🧵 1/3 Was an #SocialMedia toll ist: Ich kann Dummbratzen, Schandmaulende und Müll ratzfatz blockieren. Was wir heute im Museumsdienst erlebten, mussten wir mit professionellem Lächeln und einem inneren Stinkefinger quittieren.
Es ist unfassbar, wie fies ein gewisser narzisstischer Menschenschlag sein kann. Ich wundere mich nicht, dass sich viele dem ehrenamtlich nicht aussetzen wollen.
Unsere Profistickerin, über 40 Jahre im Metier, muss sich
🌃 🏛️ Unter dem Motto "Möge die Nacht mit uns sein!" findet heute Abend wieder die Lange Nacht der Museen in Hamburg statt. Auf dem Programm stehen Führungen, Konzerte, Mitmach-Spiele, Lesungen und vieles mehr.
"It is hard to overstate how completely out of touch the #museum sector seems to be with what contemporary technologies make possible, how those possibilities are changing people's expectations and where those expectations now intersect with the museum sector itself. More and more, I find myself asking: What is the functional equivalent of ordering cat litter on the beach for museums?" – https://aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf
Vu le parti politique et l'historien qui mènent le projet, il faut être bien innocent pour croire que le musée sera national et non pas nationaliste. @histodons
"Getty Museum restitutes ancient bronze head to Turkey" by Elena Goukassian #TheArtNewspaper
"Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Museum will return an ancient bronze sculpture of a young man’s head to Turkey after an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office revealed that it had been looted in the 1960s.
Head From a Statue of a Youth (1st century BC-1st century AD), a bronze head with curly hair and light stubble on the chin, is believed to have been created as a separate cast from the rest of a now-lost life-size body that has never been identified. Researchers know the figure was once whole, because the neck has “evidence of ancient joins on the interior along the break”, according to a press release
, and the eyes—now mere holes in the metal—were “once inlaid with an unknown material”."
I have finally written up the notes from the talk I gave to a #museum studies class at usf recently / this one is long even by standards and covers a lot of ground / it is titled "talking about the pen without talking about the pen" – https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf
Gesucht: Teilnehmende & Interessierte an der #Jahrestagung vom Deutschen Museumsbund! 🔍
Wir wollen hier live berichten und uns austauschen. Wer ist dabei? Wo ist die Museumsbubble?
➡️ #DMB24
@mem_somerville It makes me sad to read that this behaviour exists. Could it be a cultural problem?
I volunteer in a French #CulturalHeritage centre + #museum (early 20th c.) with two international #fibreArt festivals + never ever experienced this. Not only that in France ancient #crafts and skills are strongly supported, meanwhile many institutions look for people who can still teach these skills. Our #embroidery group (the youngest 61) can hardly save itself from requests for presentations in
First thing you should know is the proprietor is great. I was a little concerned this might be a right wing nut location ... But nope! Highly recommend this weird little place. His spiel is great.
Yesterday in the #museum: https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/112308811438207069 We had full house.
Today I'm completely exhausted. I forgot that I could have felt like a lab rat regarding COVID. What tires us all to no end is the immense background noise. Then several questions at the same time and you often have to talk across the table. Sometimes it's also difficult to remain friendly. But the audience was great yesterday. The noise, the heat (we had to heat it up because of an onset of winter), the chatter: Sleeep! 😴 💤
Im Museum der Alltagskultur im Schloss Waldenbuch gibt es einen Raum, der erst auf den zweiten Blick erkennen lässt, dass hier #Magie im Spiel ist: Der Schutz-Raum. Er ist der einzige der 6 Ausstellungsräume der Themeneinheit Wohnbedürfnisse, der neben einer materiellen auch eine immaterielle Ebene aufweist...
NEU im #Blog: Schutz-Zauber im Museum der Alltagskultur: https://blog.landesmuseum-stuttgart.de/schutz-zauber-im-museum-der-alltagskultur-schloss-waldenbuch/
Preparing for voluntary service at our #culturalHeritage centre & #museum. On Sundays, we have a table with women who do #handicrafts and chat. This is targeted #animation so that people become curious, ask questions and watch. And learn more about our centre. Most of the women #embroider, I show #VisibleMending. Other colleagues give guided tours, baked cake, serve in the cafeteria and explain hot #chocolate today. There is a lecture and a special exhibition about chocolate.
186 years ago today. John Muir, who convinced US President Theodore Roosevelt that Yosemite should be protected as a national park, was born in Dunbar in East Lothian on 21 April 1838. Today his birthplace is a museum about him. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dunbar/johnmuirbirthplace/index.html