Museum Diary

Last year I successfully did a ‘52 Museums in 52 Weeks‘ challenge, even managing a total of 56 different museums. I didn’t have a specific target for this year, but once I was in the habit of keeping a list, I couldn’t stop. This time I was counting the individual visits, and that’s how I know that yesterday was my 100th museum visit of this year!! With a total of 57 different museums I even beat my record from last year, though last year I […]

This time last year I had the idea that, as a challenge for the year, I would try to visit 52 museums in 52 weeks. However, with #MuseumBaby to look after I didn’t know how feasible this project was or whether I’d just end up being one of those mums who visits the National Museum of Scotland every other day because it’s free and it’s raining again outside. Turns out, a bit of both as the case was. But, either way, I didn’t tell anyone […]

It’s the first #MuseumMonday of 2012, the perfect day to wish you all a Happy New Year full of of health, happiness and, of course, museums ;-) But before jumping head first into the new year ahead, I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect back on the year that was. And what an eventful year it has been in museum terms: In March I launched Museum140 as a platform for museum related social media projects, together with @thingsinjars (a.k.a. the husband) who acts as […]