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Laughing Kookaburras and Preserved Fetuses
Thank god the Museum of Animal Perspectives exists to post videos of what it looks like to walk through the woods from the top of a wolf’s head. But actually, this one is pretty good: Laughing Kookaburras
cover me bad
This one’s too easy, and it ain’t a museum or a library, but we’re filing it under personal collections, as we tend to do with weird galleries and such that we find around the webs. The Worst Album Covers.
We want to have a stuffparty sometime, for the record.
blog post as museum museum
The Bicycle Bell Musuem is a blog post written in 2005, but still worth three minutes of your life. What is Sprokkelhout? What does it mean? Does it involve pagans and wiccans? We don’t know, but we like their Bells.
Related, their other, two object Museum, the Bicycle Horn Museum.
hope for artists everywhere.
Finally. . This site is so good it calls for a blink tag! Shepherd Fairey, eat your heart out.
Via @lisagrimm. Thanks, leese.
Field Recorders’ Collective Recording Collective
This is a private/public synthersis we want to get behind–a collective (read: record label) providing access to private collections of old timey hill music and photographs, complete with digital mastering, and so forth. But maybe we spoke too soon…
Photo: Manco Sneed from the FRC
what not to write
We love cutie librarians as much as the next nerd, but this guy makes us embarrassed for our gender. See also!
The Game: Museum Edition
With all the pontificating and punditry these days about Peacocking and DHV amidst the triple-layered ironical viewing of The Pick Up Artist, Suggested Donation presents the following artifact for examination:
“Have you ever been to a museum on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon? Well you should check one out!
Cultural Schlock Jocks
Look who’s hiring! The augustly named Resnicow Schroeder is a PR firm that offers services exclusively to cultural institutions, kind of like Suggested Donation! We’d try and lay it out for you, but let’s let them explain it.…
supersize my smithsonian souvenirs!
Just listened to this report about how the Smithsonian hired the retail-oriented consultancy group BerglassGrayson to evaluate their gift shops. Unsurprisingly, the firm returned with blazing criticism, lambasting the museum stores for their under performance and inefficiency…
edutainment round up: convergence, emergence, divergence, detergent.
Are museums little more than edutainers? Here are some interesting internet link things about museums and entercation.
Stephen Asma doesn’t live near an inner city bus stop, but he does write about edutainment and museums, in his cuddly-titled book,…
Imagineering an Interactive Experience
Old news, but I just got back from Chicago, where I finally learned about CSI: The Experience (via its ubiquitous billboards and bus stop ads). This barf-tastic-looking exhibition, on view right now at Chicago’s venerable Museum of…
