Josho Brouwers's Blog, page 5
January 13, 2015
A quick update
Hello, there! I haven’t updated my personal website in a while. There are a number of reasons for that, including new developments at my current employer, Karwansaray Publishers, which will be revealed soon. I write regularly on the editor’s blog of Ancient Warfare magazine, so if you want to read what I’ve been up to […]
September 25, 2014
What is a museum?
Some of the comments following my previous blog post suggest that a brief follow-up is in order. I think that in order to understand where I am coming from, it’s important to make explicit what I think an archaeological museum is or ought to be. My comments regarding the Keys2Rome exhibition and archaeological museums in […]
Are museums just collections of things?
On 14 September, I visited the new exhibition on the Middle Ages at the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO for short) here in Leiden. I was struck by how old-fashioned the exhibit was. There were plenty of display cases filled with objects – things seemingly devoid of any context. Then, I was happened across this […]
August 27, 2014
Wikimedia as a tool to reach your audience
Yesterday, I attended a meeting at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, where Sebastiaan ter Burg, who works for the Dutch office of the Wikimedia Foundation in Utrecht, gave a talk. He spoke on why galleries, libraries, archives, and museums – GLAMs for short – should cooperate with Wikimedia and embrace open content by making […]
July 25, 2014
Revisiting the Western Way of War
As most of you will know, I am also the editor of Ancient Warfare magazine, the best popular magazine on military history currently available (I am sure you would agree). Looking over the blog posts that I have written in the past twenty months or so, the one that I think is probably among the […]
Employee happiness is the key to a company’s success
Recently, I was talking to someone about worker happiness and how quickly people tend to jump ship when another good job opportunity presents itself. Several years ago, I briefly worked for a now-defunct institute here in the Netherlands where people seemed to have little love for the work that they were doing. During my stay […]
June 2, 2014
Time for a change
Time for a change! I have returned to operating my own website, which is largely a blog. I hope to be able to post updates frequently and have also added blog posts that used to be hosted on the Netjer VOF website, the company that my partner and I founded back in 2012.
April 13, 2014
A raven in London
One of the ravens at the Tower of London.
March 10, 2014
Learn to speak Italian
Arianna has started a series of tutorials on her YouTube channel about how to speak Italian. The first one is posted above.
September 10, 2013
Ancient Kamiros
A view across the beautiful ancient ruins of Kamiros on Rhodes.
