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  Tehmina Goskar 11:18 am on 13 November, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Textile Conservation Centre continues online 

  Following the closure of the Textile Conservation Centre, until recently, part of the University of Southampton, the staff of the TCC and the TCC Foundation have set up a website to keep people in touch and retain a presence in the world of conservation, culture and heritage. Here, you can also keep in touch with recent staff and people.
  
  http://www.textileconservationcentre.co.uk/

  It is good to see that online methods of communication will keep some essence of this excellent institution alive.

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  Tehmina Goskar 2:01 pm on 24 April, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Byzantium, exhibition (2), medieval (3), museum (3), Persian, review   

  Exhibition reviews on Creative Spaces 

  I thought about using Past Thinking as the place for exhibition and book reviews on museumy subjects that interest me, but instead I would like to contribute to content creation on Creative Spaces (National Museums Online Learning Project) particularly when the reviews related to items in the nine museum collections it hosts.

  I have recently contributed two reviews, and added them to two groups I run. The first is a short response to Shah ‘Abbas at the British Museum and the second is in response to Byzantium at the Royal Academy.

  Read response to Shah Abbas in the Iran and Persian Culture group.

  Read response to Byzantium in the Medieval and Byzantine Objects group.

  Please note: For some reason my paragraphing is not preserved and so the Byzantium review might be a little hard-going. If you happen to read it and would prefer to read it in a more sensible format, please leave a comment here, or on Creative Spaces.

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  Tehmina Goskar 2:38 pm on 19 March, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: creative spaces (3), italy, medieval (3), mediterranean, networks, notebooks   

  I like Creative Spaces 

  Creative Spaces does. No poking, no sheep throwing, no nonsense.

  The two posts below and the several comments are enough to set out the different views of Creative Spaces, or the National Museums Online Learning Project. I am not going to respond to the various criticisms leveled at the project as they do a good job of speaking for themselves. This is about my experience so far, over the last two weeks or so of actually using the site. Many of the buggy features have already been pointed out by Tom and by and large I agree with those (strange URLs and registering procedure, the lack of a big fat button to JOIN and the lack of an advanced search are probably my immediate problems).
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