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All quiet on the GLAM-wiki front

Posted in Wonder, tagged , , , , , , on 13 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Two months on from the groundbreaking GLAM-wiki conference, where cultural workers and wikipedians met to consider mutual benefits of a partnership (I blogged about it here), I have been gathering some thoughts on the recommendations – and will post them soon. Strangely, very few people have publicly commented, notable exceptions being GerardM (a Dutch wikipedian), [...]

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Memorable moments of the MA conference

Posted in Wonder, tagged , on 24 May 2007 | 1 Comment »

So… Museums Australia conference 2007 has happened. For me, the bloodrush of the session-to-session dash was a welcome relief after sitting still for an hour and a half, so I enjoyed the multi-venue approach. And how good was it having an umbrella in your conference pack?
I also got a lot out of the presentations, and [...]

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Wondrous art

Posted in Beauty, Humanity, Wonder, tagged , on 19 March 2007 | 4 Comments »

Donna Ong, 2006, Secret, interiors: chrysalis

This artwork makes me wonder. Is it a childish experiment, like giving your doll a haircut, not knowing that in her case it’s forever? Or is it more sinister – a cruel act of punishment, played out on dolls in lieu of a real adversary? Or could the act of [...]

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A good exhibition is…

Posted in Authority, Wonder, tagged , , on 5 November 2006 | 2 Comments »

What constitutes a good exhibition? Last week I attended a seminar on this topic presented by Stephen Foster, an adjunct professor at the Australian National University, and former general manager with responsibility for content at the National Museum of Australia.
It’s a deceptively simple question. To answer it, you can draw on exhibition development guidelines, or [...]

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History Summit in cloud-cuckoo land

Posted in Authority, Wonder, tagged , on 12 September 2006 | 8 Comments »

Over the weekend, I read the transcript of the Australian History Summit that Education Minister Julie Bishop convened after Prime Minister John Howard criticised school history as ‘fragmented stew of ‘themes’ and ‘issues’. The summit agenda was to revive the narrative approach to teaching history, and to agree on the main currents and big themes [...]

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Idle and disorderly namesake

Posted in Humanity, Wonder, tagged , on 18 May 2006 | Leave a Comment »

At work the other week, my friend Kate was glancing over an index to the Argus newspaper, 1870–79, when she spotted my name – Catherine Styles – in relation to a court case involving Catherine and four Chinese men. The charge was “idle and disorderly”.
Intriguing! My Dad’s from Victoria. It’s possible this Catherine was my [...]

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A collection of secrets

Posted in Humanity, Wonder, tagged , on 24 March 2006 | 1 Comment »

If you haven’t seen it, or even if you have, look (again) at this evergrowing collection of secrets and learn about and from the:

amazingness of people
goodness of simple ideas

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On ambiguity and conflict

Posted in Authority, Wonder, tagged , , on 18 March 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Further to my last post on a story in the February 06 issue of the Museums Australia mag… The same issue also contains a review of a book on visitor learning at museums, and there is some nice resonance between the two stories, as well as some dissonance.
According to Dr Janette Griffin’s review of Listening [...]

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The space in between

Posted in Authority, Wonder, tagged , on 7 March 2006 | 1 Comment »

I’ve just read a paper from the first mostly-online Museums Australia mag. (See the members section of Museums Australia.)

Orbs at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Photo by Huro Kitty.

I have never been to the Museum Of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, but I’ve loved the idea of it since reading Lawrence Weschler’s book Mr Wilson’s [...]

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