tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333522762009-12-06T00:37:33.419Z<i><big>Museums: a wholesome recreational alternative to procreation and the pub*</big></i>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15418156698058196228noreply@blogger.comBlogger1295125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post-74654774347966052622009-12-06T00:36:00.001Z2009-12-06T00:37:33.425Z

So, it's my Viva on Friday.Got any survival tips for me?

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Roman Soldier Set (Museum of London)£5.99A 16 piece Roman magnetic dress up roman soldier set, which is perfect for anyone wanting to know what a legionary or centurion looked like. These pieces can be attached to any metal surface.BUY HERE

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Pan Am Toiletry Bag (Smithsonian)$60.00The collapsible toiletry bag with handle is perfect for personal items and TSA-approved containers. Rugged leather-like exteriors are embossed with the authentic Pan Am logo. Custom medallion zipper pulls and nylon logo lining. 6"h. x 10"w. x 5"d.Ground-breaking commercial aircraft are exhibited at our National Air and Space Museum and the Steven F.

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Just spotted this on Tumblr.Bit of background info here.

Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15418156698058196228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post-52539978205923154852009-12-04T13:47:00.003Z2009-12-04T14:02:37.954Z

Google has added Pompeii to its Streetview service. Apparently, you can also virtual-visit Stonehenge. I'm very interested in visuality, especially of places, and Google Streetview to me is a fascinating meld of traditional cartography with filmic visuality, so that the mapped point of view becomes both omniscient and yet individual, almost as in a dreamscape.This summer, I heard Mary Beard talk

Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137076061031307574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post-87775975685000405392009-12-04T12:36:00.002Z2009-12-04T12:43:32.649Z

Check out this fantastic blog from the Mary Greg Collection, an interpretation project which is underway at Manchester Art Gallery. The creators of this website will be presenting at our symposium (Materiality and Intangibility: Contested Zones) this month so yet another reason to check it out and come along!www.marymaryquitecontrary.org.uk

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Set of 7 Shoe Ornaments (Met, NY)$125.00Brighten up the Holiday season with our charming selection of one of a kind shoe ornaments. Each ornament in this set is based on dazzling shoes in the Museum’s Costume Institute. Included are the Art Deco Tapestry, Venetian Carnival, Red Beaded, Gold and Silver, Masquerade, Versailles Embellished, and Green Slingback ornaments—all fit to jazz up the

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After Amy's Spotify playlist of songs about museums, this band caught my eye in The Guardian because they actually have museum in their name, albeit in French - Musee Mecanique. Paul Lester hails them as 'hushed and gentle, elegant and restrained' and they play multiple instruments, sometimes more than one together. It seems that they are actually named after a museum in San Francisco called,

Cerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607190124293660893noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post-60043099930083663152009-12-03T09:20:00.003Z2009-12-03T09:50:00.788Z

Richard Morgan's KeynoteThe internet has scattered the presence of museums across the world. In an informative and exciting speech, Richard Morgan presented how museums should and are dealing with this, and what the role of the museum is in the world of the Semantic Web. How do we, as cultural and marketable institutions, integrate the maverick activity of the online world with the 'corporate'

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14543331768038360856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post-66882247333247240332009-12-03T00:00:00.000Z2009-12-03T00:00:03.746Z

Less Is More MugDesigned by Build x Design Museum, 2009£9.95Part of the Design Museum Shop’s exclusive product range, this mug bears one of our most favourite design maxims; “Less Is More”.You will be sure to drink more tea when you own this mug, so perhaps add less sugar, to reflect the maxim effectively.The phrase “Less Is More” is commonly attributed to architect Mies Van Der Rohe and is often

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Accessible digital culture: past, present and futureHelen Petrie and Christopher Power, Human Computer Interaction Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of York, Chaired by Marcus Weissen.This presentation provided the linking bridge between the MCG Conference and the Jodi Awards. Presented both in English and BSL, the discussion centred around challenging and empowering

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14543331768038360856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post-77037954171967817322009-12-02T15:40:00.025Z2009-12-02T16:40:27.524Z

SensoryThis session explored haptic, gestural, emotional and embodied ways of engaging with new media content. This is where materiality meets virtuality, where anthropology and material culture studies meet technology and development. How do we, and how could we, experience museum content through new media?Joe Cutting - Telling Stories with Games.There's a lot of uncertainty about how museums

Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14543331768038360856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post-37442221966629370542009-12-02T13:31:00.015Z2009-12-02T14:02:12.354Z

'Open Mic'A sequence of 5 minute presentations highlighted projects and concepts in short bursts. The ability of people to sign up on the day, to call for assistance, comment and input from their colleagues is an extremely valuable opportunity to advertise and learn about proposals and initiatives. Projects highlighted include Manchester Art Galleries Public Sculpture QR and Augmented Reality

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SITUATEDUsually, we think of museums as an experience within walls. But with the rise of mobile technology, the external possibilities, and for pre- and post- museum experiences increase. Three more presenters, Paul Golding, Andy Ramsden, and Mike Ellis were invited to discuss different aspects of this.The first, Paul Golding's address, was rather technical, yet accessible, dealing with devices,

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SocialThe social possibilities provided by the Web are immense. They stretch far beyond Facebook or Twitter. The web, really, is a social tool and the first three projects presented showed the diverse possibilities for interaction that the Web provides.'A History of The World in 100 Objects'This is a project that I've blogged about here before. Concerns were raised at the time as to what the

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We have had a lovely welcome to the morning by Ross Parry and Gail Durbin, Head of V&A Online. The aims of this conference are manifold and interesting. In recognition, A theme for the conference is chosen every year. After last year's rather technical subject 'The Semantic Web', the aim of this year is to return to the world of museums and to engage with the social, situated, and sensory aspects

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Geometric cufflinks (British Museum)£45.00Geometry lies at the heart of Islamic design. Interlacing circles, triangles, stars and polygons underpin the decoration of objects and architecture throughout the Muslim world. The vibrant intellectual environment at the medieval Arab and Persiancourts fostered the development of science, mathematics and geometry which had an impact on the arts of Islam.

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Fuschia Draped Jewel Purse By Louise Buchan This exclusive limited edition purse is inspired by an album of designs for Indian jewellery (c.1774, Faizabad) from the V&A's Indian and South East Asian collections.Hand printed by Louise Buchan for the V&A. Made in England.Exclusive to the V&A.£40BUY HERE

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Yes, it's very nearly that time of year again. From tomorrow (1st Dec) and each day until Christmas Day we will be featuring a different item of museum merchandise available to buy now. Why not support a museum or heritage organisation while you shop for Christmas?

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Ok, so I just suggested in a comment to Julia's last post that there wouldn't be any point in flashmobbing Leicester museums due to lack of appreciative crowds. However, that doesn't mean we can't express our happiness in some other way. A month ago, on the Halloween museum crawl, we were so excited by Leicester's heritage that (in the style of these folks) we jumped for joy...Now that's

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On a more optimistic note than my last: A dancing flash mob at the Louvre. Who wants to organize one at New Walk? Or better yet, Jewry Wall? :-)

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I shall be blogging from this conference on Wednesday. This is a link to the programmehttp://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2009/11/25/uk-museums-on-the-web-2009-situated-sensory-social/If you're interested, do please read along!

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We've been hearing about the credit crunch for ages. With remarkably clear hindsight, pundits have been criticizing the circumstances that led to the credit crisis: unlimited aspirations, easy access to fake money, lending without sufficient capital, crippling interest rates, etc. As we are now being encouraged to spend even more to assuage the hurting bottom lines of banks and business, I think

Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137076061031307574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33352276.post-19966317559362618822009-11-26T15:25:00.001Z2009-11-26T15:25:22.773Z

Via the 'Dark Tourism' listserv, the following is an extract from the marketing publicity for a cruise commemorating the Titanic's fated maiden voyage…pretty ghoulish if you ask me.   British travel firm Miles Morgan Travel are taking reservations for this unique cruise that will commemorate the Titanic's tragic voyage in April 1912. Our voyage of a

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http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/news_and_press_releases/press_releases/2009/a_history_of_the_world.aspxThis interested me, and I wondered - how would you tell your history in your objects?

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