Thinking about Museums

Getting back in the saddle

January 18, 2022 Ed Rodley

A long-overdue update on the book, and other news.

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How are you?

October 29, 2021 Ed Rodley

A postcard from an absent friend, namely me!

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On modern guilds

September 8, 2020 Ed Rodley

Acknowledging the present crisis I’ve been wondering what the future of museum work might look like. As the world starts to hesitantly open up again,

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Where to now, friends?

July 15, 2020 Ed Rodley

What I’m interested in is where to go next, personally, professionally, and as a society.

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Intention, reflection, and onboarding & offboarding

February 29, 2020 Ed Rodley

Happy Leap Day! I’ve had a bunch of conversations lately that are all converging around the intersection of reflection and learning. I had a meeting

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Engaging with “Engagement”

December 30, 2019 Ed Rodley

Happy holidays, comrades! Here we are, on the cusp of 2020, and I want to ring out the old year by reflecting on some of

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Defining “engagement”

December 4, 2019 Ed Rodley

Imagine a typical museum visitor in the act of “being engaged” by something at the museum. What are they doing? Thinking? Feeling? Can you describe what that “engagement” looks like? How can you know that visitor is engaged as opposed to confused or looking at their email? Is engagement like pornography; hard to define but you know it when you see it? I don’t think so.

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New essay: “The distributed museum is already here–it’s just not very evenly distributed”

November 18, 2019 Ed Rodley

My chapter from “the Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites” by Hannah Lewi, Wally Smith, Dirk vom Lehn, and Steven Cooke

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On keeping your antenna up

October 23, 2019 Ed Rodley

Hello, world! It’s been awhile! Almost a month ago, I hit an important professional milestone. The job I’d come to the Peabody Essex Museum to

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How you can help

January 16, 2019 Ed Rodley

Part Three in a series of posts about the process I’m using to write the book. This one focuses on how you can be part of it.

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My writing tools

January 15, 2019 Ed Rodley

Part Two of many on the process of writing this book. This one focuses on my hard and software tools.

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The rhythms of writing a book in a digital age

January 14, 2019 Ed Rodley

Part One of many on the process of writing this book. This one focuses on three rhythms of writing research based works.

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