Help me raise money to buy Nikola Tesla’s old laboratory - The Oatmeal
This is so crazy, it just might work. Matt wants the internet to buy Wardenclyffe and turn it into a Tesla museum.
Tags: museum
Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2010: Papers: Cope, A.S., Buckets and Vessels
Here’s one to add to Instapaper or Readability to savour at your leisure: Aaron Straup Cope’s talk at Museums and the Web 2010:
This paper examines the act of association, the art of framing and the participatory nature of robots in creating artifacts and story-telling in projects like Flickr Galleries, the API-based Suggestify project (which provides the ability to suggest locations for other people’s photos) and the increasing number of bespoke (and often paper-based) curatorial productions.
The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games
This description of a tour of the Museum of Soviet Arcade Games is like a travelogue from an alternative dimension.
Search the Collections - Victoria and Albert Museum
The V&A has an API. Who knew? Looks very nice indeed.
bab-instr
Instruction manual to operate and maintain Charles Babbage's 2nd Difference Engine built by Barrie Holloway and Reg Crick, June 1991 for the Science Museum, London SW7 2DD.
Flickr: National Maritime Museum's Photostream
Flickr Commons just keeps growing and growing. Now there are wonderful collections of pictures from Greenwich available for us all to peruse and tag.
Museum home
The Museum of Computing ("committed to the preservation and display of examples of early computers") needs a new home. Do you know of anywhere that might be a good fit?
Flickr: Photos from Powerhouse Museum Collection
The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney—who have been doing some great stuff with public tagging already—have joined the Library of Congress in putting their photographic collection online for crowdsourced tagging.
Scientists want to get into your pants, museum unable to locate crab louse for collection (Shake Well Before Use)
Every time you wax, God kills a crab.
www.steve.museum - Home
An experiment in social tagging of art museum collections
Powerhouse Museum | Sydney Australia
Fantastic collection of user-tagged content at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.