IndieWeb Carnival March 2026: Museum memories

Museums and galleries are places we can go to learn about the past, think about the present, and consider the future. Museums are places we can connect: with times, people, and place. We can have conversations in museums. We learn in museums. We can explore.

The topic I have chosen for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival is “Museum memories”.

This month, I invite you to write a blog post about a memory that you have of a museum. It can be any museum: your local art gallery, a museum you visit often, a museum you visited on holiday, a museum dedicated to one of your interests (the sea, video games, transportation, your favourite football team), or a museum at a historic site you have visited.

To get you thinking about this month’s topic, I have a few questions that you can use as starting points:

• What is your favourite museum? When did you realise it became your favourite?
• Do you recall a time when an object in a museum or an art gallery made you feel something? What was the feeling?
• Do you remember when you first stumbled upon a new kind of history or art that you hadn’t thought or known about before?
• Have you met anyone interesting at a museum? A new friend? A tour guide that got you thinking about something in a new way?
• Is there a museum you loved as a child? What made it so interesting to you?
• How does/did the physical space of a museum you visit or have visited affect you? Do you feel a certain way when you enter?

This month’s IndieWeb Carnival runs from March 1st to March 31st. To participate, write a blog post on the topic of “Museum memories” on your website. Then, send me an email at readers@jamesg.blog with a link to your submission.

I will curate all of the submissions I receive on this page as I receive them. At the beginning of April, I will write a round-up that summarises all of the submissions I have received.

Entries are listed below in reverse chronological order of submission. This means that the most recently received posts are at the top of the list.

Entries

• On Museum Memories: Daniel's Story by Bix
• Museum memories by Beto
• Two Museum Memories by Joe
• Two Museum Memories by Jeff
• Museum memories by James (me!)
• Museum memories by Mike
• Museum memories by Zinzy
• The Museum of Possibilities by Jatan
• The 200 year old roti-maker by twitu
• 美術館による記憶 / Museum memories by Last Encore
• Museum Reflections March 2026 - The WAG-Qaumajuq by Ginny
• The power of museum memories by Ben
• Collections and catalogues: The lasting power of museums by V.H. Belvadi
• Lost in the Met by Nick
• Museums That Aren't Quite Museums by Sammie
• Growing up around a museum by Matthew
• Exit through the gift shop > The fine line between culture and ostentation and Museums along the Road by Andrei
• Museum Memories by David
• Museums by Noahie
• Museum memories by Elena
• 26W11. The little book in the velvet-lined case by Anthony
• IndieWeb Carnival: Museum Memories by Kristof
• The Antique Telecommunications Museum by Reilly
• Museum memories by Paul
• The Franklin Institute’s Rhythmic Machines by Jesse
• Museum memories by Loreleice
• Museum memories by theoo
• Museum People by W. Evan
• Museum Memories by Dale
• Dinosaurs and Bees by Britt
• Cairo Dairy 4 by Jeremy
• The Museum of my Childhood and the Museums of the Community by Sara
• Museum memories by Frances
• museum memories - Wild: Untamed Mind by kwist
• Modern and contemporary by Ken
• Museum Memories by Michael
• Musee d’Orsay and the Three Mixed-media Arabs by Thomas