Museum Studies Program at IUPUI

@MarDixon » #AskACurator Who To Ask This is the list of all museums who signed up so far. It is in alphabetical order by country. I’m updating this page every few days. If your museum isn’t on listed, use the sign up form. Please note: I’m travelling at the moment but trying to update when wifi is available. Feel free to contact me a...

The National WWII Museum These are some beautiful WWII-era color photos: http://bit.ly/29ut1ku pic.twitter.com/nOhAR3l6Xj

The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories | Oral History

What the Sleeping Hermaphrodite Tells Us About Art, S*x and Good Taste at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York http://nyti.ms/28RO5zV

What the Sleeping Hermaphrodite Tells Us About Art, S*x and Good Taste Blurring the borders of identity feels modern, but ambiguity has ancient roots.

This is quite and interesting conservation problem -> “Century-old KU student scrapbooks pose preservation conundrum ” on LJWorld.com: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/jul/04/century-old-ku-student-scrapbooks-pose-preservatio/

Century-old KU student scrapbooks pose preservation conundrum The 100-year-old cracker, glued inside a World War I-era Kansas University student’s scrapbook, poses one of the more puzzling conservation challenges that Noah Smutz is dealing with this summer.

From the the Gibbes museum - the best signage is not noticeable --> http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/news/zen-and-the-art-of-museum-signage/

Zen and the Art of Museum Signage :The Gibbes Museum of Art – Blog

Our is Chicago Design Museum! They have some fantastic and inspirational pieces there!
https://www.chidm.com/

Visit the Chicago Design Museum

How self-styled trouble maker Mar Dixon makes more people friendly: Developing # and creating quite a brand for herslef on social media-->
http://disq.us/t/2a23jxt

How self-styled trouble maker Mar Dixon makes museums more people friendly – Creative Review

Why the AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario wants to see your http://bit.ly/29rGzKb

Why the AGO wants to see your #artselfie The Toronto museum started allowing visitor photography in 2012 – now, they're going to great lengths to encourage social media sharing from the gallery

TODAY // We’re excited for 219 Meets 317!

Celebrate the meeting of two area codes through the world of graffiti art; what makes them unique and what they have in common. Indiana visual artists from the 219 area code (Lake County) will compete against artists from the 317 area code (Marion County) in a graffiti mural competition. Learn more about The Region and Naptown through:
> Art making
> Spoken word
> Music
> Food and craft beer
> Games

This event is free to the public.

Student Krae Knott Al Ameriput together this neat exhibit > http://amablog.modelaircraft.org/amamuseum/2016/06/29/new-exhibit-control-line-speed/

New Exhibit: Control Line Speed! | National Model Aviation Museum Blog

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has new flowers being planted around campus to make a more ! Share your pics of the new greenery : https://t.co/2dRdSsiH7J

IUPUI on Twitter “New flowers being planted to make a more ! Share your pics of the new greenery on campus.”

Center for the : A Ballsy Blog for Your Reading List http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-ballsy-blog-for-your-reading-list.html?spref=tw

Center for the Future of Museums: A Ballsy Blog for Your Reading List

Calling people, audience researchers! Visitor Studies Journal seeks an editor http://bit.ly/295aCsj

Visitor Studies | Call for Editor-in-Chief | Explore Taylor & Francis Online

We hope you have a safe !

Our is Homestead National Monument of America - part of the Natl Park Service! If you get a chance - head out and see the park!

Check out this post written by Vickie Stone!

http://www.activecollections.org/masum-momaya/

Masum Momaya Summary You can edit the text in this area, and change where the contact form on the right submits to, by entering edit mode using the modes on the bottom right.

Teen's painting featured in one of world's most prestigious art museums http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/06/22/teens-painting-featured-in-one-of-worlds-most-prestigious-art-museums/ via

Teen’s painting featured in one of world’s most prestigious art museums A New York City teenager’s work of art is now hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art — a sensational achievement, to be sure. And her pithy tweet announcing the feat has gone wildly …

Check out 219 meets 317 at the Indiana State Museum next Saturday! Graffiti artists are "battling" each other designing a mural, DJ's from both areas are providing music, local breweries from the two areas will be bringing in beer, and there will be food and games! Sounds like a fun event! And student Bethany Crocker is heading it up!

Job huntung in the midwest? Association of Midwest Museums has a great page to look up open positions --> http://midwestmuseums.org/jobs.html

Association of Midwest Museums: Jobs The Association of Midwest Museums provides career development and networking opportunities for museum professionals, and serves as a regional forum for museums in the Midwest

Listening to Archives of Sound New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
http://hyperallergic.com/293787/listening-to-archived-sounds-amid-the-stacks-at-the-new-york-public-library/

Listening to Archived Sounds Amid the Stacks at the New York Public Library Up on the second floor of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, you might hear the rising notes of opera faintly ringing from a card catalogue, or see people wearing headphones at th…

Kids Explore Conceptual Art at Britain https://youtu.be/umqfa19c8dQ

Kids Explore Conceptual Art at Tate Britain Tate Kids Media Team explore the Conceptual Art exhibition at Tate Britain, finding out about the themes in the show.

Our today is Manitoba Children's Museum! Congrats on turning ! http://childrensmuseum.com/

Have you been following The Children's Museum of Indianapolis's new exhibit Beyond Spaceship Earth? It's pretty incredible

Head over to the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art for their !

This is a pretty interesting website looking at how to talk to interp staff at a museum! Thanks to Annie Jordan for the link!

http://makinghistorynow.com/2016/06/how-to-talk-to-a-costumed-interpreter-in-7-easy-steps/

How to Talk to a Costumed Interpreter in 7 Easy Steps “We get that this is a weird job,” says Nicole Brown, who portrays Hannah Powell on the streets of Williamsburg. She and her colleagues know all too well that

We hope you have a wonderful weekend and possibly get to visit a museum or two!

Museums can be fun and exciting places!
How to Fall Back in Love with Your Museum (Case Study: Heritage Museums & Gardens) - Museum Hack


https://museumhack.com/heritage-museums-gardens/

How to Fall Back in Love with Your Museum (Case Study: Heritage Museums & Gardens) - Museum Hack

Use today to highlight how emojis relate to museum pieces! Looks like fun - be creative!


https://picsdearte.com/2016/06/06/musemoji-musemo/

Un hashtag para crear y compartir Para el 22 de junio Culturethemes lanza una nueva consigna para que museos y amantes del arte compartamos contenido en las redes sociales en la Web. La propuesta es – museos y emoti…

MuseumNext has a call out for papers - its a great conference to attend! http://www.museumnext.com/conference/

MuseumNext - Global Museum Conferences Since 2009, the MuseumNext conference has acted as a catalyst for inspiration, innovation and collaboration. European and North American Museum Conferences

New blog up by Christina Cichra! https://mstdiupui.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/my-first-museum-internship/

My First Museum Internship Christina Cichra is a second year IUPUI Museum Studies masters candidate. About two years ago I moved to West Lafayette, Indiana with my husband who was offered a position as Assistant Professor at…