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MuseumNext 2013 - Post-Disaster Strategies for Cultural Heritage
Rijksmuseum - Fostering Curatorship

Why not become an independent ten-years-old curator with Rijksmuseum’s rights free images? MuseumNext 2013 http://t.co/cAwAUN0vpR — Alessandro Califano (@a_califano)

Rijksmuseum - Sharing Images for Free

Search it, view it, get it, share it, use it - artefacts’ images are yours for free. The Rijksmuseum’s approach. Brilliant! #MuseumNext — Alessandro Califano (@a_califano)

Thanks for co-sponsoring MuseumNext 2013 in Amsterdam, tumblr!   :-)

Thanks for co-sponsoring MuseumNext 2013 in Amsterdam, tumblr! :-)

Sympathy for the Devil, the Rolling Stones (Hyde Park, 1969): Bye bye, Mr. Andreotti…

Anniversaries…

I’ve survived 4 years of tumblr, and 2389 posts, today…   ;-)

Museums Without Walls - A Doctoral Thesis

de la Rocha Mille, Raymond (2011). Museums without walls: The museology of Georges Henri Riviere (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City University London).

Patrick Boylan, Professor Emeritus of Heritage Policy and Management since 2004 at City University, London, shared on Facebook this link to the unpublished thesis of one of his PhD students, who got his degree yesterday at the Barbican Centre in London.

Thanks for sharing this, Patrick!

People Power: Volunteers in the age of austerity | Museums Association

UK’s Museums Association offers a full day workshop on volunteering at museums, on 24 May 2013, at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

In times of severe budget cuts, learning how to be more flexible and creative, focusing on volunteers’ expectations, means widening the museum’s volunteers range and being able to offer new services.

Myself at Qala Hisor, near Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Beyond the mountains in the background lays Samarkand. Shot on 28 March 2013.

Myself at Qala Hisor, near Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Beyond the mountains in the background lays Samarkand. Shot on 28 March 2013.