#museospark

7 January 2012

A happy new year to all our friends, fans and followers! We're starting the new year with over 200 fans on Facebook and over 2,000 followers on Twitter - thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!

Here are some highlights from last year:

In February, the new digital magazine sisterMAG launched, featuring an article about Adopt-a-Museum! The project was also featured that same month on the German blog Ausstellungen Einstellungen.

In March, we celebrated our first birthday with a call for cake recipes and a Twitter chat about Museum Cafes.

In April, we had a World Book Day giveaway to celebrate UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day.

In May, #MuseoSpark - a Twitter chat about on what inspires people about museums, to celebrate International Museums Day - saw our first ever collaboration, with Culture Themes.

In June, Jenni got interviewed by THEMUSEUM Blog about our Adopt-a-Museum project.

In July, we launched out new long term project "Museum Souvenirs" - an online collection of souvenirs acquired from or through museums, which anyone can contribute to, so if you are interested please get in touch!

In September, we were thrilled to welcome our 2,000th fan on Twitter, and sent out a little goodie bag as a thank you. Unfortunately we couldn't send all our fans and followers something, but THANK YOU to you all!

We were even more thrilled to feature out 50th Adopt-a-Museum in September! But we are always on the lookout for new participants, so if you would like to help us with the next 50, please get in touch!

November saw our first ever offline event - a museum tweetup at the C/O Berlin, organised together with our wonderful friend Hie-suk Yang.

And in December, we went a bit Christmas crazy. First of all there was Secret Santa 2.0 and a new Advent Calendar, both back by popular demand. Then we started collecting pictures of museum Christmas trees from around the world on Pinterest. And finally there was our Christmas Bauble Contest, with a total of 14 entries. The winner was Russell Dornan's bauble with mini origami stars made from museum leaflets (see above). 

27 April 2012

Many people have been enquiring whether we'll be repeating our very successful Museum Memories day (#MusMem) from last year. The answer is, yes and no.

Museum Memories was a run up event to International Museums Day, which had Museums and Memory as its theme last year. That's why we asked  you to share you most memorable museum moments. So, we will be having another run up event, but it won't be about memories this time.

This year's International Museums Day theme is Museums in a Changing World: New challenges, New inspirations. We've decided to focus on the 'inspiration' part, so this year we're asking you: What inspires you about museums? What is it that lit - and still lights - your spark? What's your #MuseoSpark?

And that's not all. We've been supporting @Culturetheme's monthly themes from the start, and in return they've been supporting our projects, but #MuseoSpark marks the first time we'll be teaming up to run a joint project. As we were both planning on doing something for International Museums Day, it made sense for us to do something together.