MuseumStudies

Forthcoming Conference on Online Cultural Heritage & User Communities (Florence, Dec.15-16) will present #SMARTMUSEUM - an EU funded venture

Getting ready for the great book-expo in Rome (Dec. 5th - 8th)… Lots of small publishing houses, and some interesting conferences.

Xmas coming! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italys-northern-league-in-white-christmas-immigrant-purge-1823231.html #racism

#Berlusconi in Jeddah: “I brought morality to Italian politics!” - Yes, sure, honey, & you’re my young, sweet sugar daddy, indeed… Fu** U!

RT @GettyMuseum Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species published today in 1859 http://bit.ly/5YoX26 #evolution

RT (edited) @JustJon New Blog: Community vs. Commercialism in Art http://bit.ly/19a4hc cc: @juliaxgulia - Really inspiring & a crucial point

RT @MuseumModernArt Great read: Umberto Eco talks about curating his Louvre exhibition & the cultural importance of lists: http://tr.im/Fn1R

RT @AlertNet #Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be born-UN http://bit.ly/4z5rVx

Fresh from the news desk: Urs Luethi will be at MACRO with his new personal exhibition “Just Another Story About Leaving” - from December 17

A mistress’s diary shows Benito Mussolini was a rabid anti-Semite http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14921375