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Our exciting plan is to transform the Ask a Curator website into a platform where engagement between curators and members of the public can expand and continue.The Ask a Curator website will be a platform for conversation between museums and the public. Anyone can log into Ask a Curator and ask participating museums a question.

Museums are quickly adapting to Web 2.0, and engaging with a new on-line audience. Social media projects are being developed and used by museum staff, and curators are starting to explore this new space. When the Powerhouse Museum's curatorial department created their first blog, they had no idea what they were in for, or what challenges they would face. They also had little idea of how curators as a whole are participating in social media activities. This paper will use the Powerhouse Museum's 'Object of the Week' blog and a major international survey of curators to investigate how social media activities are impacting on curatorial practice.

Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook's Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media addresses how curators and art audiences behave in light of digital/new media art, as well as how we can begin to conceptualise and work with these emergent behaviours.

Using Curate.Us is fast, easy and absolutely free. It's so easy, you don't even need an account to make your first clip. Simply put a URL in the box at right and click "Make Clip."

And in the middle are projects like Global Voices, what might be called curatorial media: where content is produced by the many in a social way from the bottom-up and is then mediated, filtered or curated by some old-media-like gatekeeper.

StumbleUpon is the cabinet of curiosities of the web. StumbleUpon is the unGoogle, a curated collection of stuff you didn't even know you were looking for. I stumbled around in the arts section and saw more great stuff than in a week on Twitter.

The Andy Warhol Museum released the AR Mobile App 'Layar'. "The Layar turns your mobile device into an augmented-reality viewer. By adding The Andy Warhol Museum Layar, you'll be able to view locations pivotal in Andy Warhol's life and work overlayed on real-time images from your device's camera. View locations in Pittsburgh, PA and New York, NY and dive into related information and photos prepared by The Warhol's education curators." [the warhol]

Winning performance from the Museum's Gladiatorial poetry slam that took place in September. Young poets used the theme of Roman London (Londinium) as inspiration. The slam was part of the Museum's Stories of the World project in which young people aged 14-24 are interpreting collections in new ways and co-curating an exhibition for 2012. Filmed and edited by Rachel Nanyonjo and Jita Mitra.

The Timeline is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Museum's collection. It is an invaluable reference and research tool for students, educators, scholars, and anyone interested in the study of art history and related subjects. First launched in 2000, the Timeline extends from prehistory to the present day. The Museum's curators, conservators, and educators research and write the Timeline, that continues to expand in scope and depth and reflect the most up-to-date scholarship.

City of Memory: a story map of new york. a) Stories curated by City Lore b) Stories uploaded by Users

The Mobile for the Cultural Sector Conference will include a wide variety of people from across the Global cultural sector and the technology sector and will bring together the 200+ senior figures from: * museum, gallery and cultural sector curators, directors and board members * digital specialists * commercial strategists * pr and marketing teams * fund-raising and development specialists * quangos and leadership and training bodies * mobile app, website and marketing developers * advertising, planning and creative advertising agencies * network operators, handset manufacturers and technology leaders

Um es kurz zu machen: ich bin an einem Beitrag mit dem Titel "The Death of the Curator" hängengeblieben, den Pete (sorry, ich war zu blöd, den Nachnamen irgendwo im Blog zu finden) vor ein paar Tagen auf seinem New Curator Blog veröffentlicht hat. Er fragt sich darin, ob die Idee einer von ZeitungsleserInnen kuratierten Ausstellung zeitgenössischer Kunst, wie sie The Guardian und die Saatchi Gallery gerade realisieren, das Ende der Kuratorentätigkeit einläutet?

While museums have long strived to be welcoming places as well as havens of learning, social media is turning them into virtual community centers. On Facebook or Twitter or almost any museum Web site, everyone has a voice, and a vote. Curators and online visitors can communicate, learning from one another. As visitors bring their hand-held devices to visits, the potential for interactivity

Kristen defined six possible roles for museums on the Internet: 1) Filter - find and share relevant, accurate, trustworthy information 2) Curator - become a one stop shop for primary and secondary source material on specific topics 3) Node in a network - package information to live beyond your walls, monitor conversations around your content 4) Community builder - create your own network, be involved in online conversations 5) Lifesaver - provide portable information when and where people need it most 6) Tour Guide - connect your content to the real world

MuseumNext is Europe's big conference on social and digital media within the museum sector. We believe that technology is changing the expectations of museum audiences. They no longer want to have information just broadcasted at them, they want to create, to curate and to co-produce experiences.

On April 25, 2007 the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto launched a new online initiative called Collection X "This project, which has been in development for six years, represents a huge leap forward for the AGO not only because it makes works from the permanent collection available online but also because it makes it possible for the public to upload their own collections and to create exhibitions using the same application. As it has been conceived, Collection X is meant to function as an open-source museum that features public collections presented alongside collections created by the public." (museumsremixed.blogspot)

one day event on twitter

Museum Management and Curatorship, Volume 25 Issue 2 2010

Museum Management and Curatorship journal

Crowdcuratd: Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum's visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process

Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum's visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process