The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies announces the
next G. Brown Goode Smithsonian Education Lecture, Wednesday, March 11,
2009, 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST. The lecture will be web cast live,
available at http://museumstudies.si.edu/webcast_031109.html.
Dr. Maxwell Anderson, the Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the
Indianapolis Museum of Art, will speak on: "Through the Looking Glass:
Museums and Internet-Based Transparency".
As museums adapt to the potential of social computing, the old-school
website focused on facilitating physical access and rudimentary
collections information is fast becoming a necessary but insufficient
front door for museums online. By opening museums to public
participation, and by revealing operational details that are normally
kept confidential, museums have the potential to animate strategic
planning, anticipate outcomes-based inquiries from governance
authorities and funders, engage a new generation of users, mollify a
prying press, and encourage philanthropy. This presentation will
present some ways in which the Indianapolis Museum of Art is striving to
open itself in unexpected ways to the general public.
The G. Brown Goode Smithsonian Education Lecture series, named after the
Smithsonian's earliest proponent of museums as educational institutions,
helps Smithsonian and other museum staffs keep abreast of emerging
developments pertaining to many aspects of their work. The series
features programs that bring together academic researchers and museum
practitioners to examine the roles museums play in developing the skills
necessary for success in the 21st century. All Goode lectures are web
cast and archived for viewing at http://museumstudies.si.edu
<http://museumstudies.si.edu/>
Pino
Giuseppe (Pino) Monaco
Education Outcomes Manager
Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
MRC 508 PO Box 37012
Washington, DC, 20013-7012
For carrier deliveries (UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc.) the address is:
600 Maryland Avenue, SW
1st Floor, Suite 105W
Washington, DC 20024
Tel. (202) 633-5329
Fax (202) 633-5489
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