Radical Open Authority: When Life Happens and Museums Respond

Open Authority is a phrase thats everywhere in museum blogs, tweets, and conferences these days.슠 What exactly does it mean?슠 At the recent Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference in Montreal슠 Ed Rodley and a panel explored this question in Defining Open Authority in the Museum, proposing that developments in the realm of accessibility have dovetailed…

Collecting Trayvon Martin’s Hoodie: A Conversation We Need to Have

Now that the 24/7 discussion of the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case has died down, its time to look at the implications of a discussion that flared briefly in the aftermath of the not-guilty verdict for Zimmerman. On July 31, 2013, Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)…