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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Curating Living History: Preserving Skills and Intangible Culture
The 2024 ALHFAM Annual Meeting and Conference Howell Living History FarmJune 7-10 and September 9-10, 2024 Learning by actually doing. Sharing practical knowledge. That is what ALHFAM is all about, and this conference is focused …
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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Holding Hands with the "Fediverse" – ActivityPub at SFO Museum
SFO Museum has joined the “Fediverse”. We have begun to operate a series of automated “bot” accounts that are published using the ActivityPub protocols which can be subscribed to from any client, like Mastodon, that …
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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Updated 12 months ago
Pioneer Memorial Museum
The Pioneer Memorial Museum makes the bold claim to host "the world's largest collection of artifacts on one subject" - that subject being stuff that pioneers brought with them to Utah! It's certainly a very …
By Simon Willison, 218 words
Open Objects
Every age has its orthodoxy and no orthodoxy is ever right.
By Mia Ridge.
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Updated 3 months ago
Links for a talk on crowdsourcing at UCL
I'm giving a lecture on 'crowdsourcing at the British Library' for students on UCL's MSc Sustainable Heritage taking the course 'Crowd-Sourced and Citizen Data for Cultural Heritage' (BENV0114). As some links at the British Library …