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Museum blog aggregator

This should have been posted a while back but slipped through the net.

Ideum has set up a the rather sensibly titled MuseumBlogs.org which acts as a central aggregator for posts from a range of different museum blogs.

This is a very useful way of quickly finding out what is going on in the museum blogosphere all on the one page.

Aggregation is the core business of museums – we aggregate social, cultural and natural history for our respective communities. We aggregregate community knowledge around these histories and collections. Yet it is rare to hear of a museum talking about itself as a media conglomerate or even as a conversation facilitator – which is in many ways what museums are (or should be).