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The eternal sunshine of the spotless museum collection

January 2, 2012

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The first provocative article I read in the new year was Should we erase painful memories?. The author, Alison Winter, interrogates the role that memory has in the creation of our selves, and how trauma can affect our personalities and experiences of life – and what it could mean for our private and social selves […]

What is your dangerous idea about museums?

December 27, 2011

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A number of years ago, I acquired the book What is Your Dangerous Idea?, in which significant thinkers addressed the question “What do you believe is true, even though you cannot prove it?” According to the book’s preface, the question comes from psychologist Steven Pinker, who wrote: The history of science is replete with discoveries […]

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Museopunks is the podcast for the progressive museum. Museopunks is presented by the American Alliance of Museums.

Humanizing the Digital: Unproceedings from the MCN 2018 Conference is a collaborative response to the MCN 2018 conference, filled with 17 conference-inspired responses to the state of museum technology in 2018, including essays, reflections, case studies, conversations, and an experimental in-book zine.

CODE│WORDS was an effort to gather and harness the discourse occurring among the museum technology community.

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