Applied Museum Studies Program

Museology Resources

Links to Museum Discussion

• Canmuse-L  - instructions for joining Canada's national museology listserv
• Onmuse-L  - instructions for joining Ontario's province-wide museology listserv
• Heritage Listservs - from  the CHIN site
• AMS Conservation Department Blog
  
  
  
• Archive of Museum-L (General Museum) Discussion List
• Archive of Museum Security Network Discussion List
• Archive of ISEN-ASTC-L, a listserv that links informal science educators from around the world (ASTC is the Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated
• Archive of ICOM-L, used both for official announcements about, and the general discussion of ICOM (International Council of Museums) activities
• Archive of ICOM-CC, operated by ICOM's International Committee for Conservation
• Google Groups - access to Usenet newsgroups if you
  do not have a news server (eg. Algonquin College)
• Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text - Many discussion lists do not allow HTML or MIME content. What is wrong with sending HTML and MIME messages? The explanation is here, along with instructions for turning them off in a variety of email clients. 

Links to Other Sites

• Museum Job Resources Online
  Museum employment resources, originally assembled by one of our graduates, Joel Long, and now maintained by the Program.
• Bibliographies for Museum Studies
  A Pilot Project Developed in Partnership with Prof. J. Lynne Teather, Museum Studies Program, University of Toronto
• The Journal on Nordic Museums and Museology Summaries and abstracts of articles back to 1993
• Museum and Society - an independent peer reviewed journal which brings together new writing by academics and museum professionals on the subject of museums. Open access and free to all individuals and institutions.
• Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) - at University of Leicester, UK. See online articles in "RCMG Publications and Reports."
• Institute of Art and Law - from Australia. Contains useful links for Art, Law and Museums
• Museum ethics: Lessons from the Denney Collection
  Case history of how the $5M Denney Loan Collection of Modern Art was removed by means of forged letters from the Dallas Museum of Art and reappeared later in Toulouse
• Smithsonian Guidelines for Accessible Exhibition Design
• Museums and the Web:
  An Annual International Conference organized by Archives & Museum Informatics, Toronto. Papers from past conferences are available online.
• Archives & Museum Informatics
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Addressing accessibility issues on the internet.
• Canadian Museums Association
• Canadian Heritage Information Network
• Canadian Conservation Institute
• Ontario Ministry of Culture
• The Yukon Historical and Museums Association
• The British Columbia Museums Association
• The Alberta Museums Association
• Museums Association of Saskatchewan
• Association of Manitoba Museums
• Ontario Museum Association
• Société des musées québécois
• The Association Museums New Brunswick
• The Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Canadian Association for Conservation
• The Museum Computer Network
• The Museum Security Network
• Collections Trust - UK organization for collections
• Collections Link - UK national service for collections management
• Terminology Bank - thesauri for a variety of collection objects, from MDA (Museum Documentation Association), UK
• International Council of Museums
• Heritage Preservation  - National Institute for Conservation (USA)
• The Museums Association (UK)
• American Association of Museums
• American Association For State and Local History (AASLH)
• The National Association For Interpretation
• National Association for Museum Exhibition
• Robert A. Baron;s Web Site "dedicated to issues relating to intellectual property and copyright, to automated museum management techniques, to "monalisiana" and to imaging and image resources for the study and teaching of the history of art"
• Museum Marketing Tips
  
  

  Other Resources

• Algonquin College Learning Resource Centre
• Museum Job Resources Online
  Museum employment resources, originally assembled by one of our graduates, Joel Long, and now maintained by the Program.
• Reading The Museum
  The Literacy Program of the Canadian Museums Association, a program of demonstration projects, workshops and information-sharing activities to encourage literacy in and through museums. This is a link to past issues of the Program newsletter.
• Bibliographies for Museum Studies
  A Pilot Project Developed in Partnership with Prof. J. Lynne Teather, Museum Studies Program, University of Toronto
• Mouseia, Lynne Teather's museological resources page at the University of Toronto.
• Google Groups - access to Usenet newsgroups
• Common Errors in English
• The Underground Grammarian - this is WHY good writing skills are so important! Check out the newsletters at the left side of the screen.
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk - the best little guide to grammar since 1935. 
• Hate Chemistry? Rather read comics? Do both at
  The Periodic Table of Comic Books
• The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. You can listen to sound clips (under 4 minutes) or read text transcripts. Archive of all shows back to 1988.
• Museum of Ancient Inventions at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts - see "The Exhibit"