A session highlight from today's AAM was "In Memoriam: Interpreting Human Tragedy". Panelists were from institutions including Holocaust remembrance museums, 9/11 memorials, and academics involved with conveying the histories and... read more →
The upcoming Chief Niwot exhibition at the Boulder History Museum was previewed in the Sunday Boulder Daily Camera. Here’s the article (the newspaper incorrectly identified me as being directly part... read more →
The Chief Niwot ~ Legend and Legacy exhibition has won the History Colorado's Josephine H. Miles Award. The award is given for "making a major contribution to the advancement of... read more →
Last night I attended a lecture here in Boulder by Temple Grandin. Dr. Grandin was made popularly famous by the HBO movie featuring her life and work as an exceptional... read more →
Seth Frankel, Studio Tectonic's principal, is a contributing author to a new professional book entitled Fostering Empathy Through Museums. Published by Rowman & Littlefield, the book release is scheduled for Spring, 2016,... read more →
Designing for Empathy has recently been submitted for publication (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). It is a follow up to Fostering Empathy through Museums (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, edited by Elif Gokcigdem. Studio... read more →
Denver Art Museum invited its community to exhibit self-made creations in the museum's first-ever show made entirely of visitor works. I couldn't resist. The museum's challenge - Transform an everyday... read more →
Wide ranging cultural institutions often wrestle with when and how to use multiple languages in their exhibitions. As well they should. Any institution, except for those in the most homogenous areas, need... read more →
Curation. The word is used by new media content creators for their work in crafting web content. It prompts me to draw comparisons to bricks-and-mortar content of one of the... read more →
Ian Elsner, podcaster at Museum Archipelago, interviewed Bill Bradberry, the board chairman and president of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Bill introduces the new Center, opening in May,... read more →