Byrd-McDevitt, Lori. 2019. “Reimagining Social Influencers through an Invitation Culture” in Humanizing the Digital https://ad-hoc-museum-collective.github.io/humanizing-the-digital/chapters/3/

WATCH

APES**T by the Carters, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbMqWXnpXcA&feature=emb_logo

Human Zoos: America's Forgotten History of Scientific Racism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6Zrol5QEk (TW: racism, potentially upsetting imagery. 58 minutes.)

Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña: The Couple in the Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv26tDDsuA8&feature=emb_imp_woyt (same TWs apply, and there is a very long, high pitched noise at the beginning that's part of the piece, but have your sound on low when opening it to save your ears. This is also a shorter video than the other doc - 32 minutes.)

EXPLORE
National Museum of African American History and Culture, https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/collectio 

2.6 Metadata & Paradata: 

3.1 Social Media & Audience Research, Ethics & Practice: 

(SG: if you search for that url, the DOI, in the macodrum library search bar, you'll get to a version you can access)

Something to explore: The Met Open Access

Something to watch: ITP/IMA Winter Show 2019

MacDonald, Sharon. 2008. “Collecting Practices” in Sharon Macdonald, ed. ‘Companion to Museum Studies’. Available online from Macodrum Library https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.library.carleton.ca/en/read?id=/ebooks/ebooks2/pda/2011-12-01/1/12365.9781405157292 

Bivens, Joy, and Ben Garcia, Porchia Moore, nikhil trivedi, Aletheia Wittman. 2019. ‘Collections: How We Hold the Stuff We Hold in Trust’ in MASSAction, Museums As Site for Social Action, toolkit, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

Hennessy, Kate, Dave Schaepe, Natasha Lyons, Aynur Kadir, Reese Muntean, Clarence Pennier, Michael Blake. 2018. Collaborative digital curation and recursive publics: The making of Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley. https://mw18.mwconf.org/paper/collaborative-digital-curation-and-recursive-publics-the-making-of-sqewlets-a-stolo-coast-salish-community-in-the-fraser-river-valley/ 

Something to explore: An article highlighting new technological methods of preservation and re-creation which can lead to repatriation. 

https://theconversation.com/3d-printing-is-helping-museums-in-repatriation-and-decolonisation-efforts-126449 

Something to watch: I have included two videos here, one is a ted talk with Chip Colwell, the Senior Curator of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, describing recent efforts of repatriation. The other is a short interview with James Cuno, a well known art historian and President of the J. Paul Getty Trust, on his argument against repatriating artifacts, it is interesting to see a counter argument to a topic that is so controversial. 

Why Museums are returning cultural treasures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUUP2MMz7PU&t=1s 

James Cuno on Museums: The Case Against Repatriating Artifacts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5dRJ1LjryI 

WATCH
A virtual museum tour by the Canadian Museum For Human Rights
The museum posted a tour to allow guests to tour the exhibits from the safety of their own homes during the pandemic. Many institutions have posted videos like this, which are fine, but perhaps there is a better way of offering virtual tours online.

EXPLORE
Museum of the World
An absurdly cool interactive website created by the British Museum. One of my favourite examples of creativity in digital historical representation that is only possible online.

Over The Top
Over The Top is an interactive narrative created by the Canadien War Museum that allows players to experience life in the trenches during the First World War. It is a good, albeit simple, example of how museums can use nonlinear storytelling in digital experiences.

1619 project
An example (when it works) of an interactive historical website that still allows a sense of exploration as it unfolds before you, much like a physical exhibit.

VR tour of the Vatican
Totally encourage you to check this out in VR if you can, but it still works on flat screens.

List of some other virtual tours

Miria Munoz

 

I remember when I was 7 years old, my mother took my brother and I to see ‘TheNational Museum of Rio de Janeiro’ (Brazil). I remember coming home and beingunable to fall asleep at night with all that overload of information in my head. I alsoremember feeling sorry we went there for just one day! It was simply not enough. Iwanted more time to see the objects from close and observe each detail. After thatday, every time we would visit my grand-parents in Rio de Janeiro, we would drivemy mother nuts, trying to convince her to take us to the museum again. 

Fast forwarding 30 years, one day I started to get a bunch of ‘Whatsapp’ messagesfrom my relatives in Brazil, containing videos of a horrible fire… and the fire… wasat my favourite museum ever. I felt a mixture of feelings, from sadness to anger as Ijust could not accept that we had lost an entire museum due to administrativenegligence. Apparently, the fire safety certificate was expired since 2014.

Thus, when I started to ponder upon the possibility of digitalizing museum collections, the first thought that came to my mind was: my favourite museum couldhave been saved at least from a ‘digital’ perspective. It had a collection of almost 20 million artifacts that had been collected in a period of 200 years. 

Information technology comes as a tool to preserve, at least digitally, so manyprecious confections from the past. It also facilitates the collection, analysis andvisualization of artifacts; and helps in terms of public participation and even trainingmethods.

Moreover, it is valid to remember how technology facilitates the democratization ofarchaeology as a discipline among communities, where people who would neverhave had a chance to be exposed to such field, end up being able to do so. Furthermore, digital collections can be an excellent tool for educators, specially now under this post-Covid era where ‘in person field trips’ are becoming extremely challenging to be arranged. 

Therefore, I would like to explore the 3 following readings:

Bivens, Joy, and Ben Garcia, Porchia Moore, nikhil trivedi, Aletheia Wittman. 2019. ‘Collections: How We Hold the Stuff We Hold in Trust’ in MASSAction, Museums As Site for Social Action, toolkit, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

 

Houghton, Bernadette. 2016. Preservation Challenges in the Digital Age. D-Lib Magazine July/August 2016. 22:7/8 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july16/houghton/07houghton.html

 

Trofanko, Brenda. 2014.“Reconsidering the Educational Promise of Public History Exhibits” in K. Kee, ed. Pastplay. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv65swr0.16

 

The first reading will be addressing how we store collections. The second reading will be dealing with challenges we face when it comes to digitalizing collections. And the third one will be covering the benefits of museum digitalization for the educational arena. Please note, I am opened to suggestions!

 

Miria Munoz

 

I remember when I was 7 years old, my mother took my brother and I to see ‘The National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).I remember coming home and being unable to fall asleep at night with all that overload of information in my head. I also remember feeling sorry we went there for just one day! It was simply not enough. I wanted more time to see the objects from close and observe each detail. After that day, everytime we would visit my grand-parents in Rio de Janeiro, we would drive my mother nuts, trying to convince her to take us to the museum again.

Fast forwarding 30 years, one day I started to get a bunch of ‘Whatsapp’ messages from my relatives in Brazil, containing videos of a horrible fire… and the fire…was at my favourite museum ever. I felt a mixture of feelings, from sadness to anger as I just could not accept that we had lost an entire museum due to administrative negligence. Apparently, the fire safety certificate was expired since 2014.

Thus, when I started to ponder upon the possibility of digitalizing museum collections, the first thought that came to my mind was: my favourite museum could have been saved at least from a ‘digital ’perspective. It had a collection of almost 20 million artifacts that had been collected in a period of 200 years.

Information technology comes as a tool to preserve, at least digitally, so many precious confections from the past. It also facilitates the collection, analysis and visualization of artifacts; and helps in terms of public participation and even training methods.

Moreover,itisvalidtorememberhowtechnologyfacilitatesthedemocratizationofarchaeologyasadisciplineamongcommunities,wherepeoplewhowouldneverhavehadachancetobeexposedtosuchfield,endupbeingabletodoso.Furthermore, digital collectionscan be an excellent tool for educators, specially now under this post-Covid era where ‘in person field trips’ are becoming extremely challenging to be arranged.

Therefore, I would like to explore the 3 following readings:

Bivens, Joy, and Ben Garcia, Porchia Moore, nikhil trivedi, Aletheia Wittman. 2019. ‘Collections: How We Hold the Stuff We Hold in Trust’ in MASSAction, Museums As Site for Social Action, toolkit,https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

Houghton, Bernadette. 2016. Preservation Challenges in the Digital Age. D-Lib Magazine July/August 2016. 22:7/8http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july16/houghton/07houghton.html

Trofanko, Brenda. 2014.“Reconsidering the Educational Promise of Public History Exhibits” in K. Kee, ed. Pastplay.https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv65swr0.16

The first reading will be addressing how we store collections. The second reading will be dealing with challenges we face when it comes to digitalizing collections. And the third one will be covering the benefits of museum digitalization for the educational arena. Please note, I am opened to suggestions!

(I feel like crying every time I see this video)