Another exciting thing we are launching today is our Object of the Week blog. It nicely complements our Photo of the Day which recently celebrated 500 posts!
We kick off Object of the Week with a profile of the project lead, curator Erika Dicker. Erika has chosen a favourite object from the collection – a prawn riding a bike, and her quirky tastes are also profiled in a quick Q&A.
Each week the blog will feature a new object and, until each curator has posted, a curator profile. We hope the blog will reveal some of the personalities behind the collection as well as many of the oddities and exciting objects that the public rarely gets to see. In coming weeks there will be video interviews and a whole lot more.
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Congratulations! The curators at the Minnesota Historical Society have something similar — the Collections Up Close blog at http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections. It is a combination of podcasts and static blog entries. Check out the cool Quicktime VR of a 1765 globe at http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/2009/03/delisle-globe-1765-quicktimevr/ — you can actually spin the globe.
This idea has potential. One of my favourite spots to visit at the National Archives of Australia website is their Find of the Month page. Similar idea.
http://www.naa.gov.au/whats-on/online/find-of-the-month/index.aspx