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Sheila Brennan @sherah1918 [email protected] Associate Director of Public Projects LETTING THE COLLECTIONS OUT LETTING THE EPHEMERAL IN

Letting the Collections Out, Letting the Ephemerality In

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Sheila Brennan@[email protected]

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Associate Director of Public Projects

LETTING THE COLLECTIONS OUT

LETTING THE EPHEMERAL IN

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EPHEMERAL EXPERIENCES

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http://snapchat.com

THE “EPHEMERALNET”

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Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England

EPHEMERAL COLLECTIONS?

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COLLECT, PRESERVE, STORE

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Visitors at the National Museum of American History,

looking not touching.

RARE LOOK BEHIND THE CASE

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Memory Boxes, Red Location Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

NEW MUSEUMS

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Digitize existing collections.

Circulate objects.

Don’t print plastic replicas, use real things.

Create (better) museum networks for sharing.

Partner with arts and community groups to use objects.

Collect online.

SIX IDEAS TO CONSIDER

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1. DIGITIZE, RECORD

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Take someobjects out of storage.

De-accession.

Let them degrade gracefully.

2. CIRCULATE OBJECTS

Smithsonian storage

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DON’T DUMP IT ALL

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NPS Arlington House, Arlington, VA

CAN I SIT IN THAT CHAIR?

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Why make arti-fakes when you can use the real thing.

http://makerbot.com

3. DON’T PRINT PLASTIC REPLICAS

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OBJECTS ARE POPULAR

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Share Expertise, concentrate thematically and chronologically

4.CREATE REGIONAL COALITIONS

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http://www.mckittrickhotel.com/#SleepNoMore

5. PARTNER WITH ARTS COMMUNITY

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aMuse event,St. Catharine’s Museum, Ontario, Candada

OR COMMUNITY CENTERS

No bicycles were harmed in this event.

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http://braceroarchive.org

6. COLLECT TRACES ONLINE

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http://historyharvest.unl.edu

CREATE ONLINE COLLECTIONS

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln student participating in a community History

Harvest.

BE ACTIVE

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Sheila Brennan@[email protected]

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Associate Director of Public Projects

THANK YOU!