Museums: Notes from the lockdown by Ilenia Atzori

Museums: Notes from the lockdown by Ilenia Atzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn en-us 2020-04-19 10:07:01 UTC 2025-11-18 09:59:28 UTC hello@padlet.com Notes from the lockdown: Making a situated museum in Queens ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/525944164 2020-04-23 14:35:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/525944164 How Museum Hack went from $2.8 million per year to zero in 3 days ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/525956081 Disclaimer: This isn’t a story about museums. (...) This article is about how a small museum tour company is navigating the crisis.

]]> 2020-04-23 14:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/525956081 La cura del reperto al tempo del virus ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/541503104 Un'intervista a Christian Greco, direttore del Museo Egizio di Torino in vista della riapertura del 18 maggio. «In momenti di massima affluenza come la stagione primaverile partiva una visita guidata ogni sette minuti. Per conquistare questo risultato, era stata messa a punto una vera e propria macchina che dava lavoro a tantissimi professionisti. Nel momento in cui la macchina si arresta, anche gli introiti si fermano. Gli oneri, invece, permangono»]]> 2020-04-30 10:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/541503104 La cultura in Rete porta una boccata d'ossigeno ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/541531515 Da quando il Coronavirus ha preso in ostaggio le nostre vite la cultura si è riversata in Rete. Proprio in questi giorni è stato annunciato che le 42. Giornate letterarie di Soletta in programma a fine maggio non saranno annullate o rimandate ma si faranno online. (...) Ma ha senso riversare gran parte degli appuntamenti pensati per essere dal vivo, delle attività, delle mostre e dei concerti online? Chi li segue? Ne abbiamo parlato con Fabio Viola, pioniere del gaming digitale in Italia, tra i migliori gamification designer al mondo, ideatore di TuoMuseo e di Father and Son, primo videogioco al mondo prodotto da un museo.]]> 2020-04-30 10:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/541531515 [Patrimonio Quo Vadis] La narrazione nei musei ai tempi del Covid-19 ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/541567549 Ebbene, il museo che narra è un museo capace di raccontare, ma anche di ascoltare. Non solo perché l’atto stesso del racconto è aperto all’incontro, presuppone sempre un “altro” in ascolto, lo interpella e sollecita, trasforma il visitatore in partecipante. Il museo è capace di ascoltare soprattutto nel momento in cui riconosce i narratori e i pubblici che di volta in volta coinvolge (che siano giovani o adulti, italiani o immigrati, studiosi, “semplici” cittadini o persino individui che un museo non l’hanno mai visto in vita loro) non tanto come rappresentanti di comunità “immaginate”,[8] ma innanzitutto come persone, ognuna portatrice di vissuti, di saperi, di memorie, di sguardi. In una parola sola: di mondi. E riconosce che questi mondi sono tanto importanti quanto quelli custoditi ed esposti in buon ordine dentro le sue sale e le sue vetrine. Perché senza i primi, i secondi ammutoliscono, svuotandosi di significato.]]> 2020-04-30 10:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/541567549 Museums Scramble to Document the Pandemic, Even as It Unfolds ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/541577241 With photographs, field interviews and mass surveys, institutions are trying to preserve information about everyday life during the crisis for future study.]]> 2020-04-30 10:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/541577241 A Belgian Museum Must Return $3.9 Million in Unused Tickets After Its Once-in-a-Lifetime Jan Van Eyck Blockbuster Got Cut Short by Coronavirus ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/542098726 The exhibition will not go back on view after museums in the country begin to reopen on May 18.]]> 2020-04-30 14:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/542098726 This is how bad things are for museums: They now have a green light to sell off their art ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/542167805 To counter the constant temptation to regard art works as a way to get quick cash, the museum world heavily polices the sale of works from permanent collections — otherwise known as deaccessioning. The powerful Association of Art Museum Directors, made up of directors of museums in the United States, Mexico and Canada, has long frowned on any museum that sells off art for purposes other than acquiring new art. (...) However, in an unprecedented move, and as a direct result of the coronaviruspandemic, the AAMD has recently relaxed its guidelines. It’s too soon to gauge the effect, but it is already big news in the art world. Once unthinkable, the notion of selling off a Claude Monet or two to plug a budgetary hole — or to fend off a total financial meltdown — is suddenly something to contemplate.]]> 2020-04-30 14:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/542167805 Amid Coronavirus lockdown, how museums are sprucing up their collections and keeping history virtually alive ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/564153258
There is going to be a shift in tourism once the lockdown lifts, and museums and other public spaces are mulling over the changes they have to make in their functioning. Here are a few that are using the time to plan ahead and hoping to come back stronger]]> 2020-05-11 08:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/564153258 Coronavirus, Franceschini: Cultura ha reagito positivamente grazie a musei virtuali e digitali ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/576863733 "La cultura ha reagito al silenzio del lockdown in maniera rapida e positiva e le istituzioni hanno accolto e rilanciato questa istanza. La crisi ha accentuato una tendenza già in essere, la digitalizzazione dei repertori e delle opere, sviluppando potenzialità finora inespresse e avvicinando tantissime persone, soprattutto giovani, al mondo della cultura".]]> 2020-05-16 16:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/576863733 What Covid-19 has taught museums about the virtues of diverse funding streams ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/576887973 The immediate future of Norwich’s Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts has been safeguarded by its wide-ranging funding model, but even its once sacrosanct university funding may be under threat due to the coronavirus crisis.]]> 2020-05-16 16:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/576887973 Tips and Thoughts for Museums in a COVID World ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/576889252 We’ve gathered and generated lots of ideas about how museums, zoos, and cultural institutions can respond in our COVID-19 pandemic world from our conversations with colleagues, clients, and all the online discussions. ]]> 2020-05-16 16:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/576889252 Nel lockdown musei più social, ma solo uno su quattro ha un piano digitale ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/599315744 La ricerca dell'Osservatorio innovazione Digitale nei beni e attività Culturali del Politecnico di Milano ha analizzato 430 enti verificando che il 51% dei musei non ha wi-fi e solo il 23% ha il ticketing online, sebbene l’85% ha un sito web

]]> 2020-05-28 14:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/599315744 No Touch, No Hands-On Learning, for Now, as Museums Try to Reopen ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603449067 Science and children’s museums are studying how to rethink their many tactile exhibits to keep people safe.]]> 2020-05-31 16:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603449067 Les musées planchent sur l’après-coronavirus ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603458849 Baisse des subventions et de la fréquentation, ralentissement de la programmation, l’avenir s’annonce sombre pour les musées, petits et grands. Pourtant, certains voient dans la crise actuelle l’opportunité de renouer avec leurs collections et de tisser un lien différent avec le public.]]> 2020-05-31 16:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603458849 European museums must adapt to survive, says report ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603461005 After surveying nearly 1,000 museums from 48 countries on the impact of the pandemic, Nemo is calling for ongoing government support for museum operations, an increased focus on digital cultural heritage and new measures to make the sector “fit for crises”. ]]> 2020-05-31 16:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603461005 After Covid-19, museums need to plan ‘must see’ exhibitions instead of blockbusters ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603463224 The Brooklyn Museum’s director of exhibitions explains how institutions can rethink their offerings going forward]]> 2020-05-31 16:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603463224 For A-bomb survivors, pandemic silences decades of storytelling ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603486908 April and May are usually busy months for Hiroshi Harada, 80, who for decades has been telling his tale of surviving an atomic bombing to schoolchildren, hoping to preserve the devastation he witnessed in people's collective memory.

But this year, the pandemic has upended that routine for Harada and other atomic-bomb survivors.

]]> 2020-05-31 17:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603486908 Restarting Teams to Restart Museums ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603500890 As we develop strategies and protocols that will allow us to safely reopen our museums, we’re faced with a glut of new challenges to consider: How can we welcome members and visitors back? Will we have to limit our visitor capacity? Will our teams feel safe about returning and restarting? ]]> 2020-05-31 17:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603500890 Exposed by COVID-19: Three Cracks in Cultural Entity Operations to Repair for Reopening (DATA) ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603521576 COVID-19 is likely to exacerbate these three potential weak spots for cultural organizations. Here’s intel to identify and tackle them as soon as possible.]]> 2020-05-31 18:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/603521576 Covid 19 threatens severely museum education ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/619586246 Museums say that their main concern is for their audiences:

They say it because it is politically correct
They say it because it brings public money…

But they do not prove it in the way they most often deal with their human resources in the area of education.

]]> 2020-06-09 21:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/619586246 How COVID-19 Has Thrown Museum Exhibition Planning into Disarray ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/619590776 Museum exhibitions take an exceptional amount of planning—from curatorial conception to filling out loan forms and insurance, to shipping, hanging, and displaying works. Getting a show on a museum’s calendar is no simple feat, let alone getting it on the gallery walls. So what happens when a global pandemic puts exhibitions and their scheduling on an indefinite pause?]]> 2020-06-09 21:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/619590776 Shuttered natural history museums fight for survival amid COVID-19 ‘heartbreak’ ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/619592179 A few months ago, retirement was the furthest thing from David Thomas’s mind. “Then the world went upside down,” recalls the archaeologist from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In March, the coronavirus pandemic forced the museum to close its doors. No more school groups thronging the interactive exhibit on color, no more corporate dinners or lines of international tourists waiting to pay $23 a head to marvel at gems and fossils. The museum’s income plummeted 60%.]]> 2020-06-09 21:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/619592179 How British museums are documenting the pandemic ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/620678163
The buildings may be closed, but curators are hard at work]]> 2020-06-10 13:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/620678163 Leading the Van Gogh Museum Through a Future With No Tourists ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/634430724 Emilie Gordenker took over at the Amsterdam institution that attracts most of its visitors from abroad just months before the coronavirus lockdown began.]]> 2020-06-20 15:20:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/634430724 The virtues and vices of virtual museum tours ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/651664948 In the Rijksmuseum I find myself wandering off from the paintings. I click my way down the brightly lit corridors to see if I can ride the lift. I can’t. The same mood takes me at the British Museum. I linger in the gift shop. There’s a sale on. In the cafe, beers are in the fridge, but no one is around to put the cakes out. On a whim I click on the sidebar and drop down to the basement, finding myself looking at a fire extinguisher and a sign for the members’ cloakroom. ‘Virtual tour’ seems a rather grand term for these lonely digital ‘experiences’. Tour implies guidance and direction; instead I have an overwhelming sense of aimlessness.]]> 2020-07-10 09:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/651664948 Rethinking the role of museums in a time of crisis ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/651666378 As museums around the world have increasingly committed to making themselves digitally accessible to the public during lockdown, we have been flooded by new cultural content available online. While Italian museums have been mainly involved in a “broadcasting” approach, museums in other countries have strived to enable new and different engagement with audiences. What do these two approaches tell us about the roles museums want to fulfil and the relationship they want to create with their communities? ]]> 2020-07-10 09:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/651666378 Fears for the future of civic museums ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/651674951 Local authority-funded museums across the UK are facing an uncertain future as cash-strapped councils wait to find out whether national governments will provide additional financial support.]]> 2020-07-10 09:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/651674951 What does the Covid-19 pandemic mean for Australian museums? ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/651870882 Australia has a great number of small museums, many of them funded either privately or by local government, and many of them voluntarily run. The economic impact of forced closure, no visitors and no income is already devastating, as it has been on the whole of the cultural sector. Many remote Aboriginal communities remain isolated due to the vulnerability of their residents.]]> 2020-07-10 15:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/651870882 What was it like to be the only person in a museum under lockdown? ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/654028429 A new six-part audio series launching today will give the public a glimpse into life at six museums and galleries in England under lockdown, as told through the eyes of caretakers and security staff. ]]> 2020-07-14 09:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/654028429 How a Japanese Museum Is Documenting Life During Covid-19 ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/816429554 New exhibition features everyday objects that would have been unfamiliar before the pandemic]]> 2020-10-09 12:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/816429554 How the Pandemic Has Highlighted a Crisis in Contemporary Museums ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/946458724 In researching three Indiana institutions, it is clear that the lockdown has exacerbated trends in the museum field such as a lack of relevance to the general public and increasing reliance on private philanthropy.]]> 2020-11-20 18:12:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/946458724 Il Covid-19 e la seconda ondata (di infodemia): diffidate di chi usa i numeri assoluti ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/946532989 «C’è stato un risveglio. Lo hai percepito?». Il lettore ci consenta di citare il leader supremo Snoke (molto probabilmente uno dei personaggi meno riusciti dell’universo di Star Wars, quasi certamente uno dei meno approfonditi, ndr) per tornare a parlare di come vengono diffusi i dati relativi alla pandemia da nuovo coronavirus.]]> 2020-11-20 18:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/946532989 Rediscovering Art with Augmented Reality Technology ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/952281922 What will the art museum of the future look like, and will technology hinder creativity? Dr. Bob Sumner from ETH Zurich has the answers. In this interview, he talks about how the Princely Collections, the private bank LGT and ETH Zurich have created an app that unites art and technology and rejuvenates 400-year-old works of art with the help of Augmented Reality.]]> 2020-11-23 13:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/952281922 Six Major Budapest Museums Collaborate To Give Schools Virtual Access To Hungary's Cultural Heritage ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/952335085 The Petofi Literary Museum in Budapest used ThingLink to create an interactive schools museum tour, which quickly expanded into a collaborative virtual schools visit to the six major national collections in Budapest.]]> 2020-11-23 14:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/952335085 DIGITALDigital Hangar Pensare e fare cultura in un mondo digitale ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/952347139 La tecnologia può semplificare il modo in cui le organizzazioni culturali lavorano, migliorare la capacità di conoscenza del proprio pubblico, stimolare la produzione di nuovi format e costruire una nuova narrazione del proprio progetto.

Digital Hangar ti aiuta a rispondere a questa sfida stimolante senza averne paura con VISIONI per aprire nuove prospettive e STRUMENTIda mettere in pratica.

]]> 2020-11-23 14:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/952347139 In a Landslide Decision, Workers at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Have Become the Latest Major US Museum Staff to Unionize ileniaatzori https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/963805224 Museums employees across the country have been unionizing in the past several years]]> 2020-11-26 15:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ileniaatzori/uqcgsnmzrjpfd8kn/wish/963805224