Unsolicited email we have received from around the World:

Wonderful to see so much useful information gathered together in one place. News that would otherwise be missed
UK Scotland - User Survey 2010

I love reading Global Museum. I look forward to the articles every week. The information keeps me informed about what is going on in the museum community and urges me to explore museums and exhibits online that I may have never known about.
Thanks!
User Survey 2010

Your newsletter is the best thing on the net!!!! Thanks for all the work you put into it!
R.Bucko - 2009

Thank you for the email. I love to see what's going on in the world and this was perfect for me. I was wondering is this an actual museum because I would love to come to it one day and if it is where is the museum? This news is facinating and I would love to learn more about it!
Thanks a bunch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ellen E. Rickman, Director of Museum Services, Asheville, NC - 2009

I'm just always delighted with the content, and therefore save it for my Friday lunch reading. I have learned much, enjoyed much, and continue to do so. Thanks so very much for this wonderful addition to my week(s).
By the way - IMPOSSIBLE to choose a category of greatest use/interest
USA user survey, Librarian – October 2009

I have been a huge fan of your site from the beginning. I often forward articles to my museum studies graduate students. It’s the best up-to-date museum site in the world.
Dawn, USA - June 2009

I really enjoy your website and find it very useful in searching for careers. Even though, I have not met many requirements, I hope to build my resume enough to one day get a career in the museum field. I currently am a student at Johns Hopkins University, and hope to do so after I graduate
User Survey Response, USA - January 2009

I love your site and find myself on it a couple of times a week. On bad days, it reminds me why I love working in the museum field so much
User Survey Response, USA - May 2008

My first year visiting this site is 2008, but this is not my first visit. I love the site. It is useful, informative, and your travel service already saved me over $100. Thanks
Member Museum Board of Directors– April 2008

I just wanted to complement you and your staff on the Global Museum website. It is truly a gift to those of us in the field who need a reliable and informative resource. Bravo.
Ginamarie Pugliese, Assistant Director, Naples Art Association August 2007

I have come to appreciate your publication and have just subscribed. It is a wonderful source of news. Thanks very much for all your work.
JoAllyn Archambault, PhD, Director, American Indian Program, May 2007

Eek! I'm a huge fan of your site; the museum news section is my favo(u)rite. Thanks for your site -- it's a wonderful resource.
Sincerely, Summer Smith

On a personal note, I would like to let you know that I appreciate all you have done for the museum community through your fabulous newsletters and website and am an avid reader and supporter of your work. I appreciate your time in checking your mailing list.
Sincerely, Kathy Daniels

I look forward to your correspondence, and I often copy articles to colleagues. Please continue what you do! thanks,
Sherry Spires, Curator of Education, Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee, USA

Gotta tell you, this is the fastest way I can find out what's going on globally (and on the job market). I genuinely love the site, and have been addicted for several years. But where the heck do you get the photos for the caption contest? They are hysterical!
Beryl Rosenthal, Ph.D. Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs, MIT Museum

It really is a fun site!
Jill L Schneider, USGS - Alaska Technical Data Unit

I nominated Global Museum! I wouldn't be able to make it through the week without the news reports. Thanks!
Honey Vizer

Your site brightens up my day and the information is invaluable.
Janet Hughes

Great e-zine. Keep up the good work!
Terri McNichol

Hello! I am writing to inform you that the Global Museum website has been nominated and selected as archaeologyfieldwork.com's featured website for the month of November 2002. What they said "If you're interested in museums, this is the website to check out. Global Museum features a fascinating webzine, an extensive list of worldwide employment opportunities and other online resources as well"
Jennifer Palmer

Hello, I am an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan (USA), where I study archaeology/anthropology and history. I value the global museum, and appreciate that it is free to the public. Thanks!
Anne Nagrant

Hi Roger, Just a quick note to wish you a happy new year for 2003 and to say thanks so much for including the article..."This Museum jaunt was historic stupidity" on the website. I really enjoyed it, having been to the Smithsonian in October last year. It's great that you include not only the serious, but the lighter side of our wonderful museums world. So, thanks for a laugh to start off the new year and keep up the good work.
Sharron Dickman

By the way, I think the Global Museum site is brilliant.
Dave David Parkhill , Library Technician , Queensland Museum

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Roger Smith - Founder & Publisher of Global Museum
Opening of the "Wreck of the Orpheus" exhibition, NZ National Mariitme Museum, 2000

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Dear Director, Like so many others I have found your thumbnail topics interesting, entertaining and informative. Then in today's list of topics came an article on Cash strapped cultural institutions in the City of Melbourne, Australia. This is of great interest to me as I run a small to medium museum in Melbourne and need to constantly keep up with the politics of funding in this city and this state, indeed in this country. So I looked and found you had a free subscription. Would have joined earlier if I know that. Though I think it is clear enough
Peter Haffenden, Director, Living Museum

Published by Roger Smith, Global Museum is a free weekly newsletter gathering information from a large pool of museums located all over the world. With a clean, uncluttered layout, Global Museum acts as a wonderful resource of current information. From bizarre and unbelievable news to noteworthy historical facts, this newsletter will plug you into information that is just slightly off the beaten media track. You might be surprised to read some of the articles that didn't make worldwide headlines. Previous issues included information pulled from Russia's Hermitage Museum, The Niagara Falls Museum, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Articles featured in the past also included an announcement from the historical Wellsbilt hotel that owners were officially declaring the building a black history museum; oral history archives with Albert Einstein; discovery of what is believed to be the Rameses I mummy and Christie's New York auction that recently grossed $14.9 million and set new world auction records. For more information or to subscribe, visit http://www.globalmuseum.org/-
Lisa Marie Heitman, List-A-Day.com Associate Editor

Roy Hemmat the Museumstuff.com webmaster responds to a question from a Listserv writer:
"http://www.globalmuseum.org offers a worldwide directory to museum studies programs. (Roger Smith's treasure-trove of museum related jobs resources.)"

New Zealand Herald – June 27 th 2000 Bookmarks by Peter Sinclair
Global Museum: A couple of years back I remember greetings the appearance on the internet of Dr Drum's Not-For-Profit Bookshop. Dr Drum was New Zealand marketer Roger Smith, who offered publications for and from non-profit outfits like museums, parks, zoos and foundations. But now this energetic proprietor has decided to change tack and make a bob out of the web any way he can – museum stuff (International news features quirky items like the woman at Malaysia's Kelantan Museum who locked herself into a glass tank full of snakes), travel-centre, classical music, jazz emporium, toyshop, video sales, paid resume posts, banners and pop-ups galore. You can't help hoping this boisterous museum-meister solves the riddle which has perplexed far ritzier outlets like Flying Pig – how to turn a profit on the web.
Peter Sinclair

Hello ! My name is Bill Clark. I am the Guest Operations Manager for The Baltimore Zoo. I was wondering if you could please post a position for me on your site ? I have discovered so much useful information from your globalmuseum.org site the past year and would also like to take the chance to thank you for having such an awesome site !
Bill Clark, Guest Operations Mgr., The Baltimore Zoo

You provide a terrific service. Many thanks!
Guillermo Alonso, Administrator for Collections and Exhibitions, Miami Art Museum

I love your museum news and look forward to it every week. You call my attention to many stories on the Net that I would otherwise miss. I also enjoy the sense of humor the Global Museum staff must have in posting many of the articles
Paul Spana Director of Exhibits The Children's Museum of Houston

Of course, Global Museum is the best, and I always read your stuff.
Claudia Nicholson, Curator, Museum Collections Department, Minnesota Historical Society

I would like to thank and congratulate you for Global Museum! It is refreshing to see a space dedicated to museums and museology. Jay Heuman Visitor & Volunteer Services Coordinator at Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE

On Global Museum's FORUM: What an excellent, user-friendly resource. I have marketing books, but this one is the easiest approach I have seen. I definitely will check out Dr. Dickman's "Tourism and Hospitality Marketing." Thanks for making this available. Terri McNichol

Thanks for all your hard work! The Museum Resources section on your site is fantastic. It's great to have everything together and not to have to spend hours trawling the net when you need info.
Kathy Grundlingh Head: Curatorial Departments South African National Gallery

Congratulations on your resource pages. They are great. I downloaded and printed the marketing plan and it's just what we needed. Phillip Charlier Australia

Great web site. Enjoy it a lot
Claus Breede Director Huron County Museum

Hi Roger
I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your weekly email – seeing what else is happening out there helps to keep things in perspective here - particularly on those crazy busy days! And also shows what a neat sector the museum/culture/heritage/art one is. Barbara Hinkley, Manager, Tourism Marketing, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

The evolution of Global Museum from a couple years ago to its current look is really amazing!
Cheryl Maslin

The MuseumSpot.com editorial team has scoured the Web for the very best museum sites, and found yours to be a top-notch tool for anyone exploring cultural, historical, scientific and natural attractions from around the world

Site recommendation to a Museum List inquirer: Global Museum: www.globalmuseum.org This site is fantastic. It has a Career's link that will take you to all kinds of jobs all over the world. You can also see information about the news that is happening around the world in the museum field.
Tracie Evans, Curator of Collections, Stonefield Historic Site, SHSW

I love your website!!
Melodie Francis, Houston Museum of Natural Science

Thank you for doing such a wonderful service to the museum community.
Ellen J. Holdorf , Dallas Museum of Art

I enjoy receiving your global news. I edit the Visual Arts and Crafts Special Interest Group's online newsletter for Museums Australia and I always refer back to relevant articles you highlight. Thank you
Annette Welkamp, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia

A short note to let you know that I thoroughly enjoy reading you webzine. I find it very entertaining, especially when daily routine becomes too much and I need a break. I share your website with one of my volunteers who is our community's local historian. He has a wealth of knowledge (he's also 75) and yearns for more.
Lori Bicklmeier, Curator, Fort Dauphin Museum, Manitoba, Canada

Many thanks for all of your postings to the Museum Ed Net. Some days that's the best news I'm coming across! And it is wonderful to have a truly global perspective on what's going on out there. It's wonderful to see how the site has grown--you must be going flat out with this thing.
Claire Loughheed, Director of Education, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

Just a quick note to wish you a pleasant Christmas and to let you know how worthwhile I find globalmuseum. (You may recall I e-mailed you a few weeks ago because somehow I had been removed from the list - thank you for putting me back on - I look forward to the news in it every week, as I do the website.)
Eurolink - Graham Carter

Thanks for making the Global Museum site a goodie! It is one of the few websites I visit on a regular basis
Xandra Boswell Discovery Centres Manager Te Papa

Thank you for the great missives that you've written over the past year. I really enjoy the style and content of your webzine.
Richard Duggan Hawaii

I like the site, it is a very good and very informative.
Michelle C. Messinger, Curator, State of California

I am taking the privilege to introduce and recommend the Globalmuseum to my colleagues and also the students at my class. The students seem enjoying it like their tutor !
YASUI R. Lecturer in Museum Studies, Obirin University, Japan

Thank you for providing this wonderful service
L.A.Stuart The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Dear Director, as a member of the museum professional, I would like to send my great appreciation for establishing such a wonderful website. I am a first year PhD student at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Originally, I came from Taiwan where I was running a museum consultancy firm. Thank you again. I love your web!
Aven

You are doing a great job! I tell everyone who is interested in museum studies to check out your site. I especially like the news section, and the new web design looks snazzy.
Georgia Fox

On another note, the website looks GREAT!! I love the new look. I log on to your website at least twice a week to keep up with Museum news. Again, you're doing a fantastic job with keeping us informed about Museums around the globe.
Melodie Francis, Media Relations Coordinator, Marketing Department, Houston Museum of Natural Science

Roger Smith, the founder and director of Global Museum, a highly successful international Webzine, offers us some insight into how he has established a museum-based compendium site. Global Museum boasts current readership in 88 countries and maintains a weekly mailbase of more then six thousand museum professionals; something for Cultivate Interactive to aspire to!
Cultivate Interactive Issue 4: Editorial

Hi Roger, Wow.... your 'new look' site is a sight! Loved the audio wave and pic, made it friendly and really 'un-corporate' (my word for 'boring, bad, frigid, insipid..') The whole layout, look and feel is great. I am just trolling through for a bit of guidance for our strategic plan writing. On a previous visit I downloaded Sharron Dickman's Marketing Plan and found it a great resource. Good luck with the 'zine
Phillip Charlier

Thank you for mentioning the exhibition, Digital kanalen on the global museum website. The response in the Netherlands has been great and we are now working towards preparing our next virtual exhibition. Keep up the excellent work. The site is certainly a valid contribution to museums and website. Best wishes
Michele Jacobs

Thanks for the great web site!
Lisa Pearson

Hello, Incredible site... Regards from Canada
Valerie Brideau

thanks for your efforts! from Santa Cruz, CA, USA to wherever you are...
Roz

Global Museum: www.globalmuseum.org This site is fantastic. It has a Career's link that will take you to all kinds of jobs all over the world. You can also see information about the news that is happening around the world in the museum field.
Tracie Evans

Many thanks for your help- I really enjoy your virtual museum- it is a great service! I do not have a web site at this point, but certainly will provide a link to your museum as soon as our website is up and running.
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig

Dear Roger, -just wanted to say how much I enjoy the Global Museum, and how nice it is to have something else to read about this week. I've been very lucky that nobody I know personally was directly involved in New York or DC, though this is not true of all my friends & co-workers. The US news services have not been good about reporting the outpouring of shock, outrage, & sympathy coming from all over the world, though I know about it from friends with extensive overseas contacts. The messages on the Museum List have been appreciated. Thanks.
Deborah G. Harding, Collection Manager, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

I just wanted to say thanks for sending these emails through each week. As a post-grad student studying Museum Studies here in New Zealand, it's great to read about what's going on in the industry globally.
John Orfanos

I have always enjoyed globalmuseum.org. Actually, you were one of the first web pages I looked at eons ago, and you are still on my list to view! Keep up the really great work at finding all the really cool stuff that you share with us, not making it dull and boring! Have a great week!
Pamela Aitken, Exec. Coordinator for VP of Finance and Administration, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis

As I teach museum studies at California State University at Chico, I will be encouraging my students to use your wonderful website Georgia Fox, Assistant Professor,

Global Museum : A funky site with museum job openings from around the world. Click on "Careers" to find the listings. You can also post your own resume for 12 months for $20. While you're at it, sign up for the weekly webzine for the latest news from museumland. Anne Douglas WZ.COM

Hi Roger,
And I thought that I was the magician........... You did a swell job with my new advertisement and I thank you so much. Those many hours you spend at the keyboard translate to a great looking webzine. I'm so impressed. Thanks again - check goes out in the morning post.
Kevin Barnes -a.k.a. Dr. Wilderness. stage magicians

I need to thank you for the great information you publish
John Pearce, Sr. Lecturer, Historic Preservation, Mary Washington College

Dear Sir, I am happy to report that I saw an advert on the Global Museum, and replied to it. Lo and behold, I was accepted for the position, and am now working away at accessioning thousands of books, periodicals and sheet music! Thank you. The position is a year's internship, so I'll eventually be searching again for a more substantial position, but know that Global Museum will be there to help me out. Thank you. yours ever, a fond subscriber,
Sean McGraw

Congratulations with this terrific initiative & brilliant site!
Sincerely,
Caroline Van Steenberge, Belgium

Thanks so much for keeping my brain in touch with the rest of the museum world!
Sincerely
Susan E. Cooper Finney, Michigan Historical Museum

We use your site in our service for Czech schools, introducing ICT in education -
itelský spomocník

On the humour in Global Museum: Dear Roger, How can I ever take you seriously again? After a bad day I now hurt from laughing so much at the Gallery of the Unidentifiable. Oh for staff with the talent to write like that and put it together on-line!
Thank you
Anthea Harris, Records Coordinator and Curator, The Perth Mint

Thanks for the Global Museum, by the way. It's a wonderful resource
Keni Sturgeon, Jensen Arctic Museum

Thank you very much and I absolutely love the website and would be most interested in knowing of any way I may be able to contribute to content?? Thanks
Karen J Jakubec Australia

Just wanted to quickly thank you for such a nice resource
Linda Hunter MFT, Director of Education, Pretend City, The Children's Museum of Orange County, Inc

I have very much enjoyed reading your webzine. As a MA student in Museum Studies, the kind of information that you have made available here is invaluable. Sincerely,
Michele Joyce

Roger - just wanted to add a "thank you" for the weekly Global Museum. It's a great site, and the stories are always interesting. I don't read everything, but I probably read at least half, and am always forwarding stuff to others that I know are interested. Thanks again -Jill.
Jill L Schneider, USGS - Alaska Technical Data Unit

Dear Roger, Wow! I was surprised to see a new look for globalmuseum, and completely bowled over by it. Really lovely, inviting, and less confusing than the interesting array of "thumbnail" images. Big congrats! ciao for now, Star
Star Meyer Italy

I've been with you from the beginning and have enjoyed watching this "labour of love" grow and grow. Congratulations, Roger
Survey response from the USA

The news section of Global Museum is an invaluable way for me to keep up with things in the museum world, but sometimes I am not able to read everything before the new articles are added. Is there a way to search the Podcastss for the postings for a particular week? Many thanks - I hate to miss out on anything you post! All best,
Christian, Acting Director, Sweet Briar Museum

Love the new look. Seems to be much more useful layout. Keep up the good work.
Philip G. Maples, Curator/Director, Baker-Cederberg Museum and Archives

Global Museum has always mixed fun and entertainment along with the vital information that we all need to get our jobs done. The format is easy and the free exchange of information and ideas between all of us in the "museum world" encourages new and innovative solutions to the many problems that plague us
Phyllis Knill

I LOVE YOUR SERVICE! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
A Lehmer

Great site and service! Thanks for all your hard work.
Web Survey response – NZ reader

Keep up the good work - it's fabulous!
Fred Lautzenheiser

Again the world of Roger entertains and informs. I look forward to seeing your post. 12 more weeks of Chemo stuck here at home and God Bless you. You bring the world to me in a way that I cannot now or probably ever see myself. Great will be your reward for being such a good person. Thank you
Stephen

Thanks, and keep up the good work. Your news page is one of the high points of my week.
Susan Hikida

Love the site! I read it regularly for museum/anthropology-related news, but enjoy all of the news stories. Thanks also for maintaining a job posting site.
User Survey – USA

I recently visited your on-line museum site. What a wonderful resource for professionals involved in culture around the world!
Isabel C. Halm

Thanks very much for the globalmuseum and keep up the good work, please.
David Parkhill

Time and again I've encountered wonderful information through your responses and your global museum site. You've done wonderful work! Take care and thank you again,
Cecelia Ottenweller

You are doing a wonderful job for the museum world. Thank you so much for your efforts
Peter Stanbury OAM, PhD - Chair, ICOM's International Committee for University Museums and Collections

Dear Roger, I have been reading "Global Museum" for years now and have believed for some time that your publication has consistently provided our national children's museum community with bridges to both the international children's museum community and to the greater world of museums, in general.
I truly appreciate all of your hard work and had appreciated that it had been made regularly available to me through the Childmus listserv
Richard Cohen

Thank you Roger Smith for your Global Museum news stories. Happy New Year
Valerie Fish, Senior Museum Education Planner, New York State Museum

Thank you very much for your service over the last Year! I've always read your Newsletter with great interest
Stephan Rosenkranz

So glad to get your Globalmuseum note today, as, per tradition, one should do a bit today of whatever one wants to be doing throughout the rest of the year. Thanks for a fun and informative site
Star Meyer - Milan

Thanks for all the good work! I read the Global News section each week, and have my museum studies students do so as well
Web feedback January

Thank you for this service. What did we do before this? I recommend this site to students as part of their internship training with us
Web feedback USA

Thanks for doing a great job in keeping us all informed about what is happening in museums around the globe- and double thanks for starting the New Year with a lead story about our Virtual Room!
Dr J Patrick Greene Chief Executive Officer, Museum Victoria

I love global museum and appreciate the service. It keeps me, a curator in a small local museum, in touch with the international museum world
Web feedback Australia

I enjoy your Global Museum tremendously and look forward to it with anticipation. Please keep up the good work.
Susan Smyer

Roger, we’ve never met, but I have enjoyed your contributions to the museum community over the last few years... you may have seen my name on the ASTC listserv over the years, and I think we have similar goals of serving museums and the broader community. I just wanted to say thanks, and how much I am impressed as to how much information you pull together each month. My only hope is that you aren't having to do all this by yourself. Anyway greetings from Seattle...
David Taylor, AHHA Museum Services

Delightful! I have shared with many current and former museum friends. THANKS!
User Survey Response

Thank you so much - I think your website is a great asset
Holly Hawkins USA

I really enjoy this website!! It is a great resource for university students studying museum studies
Web Survey response - Australia

I really look forward to reading what is going on in the global museum world, especially the quirky news. I also enjoy the photo captioning. Keep up the good and interesting work
Reader Survey Response, USA May 2006

I love globalmuseum.org! I'm a museum studies student in the US who is interested in a career abroad, and this website is great for learning about museums/archives outside the US!
Reader Survey Response, USA November 2006

Excellent site - I am glad I found it. I am amazed at the wealth of information. Thank you
Consultant Survey Response, USA December 2006

Opening your website is a part of my daily routine.Interesting, enriching,and full of opportunities. Last year, when I was still a student, exploring the field, I found your website and became a fan. Thank you
Reader Survey Response, USA March 2007