NPR: Museums in the 21st Century Series

Lectures curated around NPR's Museums in the 21st Century on the cultural influences and responsibilities of museums historically and in the digital future.

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Jane Prophet: An Artist's View of the Future of the Museum
Jane Prophet
April 4, 2007
01:09:57
Jane Prophet, a British artist who works across disciplines to create internationally acclaimed projects that have broken new ground in art, technology, and science, discusses her artwork.
Museums Online: New Ways to Visit Museums
Katherine Burton Jones
April 30, 2008
01:17:04
Katherine Burton Jones discusses how museums are serving and being shaped by new audiences, using Web 2.0 technologies. Burton Jones assistant dean of Media Services at Harvard Divinity School, discusses new multimedia approaches to the museum experience.
Economics of Open Content: Archives, Museums, and Libraries I
Clifford Lynch
January 24, 2006
01:21:37
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, reviews the progress made on day one of the conference, highlighting how academic and commercial thinking and markets ove
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Economics of Open Content: Archives, Museums, and Libraries II
Howard Besser
January 24, 2006
00:54:23
The archives, museums, and libraries panel continues with Howard Besser, Director of Moving Image Archiving and Preservation and Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University, describing work und
Museum of Fine Arts in a Time of Transformation
Malcolm Rogers
February 5, 2009
01:06:09
Malcolm Rogers, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, describes the MFA's extensive and visionary project, Building the New MFA.
In Search of Culture: Birth of the Museum of Fine Arts
David B. Dearinger
December 13, 2007
00:52:13
David Dearinger discusses 19th century British tourists in search of culture in Boston, and Hina Hirayama discusses the Boston Athenaeum and the birth of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Inventing Concepts for a New Museum
Yves Abrioux
April 18, 2007
01:37:18
Yves Abrioux discusses the final of his three part lecture on the future of museums.
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Selective Attention: Neuroscience and the Art Museum
Barbara Stafford
March 22, 2007
01:12:40
Barbara Stafford, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of the University of Chicago's Department of Art History, discusses the relationship between art museums and neuroscience.
Building the High Museum's African Art Collection
Carol Thompson
September 13, 2005
01:26:30
Carol Thompson, Richman Family curator of African art discusses the evolution of the growing African art collection at the High Museum and her vision for the future. Thompson's goal is to create the most significant African art collection in the southeastern United States.
Green Museum
Sarah S. Brophy
June 8, 2009
00:49:42
Sarah Brophy, of the sustainable museum website bMuse.net, argues that museum curators are past Green 101, and that now is the time to innovate, learn, and lead simply to help save themselves.