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New Project for 2016: @52Museums Instagram & Twitter #52Museums
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December 20th, 2015Culture, InternationalUPDATE: @52Museums is fully booked for 2016 but there is a waiting list and planning 2017 already. Also, if you’re a museum on Instagram, please add yourself to the Museums on Instagram List.
A few weeks ago I was on Instagram and noticed how my friend Chris Webb’s project 52Quilters was still going strong and growing. The object is simple: once a week someone takes over the Instagram, Twitter and Blog account and shares their experience on being a quilter.
I went to sleep and woke up at 5am with one of those moments – this could work for museums. By 9am @52Museums was happening. Well I say happening, the accounts were created and a Google Form for sign up was made. There has been a few mistakes made along the way (like I should have created a form that only allowed one week to be chosen or any week as it turned into a logistic nightmare) but thankfully, museums are brilliant at adapting to changes (no seriously!!).
The final schedule still isn’t final as over 80 museums have signed up. Museums are collaborating with other museums either via similar collections, cities or a fun challenge.
This project is all about museum(s) sharing anything they want for the week on Instagram. Every museum that signed up is going to help engage with the account for the year – so local museums will get the same support as the nationals.
Feel free to get involved, either with questions, likes, favorites or discussions.
Who to Follow for #52Museums
Instagram Takeover Date Museum Name Instagram Account Museum Type Country January 04/01/16-10/01/16 The Getty @TheGetty Art USA 11/01/16-17/01/16 Massaciuccoli romana/Corinium Museum @MassaciuccoliRomana / @coriniummuseum Archaeological /Archaeology Italy / UK 18/01/16-24/01/16 State Historical Museum / Saint Basils Cathedral @state_historical_museum /@saint_basils_cathedral Russian Museums Russia 25/01/16-31/01/16 Bruce Museum @brucemuseum art and science USA
February 01/02/16-07/02/16 Nordiska museet nordiskamuseet Museum of cultural history Sweden 08/02/16-14/02/16 Leeds Museums and Galleries @Leedsmuseumsandgalleries City museums – 9 sites UK 15/02/16-21/02/16 Science Museum @ScienceMuseum Science Museum UK 22/02/16-28/02/16 Leopold Museum /Jewish Museum Vienna /Q21 leopold_museum / jewishmuseumvienna / Q21_Vienna Art culture and history museum Austria
March 29/02/16-06/03/16 Natural History Museum @natural_history_museum Natural History UK 07/03/16-13/03/16 Wellcome Collection / Morbid Anatomy @wellcomecollection / @morbidanatomy Medicine Art Science UK / USA 14/03/16-20/03/16 Albright-Knox Art Gallery @albrightknox Art Museum USA 21/03/16-27/03/16 National Museum of Women in the Arts @womeninthearts Art USA April 28/03/16-03/04/16 DDR Museum @ddrmuseum Historical Museum Germany 04/04/16-10/04/16 Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto EVERYTHING (World Cultures/Natural History) Canada 11/04/16-17/04/16 musée du quai Branly @quaibranly Ethnographic collections but with an artistic approach France 18/04/16-24/04/16 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery @birmingham_mag Museum and Art Gallery UK May 25/04/16-01/05/16 University of Reading Museums and Collections @unirdg_collections University museums (Museum of English Rural Life / Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology / Cole Museum of Zoology / Special Collections UK 02/05/16-08/05/16 Hamburger Kunsthalle @hamburger.kunsthalle art museum Germany 09/05/16-15/05/16 Grand Palais @le_grand_palais Gallery France 16/05/16-22/05/16 LACMA /SFMOMA @lacma / @SFMOMA Art /Design /Architecture modern art museum USA 23/05/16-29/05/16 The Getty Museum @gettymuseum LA USA
June 30/05/16-05/06/16 The Children's Museum of Indianapolis @childrensmuseum Children's museum USA 06/06/16-12/06/16 Barbican Centre @barbicancentre Multi-arts Centre UK 13/06/16-19/06/16 Hammer Museum @Hammer_Museum Art USA 20/06/16-26/06/16 Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum Family of 28 provincial museums Canada July 27/06/16-03/07/16 Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum @auschwitzmemorial Former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau site Poland 04/07/16-10/07/16 Sir John Soane's Museum @soanemuseum Historic House UK 11/07/16-17/07/16 The Andy Warhol Museum & Carnegie Museum of Art & Carngerie Museum of Natural History & Carnegie Science Center NA @thecmoa @carnegiemnh @carnegiescictr Art USA 18/07/16-24/07/16 Kunstmuseum Bonn @kunstmuseum_bonn Art Germany 25/07/16-31/07/16 The Infirmary Museum / Surgeon Museum / Medical Museion @infirmaryworc / @surgeonshall/@medicalmuseion Medical museum UK UK Denmark August 01/08/16-07/08/16 Toledo Museum of Art @toledomuseum Art USA 08/08/16-14/08/16 Marta Herford @martaherford contemporary Art/Design Germany 15/08/16-21/08/16 Horniman Museum and Gardens @hornimanmuseumgardens Natural history anthropology music UK 22/08/16-28/08/16 Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden @hirshhorn modern and contemporary art USA September 29/08/16-04/09/16 Museo della Ceramica di Savona /Museu del Disseny de Barcelona @museoceramicasavona @museudeldisseny ceramics art /ceramica artistica Italy / Spain 05/09/16-11/09/16 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg @mkg.hamburg Design / Arts and Crafts Germany 12/09/16-18/09/16 The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia @Fralinmuseumuva University museum USA 19/09/16-25/09/16 Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives @visitpama History & art Canada
October 26/09/16-02/10/16 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago /Museos de Arte: MBA-MAC @mcachicago / museosdearte Contemporary Art /Arte Contemporáneo USA/ Argentina 03/10/16-09/10/16 National Museum of Australia @natmusaus Social history Australia 10/10/16-16/10/16 Ashmolean Museum @ashmoleanmuseum Art & Archaeology UK 17/10/16-23/10/16 The Library of Virginia /Minnesota Historical Society @LibraryofVA / @minnesotahistoricalsociety State library and archives /History – 26 historic sites around MN USA 24/10/16-30/10/16 Fulham Palace @fulhampalace Historic home of the Bishops of London UK November 31/10/16-06/11/16 SFO Museum @SFOMuseum General USA 07/11/16-13/11/16 Jeu de Paume @jeudepaumeparis Contemporary Art / photography France 14/11/16-20/11/16 Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation @SciTechCollection @AgFoodMuseum @AvSpaceMuseum @SciTechMuseum Science Canada 21/11/16-27/11/16 Bata Shoe Museum @batashoemuseum ethnographic/ historical Canada December 28/11/16-04/12/16 Canadian Museum for Human Rights / Musée canadian pour les droits de la personne @cmhr_mcdp Human Rights & History Canada 05/12/16-11/12/16 Stratford Hall @stratfordhall Historic House Museum USA 12/12/16-18/12/16 Fondation Beyeler @fondationbeyeler Modern and Contemporary Art Switzerland 19/12/16-25/12/16 Snite Museum of Art @snitemuseum University Museum USA 26/12/16-01/01/17 Nationalmuseum Sweden @nationalmuseumswe Art and design Sweden As you can see – many chances to get involved and have fun over the year. We hope everyone follows @52Museums on Instagram and Twitter and finds a new way to engage with museums world wide.
Tags: #52Museums, campaign, Instagram, International, museums, project, social media
11 responses to “New Project for 2016: @52Museums Instagram & Twitter #52Museums” 
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Hi
We would love to be part of #52Museums. The Fitzwilliam Museum is the main art gallery and museum for the University of Cambridge in the UK, but we are also part of a consortium called the University of Cambridge Museums. All the Museums are funded by the University but the UCM consortium is also funded as a Major Partner Museum by Arts Council England.
Our Instagram account shows behind the scenes pictures captured by two of our collections colleagues, and our Twitter feed is administered by the Press and Marketing team. I am Head of Comms and Engagement. Are we too late to join this party?
Happy Christmas and all good wishes for 2016 – the Fitzwilliam’s Bicentenary year
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Not too too late but we have a waiting list. Fill out the form and we’ll be in touch 🙂
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Hi,
What an interesting adventure! We would also love to take part of #52Museums, son we’re going to fill the form out for the waiting list.
Happy New Year!
Museo del Romanticismo. Madrid
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Ciao Mar, bellissima idea, entusiasmante e geniale… e noi vorremmo partecipare. Ma dov’è il modulo per iscriversi?
Assunta Orlando-
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Ops! non abbiamo account instagram (per nostra scelta: abbiamo già 5 altri social da seguire)… Pensavamo si potesse realizzare anche solo con Twitter. Seguiremo con entusiasmo tutti gli altri musei.
Ciao.
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Utesh Dungerwal July 4th, 2016 at 06:06
Please furnish below queries-
1. How a museum can be registered or become a part of this?
2. what will be the whole procedure for this?
3. what are the benefits to get registered?
4. Please brief in detail the concept of
@52 museum.-
I believe most of these questions are answered in this post but if you have more questions feel free to email me. Thanks!
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Try to collect articles and blogs on @52Museums – let me know if I’m missing any please!
-https://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2016/july/how-self-styled-trouble-maker-mar-dixon-makes-museums-more-people-friendly/
-https://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2016/july/the-key-issues-for-museums-today/-https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/gallery/2016/may/04/museums-instagram-in-pictures-52museums
-https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/crg/52-museums-this-week-on-instagram/
– http://www.monopol-magazin.de/kreativitaet-kennt-keine-grenzen
-http://blog.warhol.org/museum/instagram-takeover-52museums/
-http://thegetty.tumblr.com/post/136537731726/52-museums-52-weeks-this-is-the-year-of
– https://blog.wellcomecollection.org/tag/52museums/
-https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/427701295844733459/
– http://broadstrokes.org/tag/52museums/http://www.monopol-magazin.de/vom-naehkraenzchen-zur-globalen-museums-kooperation
-http://indianahumanities.org/event/around-country-52-museums-finding-object-experience
– http://www.golcondarte.it/concorsi/2ceramics-concorso-fotografico
– http://www.professionearchitetto.it/concorsi/notizie/22819/2Ceramics-un-concorso-fotografico-sulla-ceramica-savonese
– http://www.savonanews.it/2016/07/22/leggi-notizia/argomenti/eventi-spettacoli/articolo/il-museo-della-ceramica-di-savona-lancia-il-concorso-fotografico-2ceramics.html
– http://jobs.artribune.com/competitions/2ceramics-il-primo-concorso-fotografico-dedicato-alla-ceramica-dentro-e-fuori-dal-museo/2200.php?track=newsletter
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