Henslow’s vasculum – Botanic Garden Library Pick
Learn about some of the interesting and unusual items in the Botanic Garden’s Cory Library and Archives in this new series of monthly blog posts. February’s Library Pick: Henslow’s vasculum This rather battered looking metal box from the Library’s object collection is in fact an item of specialist botanical equipment, known as a vasculum. A vasculum is a container once…
What is Digital Engagement?
Since starting as the Digital Engagement Specialist at the University of Cambridge Museums, a repeating question has been ’What actually is Digital Engagement?’ So, as part of my strategic planning I’ve been identifying what Digital Engagement means for the University of Cambridge Museums, as well as how we can make it happen: Digital is not something separate, it is a part…
Live streaming with a touch of ‘WTH?’
Back in October 2016 we posted about our participation in the Arts Marketing Association’s Digital Marketing Academy and our live-streaming experiments. Now we’ve graduated (whoot!) it’s about time we shared our experiences and the lessons we learned. In the beginning… “Behind the scenes alert! We’ve asked our experts about their most unusual objects; the ones that make them mutter WTH?…
