Thursday, September 10, 2009

The Future of Museums

Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame originally uploaded to Flickr on July 10, 2006by ricardo.martins

You may have heard that Radio National have just aired two very interesting interviews about the future of museums. You can access the transcript for Part 1 here if you don't want to annoy your colleagues or you can listen to the audio file. Part 2 aired this morning and can be heard as an audio today or as a transcript after midday tomorrow (if you are a quick reader the transcripts are quicker to access than the audio).

Even if you don't follow most of the links in my posts I think that these ones are worth it. Part 2 in particular is worth a look for Michael Cassin on the importance of using everyday language to communicate the 'magic' of collections; Margaret Birtley on national standards for the digitisation of collections and Seb Chan (Powerhouse) on making social media and community engagement relevant to museums.

Don't forget to check out the links at the end of each Radio National page too!

Caz

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