Compassion+Systems in Place+Timeliness=Community Impact In the midst of the international outpouring of support and sympathy for the victims of the two bombs that went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15,2013, what role did museums, especially Boston museums, play in their beleaguered community? As readers of Museum Commons know, I…
See my guest post on Adrianne Russell’s blog Cabinet of Curiosities슠. Adrianne is doing a series of posts on campus museums, and I contributed my thoughts on university museums’ advantages and challenges in mounting controversial exhibitions.If this post is being sent to you by email and you would like to subscribe or add a comment,…
Utility, Ubiquity, Unselfishness A few months ago Neal Stimler, media visionary and digital specialist at the Met in New York, spoke on The Commons and Digital Humanities.슠 Utility, Ubiquity, Unselfishness, he said, must be the qualities for the future of the digital humanities.슠 In this post Id like to acknowledge just these characteristics in…