Author: athina
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I DIG Dinosaurs: Wyoming Dinosaur Center
Wyoming Dinosaur Center is a museum, laboratory and active dig site at Thermopolis, USA. In 1993 fossil collections were unearthed at Warm Springs Ranch, prompting scientific research. The numerous finds required storage or display rather than shipping them to natural history museums around the States, a museum was built near the site opting to keep…
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Archaeogaming: Video Games as Archaeological Sites
Archaeogaming is a blog on archaeology and video games, created in 2013. The blog discusses archaeology as featured in video games as well as interpretation of video games as archaeological sites. Games and virtual heritage are a growing concept within cultural heritage and archaeology. While the vast majority of heritage institutions are only now discovering…
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Curated Reading List: August 2021
Your curated reading list is out! August was loaded with appealing concepts, new digital applications and news-good and bad-; many of which we could not cover in our pieces. Have a look: Rethinking The Language We Use to Describe What We Do. Read article here. Why should museums invest in digital condition reporting?. Read article…
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New: Museums and Heritage Student Volunteering Toolkit
Museums and Heritage Student Volunteering Toolkit, published 25 August by GEM, is a comprehensive guide written by Holly Bastable, an MA student at Kingston University Museum & Gallery Studies. The toolkit is an excellent resource for volunteers in culture, as covers in-depth all aspects of volunteering in the UK. The culture sector depends heavily on…
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Have you digitised your collection yet?
Check out MuseumNext’s Digital Collection Summit 4 – 6 October 2021, learn from the experience of professionals and get inspired for your project! Digitising a collection and making it accessible is not an easy task. Digitisation was a necessary tool for conservation, however, the COVID-19 pandemic set digital content as a mandatory tool for audience…
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Review: Home Galleries and Rooms Through Time
Duration: Permanent display Location: Museum of the Home, London The Museum of the Home, previously known as the Geffrye Museum, has recently reopened, since its closure in 2018, featuring an £18million upgrade and redeveloped spaces. Situated in almshouses built three centuries ago, in East London, it has come a long way from the straightforward 20th-century…
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A playful talk series: Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities
What do digital humanities, the game animal crossing and twitch streaming have in common? “Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities” is a talk series on new topics and ideas in the field of digital humanities by scholars. Streaming on Twitch since 2020, the talks take place in the game’s virtual environment and have open discussions with…
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A playful talk series: Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities
What do digital humanities, the game animal crossing and twitch streaming have in common? “Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities” is a talk series on new topics and ideas in the field of digital humanities by scholars. Streaming on Twitch since 2020, the talks take place in the game’s virtual environment and have open discussions with…
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A playful talk series: Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities
What do digital humanities, the game animal crossing and twitch streaming have in common? “Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities” is a talk series on new topics and ideas in the field of digital humanities by scholars. Streaming on Twitch since 2020, the talks take place in the game’s virtual environment and have open discussions with…
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A playful talk series: Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities
What do digital humanities, the game animal crossing and twitch streaming have in common? “Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities” is a talk series on new topics and ideas in the field of digital humanities by scholars. Streaming on Twitch since 2020, the talks take place in the game’s virtual environment and have open discussions with…