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Collecting Salt Shakers …
An article in the Smithsonian reports on an enormous collection of salt and pepper shakers: “Would You Like Some Salt and Pepper? How About 80,000 Shakers’ Worth?.” Why collection 80,000 salt &...
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Collecting Everyday Objects
Related the article in the Smithsonian Magazine I discussed in Collecting Salt Shakers … is this article in the NY Times: “A Family History, Liberally Peppered. Mr. Hoffman poses with his collection of...
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Another NY Times Article on Museums
The NY Times is once again covering museums. The latest article, “In Texas Tradition, Museums That Enshrine the Quirky,” underscores how any collection of things can be displayed and called a museum....
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From Trash Collecting to Collection of Trash
Nelson Molina poses with his collection, from NY Times slide show. Another article in the NY Times raises questions about the nature of features of a museum. This time, a NYC sanitation worker, Nelson...
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Corporate, Personal, and Neon Museums
For more than 500 years people, governments, churches, and other institutions have used their collections of things to assert, display, and establish their own authority and standing. Arranged in...
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Video Game Museums Abound, and Falter
The BBC’s coverage of the Museum *of Soviet* Arcade Machines has been attracting considerable attention recently. The Museum *of Soviet* Arcade Machines The Museum *of Soviet* Arcade Machines joins a...
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Field Trip to The Chemical Heritage Foundation
Each time I teach Collecting Nature & Displaying Authority we take three field trips to local museums. Our first outing took us to the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Megan, one of the Visitor...
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Astrolabes or Mariner’s Astrolabe—A Primer
Celebrations are afoot in Ontario celebrating 400 years of Francophone presence in the region. An important part of those celebrations is Samuel de Champlain’s exploration of Ontario and his early...
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The Printing Museum in Tokyo has what looks to be an amazing temporary exhibit right now on astronomy and print, aptly named “Astronomy and Printing. In search of new world vision.”[1] The exhibit...
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In a recent opinion piece in the NY Times, Museums Need to Step Into the Future, Darren Walker calls for museums to embrace a new and more diverse society, to relinquish their role as “guardians of a...
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The Adler Planetarium has posted a nice little slideshow on astrology: “Written in the Stars..” Each slide offers a bit of text and an image from something in the Alder’s collection — books, prints,...
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