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Museum Learning Talk at Powerhouse Museum
Posted 8 days agoGave a talk at the Powerhouse Museum (PHM) today as part of their talks after noon seminar series. Was great to get back to the doctorate and remember why I got interested in this topic in the first place. My slides have been uploaded to Slideshare and chapters of the thesis are online here. I co-presented with Helen Whitty from the PHM who gave a talk a titled Public programs: Snake oil -
From Taipei, Part 3
Posted 11 days agoFinal day of the trip was Monday when I gave two papers: The Role and Development of the Australian Museum Audience Research Centre discussing how the Australian Museum Audience Research Centre was developed using a series of evaluation studies as examples How to be a professional audience researcher using a large evaluation of a Museum exhibition to illustrate how to do audience research These -
From Taipei, Part 2
Posted 12 days agoSpent a really interesting morning on Saturday with Wanchen' s students from the Fu Jen Catholic University. Their task was to read an evaluation report I had sent them, comment on it and raise questions. They did a really good job, considering that some of the reports were rather complex and long! The questions they raised came under the following categories (which I think I'll use when -
From Taipei, Part 1
Posted 13 days agoSpending a few days in Taipei at the kind invitation of Dr Wanchen Liu, Director of the Graduate Institute of Museum Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University. The main objective is to talk to museum staff and students about audience research and trends in museums. My first paper, Museum professional development and training in Australia, seemed to go quite well. The slides can be found here and I'll -
What I’m up to...
Posted 28 days agoSusan Tonkin, Convenor of the Museums Australia Evaluation and Visitor Research Special Interest Group, has emailed me to ask what I'm up to. Well, thought I may as well post it for all to see. This year have been flat out focusing on evaluation a number of different activities. We did an awesome project with the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, comprised of a sponsor evaluation, survey of past -
If the Museum was a person ...
Posted 1 month agoThis year we have been working with a group of Year 7 boys (aged 12-13) from an inner city high school who have been working with the Museum as part of an Australian Quality Teaching Grant to trial cross-curriculum units of work. They have also been giving us feedback about our new exhibitions. In the project wrap-up they were asked to imagine the type of person the Museum is and this is what -
Vivid/Heartbeat Trends Presentation 25 September
Posted 1 month agoWent to this great session today organised for clients by market research consultants Heartbeat Trends and Vivid. The session was looking at trends based on both quantitative and qualitative research. Here are my notes. Heartbeat Trends What's Next Study: Gen X and Gen Y are different – can't speak to them all the same Kidfluence: Gen X often lumped together but in reality are very different, -
Museums Australia (Victoria) Education Conference 17 September
Posted 2 months agoAttended one day of this three day event. Was really good and here are my notes. Brett McLennan, ACMI, the twitch response: works actively and with agility – rapid feedback students and young people adapting to notion of fast response – they still have different learning styles, but are all processing small bits of information rapidly a sound byte generation – don't necessarily go deeper into -
Models of Museum Visiting
Posted 2 months agoThis question from Ido Beja, Haifa University (via Facebook!): My name is Ido, I'm a student from Haifa University, and I'm doing some research about visitors in museums with hope to build a system for groups of visitors in museums based on group modeling. I saw the abstract of your article "Developing a model of museum visiting" - can you please sent me hard copy of the article? Hi Ido, I did -
Museum Studies Programs in Australia
Posted 2 months agoThis from Tzu Yu Chiu, Taipei: Another thing is that I am also researching the related training programmes designed for museum professional and wonders whether I could find those from the related organisations or associations in Australia. I might start from your blog and hope figure out some information we want on some websites. Since you are kind enough to start with my blog Tzu Yu though -
Museum Members Programs and Web 2.0
Posted 3 months agoHave been chatting away with the Manager of Australian Museum Members. They want to dip their toes into the wonderful world of social media. I was going to send them these links by email but thought it better to share them with all. Kate, you will also have to take the plunge and join Facebook to view some of these links! The Canada Science and Technology Corporation have been experimenting with -
Educational websites
Posted 4 months agoBarbara Piscitelli was asking me about useful websites for museum and gallery education. Museums/galleries: SFMOMA online education resources Educator Resource Centre at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum MOMA's Red Studio Ingenious at the Science Museum, London Walker Art Center – I just love them Barbara – you'll see here I selected mostly gallery websites as I know that's your interest. Online -
Exhibitions about pets
Posted 4 months agoThis question from Susan Sedgwick, Historic Houses Trust: Hi Lynda, thank for taking the time to talk with me today. As I mentioned, the Historic Houses Trust is developing an exhibition Tails of the city: Sydney's passion for pets on the history of Sydneysiders and their pets to be shown at the Museum of Sydney from 13 December 2008 until 22 March 2009. Consequently I would be very interested to -
Open Government: Future Trends
Posted 4 months agoWent to this great talk/discussion on Friday with the folks from Cisco and assorted others. Richard Allan, the Director of Government Affairs, Cisco UK, spoke about his experiences and where open government is and may be going in the UK. The major points/links I took from his talk were: Using screen scraping tools to re-purpose government data – this is how TheyWorkForYou started, using already -
Measuring impact of museums
Posted 5 months agoThis from Elena Starkova in Russia: Dear Lynda, I am conducting a research on measurement the attitudes of local population towards new museum in Perm, Russia. I would like to know what do people think about the new museum, its project and conception, what do they believe in, are they in favour or not of building a new museum. Here is the website of architectural competition and the concept of -
Getting public response to redevelopment plans
Posted 5 months agoLynda: Do you know what ROM asked people on their feedback comment cards? If not, do you know someone there that I can contact? Thanks - Marian -
Older audiences and museums
Posted 5 months agoThis from Willy Tseng: Dear Sir / Madam : My name is Willy. I am a graduate student from Taiwan. I am making a study of museology. I have a question should like to ask the Australian Museum. It is an aging population society . In Australian Museum , no matter in exhibition, education or research, What does the museum do to answer this phenomenon ? Thank you. Thanks Willy. Older audiences have -
Musings on organisational change and Gordon Ramsay
Posted 5 months agoBeen thinking a bit about this recently after Elaine Gurian sent me something to read, and as we have just completed our corporate planning cycle. Now, I do need to confess that I've become even more addicted to Gordon Ramsay and thinking about his approach to change management (knowing that I've now probably alienated half my readership – sorry 'bout that!) and I think there are many lessons for -
Beth Kanter talk @ PHM 23 May 2008
Posted 5 months agoWent to this talk today by hosted by Seb Chan at the Powerhouse Museum. Beth runs a blog How NonProfits can use social media among many, many other things. My notes from the talk and discussion: Web enables connections with people around topics they are interested in. Talked us through an interesting example of using Twitter to get some responses to a specific question about travelling to Oz and -
Challenging topics
Posted 6 months agoI got this request via the VSG discussion list: Dear Colleagues, We have just put up the Hard Rain exhibition in the zoo. The exhibition is a United Nations Environment Programme partnered exhibition that graphically illustrates our collision with nature and defines the major environmental issues of the 21st Century. Some of the images may be disturbing for our visitors and this is quite a -
The Museum I’d Like
Posted 6 months agoFrom Brenda Siemers: Hello! I am a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (U.S.) and am completing a thesis on teen programs in museums. I came across a blog that mentions the project called "The Museum I'd Like to Know". Is this a published study, and if so, how can I obtain a copy of it? It sounds very interesting! Thanks for your help! Hi Brenda. The Museum I'd like -
What does lifelong learning mean for museums in a Web 2.0 world?
Posted 6 months agoHere's background to the provocative paper I'm giving at the Museum Australia Futures Forum event in Canberra next week as part of the Learning for Life group. In 1918 Benjamin Gilman's work, Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method, was published by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. In one essay first published in 1916 Gilman Writes: '... an inordinate amount of physical effort is demanded of the ideal -
Museums Australia Futures Forum May 2008
Posted 6 months agoQuite a morning with the six provocative papers and some comments from Frank regarding his attendance at the 2020 Summit and recent travels. Some points across the board that I took away: People will make decisions based on the information they have available now – not on what could be made available (i.e. people don't know what it is we don't have) Museums need to be more innovative and look at -
Learning vs education vs entertainment??
Posted 6 months agoThis question popped up from Ken at lunch yesterday: What are visitors seeking from cultural attractions in terms of education and/or entertaining experiences? Can these co-exist? Well Ken, since you don't want to read my thesis online, or even Chapter 7 which answers these questions I will summarise it for you here. Watch out for a future edition of Curator where these findings will be -
“Classifying” physical and online visitors and reflections on ‘flow’
Posted 6 months agoGave a paper at Museums and the Web 2008 looking at some of the ways on-line users have been classified. Again, when at the Museum of the Confederacy we were talking about on-line users and I got to thinking about some of the ways we have "classified" physical visitors and could they be applied to the on-line user as well? I was reminded of something that George McDonald (I think it was) said