June 2011 Blog Posts (8)

Museum design is a worldwide language very much founded on communication and interpretation.

 

The museum designer has to fuse understanding,…

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We're really excited to open the registration for NDF2011. This year's conference is being held at Te Papa in Wellington on 29 and 30 November.

 

This year is the 10th anniversary of the National Digital Forum (NDF) and its annual conference.



The National Digital Forum (NDF) is a coalition of libraries, archives, museums, galleries, government departments and other…

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I have noticed a great rise of new buzzing eco talk in the studio here, so much so I thought it would be fun to write them down and post them on our blog here on museum3.

 

See if you know them all – I bet you don’t (bear in mind we are enormously inventive so I am pretty sure that some of these eco terms are a spur-of-the-moment fabricated designer lingua…

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At the Frontier Conference Program



At the Frontier 2011is the joint National Conference of Museums Australia and Interpretation Australia.



The conference will encourage debate, speculation and open up a space of conjecture about the frontiers of museums, museology and interpretation. To be "at the Frontier" implies that we are venturing into an unknown space of possibility. This requires…

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"Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate" - Dave Barry

The change from meeting to tweeting - where brief exchanges (of less than 140 characters) make up the content - has been brought about by a variety of factors - but here are the Ten Factors I think are critical, and which change the way we now need to meet (or…

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I have been here in the Living Our Cultures exhibit in Anchorage Museum for a while now, but still get overwhelmed by it. Even though the architecture is simple, with a rectangular gallery mainly houses seven big glass cases (with each one its big video monitor facing the entry) the dim lights, the music and the shifting images on the monitors almost sweeps me off my feet when entering the gallery.

 

“When…

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