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The Spaces In-Between: Lessons from Relocating the Barnes Foundation Collection

What is left to arrange if you are a museum and the precise layout--wall-by-wall and room-by-room--of your latest collection have been mandated by legal ruling?  This is the challenge encounteterd in rehousing the artwork comprising the Barnes Foundation Collections in downtown Philadelphia. The organization of the artwork is constrained to replicate the arragement created by the original owner and currator of the collection, Albert Barnes. 

King County Archives now using Pinterest

An interesting piece of news came up on my feed today about King County Archives using the social media platform Pinterest in order to spread awareness of their historical photos to a wider audience. They established different boards, each with dozens of photos from their archives "ranging from old maps to artwork to images of the 1962 World's Fair". Considering we just discussed archives and the way they approach digitization of their work, I found this to be an interesting convergence of what we covered in class with a contemporary social media platform.

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