As a follow-up to #Museum Blogger day on Twitter (March 19), co-organizers Jamie Glavic and Jenni Fuchs have created a kind of bloggers round robin to keep up the momentum. Various bloggers answer 11 questions about themselves and their blogs and then tap others to do the same. 슠Uncatalogued Museum author슠Linda Norris has asked me…
Note to readers: 슠Not sure why my old post on museums in India went out earlier today. Apologies for something your in-box doesn’t need. 슠 Here is current post:슠 Ever notice an idea that you thought was original popping up in a number of places simultaneously?슠 Thats whats happening with the topic of museums and…
Following up on 슠June 7슠and June 29슠 posts on empathy in museums, six museum colleagues from a variety of areas in the field are proposing a session called The Empathetic Museum 슠for the슠 May 2014 American Alliance of Museums Conference in Seattle, WA.슠 Im one of the panelists, so this is a shameless plea for…
In early June I posted a summary of a “Pop-Up” session I organized at the recent meeting of the American Alliance of Museums in Baltimore, MD. 슠About ten participants joined in a round-table conversation about what might be meant by “The Empathetic Museum.” 슠Daryl Fischer was part of the discussion, and here are some of…
Those who have read my March 26. 2012슠슠post on Trayvon Martin will know that my answer to the question about museums’ role is “yes.” This case is a part of U.S. history, African American history, social and cultural studies, research on race relations, the history of social media, and digital humanities, to name just a…
Since my last post, on the pop-up discussion about The Empathetic Museum at the American Alliance of Museums conference, Regan Forrest of the blog Interactivate has picked up on this theme and examined it from the perspective of interpretation and design. Her posts are well worth reading, and have generated more widespread discussion on this…
In response to the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, The Maritime Aquarium is offering free general admission to all residents of Newtown, as well as to Newtown educators and Newtown employed슠first responders and their immediate families (up to 6 people per family), now through all of 2013. We at The Maritime Aquarium are heartbroken…
Recent posts on Museum Commons have addressed issues of museum empathy and슠 the use of social media to include the visitor voice.슠 In this connection the Education Department of the Levine Museum of the New South contacted me about a new summer program that is using social media to connect more closely with the…