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Natural history museums underrepresented online?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Bertrand May 6.

Online museums good or bad?

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Hometown:: Portsmouth

About Me: I am 21 years old and taking MSC heritage and museum studies at Portsmouth university

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At 5:49pm on April 16th, 2008, Meg said…: good thing I saved my text in onenote - windows crashed when I sent you my answer. here it is again.

Woops, it's gone, sorry. I'm upset - I wrote you a lot and I hate losing things like that.

No, nothing to read. when I remember what I wrote, I'll try and write back again. Not much time now - but I did just get an interesting article from the google alert I have set for museums - it sends me stuff daily. Check out http://www.museum-ed.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/talk/20080415091438/
I like online education, and have lots of stuff to say about that (I have lots of files/web sites saved) but am now out of time. I will try to write back again later.

Meg

At 12:04pm on April 14th, 2008, Meg said…: Thanks for the comment, and taking the survey. I am starting a magazine, Museum Illustrated. It will showcase 2 or 3 museums each issue, and have other side articles such as best online museum, cool web cams at zoos, etc. I also plan on discussing how the brain learns much better when we play with things, and do things, such as in a museum, instead of learning only by reading about it in a book. It will also feature how the museums are linking their exhibits to match local curriculum standards and requirements, so that learning goals are also achieved when they take a day off to do a museum trip. So teachers could use the magazine as an educational tool to help them utilize museums better. In the museum world, directors and employees get exposure to publications about museums, but the general public does not. I would like to show the general public - educated parents, teachers, people who love visiting museums - just how wonderful museums are. What goes into the exhibitry. What great outreach programs a museum might have. Most average visitors go and spend a few hours, maybe read 1/2 of the signage, and leave. I would like to make it even more enjoyable, and much more educational. I love learning new things, and find unstructured learning places a great place to take young kids to expose them to things they normally don't get exposed to (chemistry experiments, space, touching a meteorite, learning about local history or archaeology). I hope the people who buy magazines such as Nature, Popular Science, anything having to do with education, parenting, animals, etc. would find this valuable to read.

It is still in the beginning stage, and I am in the process of raising funds for the first publication, which is near completion. The survey was more interesting than I imagined, and everyone has a different view of what a museum means to them. The responses (anonymously) might make a great article. There is not a major magazine out there for museums yet, (in regular stores) so I think this will go well. If you know of any interested investors, let me know!

Thanks,
Meg Frost
editor@museumillustrated.com