On museology, engagement and digital culture
If you’re not familiar with the photo festival that is Museum Selfie Day it is an annual worldwide event during which museums encourage visitors to share their own selfies taken...
Posted in Making Connections
January 19, 2017
Dave Rickard currently works as a volunteer at the Migration Museum, where he and his wife, Pauline, assist with the management of the Museum’s photographic collection. He also volunteers with the South Australian Maritime Museum, where he is a crew member on the historic ex-police launch, Archie Badenoch, which takes school groups on...
Posted in Meet the Crew
December 5, 2016
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
This picture was taken by Frank Hurley in 1935 as part of the preparations for the 1936 centenary events.
Posted in In the Business
October 16, 2015
History SA has for some time been the ‘gate keeper’ of a special collection of digitised photographs, romantically referred to as the South Australian Government Photographic Collection.
Posted in Making History
October 15, 2015