As you read in my last post I traveled to New Orleans for the annual AAM conference. Fortunately, my husband and I were able to enjoy a couple days of exploring just before the conference started. During this time, we visited several museums. A couple of which we had visited the last time we had…
Tag: culture
Immersive and Participatory Experiences
On Wednesday this week I had the pleasure of spending my 30th birthday at Wonderspaces, a pop up museum that comes to San Diego during the Summer. I visited Wonderspaces last year with my husband and son, and we were very impressed. This year the pop up features 15 artists. A photograph of the list…
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…
Confronting Our Past and Museum Neutrality
An article was recently published about the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. The Legacy Museum opened this past month in Montgomery, Alabama standing on the site where enslaved people had been warehoused prior to going to market to be sold. The museum confronts the ugly history of slavery in the United States using…
Eurocentrism and The Democratizing of Culture
This past week while trying to keep myself from dying of boredom I read a couple articles that really piqued my interest and got the old hamster wheel turning. They revolve around the topic of Eurocentrism. A subject that has been an interest for me since my undergrad, and the reason why I had contemplated…
Ramblings of A Museum Professional 