Design museums and museum studies related to design
Design Museum: a blog opened by Christos Vittoratos, presenting reviews, news and comments about design museums around the world:
http://designmuseums.blogspot.com/
Design in Museum Studies: a blog opened in 2009 at the Master in History of Decorative Arts and Design, a joint programme of Parsons, New School of Design and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, reporting comments and discussions on the Future of museums and of museum studies program, dealing with design:
http://designinmuseumstudies.blogspot.com
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Museums, museum practice and museum studies
Future of Museums: the blog of the Center for the Future of Museums (an initiative of the American Association of Museums),
http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/
ICOM Curricula Guidelines for Museum Professional Development :
http://museumstudies.si.edu/ICOM-ICTOP/index.htm
James Bradburne: website of James Bradburne, British-Canadian architect, designer and museum specialist, currently Director General of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi; interesting papers and articles on museums, education and learning:
http://www.bradburne.org/
Museum and Society: an independent, open access, peer reviewed journal on museums, launched in 2003; international and interdisciplinary, presents papers of empirical and theoretical research on museums:
http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/museumsociety.html
Museum Studies: a portal on museums studies for professionals and scholars, by the The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies; it offers links, articles, and informations for the museum community:
http://museumstudies.si.edu/
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Informal learning and visitor studies
Informal Science: online community to support informal science education and learning:
http://www.informalscience.org
The Informal Learning Review:
http://www.informallearning.com/ilr-about.htm
Visitor Studies: network of professionals from diverse institutions, providing useful links and informations, some are freely available, some are exclusively for subscribed members:
http://www.visitors.org.uk/node/18
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Schools, research departments
Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design:
http://cetld.brighton.ac.uk/
School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester:
http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/
Victoria and Albert Museum, Research:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/res_cons/research/index.html
