Blog
Regular blogs on museums, collections, and issues and events related to museums.Disclaimer: the opinions expressed are those of the writers, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Donna Williams: Broaden your audience
By Lucie Paterson, National Services Te Paerangi, 30 June 2009.
On Thursday Donna Williams, Chief Audience Development Officer from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York spoke at Te Papa about how the Met is diversifying their audience.
A lively partnership: NZMuseums and NZLive
16 June 2009
NZLive.com has recently partnered with NZMuseums to provide museum and gallery events information from our site to theirs.
Fundraising: calendars, turnips and black market trading
By Joanna Cobley, Museum Detective
31 March 2009
Do you have enough “dosh” and “oomph” to keep operating for another year? One of the frustrating things is that it is more difficult to get money to cover the daily running expenses for your museum than it is to raise funds for a project.
Shelley Bernstein Talks Social Media for Institutions
29 March 2009
By Anna Butterfield, NZLive
I’m about to race out the door to a workshop with Shelley Bernstein. This is a name that every New Zealand cultural organisation should be aware of.
Knowing your stories: a traveller's tale
4 March 2009
By Joanna Cobley, Museum Detective
Museums are excellent places for travellers to refresh, revive and refuel. Museums are also places to educate, entertain and enlighten folks. And after two years of recording museum stories for The Museum Detective and eight months on the road for Te Papa I can say that the most important aspect to any form of education or entertainment programme is to know what your underlying message is.
Intangible Natural Heritage
By Eric Dorfman 5 February 2009
When I mention ‘intangible natural heritage’ I frequently get a blank look, even from museum professionals. It’s not a phrase, say like ‘fire engine’, that immediately conjures up an image.
World Web Wanderings
By Tiki East
22 January 2009
The popular Museum Blogs site has just relaunched, and has a brand new baby sister site, Museum Podcasts
Sustainability in Museum Operations – are we doing enough?
By Eric Dorfman, Executive Director, Eklektus Inc.
12 January 2009
Museums have had the traditional function of storing, organising and interpreting the world’s artefacts. However, they are now being given the additional role of safeguarding the world from which these objects originate.
Virtual Museums – the way of the future in a sustainable world?
By Eric Dorfman, Executive Director, Eklektus Inc.
17 December 2008
I’m standing on the rough turf that surrounds Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Portraits of actors colourfully display characters from previous plays: Henry VIII, Ophelia, Romeo.
...and your point is?
By Pete Gray, Deputy Community & Cultural Manager, Wanganui District Council
19 November 2008
Museum blogging - why bother? It's very hard - impossible, actually - to know how many people read anything we put online. The one thing we can be fairly certain of is that the number of readers hugely outweighs the number of commenters. We can see that from our own online behaviour, after all - how often does any of us leave a comment on a site?
The waka presents a mystery to us!
By Chantal Knowles, Principal Curator (Oceania, Americas and Africa), National Museums Scotland
2 November 2008
Situated in the heart of Edinburgh, the National Museum of Scotland incorporates two wonderful buildings – one modern, the other a grand Victorian building known as the Royal Museum building.
