web resources

Are you reading this via our RSS feed? Then according to our feed statistics there’s a 70% chance you’re using Google Reader. And if you hadn’t noticed the warning when logging in, here’s a friendly reminder: That’s right. After 1 July 2013 there will be no more Google Reader. So for the ~300 of you […]

It’s been more than a year and a half since we launched our new website. In other words, it’s hardly new anymore. However, it still does feel new because we keep working on it and updating it all the time. The frontpage contents are a reflection of what goes on in our museum and what […]

Visit the new online version of Biohacking – Do It Yourself! and explore the open biology lab at Medical Museion through photos, recipes, texts and videos: [flickrset id=”72157632996879533″ thumbnail=”thumbnail” photos=”7″ overlay=”false” size=”small”] In the online exhibition you can look at pictures and videos from events in the open lab, browse through links to hacker spaces […]

Suddenly, last weekend, the museum blogosphere was surprised by a new museum website, MuseTrain, which has already given rise to lots of ripples on Twitter. Behind the site, with the cryptohumble subtitle “We have some suggestions…”, is a so far anonymous group of people, who have “been working in and around all kinds of museums (art, science […]

The Museums and the Web 2012 conference in San Diego has just ended. In addition to attending the meeting and participating in the twitter backchannel, members of the museum community nominated and voted for their favourite museum websites: Here’s the result of the popular vote for Best of the Web 2012 (People’s Choice): 15 Second Place 1 26 Treasures […]

Always irritating,  but highly readable, Nicholas Carr quotes Clay Shirky saying: I remember, as a child, being bored. I grew up in a particularly boring place and so I was bored pretty frequently. But when the Internet came along it was like, “That’s it for being bored! Thank God! You’re awake at four in the morning? So […]

I fredags var jeg til symposium om web-tv og museumsformidling i Emdrup sammen med en hel del andre video-nysgerrige museumsfolk. Der var inviteret fine folk fra Tate og MoMA, der hver  især holdt oplæg om hvordan de havde taget deres første spæde skridt ind på videomediets røde løber (for flere år siden). Efter pausen kom […]

If you’re out and about in Copenhagen this week you may see one of our new events postcards in a cafe or bar, featuring a paper-cut style plan of the museum, and listings for our upcoming event series, Close Encounters of a Material Kind, on the back. The absence of ‘writing room’ on free postcards is a […]

As previously announced we’ve been planning a staff event with the aim of “creating and nurturing a common culture of exploiting online social media as daily working tools”. The program draft is now ready and although this is an internal event, we’re putting it out here for everyone to see: 13:00 – 13.30 Introduction talk […]

Daniel and I just finished a meeting on the topic “how to plan a workshop day for our colleagues about Web Outreach”. The task was given to us by our director Thomas Söderqvist, who formulated the reason for having such a day like this: If we shall be able to convince scientists about the importance of communicating […]