Comments on: What is the Museum? Who is a Curator? In the age of Social Media in Copenhagen…

By: Lasse Nielsen

Lasse Nielsen — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:43:47 +0000

I’m very happy to read that you enjoyed Glyptoteket.
Recently we launched a new Facebook page. With more pictures from our museum. At the moment we are posting a series of historical images from the museum. Feel free to join:
facebook.com/glyptotek

All the best
Lasse

By: nancyproctor

nancyproctor — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:14:23 +0000

Hi Robert,
I’m so glad you found the podcast helpful to you & your students! I’d love to hear their feedback; I always learn so much from students!

Best regards,
Nancy

By: Robert Connolly

Robert Connolly — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:57:32 +0000

Recently came across your podcast and enjoy immensely. I will use this particular podcast this fall in my graduate seminar at the University of Memphis – Museum Practices

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Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:48:16 +0000

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By: nancyproctor

nancyproctor — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:42:05 +0000

Thank you, Cath, for bringing these threads together & introducing me to kirtan! The ‘Acroplis to Agora’ phrase comes from Steven Zucker from FIT and htp://Smarthistory.org (You can hear more from him here: http://museummobile.info/archives/136 ) I am inspired to review my Foucault now; there is something important about the spiritual – or at least pilgrimage – nature of the museum experience, and I would like to understand its relationship to the ‘real’ and virtual manifestations of the museum better. I look forward to continuing the conversation!

By: Cath

Cath — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:35:31 +0000

Nancy, those are wonderful thoughts. Your observation that museums have shifted from the Acropolis to the agora inspires me to think more about how Web 2.0 has changed Foucault's notion of museums as heterotopia. Are they any longer 'other places' if they are out there in the town square? I also appreciate the idea of the curator as leader of a call-and-response song. My mental association was immnediately with kirtan, another form of spiritual singing. Interesting, in the sense that museums are often conceived as secular-yet-spiritual spaces.

By: George Oates

George Oates — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:29:12 +0000

Haha – no problemo!

I even found myself singing along while I was listening

But seriously, while it paints a nice picture of groups collaborating, it also puts curators in the “callers” seat, which is where they should be.

By: nancyproctor

nancyproctor — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:03:16 +0000

Thanks so much for your comment, George! That you liked it means an awful lot!

By: George Oates

George Oates — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:37:47 +0000

Nancy, that’s a lovely way to think of it. Call and response to Amazing Grace