on 10/28/02 1:51 AM, Rose Silvester at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> The Construction of Memory
>
> The recent BAFM (British Association of Friends of Museums) newsletter
> had an interesting article by Stephanie Tranter.
> After researching her family tree with her father Stephanie combined her
> interest in genealogy with her other interests in social culture,
> history and people. She has done an MA in Visual Communication where she
> has explored and developed these ideas further. The aim of her research
> degree was to communicate visually the nature of autobiographical
> memory. For more details see her website:
>
> http://www.constructionofmemory.co.uk/

I think it would be very interesting for Museum-L members to list the
eclectic web sites of which they are aware that are, in a continuous manner,
documenting the way we live and the society we live in, providing an
absolutely unprecedented range of visual information.  A "virtual museum" -
a huge collection, unsorted, unedited, is developing on the web.

I am aware of several of this ilk, and I am sure there are many others,
semi-hidden from the public at large.  For example, my son, Andrew Bedno,
runs a site in Chicago that photographically documents simply everything
that happens in public in Chicago - club events, yard sales, parades, museum
exhibitions, architecture, holidays, festivals, scenes in parks - you name
it, at http://www.chicagofunnews.com/photos.php?love=3645.  He has been
doing this for years and the archive is extraordinary.  The site
http://www.graveyards.com documents all of Chicago's graveyards, with photos
and stories of the most striking monuments, and links to some other
fascinating funereal data.  A surprising number of commercial sites offer
fascinating information (for example, holography at
http://www.holostudios.com/holohelper/; dinosaur news at
http://www.globalmuseum.org/; everything about yo-yos at
http://www.yoyodave.com/museum1.html).  I would love to be aware of other
particularly rewarding examples.

Jane Bedno

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