Museum Diary

Last weekend, I was lucky enough to win a space on the InstaWalk #EmptyBodeMuseum around Berlin’s Bode Museum! Apart from the guards on duty, some staff who welcomed us, and a choir that was rehearsing in the main hall for a concert later that evening, the museum was completely empty. We were allowed to wander around as we pleased in the galleries that were open – which was most of them – for around 1.5 hours, then we met again at the end. For the […]

So, that’s Ask-a-Curator over for another year –  the biggest Q&A session with museums worldwide, via Twitter (if you’re hearing about it for the first time, I wrote a bit more about what Ask-a-Curator actually is in my previous post). Yay, it’s #AskACurator today! There will be a lot of tweeting from me. Followers, you have been warned ;) — Jenni Fuchs (@jennifuchs) September 16, 2015 This was the third year that I was following my ‘3 Questions’ approach for Ask a Curator. The first year, I […]

It’s that time of year again – the now annual ‘Ask a Curator’ global Q&A marathon for museums and museum lovers takes place again tomorrow. The event was first created in 2010 by UK based arts marketing agency Sumo, and has made annual return appearances since then by popular demand, with Mar Dixon from Culture Themes taking over the organisation from 2012.   For those of you hearing about it for the first time, Ask-a-Curator is basically a worldwide question and answer session, where interested members of […]

On 26 June 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry! Here is a selection of messages and post showing how museums celebrated on social media. Museums celebrated by sending out messages of support, hoisting flags & sharing related treasures from their collections or even personal stories of their LGBT staff. And it wasn’t just museums in the USA celebrating, other museums from around the world joined in too. [View the […]

If you love museums and you love social media, then you will have loved this year’s Ask-a-Curator earlier in the week – the biggest Q&A session with museums worldwide, via Twitter (if you’re hearing about it for the first time, I wrote a bit more about what Ask-a-Curator actually is in a previous post). This was the first time in three years that I wasn’t actually working or tweeting for a museum during Ask-a-Curator. Previously, I had only been able to join in with my own questions […]

If your read Museum Diary, chances are that you’re at least vaguely interested in museums. Then you might also be interested in this year’s Ask-a-Curator day, which takes place on Wednesday. The event was first created in 2010 by UK based arts marketing agency Sumo, and has made annual return appearances since then by popular demand, with Mar Dixon from Culture Themes taking over the organisation from 2012.   For those of you hearing about it for the first time, Ask-a-Curator is basically a worldwide question and […]