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.
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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.
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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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July 23rd, 2008 by AutoAggregator
As you know all of the works in the To Live Forever show are from the Brooklyn Museum. What you may not know is that there was a lot of conservation work that went into putting together this exhibition. So, to find out more about what the BM conservators
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Posted in Brooklyn Museum, ima, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Exhibitions, Richard McCoy, demetrios, mummy, Lisa Bruno, American Institute for Conservation, ancient Egypt, Book of the Dead, Caitlin Jenkins, Carolyn Tomkiewicz, Catherine Williams, Egyptian art, Hiroko Kariya, Jakki Godfrey, Rachel Danzing, senet, Tina March | Comments Off
July 18th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
One place I know I don’t want to go is Antarctica. This is not to say that I think Antarctica is dull or something like that (I like the idea of auroras, bright stars, and a frozen, treeless tundra), it’s just that it’s cold in a kind of deathly way. But
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Posted in Brooklyn Museum, ima, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Richard McCoy, To Live Forever, Art Conservation, Antartic Conservation Blog, Beth Heller, British Natural History Museum, Claudia Chemello, Dig Diaries, Holly Robertson, Jeff Peachey, John Steele, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Lisa Bruno, Scott Base, Suzanne Davis, Tel Kedesh | Comments Off
June 6th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
For reasons I’ll explain later, I’ve been digging around on youtube.com and other places for videos about art conservation . Today I found one of my all-time favorite videos about conservation.
It’s a video of Grant Romer of the George Eastman House talking about the famous Abraham Lincoln glass plate negative.…
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Posted in ima, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Richard McCoy, Abraham Lincoln, Art Conservation, Conservation Projects, David Marquis, George Eastman House, Grant Romer, Helene Ingalls, Joan Gorman, Lunder Conservation Center, Midwest Art Conservation Center, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, painting conservation, Photograph Conservation, Sebastiano Mainardi, Tecumseh, The Prophet | Comments Off
May 23rd, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The comments in my last post about our new computed radiography (CR) system spurred me into writing a second post about this topic.
In the comments on that last post Karen T discussed the importance of being able to make a 1:1 comparison between a radiograph and a painting, and then Christina…
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Posted in Facebook, ima, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Film, Richard McCoy, artstor, documentation, conservation, computed radiography, CR, digital, Edward Hopper, Hotel Lobby, Poly Styrene, Printing, Radiographs, Woolworths | Comments Off
May 16th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Warning: This post is somewhat technical, kind of lengthy, and it has an example of early recycling near the end.
A former professor of mine recently called with some technical questions about the Conservation
Department’s new x-ray equipment. Instead of responding to him via e-mail I thought I would provide a kind
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Posted in ima, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Richard McCoy, chinese vessel, computed radiography, radiograph, X-radiography | Comments Off
April 30th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
As I get ready for another busy summer of maintaining the outdoor sculptures here at the IMA, I thought I would share some information about some work I completed last summer with the fine help of intern Cydney Campbell (she is also an undergrad at Herron and a world-renown Irish dancer
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Posted in Flickr, ima, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Richard McCoy, Canova, Three Graces, treatment | Comments Off
April 16th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Meet Christina Gentry; she’s the first – and so far the only – person to take me up on my offer to have lunch at Pucks with the IMA’s director, Max Anderson, for making a Wikipedia article about one of the IMA’s outdoor sculptures. As for TED, I’ll get to that
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Posted in ima, Indianapolis Museum of Art, free lunch, IUPUI, Richard McCoy, Local, Christina Gentry, Sutphin Fountain, TED | Comments Off
April 6th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Having Adrian Schiess at the IMA last fall to install his exhibition was a unique experience for the whole group that worked on the show. During the installation, I spent the better part of a week working with contemporary curator Rebecca Uchill, (whose IMA employee profile includes some Schiess installation
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Posted in ima, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Exhibitions, Adrian Schiess, Do Ho Suh, Lilly House, onthecusp.org, Richard McCoy, Switzerland | Comments Off
