this is my collection, damnit

Incredibly awesome presentation/video about stuffy old museum staff vs. information-spreading, coffee-drinking, museum-web-tech-ing LIEb’ruls.

Watch it or your museum or library will die!

A swimsuit on a snowy day

We are totally in larf with flickr’s Commons section. Here is an insta-gallery of old awkward swimsuit photos! Here is an awesome picture of a bear with some french dudes from the Biblioteque de Toulouse! (A biblioteque is like a discoteque only instead of loud music you dance to the sound of yourself reading to yourself.)

More uncommonly common images inside…

museum 2 collabo

Museum 2.0 launches a new project this week, coLAB, in conjunction with the New York Hall of Science, which allows anyone to participate in the once rarefied world of curators and meddling board members.  From now until October 17, participants are asked…

people posing with paintings 2: american gothic

Pictures of people posing with or looking at Grant Wood’s American Gothic at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The is the second in a still-unnamed Suggested Donation regular feature of pictures of people posing with the same object in a museum.

many more…

katrina katrina

Well, it’s been two years since the preventable disaster that was Hurricane Katrina.  Here’s an image tailored for Suggested Donation’s audience that is suggestive of the damage:

A new website, happybirthdaykatrina.com, was designed to offer information on the continuing crisis and recommendations…

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, “Stuffed Animals and…

curate my rack

Boring and historically de-contextualized wall labels be no more! Museum 2.0 is here, synergistically harvesting public insight in a folksonomical moblog of tag clouds for museum objects and artificacts. It’s steve.museum, “the first experiment in social tagging for museum art…