On museology, engagement and digital culture
This post comes on the tail end of designing and developing two touch screen interactives for History SA; one promoting the South Australian Maritime Museum’s new Living in Port app and one for the Migration Museum’s new Freedom exhibit. Since I’ve been living in the world of touchscreens I thought...
Posted in In the Business
December 11, 2015
In 2013 the Migration Museum unveiled a small display about the Dutch in South Australia, which featured costumes used in the 1960s and 1970s at a Dutch cultural club in Adelaide. To generations of Dutch people around the world Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas, who has a red robe and big white...
Posted in Behind the Scenes
December 2, 2015
Museum professionals are always searching for new ideas and ways to push the boundaries of their work and be innovative. It is then the job of the savvy professional to work out how to balance the tensions between traditional museum practice and exploring new ways of connecting with audiences. I...
Posted in In the Business
November 26, 2015
My brainwave for the opening of the Holden Pavilion of Australian Motoring was fine – as long as nothing went wrong. I had been Director of the National Motor Museum for just eighteen months and was about to benefit from a decade of lobbying by my predecessor, John Cashen, for...
Posted in In the Business
November 20, 2015
Earlier this year Keith Conlon filmed a piece for us on the history of the National War Memorial in Adelaide. He reflected on its significance to South Australians and shared...
Posted in Making History
November 11, 2015
Thinking on the wider issue of new culture and celebrations and my colleagues at History SA and their connection to communities and the cultural celebrations of those communities, led me to reflecting on Halloween once again. Are festivals such as Halloween part of our business in museums? Are they simply...
Posted in Thinking Critically
October 30, 2015
On Sunday 27 September the Migration Museum hosted The Bosnian Way, a CultureSpace event co-created with the Bosnian Community in South Australia.
Posted in Making Connections
October 21, 2015
Although it has been in existence for around 15 years or so, you may not have ever heard about geocaching. This post is your chance to learn what it is, and find out why History SA is planning a geocaching event for the 2016 History Festival.
Posted in Behind the Scenes
October 19, 2015
In 2011 the National Motor Museum celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Holden ute with an exhibition called Ute-opia. This video was developed then in partnership with Ash Starkey.
Posted in Behind the Scenes
October 18, 2015
Introducing Lindl Lawton, a Senior Curator at the South Australian Maritime Museum. "I don’t feel I work as ‘expert’ but that every project is a learning curve, it’s like being able to study every time."
Posted in Meet the Crew
October 17, 2015