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 ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).