December 2011
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A Currywurst Christmas Story
24 December
Earlier in the week I wrote about a story writing competition that the Deutsches Currywurst Museum here in Berlin had been running, where they were inviting people to submit a Christmas story featuring a selection of certain words related to the museum. I’ve translated my winning story in to English, and since its set on Christmas Eve I thought today would be the perfect day to...
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Lots of Baubles for the Crowdsourced Christmas...
22 December 2011
First of all, thank you to everyone who sent in baubles for our crowdsourced Christmas tree! We had 15 baubles submitted in total, some of them via Twitter and Facebook - both faithful old friends and new acquaintances - as well as some additional ones drawn by the guests at our Advent housewarming party. It’s just the right number, actually, to be able to include them all...
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Christmas came early!
21 December 2011
In November, the Deutsches Currywurst Museum launched a competition in which they were calling for people to write and send in Christmas stories featuring, you’ve guessed it, currywurst* as a central theme. The stories could be funny, serious, sad, true or completely made up, as long as they featured at least five of the following words (or rather, their German equivalents,...
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Museum-y Christmas Gift Guide: Part 2
14 December 2011
Children love Christmas, and a Christmas gift guide wouldn’t be complete without a few suggestions for the kids in your life. It’s never too early to start them on museums I say (our wee man had visited 20 different museums by his first birthday!), so here are some ‘Kids in Museums’ gift ideas (all suggestions run left to right, top to bottom):
For Kids...
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Museum-y Christmas Gift Guide: Part 1
13 December 2011
Only just over a week to go until Christmas. Have you done all your Christmas shopping yet? If you are still short of a few presents, why not check out some of these museum-y gift suggestions (all suggestions run left to right, top to bottom):
For Museum Lovers
The most obvious gift for museum lovers is a museum membership. You’ll be making someone happy AND supporting...
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Gallery of the Day: Facing the Sea
12 December 2011
I must press on with my gallery guides for the new National Museum of Scotland if I want to get them all posted before the end of the year. Facing the Sea is another of the first floor atrium galleries in the World Cultures block:
The Pacific is a vast ocean scattered with thousands of islands. Here, people belong as much to the sea as to the land. For thousands of years...
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Christmas Elves for Charity
6 December 2011
Happy St Nicholas Day! At the risk of turning into a Christmas blog, especially since today’s post has nothing to do with museums (just a very vague link to Museum140), I wanted to write about a fundraiser here in Germany that we got involved with:
The start up company Spieltz sells board games printed on canvas, and you can also create your own games and have them...
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Crowdsourced Christmas Tree
5 December 2011
Right, that’s the Secret Santa 2.0 sorted out. 37 people (including myself) from 8 different countries signed up. I hope I haven’t forgotten anyone in matching up and sending out all the names - such a responsibility!
Next thing, I need to sort out a Christmas tree. Due to #MuseumBaby’s tendency to pull out, pull down or pull apart anything decorative, and...
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Museum140 Advent Calendar
1 December
We have just featured our 22nd museum on Museum140’s Adopt-a-Museum and the project is still going strong with lots of interest coming in. However, although we’re confidently hoping we can continue and make it to 100 museums, we’re taking a wee break during December. It’s a really busy time for everyone and lots of people go on holiday, and we don’t want...