Manchester museum conference.. (the online musum)

i was lucky enough to get invited from oldham gallery to attend a confereence day.

my day started off with a private tour of the gallery, learning that the number 3 is a reacuring number throughout the galelry.

3 buildngs
3 floors
ect

is this coincidental as painters and artists use the ruel of 3rds in there work.
hmm?
lots of 3's

anyway...

i also attended a lecture with Vaughen Allenn who was in charge of Urbis, he talked about the new generation of the gallery and how to adjust to the new era of viewing.
 he mentioned that the museum is becoming an online sensation now, "the viewer does not want to move from there seats but still view the museums content"
He mentioned such online newtworks as FlickR and Twitter.
I was suprised as to how much Twitter was mentioned and in some speaches were encouraged to tweet there every desicion or move.
Is it realy getting to the point were once something is technologicly documented it become obselite? where a simple photograph has taken everything that a historical object or thing has to embody?
pretty soon the objects themselves will become a mere fragment meaning nothing, when replicas, photographs and online networking groups can provide you with a 3D identicle image themselves.

He asked the question do we need a building? and who i the audience?

He mentioned each year 42 million visited uk museums and gallerys. so the figures show that there is still interest in soaking up a bit of culture.

he mentioned customer service in art, its all very well haveing your work up and a blurb on the wall, but when we come to questioningthe art work who do we ask, the ividulator, who can only tell us so much. He mentioned about the main staff of the galelry talking to the visiors explaining everything and answering anything.

I like the qote.
"everyday punters are your customers, not these who only arrive for the free wine."

Vaughan Allen       



It was food for thought, and a good start to an interesting insight into gallery work.

The next lecture was a bit boreing, and i could barely understand what they were taling about.

they asked what is co creation.

a man on my table who was te curator of the london veichal musum (i think) said "why have they changed it to co-creation instead of the usual co-curation"

sorry londonmuseum man, but i aitn got a clue what your talking about.

I have got lots of leaflets and booklets which im sure would made good readng material for the day i could understand what tehre talkign about haha.

but what is handy is i managed to get hold of a directory of museums and the names and job titles of the people who were running the conference =].

I taken a couple of photos from the day.