Live Tweeting Mummy CT Scanning Today!
We’ve got something very cool going on! Follow us on Twitter today to get our updates—we are going to be tweeting live as curators and conservators take four mummies in the Museum’s collection to the North Shore University Hospital for CT scanning.
Update: we are using hashtag #mummyCT:
Full photoset is up on Flickr.
Nina Kuriloff:
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:56 am
This is extremely exciting!
Vincent Brown:
June 23rd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
I thoroughly enjoyed the ‘show’. Watching the commentary via the hashtag #mummyCT on Twitter and the stream of photos being uploaded to Flickr was really quite exciting. When I saw Shelly’s tweet that the CT scan revealed that Lady Hor was actually a male I knew I was watching history in the making.
One observer likened it to the modern equivalent of listening to the baseball game on the radio. I’d add to that and say that we were all empowered as commentators on the ‘game’ as well, as myself and others were able to add our own comments and throw in links to related material in between Shelly’s tweets.
What an experience. Well done Brooklyn Museum!
Shelley Bernstein:
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Nina, Vincent!
Thanks so much for these comments – it’s great to get the feedback and I’m finally just catching up after a long and rewarding, but exhausting day! Live tweeting was harder than we thought – it actually took about 4 people to do it. Kathy from our Egyptian Department was enormously helpful and kept helping get photos and tidbits as I was typing and uploading – and all the time conservators were stopping by with their own tidbits as well. We kept swapping cameras to keep everything moving. Everything happened very fast – faster than we thought, so there’s a lot more to say. Curators and conservators are going to blog more in-depth over the next several weeks, so we’ll be publishing more about the findings. Also, we will be publishing a lot to the website in other ways, but that will take longer because we need to get the scans back from the hospital and start working with that data. Overall, this is just a start and this picture that Kathy snagged summed up my mood today…overwhelming amazement!
Vincent, thanks so much for your awesome blog post which so nicely combines all the activity and the conversation. It was great to tweet with you today!
Vincent Brown:
June 24th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Thanks Shelley,
I was wondering how you mannaged to get those pics up to Flickr so quickly. It was a lot of fun and very engaging. Watching those tweets and photos streaming in from my own blog was novel. What an excellent use of Social Networking!
I’ve written another post reporting on my experience of the event as an observer. It turned out a bit longer than I expected:
Report on the Mummies’ Trip to the Hospital.
Erika Dicker:
June 24th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Awesome work guys!
dorian katz:
June 25th, 2009 at 10:43 am
That is really exciting. How do I find more information on who Lady Hor’s was?
Shelley Bernstein:
June 25th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Hi Dorian,
Stay tuned! Our curators and conservators are going to be blogging about the details soon. I may take a few weeks, we are just getting scans back and it will take a while to write everything up.
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