What's in the current Museums Journal...
Features
Reach for the stars
Many museums are looking to planetaria to bring in the crowds, but are these state-of-the-art attractions more about entertainment than science, asks Dea Birkett...
'...is a planetarium really just an entertaining sideshow on a curved ceiling that gives you a crick in the neck...'
Top gun
Richard Smith is passionate about tanks, so landing a job as the director of a museum dedicated to them is a dream come true. Felicity Heywood hears about his plans...
'…it is the combination of working on something I feel is important in an area where my hobby and my job overlap. It doesn't feel like work…'
Casting about
The public's appetite for downloading audio and video files from the internet is growing fast. Jeff Morganteen looks at the implications of podcasting for museums and galleries...
'…now museums realise the value of specialised content. Podcasts can reach out to an audience that embraces the technology…'
In the News
Consultation on proposals for museum of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Introduction of licensing for human remains leads to confusion for museums
Also in the August Museums Journal...
Reviews of The Salomons Museum, Tunbridge Wells; Coventry Transport Museum; Beningbrough Hall, York; Ocean Odyssey, Discovery Point Antarctic Museum, Dundee; Pasifika Styles, University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; plus jobs, calendar, classified ads and noticeboard...
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The month that was...
Museums Journal August 2006
Reach for the stars
Many museums are looking to planetaria to bring in the crowds, but are these state-of-the-art attractions more about entertainment than science, asks Dea Birkett...
'...is a planetarium really just an entertaining sideshow on a curved ceiling that gives you a crick in the neck...'
Top gun
Richard Smith is passionate about tanks, so landing a job as the director of a museum dedicated to them is a dream come true. Felicity Heywood hears about his plans...
'…it is the combination of working on something I feel is important in an area where my hobby and my job overlap. It doesn't feel like work…'
Casting about
The public's appetite for downloading audio and video files from the internet is growing fast. Jeff Morganteen looks at the implications of podcasting for museums and galleries...
'…now museums realise the value of specialised content. Podcasts can reach out to an audience that embraces the technology…'
In the News
Consultation on proposals for museum of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Introduction of licensing for human remains leads to confusion for museums
Also in the August Museums Journal...
Reviews of The Salomons Museum, Tunbridge Wells; Coventry Transport Museum; Beningbrough Hall, York; Ocean Odyssey, Discovery Point Antarctic Museum, Dundee; Pasifika Styles, University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; plus jobs, calendar, classified ads and noticeboard...
To subscribe to Museums Journal click here
The month that was...
Museums Journal August 2006
