Mar Dixon, independent museum practitioner and the project's developer, explained how she launched the initiative on Twitter with an open brief – take a selfie in a museum – and watched it develop into an event with a global profile.
A 30-year veteran of the museum who began his art career as a ceramicist and studio glass blower, Mr. Street has made virtual models of more sculptures and artifacts than any other museum practitioner of three-dimensional scanning.
Martha Henson (my co-producer at Wellcome Collection) and I met Alex Butterworth of Amblr at one of Frank Boyd's Crossover Labs, which brought together creative practitioners and museum curators for a week of intensive idea development.
The day was dedicated to projects, ideas and experiments by museums, arts organisations and practitioners who are using data to create real change.
Fiction has "become a museum-piece genre most of whose practitioners are more like cripplingly self-conscious curators or theoreticians than writers".
Leading practitioners working in schools, museums, and NGOs will broaden your repertoire of frameworks, resources, and tools to create learning environments for today and tomorrow.
Such hollowness makes it pretty hard for readers to swallow a sentence like this: "Fiction has now become a museum-piece genre most of whose practitioners are more like cripplingly self-conscious curators or theoreticians than writers".
We modelled the geographic distributions of 435 endemic plants and all 347 endemic vertebrate species, from existing museum and herbaria specimens at a regional conservation practitioner's scale (1 250,000-1 1,000,000), based on the best available tools and geographic data.
Museum restoration work is typically done in house by the museum's own conservators, as India has myriad laws governing public sector institutions that often prohibit private practitioners from participating in public projects.
