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Dr Mariko Smith

@MarikoCurates

Yuin & Japanese museum curator, visual sociologist, historian. Also Koorioke/Karaoke enthusiast. Views my own.

Joined September 2019
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🖤💛❤ Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land #NAIDOC2020 #SovereigntyNeverCeded #AustralianMuseum #FirstNationsLanguages #Dhurga #Yuin #SouthCoastNSW 🖤💛❤
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1/2 New Publication from Anna Clark Just a matter of time: reviewing temporality in Australian historiography Time is a foundational concept in historical studies, and time itself must be historicised.
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Currently watching online #RETURN: Reconnecting objects and collections with people and places with @ourANU. Loving that they're taking the online viewers offsite for museum visits!
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Last night’s panel; Hidden Histories at the Eureka Centre Ballarat. So thought provoking - well done Kait, Jade, @MarikoCurates and @_museumguy 👏🏼 Seeds planted. @KazMonument
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For #NationalHandwritingDay we're sharing an example of a cross-written letter.✍️ Before 1840, letters were charged depending on the number of sheets sent, leading some people to ‘cross-write’ their letters to get around the system. Can you read this?
A rather confusing looking letter has been photographed. The text is almost entirely illegible as it has been "cross written". This has resulted in sentences that overlap one another so that the letter almost looks like a grid. It's an example of the lengths people went to save money on postage before the postal reforms of Rowlie Hill in 1840.

ALT A rather confusing looking letter has been photographed. The text is almost entirely illegible as it has been "cross written". This has resulted in sentences that overlap one another so that the letter almost looks like a grid. It's an example of the lengths people went to save money on postage before the postal reforms of Rowlie Hill in 1840.

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Niamh Formosa@NiamhFormosa10 Dec 2022
Last night I got to see my first object labels in a museum exhibition! A big thank you to First Nations Curator Courtney Marsh for the opportunity and @MarikoCurates for all her support. The Australian Musem’s new Minerals gallery is a must see!
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Okimono in the Form of a Raven, by Myōchin Munesuke, early 18th century
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Gallery lighting is tough. 😕 I'm proud that we've moved into a new era of transparency. In addition to this label, we've updated our provenace pages online to discuss issues of antiquities provenance more openly. mfa.org/collections/provenan…
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Color Schemer
@colorschemer17 Nov 2022
procedural light rose unobservant medium pink wannish reddish
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Idea: exhibit designers and curators spend a mandatory 1 day a month hanging out in an exhibit space they created - listening to visitors, watching them use things the "wrong" way, breezing past all the text, not understanding the lofty visual metaphor etc.
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Shade of the Lotus, Shinobazu Pond, by Kasamatsu Shiro, 1956 #shinhanga
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Dr Meming@Dr_Meming15 Nov 2022
Final year PhD students
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State Library Vic@Library_Vic4 Nov 2022
💫 Thanks, @unilibrary. You know this one's not so simple! While the wearing of white cotton gloves has long been synonymous with handling rare collection items, in some cases gloves can actually cause damage. Often, clean dry hands are enough. 🔗 blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
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Replying to @Library_Vic
Here's a simple one: gloves or no gloves?
A pair of hands lifting a folder of research documents off a shelf.

ALT A pair of hands lifting a folder of research documents off a shelf.

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Maple Tree and Small Birds, by Itō Jakuchū, ca. 1765 -1766
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