suse anderson

@shineslike

An Australian museum geek in Baltimore. Assistant Professor , teaching , ethics, etc. Host/maker podcast. She/her/hers.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    9 Mar 2020

    Oh my goodness… just like that The Digital Future of Museums, a book and I started working on almost three years ago, is published and out in the world! (Updated link)

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  2. 7 hours ago

    This resonates.

    Portrait of Andrew Jackson seated on a white horse. Nails with canvas attached are nailed into his face and body. They bear the text of his words he used to justify the Indian Removal Order which led to the death of thousands.
    Here we go: "Why Do We Keep Working in Museums?" this piece is...a lot, I cried a decent chunk of writing it, would mean a lot if you read it.
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  3. Retweeted
    Mar 19

    Mind blown at today.
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  4. Retweeted
    Mar 18

    We are excited to announce that we have reopened applications to the Museum Workers Relief Fund! (Please RT!) Deadline to apply for our next round of funding is April 16th.

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  5. Retweeted
    Mar 17
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    Which also speaks to the failure of other institutions- it shouldn’t and can’t be the responsibility of museums to be knowledge providers to a broad public. They can spark curiosity but then it requires other organizations to tend that spark!

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  6. Retweeted
    Mar 17

    "everything in this gallery is 45 years out of date. We can't make exhibits fast enough to keep up with accelerating rates of scientific discovery. And we've denied 2 generations of visitors access to the most up-to-date knowledge about our universe." (paraphrased).

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  7. Retweeted
    Mar 17

    …We just weren't set up to curate and update exhibits at the speed of technological change, and soon the problem became evident in biological science, genetics, evolution, paleontology, even geology. An exhibit designer at the museum of natural history told me at one point…

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  8. Retweeted
    Mar 17

    Looking for folks to teach online webinars for small museums - nice stipends for instructors, and the online courses are free!

    In case you missed it! We recently announced an open call for tech instructors for workshops in the Digital Empowerment Project series. Learn more at the Museum Learning Hub:
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  9. Retweeted
    Mar 13

    I'm a moderator for the LGBTQ+ Museum Staff & Students Facebook group. DM me your email if you'd like an invitation. Currently 300 members strong and growing 😉

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  10. Retweeted
    Mar 12

    Brilliantness frmo : "How could our behaviors be labeled best practices or standards when the field was overwhelmingly white & did not account for Black and Indigenous ways of knowing? What have our standards been based on?"

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  11. Retweeted
    Mar 11

    At long last - has a survey up asking about the impact of COVID on museum employment over the past year. There is so much we need to know as a field. Please please reply! Responses open until 3/17.

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  12. Retweeted
    Mar 10

    "If museums are going to be serious about the work of diversifying their workplaces they need to be okay with making accommodations and changes to labor for all staff in all jobs and departments." -

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  13. Mar 9

    A potentially important development in the deaccessioning debates seems to be looming.

    🚨Today's second major news item🚨 The Association of Art Museum Directors will meet today at noon and on Thursday to consider making the temporary, two-year collection monetization policy approved in April 2020 permanent. 1/x
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  14. Mar 8

    After taking our apartment off-market during the height of pandemic winter, it’s back on sale. If you’re looking for a great, happy co-op in Baltimore, check it out. It’s particularly great for first home buyers and those looking for community.

    The exterior of an apartment building, with green trees and shrubs in the foreground.
    An interior of an apartment, featuring coffee table, rug, and green couch in the foreground and dining table and pass through to a kitchen in the background.
    Interior photo of white galley kitchen.
    Interior view of a bedroom. The queen size bed has a botanicals cover. The walls of the room are blue.
    Baltimore friends, we’re trying to sell our 3-bedroom, 900 sq ft co-op apartment in Charles Village. If you know anyone looking for a change of scenery, send ‘em my way. It’s a super lovely apartment... our family is just outgrowing it.
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  15. Retweeted
    Mar 5

    . points out that museums position themselves as institutions of care and preservation when they are in fact places of dispossession. The ethical and legal fiction maintains a status quo of sanctioned looting

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  16. Retweeted
    Feb 9

    T-minus two weeks until proposals are due for Activating Smithsonian Open Access !! Six finalists will receive $10,000 to prototype digital tools w/ Open Access collections. Lots of useful info for proposers on the program webpage!

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    Feb 9

    Amid the summer protests, museums vowed to improve diversity. Are they putting money behind their ambitious, multi-year plans? My report for on the lack of transparency — and the few numbers we know.

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    Feb 7

    if the Met can begin conversations with auction houses about deaccessioning to sell off their collections to pay the bills, then then they can begin conversations with African nations, kingdoms and communities about deaccessioning to return stolen art

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    Feb 6

    Sorry to see the conditions on returns, and that claimants are restricted to nation states. Permanent and unconditional returns is the way forward. But this is big news, and a major step forward in this ongoing process of making Euro-American museums fit for the 21st century.

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    Feb 6

    A few excerpts from the press release explaining the radical new policy of the government of the Netherlands on returning cultural objects taken under colonialism. Notable that there’s such little reporting on this major change in anglophone news outlets 👇

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    Feb 4

    It's important that we keep our eye on search engines as much, if not more than we do social media. The subjective nature of social media is much more obvious. With search, people truly believe they are experiencing credible, vetted information. Google is an ad platform, the end.

    She actually describes something key: using search as her primary information portal led her directly to QAnon conspiracy misinfo on — presumably the former ranked the latter highly in results. Epidemic mis/disinfo often starts w search.
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