Museum and Heritage Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, The International Council of Museums and Routledge Press cordially invite you to WELCOME DRINKS and the launch of Intangible Natural Heritage: New Perspectives on Natural Objects edited by Eric Dorfman Guest speaker: Michael Houlihan, CEO, Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa Monday 5 March 2012 from 5.30pm [...]
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Contextualising Worth
The newest in-house exhibition to open at the Whanganui Regional Museum is Your Treasures – New Acquisitions 2011. The concept is simple enough. We wanted to celebrate the enormous generosity of the Whanganui community in donating its heirlooms to us for safekeeping. The objects themselves range widely. They may have been owned by locally famous [...]
Book Launch – Intangible Natural Heritage
Museum and Heritage Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, The International Council of Museums and Routledge Press cordially invite you to WELCOME DRINKS and the launch of Intangible Natural Heritage: New Perspectives on Natural Objects edited by Eric Dorfman Guest speaker: Michael Houlihan, CEO, Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa Monday 5 March 2012 from 5.30pm [...]
Museums in a Changing World
On May 18th, the International Council of Museums will celebrate International Museums Day 2012. The theme this year is Museums in a Changing World: New Challenges, New Inspiration. For those of us in ICOM NATHIST who proposed the theme, it was a huge coup, giving another avenue to museums – not just natural history museums [...]
Creepy things in my friend’s garden
I recently discovered that a friend of mine, let’s call him Noel, has a garden filled with carnivorous plants and other botanical oddities, which he cultivates with all the care of Charles Darwin (played by Vincent Price). There’s something wonderful about discovering this macabre side of one of your friends. Although I have yet to [...]
Intangible Natural Heritage
Click here to purchase from Amazon.com Eric Dorfman was the editor for the International Council of Museums, administered by the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Natural History (NATHIST). The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, and recently emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environment [...]
Something a bit different – a look at museum merchandising
I believe that most organisations would benefit by extending themselves into new territory every now and then. For cultural institutions there is, arguably, an expectation that they do so more responsively (or perhaps only more regularly) than other types of businesses. Think of the massive public appetite for new visitor experiences. Certainly in a highly [...]
