ResearchBuzz: FirehoseLeamington Observer: British Motor Museum image archive to become more accessible. “The project, running from spring 2026 to early 2027, will provide unprecedented access for visually impaired visitors to a historically significant collection of 20th century photographic negatives. This digital accessibility project will produce digital twins of a currently inaccessible collection using […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/leamington-observer-british-motor-museum-image-archive-to-become-more-accessible/Artnet: A New Landmark Survey Aims to Bring Transparency to Museum Collecting Practices. “Next week, the Penn Cultural Heritage Center (PennCHC) at the University of Pennsylvania‘s Penn Museum will launch a first-of-its-kind survey exploring the collecting practices in place at museums and libraries across America.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/artnet-a-new-landmark-survey-aims-to-bring-transparency-to-museum-collecting-practices/
Artnet: A New Landmark Survey Aims to Bring Transparency to Museum Collecting Practices
Artnet: A New Landmark Survey Aims to Bring Transparency to Museum Collecting Practices. “Next week, the Penn Cultural Heritage Center (PennCHC) at the University of Pennsylvania‘s Penn Museu…
Artforum: 85% of All US Museums Need Repairs, Study Finds. “According to a survey conducted in March by the US Government Accountability Office, a whopping 85% of all museums in the United States are in need of repair; even more dire, 77% of US museums have at least one structural issue that puts their collections at risk, according to The Art Newspaper.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/artforum-85-of-all-us-museums-need-repairs-study-finds/
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WiNoDa Knowledge LabA new video just crawled into our channel!
Jason Dunlop, curator of the 🕷️ arachnid & 🐛 myriapod collections at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin talks about...
🔸 Challenges in digitizing old collections.
🔸 Consistent naming of geographic locations.
🔸 And much more...
Watch the video here:
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Caught In The Web: Navigating Challenges In Digitizing The Arachnid & Myriapod Collections
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Minna Takala: New Archetype for Museums. “The most obvious new aspect of the Storehouse is that it is totally transparent, exposing the collection of 250,000 objects to public viewing. The building is literally a warehouse (like Amazon) where you can walk inside the corridors like in an IKEA store to see the objects placed on shelves.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/21/minna-takala-new-archetype-for-museums/
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 "𝗔𝗜 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲" 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝘂𝘁!
Have a look to discover the 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 when applied to collections 🦋
#WiNoDa #naturalscience #collections #museumcollections #museum
📹 Part 3 of our playlist 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘴 is online!
𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭:
-> Object-recognition with AI on the example of insects.
-> Use cases of Segment Anything and Grounding DINO
#WiNoDa #naturalscience #collections #museumcollections #museum #objectrecognition
