At the Powerhouse we’ve just launched something called The Odditoreum. An incredibly low-tech “exhibition” with no technology-based interactive experiences and minimal web presence, The Odditoreum feels remarkable for the level of participation it is engendering. Visitors are actively writing their own labels for the objects and even before launch there was a lot of interest [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Interviews'
Transformations in Cultural and Scientific Communication 2009 conference and short interview with Shelley Bernstein
January 8th, 2009 3 Comments
In early March at Melbourne Museum the follow-up conference to last year’s Social Media & Cultural Communication takes place. This time the conference has been re-named and slightly refocussed as Transformations in Cultural and Scientific Communication and has a great lineup of speakers from around the country and overseas. Join leading national and international experts [...]
Tags:
Implementing an internal wiki – Dan Collins on the Powerhouse’s rollout of Confluence
December 23rd, 2008 7 Comments
Wikis are the sort of knowledge management tool that you’d immediately think of as having great value to museums. However it seems that in the sector they are rarely found outside of IT departments – if at all. We’ve been looking at them at the Powerhouse for quite a few years now. We tried simple [...]
Tags:
Commons on Flickr: an interview with Bob Meade (part two)
October 16th, 2008 Comments Off
This is the second part of our interview with Bob Meade. (Read the first part) Bob Meade has been one of our most prolific ‘friends’ on Flickr. He has done an enormous amount of tagging, added a great deal of additional research to our images, and was the man behind the discovery of the Mosman [...]
Tags:
Commons on Flickr: an interview with one of our Flickr friends, Bob Meade (part one)
September 18th, 2008 Comments Off
Bob Meade has been one of our most prolific ‘friends’ on Flickr. He has done an enormous amount of tagging, added a great deal of additional research to our images, and was the man behind the discovery of the Mosman Bay Falls. Paula Bray (the Museum’s Image Services Manager) and I conducted a long face [...]
Tags:
Rich collection-oriented curator blogging – an interview with the Australian War Memorial
May 6th, 2008 5 Comments
In the Australian cultural sector, one of the best examples of curatorial blogging is at the Australian War Memorial. In a few short years they have created a lot of blog content and blogging has provided a much more efficient way of creating engaging content for exhibitions than standalone resource-hungry web microsites.
Tags:
Sydney Observatory blog – lessons from the first 2 years, an interview with Nick Lomb
March 24th, 2008 Comments Off
The Sydney Observatory blog will turn 2 in June. It has been an enormous success for the Observatory with its traffic now accounting for at least half of all traffic to the Observatory website each months. Since its launch there have been 291 posts to date and 1073 filtered comments. The Sydney Observatory blog is [...]
Tags:
Behind the scenes of Launchball – an interview with Daniel Evans, Frankie Roberto, and Mike Ellis
March 20th, 2008 1 Comment
There is a lot to learn from the Science Museum’s (London) recent success with their Launchball online game. The project has been enormously successful and recently won ‘best of show’ at SxSW. I conducted an interview with Daniel Evans, Frankie Roberto, and Mike Ellis to explore some of the ideas and processes behind the project. [...]
Tags:
Museum transparency and the IMA Dashboard – an interview with Rob Stein
March 18th, 2008 1 Comment
Last year the Indianapolis Museum of Art launched their Dashboard – a visual display of various data about the museum and its activities. Updated regularly the Dashboard gives open public access to much data that would usually be buried deep in an annual report. The ‘transparency’ that the Dashboard offers is remarkable – it not [...]
Tags:
