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5 lessons about oral history projects for museums – Wrap-up of the New...
Photo by Fred Ernst. View all photos of the New Technology Conference on Flickr. Last Wednesday the Museum of National History organised its second annual New Technology Conference. This year’s topic:...
View ArticleThe Museum Without Technology
I’m in Sydney at the moment for a bunch of workshops and to contribute to Intercom 2012. My stay started well with a lunch meeting at the Australian Museum. Over sandwiches we discussed future digital...
View ArticleThe museum as a magazine, January 2013
A recent Pew Report (thanks for the link, Marco Derksen) about arts organisations and digital technologies among 1,244 organisations says ‘77% of respondents agree with the statement that the internet...
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Museums in times of social and technological change
At the end of the first season of Downton Abbey in a scene that is exemplary of the serie’s greatness, the Dowager Countess of Grantham (Maggie Smith) exclaims that “Sometimes I feel as if I were...
View ArticleBook review: Whose global village? Digital diversity and inclusive technology
According to Ramesh Srinivasan in his new book Whose global village?, “Inequality is a major part of the story of today’s Internet”, and museums and other cultural heritage organisations need to...
View ArticleFutureproofing the digital museum
The museum of the future is an organisation influenced by social and technological change. Recently, on this blog, I’ve been focusing on social over technological change. This post is different....
View ArticleA museum for humans
“Prohuman art and culture question the value of pat narratives. They produce open-ended stories, without clear victors or well-defined conflicts. Everyone is right; everyone is wrong. The works don’t...
View ArticleBuilding coronacollectie.nl, a participatory storytelling and collection...
Recently, the team of VISSCH+STAM launched coronacollectie.nl, a participatory platform where everyone can contribute to the historiography of the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative quickly gained...
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