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Holy moly! That looks insanely beautiful.
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Holy moly! That looks insanely beautiful.
Mind blown....Medieval women solved the tiny pocket problem centuries ago and somehow we forgot. Tie-on pockets under skirts: accessible, spacious, personal. Then fashion decided pockets should be decorative, not functional. We've been losing storage capacity ever since!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Mind blown....Medieval women solved the tiny pocket problem centuries ago and somehow we forgot. Tie-on pockets under skirts: accessible, spacious, personal. Then fashion decided pockets should be decorative, not functional. We've been losing storage capacity ever since!
Ser fantastisk ud!
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Ser fantastisk ud!
This is awesome!
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is awesome!
The joke is also the reality. Museums hold decades of analog and digital records on obsolete formats nobody can read. Migration costs money, takes time, and never ends. Every new format resets the clock. Digital preservation isn't a problem you solve once.
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The joke is also the reality. Museums hold decades of analog and digital records on obsolete formats nobody can read. Migration costs money, takes time, and never ends. Every new format resets the clock. Digital preservation isn't a problem you solve once.
Curious what they learned after a year. Did visitors actually want to chat with AI animals, or was it a novelty that wore off? Museum tech experiments often measure 'engagement' without asking if it improved understanding. Interaction isn't the same as learning.
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Curious what they learned after a year. Did visitors actually want to chat with AI animals, or was it a novelty that wore off? Museum tech experiments often measure 'engagement' without asking if it improved understanding. Interaction isn't the same as learning.
Proposition over poster is right. Blockbuster names don't guarantee audiences anymore. People want experience worth the effort: access, context, connection. Museums competing on Instagram aesthetics miss the point. Make it meaningful, not just photogenic.
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Proposition over poster is right. Blockbuster names don't guarantee audiences anymore. People want experience worth the effort: access, context, connection. Museums competing on Instagram aesthetics miss the point. Make it meaningful, not just photogenic.
Schools using Facebook as infrastructure because it's 'free' means parents who opt out of Facebook lose access to essential school information (yup, that's me). Public institutions shouldn't outsource communication to platforms that harvest data and amplify extremism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Schools using Facebook as infrastructure because it's 'free' means parents who opt out of Facebook lose access to essential school information (yup, that's me). Public institutions shouldn't outsource communication to platforms that harvest data and amplify extremism.
Frontline staff striking at museums is a symptom of deeper funding failure. Museums can't deliver on public mission when they underpay the people who actually interact with visitors.
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Frontline staff striking at museums is a symptom of deeper funding failure. Museums can't deliver on public mission when they underpay the people who actually interact with visitors.
Geopolitics reshaping what historians can research. This isn't just about Russia. Climate change will close archives, conflict will seal borders, failing institutions will lose collections. Historians need to think about access as fragile, not permanent.
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Geopolitics reshaping what historians can research. This isn't just about Russia. Climate change will close archives, conflict will seal borders, failing institutions will lose collections. Historians need to think about access as fragile, not permanent.
Co-creation with actual users produces better results than well-meaning guesses. Accessibility isn't charity, it's design that works for everyone. Sensory descriptions help blind visitors, but they also deepen understanding for sighted people.
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Co-creation with actual users produces better results than well-meaning guesses. Accessibility isn't charity, it's design that works for everyone. Sensory descriptions help blind visitors, but they also deepen understanding for sighted people.
Folk culture as shared tradition but individual expression. That tension lives in museums too. How do you honor common heritage while respecting that every community adapted, changed, made it their own? Easy to say, hard to display.
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Folk culture as shared tradition but individual expression. That tension lives in museums too. How do you honor common heritage while respecting that every community adapted, changed, made it their own? Easy to say, hard to display.
Museums meeting audiences where they are. Pokémon fans become museum visitors. Some will engage deeper, some won't. But getting people through the door matters. Access first, then education. Not the other way around.
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Museums meeting audiences where they are. Pokémon fans become museum visitors. Some will engage deeper, some won't. But getting people through the door matters. Access first, then education. Not the other way around.
Libraries as tool libraries makes so much sense. Why should everyone own a drill they use twice? Shared resources, less waste, lower barriers to DIY. This is what public infrastructure should look like.
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Libraries as tool libraries makes so much sense. Why should everyone own a drill they use twice? Shared resources, less waste, lower barriers to DIY. This is what public infrastructure should look like.
Exactly. The system prioritizes rewarding discovery over sustaining institutions. Short term thinking. Museums end up asset-rich and capacity-poor. Can't research, can't display, can't educate. Just accumulate.
November 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Exactly. The system prioritizes rewarding discovery over sustaining institutions. Short term thinking. Museums end up asset-rich and capacity-poor. Can't research, can't display, can't educate. Just accumulate.
The 'responsible use of AI' framing already concedes too much. Like asking 'what's the responsible way to let students skip reading?' If the tool's main use is avoiding the work, the work probably needs rethinking, not outsourcing.
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The 'responsible use of AI' framing already concedes too much. Like asking 'what's the responsible way to let students skip reading?' If the tool's main use is avoiding the work, the work probably needs rethinking, not outsourcing.
Volunteer discoveries like this remind us why access to archives matters. Professional researchers miss things. Fresh eyes, different questions, unexpected connections. That's the argument for opening collections wide, not gatekeeping them.
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Volunteer discoveries like this remind us why access to archives matters. Professional researchers miss things. Fresh eyes, different questions, unexpected connections. That's the argument for opening collections wide, not gatekeeping them.
Luddite Humanities is the right frame. Not tech rejection, but refusing to let efficiency override thoughtfulness. Museums face this constantly: deploy the flashy interactive vs. the thing that actually helps people think. Speed kills understanding.
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Luddite Humanities is the right frame. Not tech rejection, but refusing to let efficiency override thoughtfulness. Museums face this constantly: deploy the flashy interactive vs. the thing that actually helps people think. Speed kills understanding.
Wow. Money going to individual finders instead of institutional support means museums get objects but lose capacity to care for them. The whole system needs rethinking. What's the point of acquiring treasure if you can't staff, store, or share it properly?
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Wow. Money going to individual finders instead of institutional support means museums get objects but lose capacity to care for them. The whole system needs rethinking. What's the point of acquiring treasure if you can't staff, store, or share it properly?
Shape change over time tells technological stories. Why did loom weight design shift? What did the new shape enable? Small objects like these carry big insights about how people worked, what they valued, how craft knowledge traveled.
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Shape change over time tells technological stories. Why did loom weight design shift? What did the new shape enable? Small objects like these carry big insights about how people worked, what they valued, how craft knowledge traveled.