Archive for the 'Management' Category

Perth marks

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Almost, but not quite, just back from Electric Connections 2005 in Perth (I’ve had my dinner first), so some thoughts on the day.
My talk ‘Display it again, Sam’ went down quite well, which was a relief. Quite a lot of applause at the end, though whether that was because it was a good presentation or [...]

Whose lines are they anyway?

Saturday, August 13th, 2005

I’ve been thinking for a long while about ways in which I could be using technology to enhance access to museum collections and especially to open up possibilities for users / visitors / interested parties to use our material to create their own exhibitions / resources, with their own interpretive text. Some of these ideas [...]

Would you accredit it?

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

Disappointingly, we won’t be the first in Britain to be accredited, as I read in the latest MJ (that’s Museums Journal, not the Municipal Journal) that a museum in Cornwall has achieved that honour. Still we may be in the first group in Scotland. Which is nice.
However - the entire scheme is still as focused [...]