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This may be a rant.
Early in my museum fellowship I learned about the glory of 3M Positionable Mounting Adhesive. Our space doesn’t have great ventilation, so we use this stuff for most prototypes. It’s pretty great, it...
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“The 20th Century is Entirely History”
A recent post from the Stuff About Minneapolis blog shared a photo from the online collections at the Minnesota Historical Society: Historical Crack Pipe The subject was momentarily surprising and,...
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Unbound, unframed, and unplaqued! A Rant.
This is a rant. Its about the small museum’s obsession with official, legitimate, super-important-making frames and plaques. Cheap metal frames do not an exhibit make. I work for a (very) small history...
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How I Found My Way into Museums
This is the second in our “How I Got Here” blog series. If you are in the museum world and would like to write about this topic, e-mail me at ashley.fairbanks@gmail.com. -Ashley Last week, Ashley wrote...
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You know you are museum professional when…
So I passed this storefront the other day. It used to be a Panera but will soon open as something else. Three large signs in the window read GUESS WHAT’S NEXT. I got super excited! I was ready to make...
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Finding A Spark.
It’s been a few days now, and my legs (and my sleep pattern) have finally recovered from the second annual Northern Spark festival. Northern Spark is a Twin Cities arts festival based on the idea of...
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Big Ideas from Small Packages?
Some of us bloggers here on Museum Unbound regularly daydream about how we can take a curated museum-like experience outdoors, guerrilla-style, or on the road, have it be mobile, easily deploy-able, at...
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Pop goes the museum!
Recently, the idea of the pop-up museum has been gaining some traction is the larger museum community. Its an idea that those of at Museum Unbound have long held close to our nerdy little hearts. What...
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All the world’s a…museum?
You may have heard of Project Gutenberg, where free literary classics are available online. Let me introduce you to Project Ingeborg. The town of Klagenfurt in Austria didn’t have a central library so...
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