Comments on: Museums of the future

By: Cultural futures « thenextwave

Cultural futures « thenextwave — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:28:17 +0000

[…] of the Long Now event at City University had explored how museums might evolve. I’d posted some notes here at the […]

By: Opening up the museum « thenextwave

Opening up the museum « thenextwave — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:10:55 +0000

[…] the museum, which is almost always conceived of as a closed space. (Indeed, the last time I blogged about museums, I mentioned Declan McGonagle’s paper on ‘the museum as commons’ which also […]

By: Craig Ullman

Craig Ullman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:36:44 +0000

There’s the exact same discussion taking place about libraries, only perhaps a little more urgently, because it’s easy to dismiss libraries with “Everyone has access to Google”.

Both institutions provide access to information, but both institutions are underrated (at least by the public) in their function to interpret and contextualize information. “Context is king,” someone said a while ago.

Given the increasing need to contextualize information, once we get over the conceptual hump of understanding what the purpose of these institutions really are, they will become more, not less, important over time.

By: thenextwavefutures

thenextwavefutures — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:38:09 +0000

Update: Rachel Kelnar points out to me that it was the first Richard Nixon museum (which went out of business) which omitted to mention Watergate. The JFK museum in Boston, meanwhile, doesn’t mention the womanising or Kennedy’s dependence on medication for his acute back pain.