Blog Posts Across Global Museum E Community

After advising this antique dealer how to properly handle the captions and translation, he finally agreed to do it as I suggested. What a relief! Now I can just concentrate on the design. Continue

Hello everyone, so I have recently joined this E Community and it seems like a good social network outlet in the art/museum field. I have just graduated from Grad School with a degree in Arts and Heritage Management and I am actually having difficulties finding a job right now. I have been job hunting for the past 6 months and nothing has yet happened. I'm getting pretty deflated in searching for jobs in the field. Is it supposed to be this frustrating to find an entry-level job in this field? I… Continue

I just join this e-community recently and I think that I should share some of the things I do in relation to the museum world. I am currently designing a catalogue for an antique art dealer. This cleint is a very nice person who I have known for 6 years but it is the first time I make catalogue for him. For some strange reason, all the people preparing the material for him are not organized. First of all, the photographer kept sending me, through emails and links, of the digital photos he has t… Continue

Having just returned from 10 days in the States I couldn't help but notice that election fever had gripped the nation! As a non-US citizen I would be interested to learn what the implications are for museums in the event of either a Democrat or Republican winning at the next Presidential election? Continue

Hello everyone! I'm Elaine Howard, the Education and Outreach Director of the Natural World Museum. My administrative office is based in San Francisco but the museum is "without walls" and we work globally in a variety of locations. The United Nations Environment Programme has a project called "Art for the Environment" where art is used to spread awareness of global environmental issues and inspires people to take action. NWM is the implementing partner of this initiative, which I invite you to… Continue

I am Curator for the Still National Osteopathic Museum and National Center for Osteopathic History. Our Museum started with the daughter of the founder (Andrew Taylor Still, M.D., D.O.) decided to "show off" some of the family items. We now house approx 30,000 artifacts, documents and images and handle research requests from around the world. We also have a traveling exhibit called "Healer Within" which has been shown around the US and British Columbia. We are very proud of the…

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Hi! I am a senior in college, just a few months from graduation. I have worked two museum internships and one museum job at this point. I am also working with my on-campus museum on an extensive project to update the catalog and reorganize the storage rooms. Currently I am applying to four graduate degree museum studies programs. I really love Greek and Roman history and British history, so my hopes are to work in the U.K. with such collections one day. If any of you museum veterans have any adv… Continue

I am researching online communities in the context of museums and would be interested to hear how readers of this blog are using this and other online community facilities. Comments on what is worthwhile and what is not would be welcome. In particular, have you used or do you know of any wikis in a museum/educational setting. I am presenting a mini-workshop on museums and wikis at the next Museums and the Web conference - see… Continue

I had a most interesting chat the other day with a good friend and former E.D. of an arts organization. It’s worth the 30 mile drive down the local fjord through snow, sleet, slush and ice to meet at Girdwood’s Double Musky for Cajun food and camaraderie. Along with obligatory sharing of community gossip, which is why we really get together, beer aside, we discuss our former Directorships. Amidst the self effacing laug…

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I've enjoyed an active part in western U.S. museums, though rarely more than contractual, for over 25 years at this point. Last year I ended a three year stint as E.D. of the Alaska Museum of Natural History, now in its secone iteration.

When accepting the position I announced three years would be an appropriate term to get the museum off the ground, and held to that. Good thing, that, since by the end I had been working 7 days each week, 8 to 12 hours per and holding a part time job t…

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I'm headed to the Whitney on Friday.

There are two primary reasons-

Artworks by Kara Walker

&

Music with Marissa Nadler


I'm encouraged by museums attempting to host evening programming with music.
It seems like an effective avenue to attract new audiences and retain returning visitors
with a unique experience.

It was about 4-5 years ago that I attended my first all-night exhibition at the Seattle Art
Museum. Now I've expe… Continue