Museums & Technology

Ghosts of a Chance: The End (for now)!

November 13, 2008

Georgina Bath is the Interpretive Programs Manager for the Luce Foundation Center for American Art, SAAM's visible storage facility. Searching for final clues in front of Georgia Stele by Jesús Moroles In September, SAAM launched an Alternate Reality Game (ARG)...


Ghosts of a Chance: A Story of Spirits

October 3, 2008

Ghosts of a Chance: Catch a Falling Star (Predictor of Imminent Doom). Ghosts of a Chance Contributor, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2008.GOAC.2.6 Georgina Bath is the Interpretive Programs Manager for the Luce Foundation Center for American Art, our visible storage...


Ghosts of a Chance

September 18, 2008

Georgina Bath is the Interpretive Programs Manager for the Luce Foundation Center for American Art, our visible storage facility. Earlier this month the Luce Foundation Center launched Ghosts of a Chance, a creative initiative that calls for audience participation on...


Learning to Teach through Art & Technology

August 19, 2008

Teachers learn podcasting at the Cisco-Smithsonian American Art Museum Teacher Institute, 2008 In June SAAM, along with its partner Cisco, hosted teachers from Louisiana and Mississippi, who came to the museum to learn how to use technology in their classrooms....


Superhighway Scholars: Calling all 4th Graders

May 16, 2008

We asked SAAM's Patrick Martin, to write a post about a new Web initiative from our museum’s Education department: Superhighway Scholars. Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii If you listen closely, you can hear it. It’s that...


SAAM Launches Photography Podcast

April 15, 2008

William Christenberry's Green Warehouse—Newbern, Alabama We just launched a new podcast in our museum series about our photography collection and exhibitions here at SAAM. The American landscape has always been a rich subject for photography. Our photography curator, Toby Jurovics,...


Kogod and Flickr

February 1, 2008

Photo of Kogod Courtyard by Tom Klancer via Flickr DCist observes that the Flickr response to the Kogod Courtyard has been enthusiastic. Judging from a selection of Flickr photographs, the response to the light available in the courtyard has indeed...


Seeing Things (1)

January 2, 2008

This is the first in a series of personal observations about how people experience and explore museums. In the museum, I like to take some time away from looking at the art to look at people, especially people when they’re...


New Flickr Group for SAAM/Renwick

November 16, 2007

SAAM's got a new Flickr group. There are already some great pictures of our new courtyard, which opens to the public this Sunday (November 18th) at 11:30 a.m. Look for us wearing our Eye Level buttons and bring your camera!...


Two New Podcasts

September 28, 2007

We have launched two new podcasts this week: an audio podcast, The Prints of Sean Scully, (whose exhibition is on display at the museum until October 8) and our first video podcast on our Lunder Conservation Center. Take a look...