Blog archive:
May 2010

After nearly a couple of weeks on xmas island the Plastiki with new crew members set sail for Fiji – or say they thought!

Been travelling in the States. First to Washington to present the George Brown Goode Memorial Lecture at the Smithsonian (talk titled How Web 2.0 is Changing the Nature of Museum Work), then to the American Association of Museums Conference in Los Angeles.

The second Sustainable Exhibition Design Workshop was held in Sydney on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 April 2010.The workshop allowed museum exhibition and graphic designers to share sustainable design solutions with an emphasis on practical advice and case studies and including a focus on l

After nearly a quarter of a century the Museums Mineral Gallery has had a face lift.

Who is the Public? Research in Identity in Museums, a talk by John Falk, Oregon State University, 18 May 2010.

Attended a talk by John Falk about identity and thought might be useful to post some of the literature I reviewed in my thesis about identity generally.

Second post about identity outlining what has been written about identity in the museum context.

My thesis investigated adult museum visitors'; learning identities. Here's some of what I concluded in my thesis about identity based on my extensive doctoral research.

We have had a very busy week - lots happening - all over the Museum...

Despite the cold weather the students found a number of golden orbs, leaf-curl spider, black house spiders (Badumna spp), Araneus species and others.

People love to sit around a table and share - whether it's a meal, a conversation over coffee, a bunch of papers to discuss, maps to pore over, photos to compare - we do this around a table. Why not at a museum too?

Having found that Australian Museum visitors used social networking sites, how are they actually using these? Are they passive users or actively engaged?