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Slides from the National Council on Public History annual conference, Monterey, CA, March 21, 2014.
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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
EPHEMERAL EXPERIENCES
http://snapchat.com
THE “EPHEMERALNET”
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England
EPHEMERAL COLLECTIONS?
COLLECT, PRESERVE, STORE
Visitors at the National Museum of American History,
looking not touching.
RARE LOOK BEHIND THE CASE
Memory Boxes, Red Location Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
NEW MUSEUMS
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
1. DIGITIZE, RECORD
Take someobjects out of storage.
De-accession.
Let them degrade gracefully.
2. CIRCULATE OBJECTS
Smithsonian storage
DON’T DUMP IT ALL
NPS Arlington House, Arlington, VA
CAN I SIT IN THAT CHAIR?
Why make arti-fakes when you can use the real thing.
http://makerbot.com
3. DON’T PRINT PLASTIC REPLICAS
OBJECTS ARE POPULAR
Share Expertise, concentrate thematically and chronologically
4.CREATE REGIONAL COALITIONS
http://www.mckittrickhotel.com/#SleepNoMore
5. PARTNER WITH ARTS COMMUNITY
aMuse event,St. Catharine’s Museum, Ontario, Candada
OR COMMUNITY CENTERS
No bicycles were harmed in this event.
http://braceroarchive.org
6. COLLECT TRACES ONLINE
http://historyharvest.unl.edu
CREATE ONLINE COLLECTIONS
University of Nebraska-Lincoln student participating in a community History
Harvest.
BE ACTIVE