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‘Brainwriting Solutions to Pandemic & Previous Poor Quality of Working Lives’ Charette

In outlining the innovative problem-solving process of “brainwriting,” this post identifies a 16 September 2022 session at the AASLH 2022 annual conference in Buffalo, NY developed to ‘crowdsource’ solutions to burnout in the heritage preservation & interpretation field. #AASLH2022

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Recent Posts: Critical Museology Miscellanea

Museum Collections as ‘Diaspora’ for Indigenous Belongings

Author Paul C. Thistle has recently come across the original document I employed several years ago to present an analysis of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and the museums that have collected their belongings. At the time, I was Curator of Exhibits for the Logan Museum of Anthropology and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Museum Studies […]

Visible Storage Slide Shows Now Viewable Again

The unexplained failure of the slide show function in this blog’s 11 May 2021 post that presented several museums’ approaches to the visible storage mode of presentation has now been fixed. The updated URL is provided in this post.

Socratic Interpretation & Other Publications

Links to the following publications by your blogger Paul C. Thistle have now been added to the Critical Museology by Thistle Online page found in the header above as well as the References section below. One example is “The Socratic/Directed Questioning Method of Museum Interpretation” (Thistle 1981: 24-28) article that presents the do’s & don’ts […]

Small Museum Podcasting: Use the KISS Principle

Podcasting for small museums can be accomplished without the time, trouble, & expense of acquiring additional dedicated software or hiring a podcast production company. The necessary piece of software likely already exists on small museum computer desktops.

Museums as ‘Diaspora’ for Indigenous Peoples

As backgrounder to the 6 April 2023 post “An Alternate Analysis of Museum Collecting Indigenous Materials: Some Small Measure of Balance” on this blog, a detailed and well-documented analysis of museum collecting Indigenous belongings and human remains in the context of separation from what is valued by cultures and individuals is presented.