A post the other day on Eye Level, rather subtly announced that the Lunder Center is now using Twitter. You probably know that Eye Level is a blog produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and that it focuses a lot on the work that is done at Lunder Center, which as far as I know, is the first and only conservation department that functions as a permanent museum exhibit (instead of being tucked away in the museum, conservators are at work and on view behind floor-to-ceiling glass walls ). But maybe you don’t know about Twitter: it’s a web site to which you send text messages from your cell phone (called “tweets”) that are then displayed for everyone to see. You can “follow” your friend’s tweets (or a museum artifact’s in this case) to know what they are doing and thinking.
Filed under: Art, Conservation, New Media, Technology
