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Cheat on us with Other museum blogs

What do we read online when we aren’t re-reading our old posts and cackling at how funny/brilliant/good looking we’ve been?  Other museum blogs, of course.

There are literally hundreds of museum blogs, running the gamut from the snarky stuff to staff-run rags.  A few of our faves:

Community: bloggers@brooklynmuseum – Insider, behind-the-scenes blog by many of the staff at the Brooklyn Museum. Aside from being genuinely interesting and well-written, this blog represents the public face of one of the most digitally integrated museums around.

Exploratorium Explainers – A multimedia-intensive (videos! podcasts!) treat from the floor staff at the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s museum of science, art and human perception.

Museum 2.0 – Top of my wish-I’d-thought-of-it-first list. Museum experience designer blogs from the bleeding edge of participatory exhibition design, exploring how to apply Web 2.0 philosophies to museums.

Newcurator.com – New like New Era – and just as refreshing. Focuses on the future of museums while dissecting the issues. Pithy, smart, convergent.

And not quite museum specific but always excellent: Art Fag City – New York-centric art news, reviews and gossip. (You’ll always get us with gossip.)

Want even more? Many of these talented blogerati also post on Twitter. You can cheat and check out who we’re following on @SuggestedD for a well-curated list. For an exhaustive list, visit @MuseumTweets. She has what may be the most complete list of museums on Twitter, assembled for her museology master’s thesis.

If you’re a Twit, too, be sure to @ us and say hello. We like new friends, especially chatty ones.

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