#museup

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For everyone else’s pleasure ( and my own ) so I can keep track, this is the list of people I need to add, have already added, & fc’s. 

muses italicized have their main pages up.  muses bolded have stats & bio up. muses with nothing got nothin’ up.

*feel free to ask about any of them! send anons to any of them! I am exited to play all of them so it’d be fun! 

1. Rudy Summers ( Haley Reinhart ) 2. Dana Lightman ( Ashley Graham ) 3. Natalie Devries ( Demi Lovato ) 4. Dean Greer ( Dylan O'Brien ) 5. Rose Torres ( Hailee Steinfeld ) 6. Marisol Campos ( Jenifer Lopez ) 7. Tobias Fisher ( Daveed Diggs ) 8. Ronan Fisher ( Joe Jonas ) 9. Ashley Banks ( Debby Ryan ) 10. Daisy Adams ( Sabrinia Carpenter ) 11. Aubree Graham ( Lea Michele ) 12. Jemma Connors ( Jenna Coleman ) 13. David Munroe ( Zayn Malik ) 14. Gabrielle Gonzales ( Ariana Grande ) 15. Nathan Hilt ( Joe Jonas ) 16. Anna Connors ( Rowan Blanchard ) 17. Isabella Rivera ( Demi Lovato ) 18. Nicholas Rosen ( Jack Falahee ) 19. Flint Landon ( Charlie Puth ) 20. Candice James ( Miley Cyrus ) 21. Kai Kealoha ( Jason Momoa ) 22. Connie Peters ( Anne Hathaway ) 23. Beca Mitchel ( Anna Kendrick ) 24. Jesse Swanson ( Skylar Astin ) 25. Mitchie Torres ( Demi Lovato ) 26. Shane Grey ( Joe Jonas ) 27. Penny ( Kaley Cuoco ) 28. Stiles ( Dylan O'Brien ) 29. Deadpool ( Ryan Renyolds ) 30. Steve Rodgers ( Chris Evans ) 31. Damon Salvatore ( Ian Somerhalder ) 32. Miley Stewart ( Miley Cyrus ) 33. Ronnie Miller ( Miley Cyrus ) 34. Amy Pond ( Karen Gillan ) 35. The Doctor ( Matt Smith ) 36. Alex Russo ( Selena Gomez ) 37. Sonny Munroe ( Demi Lovato ) 38. Demi Lovato ( Cannon ) 39. Joe Jonas ( Cannon ) 40. Nick Jonas ( Cannon ) 41. Selena Gomez ( Cannon ) 42. Allie Hamilton ( Rachel McAdams ) 43. Alexander Hamilton ( Lin Manuel Miranda ) 44. Eliza Hamilton ( Gemma Arterton ) 45. Rachel Berry ( Lea Michele ) 46. Dani Harper ( Demi Lovato ) 47. Tina Cohen Chang ( Jenna Ushkowitz ) 48. Kitty Wilde ( Becca Tobin ) 49. Sugar Motta ( Camilla Cabello ) 50. Elliot Gilbert ( Adam Lambert )

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Save the Date: MuseUp at the DHM im Berlin on 1 February

14 January 2012

After our first successful MuseUp last November at the C/O Berlin, we're pleased to announce that the next Berlin MuseUp will be taking place at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM), so mark your diaries for 4pm on Friday 1 February.

The idea for a MuseUp at the DHM was first brought up in December, but due to the fact that the galleries at the DHM have no WiFi or phone reception, a creative alternative for had to be found. The current special exhibition at the museum is called "The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945" - so why not take that concept of freedom one step further? Instead of of letting the reception-less interior of the museum get in the way, why not just bring the museum outside? Why not make the impossible possible?

The solution was to transform a selection of artworks from the exhibition into QR codes around the exterior of the museum building. A guided tour in English as well as German will lead participants through the objects while they tweet their impressions via the hashtag #MuseUp, and as usual anyone further afield can follow everything and join in online. Afterwards, there will also be an opportunity to see the rest of the exhibition indoors.

We'd love to be able to take credit for this unique idea, but the creative brains behind it have been Roland Wagner from visitatio.de, together with the DHM itself. However, when they contacted us to ask if we'd like to be involved, of course we said yes!

So, if you're in Berlin, we hope you'll brave the winter weather and join us, Visitatio and the DHM on 1 February for our inside-out MuseUp. It also happens to be Folloa-a-Museum day on Twitter that day, so why not come and follow a museum with us for real? More details on the exhibition and how to sign up to follow shortly.

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For German coverage about this event, visit the DHM Blog. Anyone new to the concept of MuseUp and Tweetups can also read up further on this in our previous post.

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Happy New Year!

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). 

For 2013, we have a few changes at Museum140 in the works, including a new website, and, as ever, many ideas. We'll keep you posted, of course, but for now we just want to say a big THANK YOU for all your support over the last two years!!

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#MuseUp Storified

14 November 2012

Wow, what can we say?! First up, a BIG thank you to everyone who came to our first ever MuseUp at the C/O Berlin on Monday night and helped to make it a success! The event was fully booked, with around 30 tweeters and also some bloggers taking part. We also had at least a dozen tweeps following us online from a distance, some of whom were very active e.g. looking up relevant articles or youtube videos and tweeting the links.

In total, over 200 original tweets documented the event, as well as over 100 RTs and several dozen @ mentions. Hashtracking.com estimated that the 389 tweets generated on on Monday reached an audience of over 61,000 followers. Furthermore, many more tweets were sent in the run up to Monday helping to spread the word. In total we archived over 400 tweets on TweetArchivist.com since last week. 

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For our guided tour round the C/O Berlin, we split up into two groups. The English group started in the Joel Sternfeld Retrospektive, working their way through the exhibition chronologically. So that we wouldn't get in each other's way, the German group started in the Deutsche Börse (German Stock Exchange) Photography Prize, which the English group visited last, and then worked their way backwards in time through Joel Sternfeld. In the end we all met again at the entrance and headed off for a drink and a bite to eat together, carrying on the conversation about our experiences of the exhibitions, this time not on Twitter but in real life ;-)

We've created a Storify summary of the English tweets sent during the MuseUp.The German group seemed to have the more avid Tweeters (while the English group had more bloggers), but there were still a fair amount of English tweets gathering impressions.

You can also read a summary of the German MuseUp tweets here.

We hope this was the first of many MuseUps. Our plan is to hold them every couple of months at different museums throughout Berlin. If you are a museum in Berlin and would like to host a MuseUp in 2013, please get in touch!

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MuseUp Update: the C/O Berlin & Joel Sternfeld

2 November 2012

In case you hadn’t heard the news, we’re launching our first ever museum tweetup – MuseUp – at the C/O Berlin on Monday 12th November together with Timeline e.v. with a guided tour (both in English and in German) around the new Joel Sternfeld exhibition. Attendance is free but ticketed.

Many of you have already signed up, in fact, half of the tickets have already gone. But for those of you still undecided, here’s some more information, as promised, on the C/O Berlin and the exhibition in question.

  C/O Berlin

The C/O Berlin showcases international photography exhibitions on aprox. 2000 square metres of exhibition space in the former Royal Post Office (Postfuhramt) building on Oranienburger Straße in Berlin, Germany. The exhibitions of renowned artists are supplemented by a programme of artist talks, lectures, discussions and guided tours, thus offering a forum of round about the topics of visuality and photography. The privately supported institution also fosters young photographers through its “Talents” format, as well as offering learning opportunities for children (“Junior”) and young people (“Teens”).

Joel Sternfeld Retrospektive

As one of the founders of New Color Photography, Joel Sternfeld helped to establish colour photography as an artistic medium in fine-art. In the 70s and 80s he toured the USA in a minibus, discovery beauty in the everyday and mundane. American Prospects tells of this journey. The Retrospektive includes three other of Sternfeld’s series. On This Site documents crime scenes, silent relics of violence and crime. Sweet Earth complements this documentation with American landscapes under human influence, whilst Strangers Passing captures American society itself.

So, hopefully we’ve whet your appetite, and if you’re in Berlin you’ll come along and help make our first ever MuseUp a success. Here’s a summary of the details:

When: Monday 12th November, 6pm

Where: C/O Berlin, Oranienburger Str. 35/36 (U6 Oranienburger Tor, S1 S2 S25 Oranienburger Straße) – meet at the main entrance ticket desk

How: Register via Eventbrite by 9th November (the event is free but spaces are limited). Bring your smartphone (or other device) on the night and tweet away!

Hashtag: #MuseUp

If enough people are up for it we’ll head out for a drink together afterwards.

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Meetup. Tweetup. MuseUp.

16 October 2012

The last few weeks have been a bit of a roller-coater ride for us. Over 2,000 followers on Twitter, 200 fans on Facebook, and we featured our 50th Adopt-a-Museum. Where to from here?

Well, after 18 months of successful online social media projects, we're super excited to announce our first offline project. You may remember a few weeks ago we tweeted live from the launch party of Timeline, a new initiative that aims to bring together people and projects in the digital world. And now we're teaming up with Timeline to launch a series of museum tweetups here in Berlin. We've been playing with the idea of organising Tweetups for museums for a while, and so has Hie-suk Yang, who is part of the Timeline team. So, we thought, what could be better for a co-operation!

Under the name MuseUp we want to bring Tweetups to a range of large and small, renowned and unusual museums in the larger Berlin area. Every three to four months, Twitter fanatics and newbies, bloggers, photo enthusiasts and of course museum fans can look forward to a new museum Tweetup. We'll be covering the English side of MuseUp, whilst Timeline will accompany you in German. 

We're looking forward to getting to know you, and to tweeting together with you!

The first #MuseUp will take place on Monday, 12 November in the C|O Berlin at 6pm. We'll be inviting you on a free guided tour, both in English and in German, around the new Joel Sternfeld exhibition. Places are limited, so you will need to register. We'll be posting more details about the Tweetup and the exhibition both here and on Timeline soon. In the mean time, if you already want to register, just head over to Eventbrite. 

For everyone who is now scratching their head and asking themselves what on earth a museum Tweetup is, it's basically a meetup, usually a guided tour, where the participants give a running commentary on Twitter with their impressions, photographs etc. Other Twitter users can join in online, e.g. by tweeting in questions. Everyone uses the same hashtag to keep the discussion together (our hashtag will be #MuseUp). 

First to introduce museum Tweetups in Germany where the Kulturkonsorten in Munich, in September 2011, followed by KultUp in Frankfurt in March 2012. If you read German, Kulturkonsorten give an overview of their format, whilst KultUp keep a very good photo archive on Flickr. A popular way of documenting tweetups is via Storify, such as in this example of a recent Tweetup from the Kulturkonsorten.

We hope we've whet your appetite for more, and if you're in Berlin on 12 November, we look forward to welcoming you to our very first MuseUp!

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For further reading:

1. Tweetup im American Museum of Natural History (EN)

2. Das 1. Tweetup der Kulturkonsorten (DE)

3. Tweetup im Jüdischen Museum Berlin (DE)

4. Was ist ein KultUp? (DE)