Museum Failures

FAILURE is a good thing and you can learn from it.

#MuseumFailures

Museums NEVER talk about FAILURE [email protected]

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Listen again to #MuseumFailures on @ResonanceEXTRA Learn all about what museum people think about failure at the @MuseumsAssoc Expo & conference 2017 in Manchester https://t.co/a4eukUkJfV

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Curators IN FULL CAPS realising their irrelevance #MuseumFailures #JeSuisCuratpr https://t.co/4zfxAJMrVW

[Jack Ashby @JackDAshby]

Without wanting to sound exclusive...
Everyone in this room wants everyone outside this room to know that CURATION IS AN EXPERT PROFESSION AND YOU CAN'T ALL DO IT.
#StopCuratingEverything
#MAMuseumsFuture

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Great North Exhibition and brewing ethical sponsorship controversy https://t.co/oEHsXbnkwW

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[Museum, Gallery and Heritage Studies at Newcastle @ICCHSNewcastle]

There is a convergence of time at the museum, with past meeting the present. It is a place where we can temporarily indulge our nostalgia and then leave again, returning to our lives today. "Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense but the past perfect"!

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Radical data collection of objects with unknown provenance using psychic and mediumship to find metadata. Quatermass meets Antiques Roadshow https://t.co/lrCN3XHyZb

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Museum workers making resolutions to failure. That's what we like to see. #TryNewThings https://t.co/6XWVkrxRBI

[nature_lover @choose_nature_]

Absolutely 😍 love this @CuratorMeg !!! What an inspiring New Years resolution ! #MuseumFailures Good to see the impact of #festivalofchange #MATranformers @Pavilion_gal @signalsMMX 🙌

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You are never disappointed if you join the Crusade of Pessimism. #ConspiracyOfOptimism #MuseumFailures https://t.co/hXxEuKiGxt

[just being m@x @maxinthebox]

Would dearly love to see a session proposal from @MuseumFailures about sector 'conspiracy of optimism'... that'd be a HUGE ethical step forward. https://t.co/o48KXkoUPT

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@maxinthebox @ResonanceEXTRA @MuseumsAssoc There were lots more definitions of failure that were missed. Museums being run by mainly white, privileged blokes was one. Though I interviewed a couple of people at end of conference that talked about this, battery failure and corrupted recordings meant they weren't captured.

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Failure to recognise that the Museum of Failure isn't associated with @MuseumFailures twitter account #MuseumFailures https://t.co/FaTKpT80fJ

[Karalee Wong Nakatsuka 🐸 @historyfrog.bsky.social @HistoryFrog]

Enjoyed visiting @MuseumFailures today. #comefailwithus

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Anja and the Memory People https://t.co/0gCAAWRqKN

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This Sunday 10pm on @ResonanceEXTRA learn all about #MuseumFailures Recorded at this years @MuseumsAssoc conference and exhibition in Manchester https://t.co/CJLcoIvc3O

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Outreach is an outdated and unhelpful word #MuseumFailures https://t.co/SE1juoWn2l

[Matt Griffiths @mattgriff1968]

When organisation's work is wanted & of the community it serves so called 'outreach' isn't required. The unhelpful use of word places arts organisations as separate supplying their trade / wisdom from up high on the assumption that outsiders want & need it #ivorytower #supplyled

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Archaeologists are bored of what they do #MuseumFailures https://t.co/FQbJpCoMKo

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Archaeologists unburdening themselves and confessing #MuseumFailures #archconfession https://t.co/kOmkmxDlRI

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How does your museum deal with the realities of war? What was that?...You don't? Many of those arms, guns and tanks you have have on display were designed to kill people. #MuseumFailures https://t.co/2XWnGFIWXL

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"British Empire killed millions, created famine and orchestrated a 'divide and rule' campaign" How does your museum address this? Oh yeah.... it doesn't and you ignore it #MuseumFailures
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Museums in England 1997 - 2016 are the reason people decided to vote for leaving the EU #museums2017 #MuseumFailures

[nature_lover @choose_nature_]

Taking risks & acknowledging failure is important to #growth & #wellbeing & #museums being bolder & braver. The #FestivalofChange @MuseumFailures booth provided the antidote to the pressures placed on our sector via the workplace, funders, even ourselves #Museums #MuseumFailures

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