At Japanese Museums, Art and Nature Merge - WSJ
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At Japanese Museums, Art and Nature Merge - WSJ
Cultural Institutions Reimagined - Many museums and other cultural institutions have had a rough ride of late. Although their curators and patrons may disagree, so many of them are great examples of Edutainment. What’s more, they’re incredibly well placed to capitialize on Edutainment 3.0. To achieve this two-pronged mission, museums are ... See more
Wavetable • Liquid Learning - The Edutainment 3.0 Report
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Visiting the museum is a unique experience unlike other leisure activities today. Through the careful selection and placement of objects in space, the foundation is set for visitors to think about their world in new ways.
Jonathan Brandel • Write with Open Access
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NAKAMURA: That is one of the points at issue. Behind the reason nature was preserved in the past was a certain sense of aesthetics, which was supported in major or minor ways by a sense of religion. Today, we live in an irreligious manner, so we have separated aesthetics from religion. This has weakened the status of beauty in our time.
Hayao Miyazaki • Turning Point: 1997-2008
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
the Modern West has bred new strains of iconoclasm. It did, after all, give rise to the museum, which arguably attenuates images’ political force. Pivotal in this history was the transformation of the Louvre Palace into a museum for housing political and religious artifacts of the old regime as objects of formal value.8 Just so, the museum both pro
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If museums don’t let more of the world in soon, soon the world will let fewer museums in. - Jerry Saltz
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A university museum worthy of its name must become at least as much a laboratory as, say, a university library. An archive must become a place of teaching and hands‐on learning. The classroom must become a place of hands‐on engagement with the material remains of the past where the tasks of processing, annotating, and sequencing are integral to pro... See more
Todd Presner • The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
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The ultimate enriched environment is nature. Nature is the most aesthetic of places, because it is our original home. Nature appears throughout this book, as an aesthetic experience that neuroaesthetic researchers have been studying, and as a way to enliven the senses through uses of color, shape, smell, pattern, touch, and sight that emulate the n
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