Thought some of us in North America might be interested in participating in Jenni's "Adopt a Museum" blog. Info below.
Dear Gemmers -
you may remember the project Adopt-a-Museum, which I introduced last year. It's aim was (and is) to put some of the unsung heroes of the museum world in to the spotlight. The project takes the form of a blog, which each week introduces a new museum 'adopted' by a different person. The cities and countries featured are determined entirely by the participants and the museums that they choose. Here's a link to the blog:
http://adopt.museum140.com
We recently featured museum no.25, which was a bit of a milestone on our way to featuring 100 museums, but we're still looking for new people to take part. If you know of a little gem of a museum, whether it's your local museum down the road or a 'not in the guide book' treasure you discovered on holiday, that you would like to 'adopt', please get in touch and we'll send you the questionnaire with 5 short questions to complete. We usually feature the museums in the order we receive the questionnaires back (with some exceptions), and usually the questionnaires are a lot slower coming back than we send them out, so so far no one has had to wait for long until they feature.
There are just 3 simple guidelines:
1. You can't adopt a museum you currently work or volunteer at (otherwise everyone would adopt themselves, which is not the point of the project).
2. You need to have visited at least once, even if it's on holiday some place you're never going back to (it doesn't have to be a museum from where you live), as we feel you can't be an advocate for something you've never seen.
3. You can't adopt a museum that's already really well known (so no Louvre, British Museum etc)
At the end of last year we also introduced our new 'I adopted a museum' stickers, which everyone who takes part receives as a wee thank you (and which have been described as one participant as "better than a Blue Peter badge"^^) There's a picture of them on the Adopt-a-Museum blog (see link above) on the About page.
We look forward to hearing from you and receiving your adoptions.
Thanks, Jenni from Museum140
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