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At the Museum
Renovation!
After nearly a quarter of a century the Museums Mineral Gallery has had a face lift.
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Museullaneous
Who is the public? A talk by John Falk
Who is the Public? Research in Identity in Museums, a talk by John Falk, Oregon State University, 18 May 2010.
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Museullaneous
What is identity?
Attended a talk by John Falk about identity and thought might be useful to post some of the literature I reviewed in my thesis about identity generally.
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Museullaneous
How has identity been described in a museum context?
Second post about identity outlining what has been written about identity in the museum context.
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Museullaneous
Museum visitors and learning identities
My thesis investigated adult museum visitors'; learning identities. Here's some of what I concluded in my thesis about identity based on my extensive doctoral research.
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At the Museum
Football, Biodiversity and Secrecy
We have had a very busy week - lots happening - all over the Museum...
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Education
Web2spider at Ermington Public School
Despite the cold weather the students found a number of golden orbs, leaf-curl spider, black house spiders (Badumna spp), Araneus species and others.
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Museullaneous
The dinner table
People love to sit around a table and share - whether it's a meal, a conversation over coffee, a bunch of papers to discuss, maps to pore over, photos to compare - we do this around a table. Why not at a museum too?
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Museullaneous
How do Australian Museum visitors use social media?
Having found that Australian Museum visitors used social networking sites, how are they actually using these? Are they passive users or actively engaged?
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Science
Ian Kiernan blogs on Plastiki
Ian Kiernan the founder of Clean Up Australia and Clean up the World talks about a throwaway society on Plastiki website.
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Museullaneous
Museums and the Web Conference 2010
Links to papers and online summaries from the 2010 Museums and the Web Conference.
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At the Museum
New Exhibition - Tiwi Footy
Our next upstairs temporary show looks at something unusual for the Australian Museum - sport.
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Museullaneous
Smartphones and open content – emerging trends
Smartphones are changing the face of journalism and open content is changing the nature of education – what does this mean for providing museum content on demand?