#MCN50 Voices: Johann Diedrick & Tina Shah
This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. Johann Diedrick, Senior Developer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Tina Shah, Senior Developer at The Art Institute of Chicago, decided to do their…
#MCN50 Voices: Tim Svenonius & Brinker Ferguson
This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. Tim Svenonius is the Senior Content Strategist for Interpretive Media at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) and an artist in his spare time….
#MCN50 Voices: Keir Winesmith & Ed Rodley
This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. Keir Winesmith, a current board member of MCN, sat down with Ed Rodley, former MCN board member and Secretary of the Board. Keir is the…
#MCN50 Voices: It’s All Personal—Robin Dowden & Scott Sayre
This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. Robin Dowden is an independent consultant working at the intersection of technology and museums. From 1997–2015 she worked at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis…
Got Audio?
Co-presented by Antenna International and Earprint Immersive “The Listening Lounge” at MCN is going to be a drop-in chill space much like a “Silent Disco,” but with comfy chairs, a quiet vibe, and curated playlists. MCN participants can enter at any time between sessions, meetings, or just when they need to take a break, close their eyes and open…
Check the Classifieds…
By Eric Johnson As readers can probably tell from earlier posts by other members of this committee, mining old #musetech job listings is really a lot of fun. My task has been to scour the last 50 years of New York Times classified listings, pulling together job ads for positions advertising some kind of use of technology in museums. As an aside, there’s some…
#MCN50 Voices: Chris Alexander & Marty Spellerberg
This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. In this post Chris Alexander and Marty Spellerberg, who have never met, share stories about projects they have worked on, and museums they have…
#MCN50 Voices: Leslie Johnston and Miranda Kerr
This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. Leslie Johnston, Director of Digital Preservation U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and Miranda Kerr, Manager of Digital Learning, Learning Programs, John G….
Technologist-in-Chief: When Digital Reaches Museum Leadership
By Desi Gonzalez As digital technologies have come to permeate contemporary culture, social life, and workplaces, museums have increasingly recognized their value. This is nowhere better illustrated than when #musetech reaches museum leadership. In 2014, the Peabody Essex Museum’s Ed Rodley noticed an increase in technology-related C-level positions, sharing that “it was heartening to…
MCN50 Digital Experience at MCN2017
Planning a 50th birthday takes time. We began planning MCN’s 50th almost 2 years ago but things really started to move forward when Susan Edwards and Marla Misunas agreed to join forces as co-chairs of the MCN50 Planning Committee early last year. For the past 18 months, Susan and Marla have meticulously planned a myriad…
#MCN50 Voices: Douglas Hegley & Rob Lancefield
This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. Douglas Hegley (L) & Rob Lancefield (R) A former psychologist and a sometimes-ethnomusicologist walk into an MCN conference-hotel bar. The former psychologist…
For the Record: How Times have Changed for Museum Registrars
By Sheila Carey The MCN job description history team has been mining #musetech jobs over the last 50 years to learn about the evolution of our field. In this post, we’re on the island of registrarial positions. I’m looking at how the registrar’s job has changed over MCN’s lifetime, and in this post I’ll…