Museums

Here are some posts about museums. Enjoy!

Watercolor drawing of purple grapes on a vine.

The irrelevance of relevance

May 18, 2014

I keep coming back to this issue of ‘relevance’ and why it’s such a weird thing for museums to be striving for. This is not a great post, but it at least gets some of these ideas on paper.
Image of two people in front of a large screen with hundreds of images of works of art. Both are touching the screen and immediately between the two figures a larger artwork image is visible and the words 'decorative arts' are immediately underneath it.

Gallery One and visible technology

May 1, 2014

Thinking about the very visible technology of Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gallery One in an era where most musetech is about making the tech invisible.
A picture showing the Brooklyn Museum in March 2018, when the David Bowie Is exhibition was showing there.

The technology skeptic

April 5, 2014

Thinking about what it means to transition from being a full-time cheerleader to a skeptical veteran.

…aand here’s a blueprint of the floorplan.

April 5, 2014

A short post on other ways of accessing museum mobile content other than maps.
Brown grasslands receding into the horizon, with a single tree in the center of the frame.

Why are we so tired?

October 30, 2013

A few words of concern on the exhaustion of the musetech sector.
Waves of shaded color, interrupted at regular intervals by hard edges

How can museums make memorable apps?

July 18, 2013
Painting of male and female cafe-goers dressed in late 1800s attire.

The majesty and wonder of Drinking About Museums

July 5, 2013

Hold up, everybody–the fashion industry invented curating.

April 25, 2013
Waves of shaded color, interrupted at regular intervals by hard edges

Leave tech in the conversation

April 19, 2012
Glass storage cases full of decorative arts on the left and right side of a narrow walkway, with green and red movable staircases.

Online collections, hey! Online collections, what?

April 16, 2012
Image shows a single empty gallery with dramatically sloping walls. Streams of individual digital characters are projected onto the walls and ceilings

Blink! Light, Sound, and the Moving Image

Denver Art Museum, 2011

A large-scale installation of Time-Based Media artworks.
Waves of shaded color, interrupted at regular intervals by hard edges

What’s the point of a museum website?

April 18, 2011
Waves of shaded color, interrupted at regular intervals by hard edges

Building a museum from scratch

December 1, 2010
Waves of shaded color, interrupted at regular intervals by hard edges

“A great place to plan your visit!”

July 22, 2010
Waves of shaded color, interrupted at regular intervals by hard edges

Serendipitous and Disposable

July 1, 2010
Waves of shaded color, interrupted at regular intervals by hard edges

The iPod tour at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

January 29, 2010
Waves of shaded color, interrupted at regular intervals by hard edges

On pilot projects and other things that don’t work

December 29, 2009
Waves of shaded color, interrupted at regular intervals by hard edges

Museums In the Digital Domain, Part Four – Generative Assets

November 16, 2009
Waves of shaded color, interrupted at regular intervals by hard edges

Museums In the Digital Domain, Part Three – Producing for Niches

October 26, 2009
Waves of shaded color, interrupted at regular intervals by hard edges

Museums In the Digital Domain, Part Two – Disruptive Technology

October 22, 2009