Links tagged with “museums”
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There’s No App for That: Adventures in Conserving Old Tech · SFMOMA
About the difficulties of starting up a mint iPhone 1 and exhibiting it as a working thing. And HyperCard. (via @antimega)
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[this is aaronland] The “Drinking Coffee and Stealing Wifi” 2012 World Tour
(December 2012) Aaron Straup Cope’s keynote. Museums online, archiving, Flickr, Foursquare, unique IDs… so much stuff, so good.
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Social Change - BKM TECH
About which services the Brooklyn Museum is going to stop using (incuding Flickr and iTunes U) due to decreasing engagement with users. I like the explicitness of this. Stop it if it’s not working. (via @thisisaaronland)
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This at There
Very nice list of art / exhibitions on in London, ordered by how soon they close, from It’s Nice That. (via @antimega)
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Elif Batuman · Diary: Pamuk’s Museum · LRB 7 June 2012
I hadn’t heard of this. Orhan Pamuk made a museum of objects belonging to characters from his novel ‘The Museum of Innocence’, which he’d originally intended to be written as a museum catalogue. Now he’s writing the catalogue for this museum.
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When Should I Visit Science Museum?
What a lovely idea - which museums are most or least likely to be busy today?