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Book Club Part 3: Museums Seeking Definition

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This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

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Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. There are many museums that are starting to experiment with allowing visitors to tag their online content, whether to engage them in 2.0 The games on the website at my museum are old.

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