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Since the average US citizen spends approximately an hour and a half in their car each day it might be worth considering what museums could offer an audience that currently is barraged with billboards, street signs, bumper stickers, GPS instructions and talk radio. The opportunities that lie just inside the windshield are infinite for exhibition designers and…

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MIDAS - Museum Interdisciplinary Studies

Articles and reviews till the 31 March 2012

More information here: http://revistamidas.hypotheses.org/

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The United States Space Surveillance Network (USSSN) is a global array of sensor sites operating under the US Strategic Command, in partnership with space agencies of other nations. This network continuously identifies, catalogues and tracks a collection of approx. 21,000 artifacts orbiting the Earth.…

The best thing this year will be our visit to London this summer as part of our England's hidden treasures summer school. Take a look a the marvellous refurbishment of the Museum of London, we'll be visiting this summer, being shown round by the Head of Learning so we can hear first hand how they have transformed this fantastic site and go behind the scenes to talk to the experts.

New Museum Diary blog post for Valentines Day:

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MIDAS – Museum Interdisciplinary Studiesinvites everyone who works in museums or their work is about the museum world to contribute to MIDAS’s first issue. MIDAS is a new interdisciplinary and reflexive journal dedicated to the study of museums, with peer-review, published twice a year and is fully open access. MIDAS has an international scope, and is particularly committed to enhance and promote dialogue between professionals and researchers from Portuguese and Spanish…

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The night sky is a menagerie of time, filled with luminous, dislocated specimens like a cabinet of curiosities or a gallery of images from different eras....

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Just wrote a new post for Museum Commons on a controversial exhibition that was created by the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, then seemed to disappear, but has been reorganized by the Brooklyn Museum in New York and the Takoma Museum of Art in Washington. http://museumcommons.blogspot.com/

Last year I completed a challenge of visiting 52 museums in 52 weeks (I actually made it to 54 by the end of the year): http://jennifuchs.tumblr.com/post/15292423165/52-museums-in-52-weeks-part-1

Considering the role that both accident and demolition play in the arts and sciences, it is surprising there are no museums devoted to their study and appreciation. …

It’s tempting to describe David Walsh’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, and "The O,” its iPod Touch guide developed by Art Processors, in the polarized terms that the guide itself encourages visitors to assign the artworks on…

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This was the title of the recent conference held jointly by Museums Australia / Interpretation Australia earlier this month. Details at http://www.atthefrontier2011.com.au/

As a bursary recipient I am trying to disseminate my findings from the conference as widely as possible - there are a series of blog posts on the MANexus website …

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There is a growing tendency for non-museum environments, like shopping malls, to incorporate museum exhibition spaces (including zoos and aquariums) into their facilities. But, there has been little effort toward exploring the potential of infusing interpretation and informal learning opportunities into retail environments. Not simply by installing exhibits into adjacent spaces,…