Lessons Learned in Exhibits Planning and Collaboration

We finally opened our newest exhibit Living the Impossible this week. Over a week later than our promoted opening date 😬. The exhibit discusses the history, the development and the construction of the San Diego & Arizona Railway as this year is the 100th year since it’s completion. It was a bit like Murphy’s law…

The Creaking Sounds of The Old Hamster Wheel Turning

Writing in this blog was put on the back burner the last few weeks, but the old hamster wheel is still turning! I have been working on some possible research topics that I would like to dig into while I am in between jobs. One being the use of Photogrammetry to create three-dimensional images of…

Technology and Accessible Museums

This week I have been enviously watching my Twitter feed because the annual American Alliance of Museums conference has begun. I have never attended an AAM conference, but I really enjoy watching the live tweeting of presentations and the active discussions that take place. One tweet by Arryn Davis caught my attention today. Davis addresses…

Leveraging Digital Assets

As the final component of my graduate program I was required to develop and write a research paper. At the time I was working as an intern at Balboa Park Online Collaborative learning about how cultural institutions are using technology in innovative ways to generate revenue. One revenue stream is the licensing and reproduction of…