Medhavi Gandhi
@medhavi.bsky.social
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✏️ Exploring #museums & #culture in a digital world 🏛️ 🖥️ Created theheritagelab.in 📌 South Asia Grants team, Wikimedia Foundation & and some Open GLAM work.
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Many thanks! I checked those out & all of them are also really nice (one would be split between Vermeer & Pulitzer!)
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@andersnoren.bsky.social came across your beautiful site today! Is it a custom theme?
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It is unbelievable - the things we can learn if we look out of our own boxes. Currently learning about front end publishing from wedding-websites 🥲🫶🏽 #digitalpublishing #digitalculture
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So happy to see this essay come alive as part of our #OpenKnowledge editorial series supported by & in collab with @wikimediauk.bsky.social ! Thank you @camdiglib.bsky.social for sharing your collections!
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This year the annual conference of #kulturBDigital takes place Oct 8 in #Berlin - folks from theatre / museums / libraries are welcome to join www.kultur-b-digital.de/kulturbdigit... - am also excited to host a workshop here that will probably contribute to a “Culture #Storytelling Stack”. 🙌🏽
kulturBdigital Konferenz 2025 - kulturBdigital
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In 2019, for some strange reason, I made an excel sheet of all the colleagues across #museums in EU, UK, South Asia while working on two popular #socialmedia “hashtag campaigns”. So glad to have rediscovered it today - nothing like the good old #spreadsheet.
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What about the “rapidly changing communities” is making you curious?
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As several GenZ based studies show, there is shift towards switching off, towards balance, towards meaningful contribution… so how will any of this impact museum #contentstrategy?
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The rise of the fediverse, the rise of networked platform based newsletters, in the backdrop of a motivated algorithm — how are #museums going to connect with, & #buildcommunities ?
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Am sort of excited for the #InternationalMuseumDay theme this time. Even though I was skeptical about another deliberation on “future of museums” … it is the second part that has me motivated — “in rapidly changing communities”.
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After attending a very interesting lecture, I had the opportunity to have a little coffee-chat with the speaker..the conversation flowed into open knowledge territory (his upcoming book will be OA) & then he said “Wikipedia! Who writes those pages - we can’t trust it right?”. Owwch.
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One of the things that has pained me in the past has been #newsletters - creating, growing + reading the ones I subscribe to. So this month of March, I immersed myself into learning from the best, being inspired & taking my “irritation” (about museum newsletters) to “optimism”. 🌻
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Nothing like the comfort of working with old partners! The team at WikiUK and I have been reaching out to GLAMs for our fellowship project ! I heard from an old partner institution (protocol wise, have to wait to share) who said “yes” hours into the email outreach 🥹🥹🥰
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That “why are you working when you can play with me” look.
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We’re teaming up with @wikimediauk.bsky.social ( it’s now Insta-official too 🥲) to bring fresh perspectives, & uncover untold stories related to South Asian collections housed in UK-based #GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).

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I sign my personal emails off with a signature that says “Always looking forward to working with good people and brave institutions” — it is difficult but possible to find these. 🥲 Super excited to announce a new collab with “good people” of a “brave” institution- an official statement tomorrow !
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Repurposing tech can be interesting! Our #mememaker is popular with readers & so I wondered if we can use it for our critical thinking challenges! Lets see how it goes. For now, testing it with a #culturalxcollabs experiment inspired by our Insta-community!

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World War II : a critical thinking history challenge with a damaged 17th century Caucasus Carpet. | The Heritage Lab
How do war-time decisions shape societies and history? A WWII-damaged carpet fragment from Berlin sparks a critical thinking challenge.
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The Internet Archive hosts the Ideas Worth Saving Evening Extravaganza! 🎬 #StarWars & #Tolkien panels & film clips. Come in costume & win a prize!
📅 Jan 31–Feb 1, 6 pm–9 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave., SF
🎟️ $20 at the door

Details ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/event/ideas-worth-saving-evening-extravaganza/
Graphic of a film projector and images related to the text, which reads: Ideas worth saving. Evening extravaganzas: movie clips, costumes, & conversation! Friday: the true origins of Star Wars.Saturday: the Tolkien you never knew. Costume contest. Panel of experts. Analysis of movie scenes. 31 January & 1 February 2025, at 7pm, the Internet Archive. 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA. Ticket:  www.ideasworthsaving.org
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#GLAM friends : Do you know any #museums who have a diverse digital audience acquisition & retention strategy(i.e beyond social media)? If your museum is doing that / thinking of it, am looking to talk to you!

#museumsandtheweb #digitalculture #audienceengagement #museumoutreach #GLAM
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What an exciting lineup, @janefinnis.bsky.social ! All the best 🙌🏽