Blogs Related to Museums and Museum Studies
AASLH Blog – From the American Association for State and Local History. Their primary focus is on history professionals, history volunteers, museums, historical societies, and other history-related organizations and public history professionals.
Art Museum Teaching - Reflections on teaching, learning, and experimental practice in art museum education.
Center for the Future of Museums Blog – Produced under the auspices of the America Alliance of Museums.
ExhibiTricks - Useful information and resources for museum exhibition design and exhibit development.
History@Work – Produced by the National Council on Public History.
International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Blog – Founded in 1999 with over 300 members in 65 countries, dedicated to preserving sites of conscience.
Material World – From the University College, London. Focused on material and visual culture.
Museum 2.0 - Visitor engagement, education, and exhibit design.
Museum Next – Blog produced by MuseumNext, a company that produces museum-focused events internationally.
Museum Notes - Blog connecting museum thinkers, practitioners, and supporters. Produced by the director at Vergeront Museum Planning based in Minneapolis, MN.
Museum of the Future - Jasper Visser, a senior partner at the consultancy boutique VISSCH+STAM, writes about museums and culture in times of technological and social change.
Museum Questions - Dedicated to questions about museums and the ongoing challenge of creating a thoughtful, reflective practice.
Museums & Collections Blog – From University College, London.
Sustainable Museums – Requires email registration.
The Incluseum – Dedicated to advancing new ways of being a museum through dialogue, community building and collaborative practice related to inclusion in museums.
The Uncatalogued Museum – Focuses on museum practices.
Thinking About Museums – Requires email registration.
Tincture of Museum – Focuses on museums, volunteer work, and autism in museums.
Exemplary Museum Blogs (and what makes them exemplary) Selected by Nick Faber for Cuberis.com
Blogs with a magazine approach
Circa – North Carolina Museum of Art (Image-rich)
The Iris – J. Paul Getty Museum (Branding and logo)
Beyond Bones – Houston Museum of Natural Science (Featured articles and “Editor’s Picks”
National Museum of African-American History and Culture – (Readable format and tweetable quotes)
Stories – Wellcome Collection (Media-rich articles and serialized stories)
Thematic blogs
Animal Keeper – Museum of Life & Science
Nature Watch – Museum of Life & Science
Blogs – Metropolitan Museum of Art (rotating themes)
Photo of the Week – Brooklyn Historical Society
Object of the Week – Seattle Art Museum
Blogs – New York Historical Society (rotating themes)
Cross-Linking blogs
Behind the Glass – Corning Museum of Glass (links directly to their online collection)
Stories – The Jewish Museum (links to featured objects)
Discover More – National Baseball Hall of Fame (connects players and their stories)
Blog – Minneapolis Institute of Art (curating the permanent collection online)
Medium – High Museum of Art (enriching stories with videos and collection links)
Reliably Active blogs
Object of the Week – Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Blog – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (1-2 posts per week)
Blog – Peabody Essex Museum (weekly stories about objects, artists, and community)
Verso – Huntington Library, Art Museum & Botanical Collections (new posts every Wednesday)
Unframed - Los Angeles County Museum of Art (an ‘almost infinite grid’ of current articles)
