Blog archive: Museullaneous
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Science in the City - the Marathon Begins!
With great excitement, Science in the City began! New to it all, I was caught in a whirlwind of energy and lots and lots of High school kids. Find out what buzz was stirred during the first day of Science in the City (16 August).
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Science in the City - A Marathon of Heroes
Science in the City (which also expands to Science in the Suburbs and Science in the Bush) is a week long event aimed at High school students of all grade levels. It is designed to encourage them towards an interest in the sciences and to expose them to the diverse field
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Do museum shops need to know about Web 2.0 and social media?
Well, probably yes which is why I've been asked to run a mini-workshop on this stuff at the Museum Shops Association 2010 Conference on 9 September. If I was a museum shop manager what would I need to know about social media and Web 2.0? Find some answers and other resources on this page
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How to be clever on Facebook
For the most part, coporate/museum Facebook pages are pretty much the same: conversations among visitors or inserted opinons. However, there are those out there that are coming up with clever ways of engaging with their audience, you just have to do a lot of sifting. How could we apply these idea
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Digital Heritage Students Lecture
Notes from a talk given for students studying digital heritage at the University of Western Sydney.
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Knowing the Collections audit report
There have been various media stories in the past few days concerning the Museum's collections. These stories relate to the recommendations of the Audit Office of NSW in the report Knowing the Collections: Australian Museum, released on 1 September 2010. Read on for further clarification and info
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How would you design an exhibit? Meeting Part 2 - the day
The second post about designing an exhibit. Twenty students and their teachers arrived on 23 August to help the Museum design their up and coming Birds of Paradise exhibit. What a wonderful day for all of us! Read on to find out what happened during the workshop.
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How would you design an exhibit? Meeting Part 1
Two schools recently joined the Australian Museum in helping design the up and coming exhibition Birds of Paradise. This was the first day we met with the schools, and being new myself, I was excited to see what the students thought about the coming workshop.
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Ask a curator...1 September 2010
Wednesday 1 September is not only the beginning of Spring (or Fall if you're in the wrong end of the hemisphere), it's international "Ask a curator..." day!
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Life and Death Under the Pharaohs 1998 Evaluation
Here's a summary of findings from the Life and Death Under the Pharaohs 1998 exhibition evaluation
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Life Beyond the Tomb Exhibition Evaluation 2005
Here's a summary of findings from the Life Beyond the Tomb 2005 exhibition evaluation
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Pacific Cultures Consultation June 2009: Emerging themes
As part of the front-end planning for a Pacific Cultures exhibition, four separate consultations with Pacific Island communities were conducted in June 2009 to inform the development of the concept brief. These were comprised of two workshops with secondary school students; one with primary schoo
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What’s in a Name? Evaluation of exhibition titles
Tips on how to evaluate potential titles/names for exhibitions. Elements of this article first appeared in 'Visitor Behaviour', Fall/Winter, 1997, Numbers 3-4, Page 32
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What is Foursquare?
A passing fad, yet another social networking site to annoy us or is there something to Foursquare?
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Smithsonian Commons Prototype
The Smithsonian Commons is doing more than "... enabling discoveries. It will make possible new fields of discovery". What is the Smithsonian Commons and how will this be made possible?
