogue | Comments Off
July 24th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Sydney Observatory
25 July 1889
My Dear Admiral Mauchet
This letter will arrive in Paris when you are in the midst of the grand festivities of the Exhibition. And the meeting of the representatives of all the Sciences.
I envey the Scientific encouragement of those Meetings and the pleasures of the Exhibition, but duty keeps
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Read the full post at Historical Letters from the Sydney Observatory
Posted in Exhibition, H C Russell, Admiral Mauchet, Association, Committee, Dr Gill, Paris | Comments Off
