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Clare Starkie
English Coach Helping Heritage Professionals to Improve Their Job Performance 🏆 Advance Your English Communication Skills in Less than 12 Weeks ⏱️ 20 years Museum Experience 🏛️ TEFL Qualified 🧑🏫 DM To Learn More 📩
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🗣 I used to love giving lunchtime talks during my time as Curator of Decorative Art! It often gave me a chance to focus on one area of the collections, or even, just one object. 🔎 As Peter Robinson has said here, it's also important for curators to be given the chance to do in-depth research, and present their findings to a variety of audiences. 😨 It may sound daunting to talk about just one thing for up to a whole hour, though. What on earth can you find to say for that long, about a single item?!Actually, once you get going, you'll be amazed at what you can come up with. Here are just a few examples: 👉 How was it made? People love to hear about the skills and techniques used to produce things. If you can show them a few tools, or even a short video - even better! 👉 Where did the materials come from? Is this made locally or do some parts come from the other side of the world? What does this tell you about trade at the time? Do you have a sample of the material visitors can touch? 👉 Who used it? Was it for everyone, or just a select few? How much (in real terms, like a weekly wage) would it have cost? 👉 How did it come into the museum? Is there an exciting or strange story there? ⛏ These are just a few object stories that you can uncover, just get digging, open up your imagination and there'll be no stopping you!✍️ Do you have a favourite object you could talk about for hours? Share it in the comments!👋 Need help with interpreting objects in English? Let’s connect and have a conversation.Don’t forget to follow me and ring the bell 🔔 on the profile to catch all my posts.🏛 I help heritage professionals improve their communication skills and confidence 👩🏫 #curator #interpretation #museumeducation #heapoffacts #communicationcoach
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Mary-Kate S.
Founder & Guiding Spirit | Transforming Trauma through Mindful Practice & Mythic Wisdom | Beacon Ranch Studio™
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🌌✨ Exploring the Intersection of Art, Culture, and Nature: The Northern Lights at Beacon Ranch ✨🌌Last evening at Beacon Ranch offered more than just a night under the stars; it provided a canvas for one of nature’s most spectacular displays — the Northern Lights. This rare sighting inspired me to create a short video that not only captures the beauty of the aurora borealis but also explores its profound spiritual significance across various cultures.Why This Matters in Our Work:As professionals, we often seek to understand and convey complex concepts in compelling ways. This project allowed me to blend art with cultural anthropology, offering a narrative that goes beyond the visual to touch on universal human experiences and beliefs. It’s a reminder of how interconnected our work can be with global phenomena and cultural narratives.Watch and Reflect:I invite you to watch this 90-second video and consider how natural wonders like the Northern Lights can influence and inspire your professional and personal journeys. https://lnkd.in/gK8Z7qkpYour Thoughts:How do natural phenomena influence or find a place in your professional work? Have you ever embarked on a project inspired by something as universally awe-inspiring as the Northern Lights?👥 Please Like, Share, and Comment if you find this blend of art, science, and culture as fascinating as I do.#NorthernLights #CulturalInsights #ProfessionalCreativity #BeaconRanchStudio #ArtisticInterpretation #LeadershipInArt
Northern Lights: An Artistic Tribute from Beacon Ranch https://www.youtube.com/
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Britt Barr, LEED Green Associate
Space Management, Planning & Occupancy at Cushman & Wakefield | Purpose-Driven Optimist
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Adding this talk to my calendar! For those of you in STL who love architecture, let’s go!
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State Historical Society of North Dakota
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Objects and Their Unwritten HistoriesAs an intern at the State Historical Society of North Dakota’s Audience Engagement & Museum Department, I have spent the past several months inventorying items stored in the collections that lack documented history. Since these objects don’t have a written history, I can only imagine the life each must have lived before entering the ND Heritage Center & State Museum’s walls.However, much can be learned from the objects themselves. Since these don’t have a written history, I find myself paying closer attention to minute details. Each object becomes a little mystery, a puzzle for me to solve. Below are a few objects that have piqued my interest.Read the full blog article to see a few objects that have piqued Zoe's interest. bit.ly/3NFQPUn
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Camelia Y.
Experience Architect: Designing Unforgettable Events that Educate, Inspire, Engage. Publisher of the Event Pulse newsletter
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In Defense of Museums sapiens.orgShould museums have a wholesale review of what they do, or a nuanced review that sees the museology process as part of history, but also wants to make museums relevant in today's society?Read this thought-provoking article from Sapiens to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gNhvxJGVShare your thoughts in the comments below!
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Peter Robinson
Museums, Archaeology, Collections & Heritage Project Management, Exhibitions and Public Engagement
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Danum Gallery, Library and Museum m.facebook.comMy first Lunch Time Curator talk focus’ on one of our oldest and most enigmatic objects. One that despite its importance has never actually been accessioned into the collections (something i aim to correct).As time has gone on I’ve seen a loss of specialist knowledge and subject specialist curators in museums, which is a very worrying trend. It’s a credit to Heritage Doncaster and the City of Doncaster Council that in a recent restructure it chose to maintain those specialist curatorial roles it still had. Though it is sad that there are collections for which we don’t have curators, notably Natural History. Without subject specialist curators collections risk becoming fossilised and museums risk, over time engaging the public, with out of date and even inaccurate interpretation and information.The Curator Talks and Lunchtime Talks provide a reason for me to undertake important collections research and provide an outlet for it.Long may it continue and grow. The public appetite for these curator led engagements is demonstrable, even though we’re not yet a year into having begun them. Let’s hope the appetite for them grows.
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American Alliance of Museums
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If our challenging era has you worried for the future of our field, history may reassure you. Past moments of crisis, from world wars to culture wars, have shaped how the museum field has met, responded to, and moved forward past crisis, according to the author of a new book on the subject.Read the full Q&A with author Samuel Redman, interviewed by Adam Rozan, on the Alliance blog: https://lnkd.in/ef3RYDAk
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Ahmed Chawla
Urdu Voiceover Artist/ Urdu Audiobooks Provider/ Founder of Awazeurdu
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Mr. Abu Yahya's travelogue of seven countries. In the video presented for Awaz-Urdu's travelogue series, he visited the natural history museum during his trip to New York, the American city. You also join this series
American Museum of Natural History. https://www.youtube.com/
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Historistai Hιστορισταί
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How about an h-Installation?Archival collections can be a first-class material for performative exhibitions.Historistai work a lot to develop elliptical ways of history telling.https://lnkd.in/dmi-qqpB
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Anne C.
Peacebuilding and Preservation
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I have an Excel sheet of best practices for managing human material remains that I gathered as part of a GRA project I should turn into an article.
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