Museum Musings & Other Things
This post originally appeared on the Scottish Museums Federation blog in October 2019. You know the drill by now. September rolls around and we quickly are whipped into a social media frenzy with realisation that #ScottishMuseumsDay is less than a month away! https://twitter.com/ScottishMuseums/status/1171453427588534273 By our fourth year, (yes, fourth. No, really!) we'd become a dab … Continue reading Scottish Museums Day: Vol IV
This blog also appeared on 9to5Adv, a blog site dedicated to adventuring away from the 9 to 5 routine. The NC500 has been described as the ultimate road trip. 500 and a bit miles around Scotland, starting in Inverness, and depending on what way you go working your way up the east coast, across the … Continue reading North Coast 500 – Part I
Outside of museums, my personal interest is quite simple. I enjoy LEGO and I enjoy videogames. I was raised on Nintendo growing up with NES, SNES, N64 and when I was old enough, buying a Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch. I've also owned Gameboys, DS', 3DS', Playstations and Xbox's. I would describe myself … Continue reading Design / Play / Disrupt
This blog originally appeared on the Scottish Museums Federation blog post in October 2018. For the past two years I've taken the lead on developing and managing #ScottishMuseumsDay. In it's third, we as the Fed decided to take our learning from year 2, and implement them into year 3. With #ScottishMuseumsDay 2, we left … Continue reading #ScottishMuseumsDay 3
In November 2017, Museums Galleries Scotland asked me to deliver a talk at the Nationally Significant Collections Meeting on using social media at Surgeons' Hall Museums. The following blog post is an amended transcript of the talk I delivered. Surgeons' Hall Museums, for those of you who don't know has been open to the public since 1832 … Continue reading Good Social (Media) Practice
In 2017 as part of Festival of Change, I put forward a proposal to interview different museum and heritage professionals at the Museums Association conference in Manchester and record them for a podcast. This was done as part of the Museums Association Transformers Influence programme. With the proposal, I aimed to source content from my … Continue reading SoapBox – A Transformers Podcast
Bringing #ScottishMuseumsDay back for its 2nd year. Preparing for 2017 How do you repeat past successes? Do you go bigger? Do you go smaller? Or do you try and replicate what you had done previously? In 2016, I oversaw the first #ScottishMuseumsDay. October 3rd was picked as the date, which had absolutely nothing to do … Continue reading Scottish Museums Day – The Difficult Second Album
I feel like I've been working on this blog for ages. Initially I put a tweet out (in July! Jesus!) asking about museum studies courses, for my own interest, as I was, at the time contemplating future career moves. https://twitter.com/davidmuseums/status/884849778408009728 The responses I got were varied to say the least. Some people had undertaken a … Continue reading On Museum Studies
When myself and my colleague, Julianne, set out to share best practice for social media in heritage, we had no idea how popular it would be. I work at Surgeons’ Hall Museums in Edinburgh and have been managing the social media accounts for the Museums since their inception. Similarly, Julianne has been working with Dig It! … Continue reading Working Collaboratively in the Heritage Sector
St. Cecilia's, or St. Cecilia's Hall: Concert Room and Musical Museum, to give it its full name opened last week in Edinburgh. Rarely does a new museum open, north of the border so it was nice to go along and check out the newest kid in town. Edinburgh, like London is very fortunate to have … Continue reading A Wild Museum Appears!
I put in an application for Museums Association Transformers Programme at the start of March, as a colleague suggested it'd be "the tonic and catalyst I desired". Fast forward to the start of April and I'd been accepted onto the #MATransformers. Transformers, for those who don't know, is a professional development programme run by the … Continue reading Transformers – Museums in Disguise
This blog is an edited transcript from a talk I gave at the Museums Association: Moving on Up Conference, held in February at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. A Twitter account for a museum is, in my eyes an unofficial membership list, where fans of your museum follow you and engage with you. It … Continue reading Twitter for Museum Professionals
