MuseumStudies

MuseumNext 2013 - Post-Disaster Strategies for Cultural Heritage

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:53:06 +0200

My presentation on post-disaster strategies in cultural heritage management can now be found here slideshare.net/califano/learn… #MuseumNext
— Alessandro Califano (@a_califano) May 15, 2013

Rijksmuseum - Fostering Curatorship

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:41:55 +0200

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

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:13:26 +0200

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! ...

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:39:13 +0200

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

Sympathy for the Devil, the Rolling Stones (Hyde Park, 1969):...

Tue, 07 May 2013 17:39:31 +0200

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

Anniversaries...

Sat, 04 May 2013 22:36:53 +0200

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

Museums Without Walls - A Doctoral Thesis

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:06:21 +0200

Museums Without Walls - A Doctoral Thesis:

http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/2154/1/de_la_Rocha_Mille,_Raymond.pdf

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 Museums without walls: The museology of Georges Henri Riviere (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City University London).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Emeritus of Heritage Policy and Management since 2004 at City University, London, shared on Facebook this link to the unpublished thesis of one of his PhD students, who got his degree yesterday at the Barbican Centre in London.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

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:23:06 +0200

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...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:46:00 +0200

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

Archives in Time and Space

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:17:46 +0200

Just finished editing the audio file with a (virtual) roundtable conversation between Simona Caraceni, AVICOM member and president of ICOM Italy’s Thematic Committee on Audiovisuals and New Technologies for Museums, and myself, addressing digital archives’ best practices, challenges, and requirements.

Should be out by mid-June in both Italian and English…

Minaret of ancient Aleppo mosque destroyed - Al Jazeera English

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:49:03 +0200

Minaret of ancient Aleppo mosque destroyed - Al Jazeera English:

No words needed…

Alessandro Califano (@a_califano) has shared a tweet with you

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:40:16 +0200

25 Aprile, festa della liberazione da fascisti e nazisti. Auguri, ma ancor bisogna andar: restano corrotti, collaborazionisti e inciucioni!

(via @a_califano on twitter)

Richie Havens playing “Here comes the Sun” (1971)

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:33:13 +0200

Richie Havens playing “Here comes the Sun” (1971)

Richie Havens (R.I.P.) playing “Freedom” at...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:26:51 +0200

Richie Havens (R.I.P.) playing “Freedom” at Woodstock.
And freedom we need, indeed…

Tashkent - New album record (first day) by “Tears of the...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:05:00 +0200

Tashkent - New album record (first day) by “Tears of the Sun” group. Starring drummer Compressor Man Stas, and others…

Stop-over for dinner late at night between Shahr-e Sabz and...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:20:00 +0200

Stop-over for dinner late at night between Shahr-e Sabz and Samarkand. Over 14 hours of travel put a toll on you… and another 5 hours and more to go to reach Tashkent from Dushanbe.

Shot on 4/5 April 2013.

Djadjushkij Son premiere at The Ilkhom Theatre of Mark Weil in...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:26:00 +0200

Djadjushkij Son premiere at The Ilkhom Theatre of Mark Weil in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, tonight. A beautiful and lively play after Dostoevsky in the first autonomously run theatre to be established in the whole Soviet Union, and still the only one in Uzbekistan.

Great actors, good choreography, very nice songs, and a lot of action. The theatre was full, and the play well deserved that…

Of Mediums and Messages - Al Jazeera English

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:14:03 +0200

Of Mediums and Messages - Al Jazeera English:

McLuhan, 50 years after… what was clear to him BEFORE social networks came into place. Well worth reading!

Shashliks in Tashkent

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 05:38:08 +0200

Wonderful shashliks (sheep and veal) with raw onions, Ferghana nan-bread, vodka and beer, yesterday in Tashkent. Thanks to Nikita for that! — Alessandro Califano (@a_califano)

Two Museums in Karakalpakstan - George Edgar

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 06:25:54 +0200

Two Museums in Karakalpakstan - George Edgar:

An interesting, recent update about the goings-on at two museums in Nukus, Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan).