ALHFAM – the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums
An international organization serving the interests and needs of its individual and institutional members and supporting experiential interpretations of history.
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250th Spark: Rebrand Your Existing Events for the 250th
For history museums, the upcoming 250th anniversary is an opportunity to showcase your historical, cultural, and natural assets, as well as a powerful hook to attract new audiences and deepen connections with your community. But …
Mills Field | Weblog
…a place to consider what it means for a museum in an airport, an airport with over 55 million visitors in 2017, to operate in a world where (almost) everyone is connected to the internet.
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Updates to the SFO Museum ActivityPub services
The ability for SFO Museum ActivityPub accounts to both signal and promote one another provides a mechanism where people can subscribe to a single (SFO Museum) account can keep up with everything that all the …
The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things
a collection of ridiculously interesting art, objects, ideas, and history.
By Chelsea Nichols.
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Updated 2 years ago
Teeny tiny pig porn
Gold pig charms that hide a tiny erotic photo viewed by peering into the pig's butt hole
By Chelsea Nichols, 21 words
Niche Museums: Find tiny museums near you
By Simon Willison.
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The Vincent and Ethel Simonetti Historic Tuba Collection
Vincent Simonetti collected his first historic tuba - a ~1910 Cerveny BB-flat Helicon - in Boston in 1965, while playing tuba on tour with the Moyseev Ballet Company. Today the collection has grown to more …
By Simon Willison, 317 words
Open Objects
Every age has its orthodoxy and no orthodoxy is ever right.
By Mia Ridge.
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Notes from the Museum Data Service launch
I've shared these at work and thought it might be helpful to post my notes from the launch of the Museum Data Service at Bloomberg last week in public too. The MDS aggregates museum (and …