Summer Evening at the Exploatorium
We've got a bit of a posting backlog here at the SFMM while I move. Our soft opening of FREE Shrines at the Exploratorium last month was a lot of fun. It was our first evening event and a road test of...
View ArticleFrom Mobile Museums... to Pop-Up Operas?
If you thought it was a bit of work to mobilize a museum, imagine popping-up an... opera:The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is doing just that, with their series, Random Acts of Culture.The...
View ArticleNOW: Youthful Curating and Social Art Practice at SoEX
Always on the lookout for other explorations in exhibits and curating, tonight I'm headed over to see the latest and greatest from SF's Southern Exposure's Youth Advisory Board. SoEx "teaches YAB...
View Article2010: analysis of 1
Last year was a bit immobile for us. All good reasons, nothing to do with the Museum: we were moving, there is the "day job", and I worked on a fun collaboration with Machine Project.The exhibit we put...
View ArticleWhat's the NEA got to do with us?
If you're a culture lover, liker, or follower, you may have heard that members of Congress are yet again, seeking to dismantle the NEA and the NEH via massive budget cuts.Again? PBS/NPR/NEA/NEH to be...
View ArticleUniversity College London developing a Mobile Museum
Another Mobile Museum? How dare they! In London, a mecca of museum culture, the University College museum research group is pairing up with an architectural team to develop their own platform. This...
View ArticleFREE Shrine: Bird Box
Peter Forrest Kline let his bird do the shrining for his piece in our show last year. So no poetic wall text to offer. As with many shrines, the object is what you make it.
View ArticleFREE Shrine: Tim's baby is no gentleman
A FREE Shrine, by Tim Phillips:What's the definition of a gentleman?Somebody who knows how to play the accordion, but doesn't.I have a shrine to something, maybe music.It is where I like to make my...
View ArticleFREE Shrine: Booklit
Shrine to the Beginning, by Kathy Mancall:When you start a new book—at least, a new book you want to read, –present high-schoolers excepted who are being forced to read Billy Budd for their required...
View ArticleMovement Museum Offers a Mobile Model
Scott Moulton, an Exhibit Designer at Gyroscope and fan of the SFMM, sent a link to the "Movement Museum, A Creative Field Station for the Study of Movement".Movement Museum is part of an ongoing...
View ArticleArt & Science: Microscopic Success
Last Fall we participated in Phil Ross' "Enormous Microscopic Evening" at the Hammer Museum. It was part of Machine Project's residency.As I've said before, this is a deeply engaging, fun event for...
View ArticleFree SHRINE: Gone But Not Forgotten: A Burro Story 1982-2010
By Marcia StuermerClarissa was a town burro from Murphy’s, an historic Gold Country town who died earlier this year. She was 27. She was an affectionate and wildly loved animal- the result of a...
View ArticleA Cause for Reflection with the Center for the Future of Museums
If you've been following, you've probably heard that we participated in a blog series with the AAM's Center for the Future of Museums. They've called it "Museums and the Spectrum of Control". It looks...
View ArticleHere We Come: #aam2011
Hi.We're delighted to be participating on a panel with Girl Museum and the American Poetry Museum at the American Association of Museums conference. Our panel is this Sunday from 1:15 p.m., room 372E...
View Article#aam2011: Our presentation
I thought I would share our presentation from our session at #aam2011 today. I was honored to share the stage with Ashely Remer of the Girl Museum, Jon West-Bey of the American Poetry Museum and...
View ArticleObservatorium
Been thinking lately about moving away from a challenge-based approach for my next experiment and focusing on observation. When I worked on the Outdoor Exploratorium project, I always wanted to do a...
View ArticleWe're not the only game in the Mobile Museum town
There are some wonderful other projects out there in Mobile Museum Platform Land. Thought I would share a few of the prolific ones.I'm finding that this type of platform is well suited to some forms of...
View ArticleWhen is it exhibit or art and does it matter?
Walk with me through this one. As I'm working on the next exhibit concept, thoughts like these cross my mind:How much responsibility do I have to be educational in my exhibits? For example, I'm working...
View ArticleQuick re-post: "Too Much For the Brain To Take In"
I was reading this article within the context of "observation". The Australian Arts & Lifestyle has a good article on a topic we have seen before: Too Much For The Brain To Take In. I'm going to...
View ArticleSupporting Role
Just after we launch our "Observatorium" exhibit, we may be playing a supporting role in the artist (artiste?) JR's Inside Out Project through a collaboration with the International Museum of Women....
View ArticleHello Dolly: New Exhibit Platform
For our next exhibit, "Observatorium," I've been working on developing a platform that's much more mobile that our first iteration. The old system looked good and worked well, but was best with 2...
View ArticleDolly In Hand: prototyping the body next week
Dog, from uncertainty to ownershipThe dolly arrived today and we're going to start building simple cardboard mockups to determine the physical scale for the new Mobile Museum platform. My feeling is...
View ArticleJust A Vessel?
Full-scale model for "Activity Platform"One of the concept models to attach to the full-scale dolly system was completed by Monica Martinez. As I mentioned in an earlierpost, there are two platform...
View ArticleSF Street Food Festival Seating
The San Francisco Street Food Festival was today- an event created by La Cochina, a food incubator program. The event was set up really well, and I thought the 'cheap and cheerful' seating and tables...
View ArticleObservatorium - On A Big Scale
The Observatorium exhibit on a hand cart is slowly shifting from thinking and tinker mode to reality. In the meantime, there is a rich, expansive project by the same name I came across in my research....
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