Mario Bucolo Museums Blog

I’m just return base. Soon comments and photos of museums I visit in San Francisco, Vancouver and Victoria.

…Stay tuned…

…one week off due to high fever…sorry…

What about this criptic title?

Soon a big news will be announced, following meetings here in Vancouver…stay tuned…

Where is next conference to attend or next lecture to do?

…Boston of course…for AAM

Preparing my monday lecture at Italian Institute of Culture here, in Vancouver, we just meet a problem…how many museums are in Vancouver…15? 30? 60?

It is a relevant information to find, everywhere, and every time it is a not easy to find information.

anyway, after read different sources…about 50 museums in Vancouver area.

I visit many airports worldwide, never one impress me as the Vancouver International airport.

All the airport is structured to show British Columbia Cultural and Natural Heritage, a real gate.

Here a photo of what arriving visitor impact on.

Other photos of the San Francisco and British Columbia trip is in this page 

I’m in San Francisco, so…no time for the blog in this period, but - please - comment the other posts…

I move photos on this page

From 20 years I’m an Apple user (first Apple II, then any MAC), for about 3 years I also work and use Commodore Amiga. Both Amiga and Mac create their success thanks to broad evangelism actions and thanks to many evangelists. There are many books, histories, articles etc about Apple evangelism and evangelists.

On of the most famous Apple Evangelist was and is Guy Kawasaki he also start a very interesting blog.

Other example of evangelism or viral marketing are Ducati and Harley Davidson.
Why I write about evangelism?

One of the main problem we have is to attract more visitors to museums and cultural institutions. Membership programs can be consider a tentative of museums evangelism, but need to do more and more. Here, for example, in Italy is a big problem on how to attract new visitors, the situation is very different from USA or UK or France.

So, please, anyone have experience of evangelism in museums?

I just add a page (and links on the side bar) with a first list of mailing lists related to museums. Please use comment to this post for mailing list to add.

thanks

Mario

This is the Kamasutra day…no, no, not about sex all the day…

Kamasutra is a very dangerous virus that can be delete files on your hard drive…yes…on YOUR hard drive.

I use only Mac…no Kamasutra? Buy a Mac

On Apple iTunes Music Store I find this podcast & videopodcast

Audio:

• Art Mobs MoMA Guides
• Picasso, Chagall, Sherman, Pollock, Bacon…
• Bronx Museum museRadio
• de Young museum
• Fine Arts Center of Greenville County
• Hirshhorn Museums and Sculpture
• Moma
• Pixar Exhibition
• Hear artistis, curators and others discuss works…
• Visual descriptions for visitors with visual impairments
• …
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s official Podcast
• Towneley Hall Museum
• Yakima Valley Museum
• The Grace museum

a more complete museums podcast list in this site

and in this blog

Video:

• KQED Art galleries in San Francisco, Palo Alto ….
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
• Visit the sea center today
• MoAD Museum of the African Diaspora

Without consider all podcast available outside ITMS, like San Jose Museum of ART and many others

In the side bar on the right I just add new museums related blogs links. All of them are copied in the Link Page in more biggest font.

Please comments links and suggest new one.

Mario

I will speak at Italian Institute of Culture in Vancouver, on feb 13 at 6 pm.

THE “BROAD VISIBILITY”™ OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED MUSEUMS

“A lecture by Dr. Mario Bucolo.
Visibility is a key element to make people of all continents aware of the thousands museums existing in the world. Most visitors only know the largest museums in the most important cities of each country, and only rarely do they consider other museums in their travel itinerary.
How can small- and medium-sized museums become more visible both in traditional communication channels and, more importantly, through the new technological media such as Blog, Vblog, Podcast, Videopodcast, 3rd generation cell phones, PDA or PMI? The use of media integration is referred to as “BroadVisibility”™.
Mario Bucolo will discuss the issues of international visibility for small and medium-sized museums by drawing on analyses and discussions of know-how that has been developed in Italy and applied at the global level.”

Istituto Italiano di Cultura
500-510 West Hastings St., Vancouver

Hi friends this is my first post in my first blog.

I have no more time in this period. I will write soon about topics of this blog (but I suppose that the name is significant).

Please accepted my apologies for my english…

Mario