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Blogs about Museums

5 blogs about Museums.

  1. 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. More info

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    250th Spark: The Power of Place
    This month’s Inspirational Spark is The Power of Place, one of the five themes AASLH has identified in its Making History at 250: The Field Guide for the Semiquincentennial. The concept of “place” can work …
    By alhfam1, 66 words
  2. 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. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Small focused tools for visualizing geographic data
    This is a blog post about a series of small, purpose-fit web applications that can be run from your local desktop (or a remote server, if necessary) to visualize geographic data in a map. The …
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  3. The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things
    a collection of ridiculously interesting art, objects, ideas, and history. By Chelsea Nichols. More info

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    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
  4. Niche Museums: Find tiny museums near you
    By Simon Willison. 🇺🇸 More info

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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
  5. Open Objects
    Every age has its orthodoxy and no orthodoxy is ever right. By Mia Ridge. 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 More info

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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 …
    By mia, 72 words