{"id":3018,"date":"2013-06-06T21:59:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T01:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2013-06-06T22:02:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T02:02:31","slug":"narratives-in-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=3018","title":{"rendered":"Narratives in Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/thomas_p_campbell_weaving_narratives_in_museum_galleries.html\">Thomas P Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries<\/a> in\u00a0Mar 2012 at TED2012.\u00a0He is the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas&#8217; TED talk made me reflect on the core mission of a museum and what it is. About getting face-to-face experience with an object. I am currently reading &#8220;Infinite Possibility&#8221; by Pine and Korn and getting excited about the different ways the multiverse that they write about will help museums create more value for visitors. Below are some of Thomas&#8217; comments I found most interesting as challenges for what digital should be creating new value for.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He wanted us to use our eyes . . . He wanted us to look and ask basic questions of objects. What is it? How is it made? Why was it made? How is it used?<\/p>\n<p>We had to draw our audience in, get them to slow down, to explore the objects.<\/p>\n<p>I believe passionately in that curated museum experience. We live in an age of ubiquitous information and sort of &#8220;just add water&#8221; expertise, but there&#8217;s nothing that compares with the presentation of significant objects in a well-told narrative, what the curator does, the interpretation of a complex, esoteric subject, in a way that retains the integrity of the subject, that makes it &#8212; unpacks it for a general audience.<\/p>\n<p>How can I support the vision of my curators . . .<\/p>\n<p>. . .create a zone where their curiosity can expand<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas P Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries in\u00a0Mar 2012 at TED2012.\u00a0He is the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Thomas&#8217; TED talk made me reflect on the core mission of a museum and what it is. About getting face-to-face experience with an object. I am currently reading &#8220;Infinite Possibility&#8221; by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3023,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}