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The Museum Blog BookMarch 2017
Publisher:
  • Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
ISBN:978-1-910144-84-8
Published:01 March 2017
Pages:
676
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How many blogs do you read regularly? Much of todays most interesting, innovative and passionate writing about museums and galleries is hidden awayin hundreds of carefully-crafted museum blogs. Andall too little of this content enters into mainstream museum discourse. Over 70blogs: transforming the museum experience The Museum Blog Bookbrings togethera collection which reflects fresh thinking and practice in and about museums. Whether the authors are fromworld-class institutions likeMoMA, the Smithsonian, the British Museum, or the V&A- orareindependent professionals or volunteers - they all share practical experience aimed at improving (and oftentransforming) the museum experience. New technologies In five sections, The Museum Blog Bookexplores every key area of museum operation: from managing and collecting, to learning, interpreting and visiting. The content is both rich and concise. And - reflecting its online origins -the applicationof new technologies is explored throughout. 676 pages | 126 illustrations This is a book which speaks for itself: museum professionals share the experiences and perceptions they believe are the most valuable, the most urgent. Its perceptive. Witty. Thoughtful. Concerned. Angry. Committed. Exhilarating. Invaluable.

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