Blog archive: May 2010
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Science
Update of The Plastiki Expedition
After nearly a couple of weeks on xmas island the Plastiki with new crew members set sail for Fiji – or say they thought!
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Museullaneous
USA Trip 2010: Impressions from a land far far away
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.
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At the Museum
Sustainable Exhibition Design Workshop
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
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At the Museum
Renovation!
After nearly a quarter of a century the Museums Mineral Gallery has had a face lift.
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Museullaneous
Who is the public? A talk by John Falk
Who is the Public? Research in Identity in Museums, a talk by John Falk, Oregon State University, 18 May 2010.
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Museullaneous
What is identity?
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.
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Museullaneous
How has identity been described in a museum context?
Second post about identity outlining what has been written about identity in the museum context.
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Museullaneous
Museum visitors and learning identities
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.
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At the Museum
Football, Biodiversity and Secrecy
We have had a very busy week - lots happening - all over the Museum...
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Education
Web2spider at Ermington Public School
Despite the cold weather the students found a number of golden orbs, leaf-curl spider, black house spiders (Badumna spp), Araneus species and others.
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Museullaneous
The dinner table
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?
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Museullaneous
How do Australian Museum visitors use social media?
Having found that Australian Museum visitors used social networking sites, how are they actually using these? Are they passive users or actively engaged?
