Registrar’s Postcard: Florence, Italy
I’m still processing all the museums I visited in Florence. One thing that stood out was the popularity of in-gallery videos, explaining how a type of work was created or conserved. Read more
May 22
Inside the Display Case or History Underground
I once overheard a curators conversation on a Sydney train. As we passed under the city, through Museum station, they explained the location of a bricked up tunnel once leading to the old Sydney department store, Mark Foy’s.
Reacting to Objects: Mindfulness, Tech and Emotion
There’s been a lot of discussion about mindful looking and unplugging in museums of late. By pure coincidence, I’ve been thinking about looking at objects while traveling over the last 2 months, developing an understanding of how mindfulness and technology work together for me to connect emotionally with museum objects.
Registrar’s Postcard: Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona is a city that wears art like a cloak and crown. Here, art and museums are under your feet and everywhere you look.
The Art of the 24-hour Museum
The Eucla Museum, in the middle of the Nullarbor Desert, is a single room in the roadhouse motel, between rooms 30 and 31. As I passed late one night, there was a glow from one light. I checked the door to find it open. The Eucla Museum is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Registrar’s Postcard: Esperance, Western Australia
I don’t usually do fakes. But the Stonehenge at Esperance, Western Australia, got me thinking about the value of replicas in museums where the pull of the original object dominates.
The Value of the Local or Does Size Matter?
Lying awake one night in Robe, South Australia, I remembered this 2008 commercial for Bega Cheese.
