Brooklyn Museum: Star Wars: The Magic of Myth

18:22 01/07/2009

Hey Erin, That's a really interesting reasoning for tagging exhibitions. We had thought about it before, but didn't really come to any conclusions about how that might be helpful. Let me see how hard it would be to add that functionality.

posted by

shelley

17:41 01/07/2009

I wish we could tag exhibitions and that the Museum could make publicly available attendance numbers--then we could have a nifty interactive graph of cross-exhibition subject matter vs. popularity. Though the Museum would probably prefer to use it's own subject terms for such an undertaking. It could be done decade by decade (avoiding spotty early data and exhibitions that are too recent). Also using nationality tags from exhibitions (e.g. Infinite Island = Caribbean) and correlating it with census data to see if the exhibitions with national focus represented the population of the city at the time would be cool.

posted by

erin_trying

Star Wars: The Magic of Myth

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Dates: April 5, 2002 through July 7, 2002
Collections: Decorative Arts
Image: ECA_E2002i034.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2002
- Description: Star Wars: The Magic of Myth. [04/05/2002 - 07/07/2002]. Installation view.
- Citation: Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Egyptian, Classical & Ancient Middle Eastern Art (ECA_E_2002_Star)
- Source: color slide 1 x 1.5 in. (3 x 4 cm)

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