Author: MoHagani Magnetek

Who is a good collaborator and who doesn’t play well with others is where I’m going with this assignment post. It is darn near impossible to compare online museum exhibitions because all there is to see art the results of their works. Though the websites may look great with solid information or accessible data collections,…

For this assignment on media, I chose to explore museums that focus on video games because I like games. I visited the Digital Game Museum located in Silicon Valley, California. According to its website, the museum houses, and exhibits, “…artifacts relating to digital games, game development, game design, and gaming culture.” The museum preserves, presents…

I chose the historic 8mm film and group of stone tools for this assignment. The 8mm film is listed on Ebay as, “6 Vintage World In Color Productions 8mm Movies Of Alaska,” for $40. That sounds like a steal of a deal to me. Until I receive the 8mm film in the mail after purchases…

I decided to take this opportunity to explore more of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work. Rather than searching for his work in various museum databases, I searched for his name to see what databases includes some of his works and came across the online database, “artnet.com” and was surprised to see they have quite a bit of…

Although I think living museums are niche… only relevant to the people that take interest to them they can possess many problems ranging from upkeep, personnel staffing to security breaches. Living history museum don’t move me. I think they are cool and great for children because it’s a way of telling history through performance art. I…

Museums collect artifacts and art for both educational and enjoyment purposes. The collection and display of artifacts is a way to connect people living in the present to the past in that they are given to opportunity to examine material culture in a safe and curated environment. The curation of the past aids in making…

There are not many museums out there that has both natural history and cultural collections. In my search I came across the Los Angeles Museum, but their main focus is the La Brea Tar Pits which is cool but doesn’t help me much with this excitement. I asked my wife if she knew of any…

Well, being a curator at a museum is something I’ve always aspire to do because I think that’s the coolest job in every museum. I understand there’s quite a bit of work involved with managing collections and creating displays of museum art and/or artifacts as well as the amount of preservation the job entails, however…

A natural history museum is a place you go to increase your knowledge and understanding about the natural world. They are science museums or institutions that house well documented objects and specimens of all sorts collected for research or scholarly use… scientific inquiry rather than connoisseurship. Employing systematic processes for collecting, cataloging and displaying specimens…