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February 2009 Blog Posts (7)

Museumsuck.com - what do we say to that?

Over at http://nlablog.wordpress.com I've had a better look at Museumsuck.com - and I found this!

Added by Angelina Russo on February 26, 2009 at 10:30am — 4 Comments

Green building, ecomuseums, environmental aspects

If anyone out there has any information regarding museums implementing green building techniques (new construction, additions or renovations), museums meeting some kind of ecological challenge, companies that sell products or services that are said to be ecologically or environmentally friendly or green certified, or any community or planning committee papers that relate to this topic, please feel free to contact me. I am beginning new research and all information is appreciated.

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Added by Michael Chappell on February 25, 2009 at 2:24pm — No Comments

Sorry, but this is a dumb question - getting an RSS feed from this site

Can someone help me explain this process to new members please? As I'm an administrator I see the page differently to other users.

It would be really useful for one of you more 'techy' types to explain to us how this is done ? I know that if you reply to a discussion or blog you automatically get updates, maybe that's all you need to do?

Any assistance gratefully received.

Added by Lynda Kelly on February 21, 2009 at 7:47am — 7 Comments

Inclusive Museum (from CAN events email list)

The 2nd International Conference on the Inclusive Museum

Enabling Diversity Sustaining Development

The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 8-11 July 2009.

www.museum-conference.com

The Inclusive Museum Conference is held annually in different locations around the world. The inaugural Conference was held at the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, The Netherlands in June 2008. It is a participants' Conference, including numerous thematic… Continue

Added by Robert on February 19, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra - a Savanna building

I recently visited the new Portrait Gallery by the lake in Canberra and was pleased to see that it does well on the eight Savanna design principles.

This slideshow gives an introduction to the building and notes some design features.

http://www.environmetrics.com.au/news.html

Check it out!

Added by Gillian Savage on February 18, 2009 at 9:19am — No Comments

More than 100 museums in one look with Buzzeum

Here you will find an overview of interesting museum page chosed by French blog Buzzeum. All those museums have been chosen for their use of new technology and their place in Web 2.0.

Follow buzzeum with a new way of presenting image in the web with Zoomorama technology

What do you think of it?

Do you think some museums are… Continue

Added by meriam ben sassi on February 10, 2009 at 9:00pm — 3 Comments

Back from the Sime Sitem

Hi all

The Sime Sitem is now finish! we would like to thanks all the people who came to visit us. For others, here is one of the demo we show in the meeting.

To enhance your permanent collection with high resolution pictures here is a example of a sort of presentation.

(click on colored room or on artist name to see the collection.)…