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social media and museums

A post from "westmuse" blog.

James Cook and the exploration of the Pacific

No, I can't have completely forgotten my interest in Pacific history! This link will take you to a museum in Bonn, which is currently holding a major Cook exhibition. The exhibits include a tapa waistcoat which Mrs Cook made for Captain Cook, but which he never got to wear. It usually lives at the State Library of NSW, and is embriodered with Tailor of Glouchester (sp?) seventeenth century style stitching. Beautiful. Wish I could go look!

web communities

As I said in the previous post, I'm on to the next assignment. It's not an easy one for me, as although I'm aware of technology, and am somewhat aware of the possibilities of technology, I'm a bit vague on the details. So I do rely on others to show me the way, and I learn heaps from reading other blogs and talking with people.
The following presentation is on Peoplepoints blog too, but I want to put it up because it really speaks to me about how online communities can benefit archives and museums.
It was delivered on 3/9/09 at the British Society of Archivists meeting by George Oates. (please follow Peoplepoints to get more info on George.)

Into The Wild: Breathing New Life Into Collections

View more documents from George Oates.

Lastly, and unrelated, I'm adding this link to a post from the Maritime Museum blog, cos I'm in it! I had a lttle time earlier this year and managed to get down for a couple of days to help paint Breeze.

Wonderland | Art | The Black Orchid - Auckland Museum New Zealand

Whew! I have mostly finished the assignments part one...now moving on to assignment two, the "envirnmental scan". So tonight I've been looking online at technology possibilities for musuems..wow there are some very beautiful museum sites around. Here is a video from the Auckland War Memorial Museum siteWonderland | Art | The Black Orchid - Auckland Museum New Zealand The exhibition, on at the moment is called "Wonderland". Makes me want to go. Interestingly though, this museum doesn't seem to have a blog although you can subscibe to their email list.

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