Medhavi Gandhi
@medhavi.bsky.social
✏️ Exploring #museums & #culture in a digital world 🏛️ 🖥️ Created theheritagelab.in
📌 South Asia Grants team, Wikimedia Foundation & and some Open GLAM work.
📌 South Asia Grants team, Wikimedia Foundation & and some Open GLAM work.
Reposted by Medhavi Gandhi
Blow me down with a shooting star! 💫 ✨ 🌟 🤩
A rare manuscript copy of 天元玉曆祥異賦 (The Tianyuan Jade Calendar in Verse Prose on the Auspicious and Unusual Signs). 10 vols with oodles of stunning hand coloured illustrations on this work of Chinese #astrology to explore!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FH-0...
A rare manuscript copy of 天元玉曆祥異賦 (The Tianyuan Jade Calendar in Verse Prose on the Auspicious and Unusual Signs). 10 vols with oodles of stunning hand coloured illustrations on this work of Chinese #astrology to explore!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FH-0...
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Blow me down with a shooting star! 💫 ✨ 🌟 🤩
A rare manuscript copy of 天元玉曆祥異賦 (The Tianyuan Jade Calendar in Verse Prose on the Auspicious and Unusual Signs). 10 vols with oodles of stunning hand coloured illustrations on this work of Chinese #astrology to explore!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FH-0...
A rare manuscript copy of 天元玉曆祥異賦 (The Tianyuan Jade Calendar in Verse Prose on the Auspicious and Unusual Signs). 10 vols with oodles of stunning hand coloured illustrations on this work of Chinese #astrology to explore!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FH-0...
@andersnoren.bsky.social came across your beautiful site today! Is it a custom theme?
September 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
@andersnoren.bsky.social came across your beautiful site today! Is it a custom theme?
It is unbelievable - the things we can learn if we look out of our own boxes. Currently learning about front end publishing from wedding-websites 🥲🫶🏽 #digitalpublishing #digitalculture
September 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It is unbelievable - the things we can learn if we look out of our own boxes. Currently learning about front end publishing from wedding-websites 🥲🫶🏽 #digitalpublishing #digitalculture
Reposted by Medhavi Gandhi
Emily Dickinson’s Handwritten Coconut Cake Recipe Hints at How Baking Figured Into Her Creative Process
Emily Dickinson’s Handwritten Coconut Cake Recipe Hints at How Baking Figured Into Her Creative Process
The Emily Dickinson Museum will tell you that 'The kitchen appears to be one of the rooms where [Emily] Dickinson felt most comfortable, perhaps most at home.' But the 'many drafts of poems written on...
www.openculture.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Emily Dickinson’s Handwritten Coconut Cake Recipe Hints at How Baking Figured Into Her Creative Process
So happy to see this essay come alive as part of our #OpenKnowledge editorial series supported by & in collab with @wikimediauk.bsky.social ! Thank you @camdiglib.bsky.social for sharing your collections!
What can you learn from a book you can’t read?
This visual reading of Sanskrit manuscripts from the collections at @theul.bsky.social explores how the colour red offers meaning and enchantment beyond language.
www.theheritagelab.in/visual-readi...
This visual reading of Sanskrit manuscripts from the collections at @theul.bsky.social explores how the colour red offers meaning and enchantment beyond language.
www.theheritagelab.in/visual-readi...
Seeing Red: A Visual Reading of Sanskrit Manuscripts
In this visual reading of Sanskrit manuscripts from the collections at Cambridge University Library, explore how the colour red offers meaning beyond language.
www.theheritagelab.in
September 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
So happy to see this essay come alive as part of our #OpenKnowledge editorial series supported by & in collab with @wikimediauk.bsky.social ! Thank you @camdiglib.bsky.social for sharing your collections!
This year the annual conference of #kulturBDigital takes place Oct 8 in #Berlin - folks from theatre / museums / libraries are welcome to join www.kultur-b-digital.de/kulturbdigit... - am also excited to host a workshop here that will probably contribute to a “Culture #Storytelling Stack”. 🙌🏽
kulturBdigital Konferenz 2025 - kulturBdigital
Event „Besser teilen“ kulturBdigital-Konferenz 2025 Jetzt anmelden Datum 8. Oktober 2025 10:00 – 19:00 Uhr Ort ufaFabrikViktoriastr. 10-1812105 Berlin Eventüberblick Programm Redner:innen Location & …
www.kultur-b-digital.de
September 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This year the annual conference of #kulturBDigital takes place Oct 8 in #Berlin - folks from theatre / museums / libraries are welcome to join www.kultur-b-digital.de/kulturbdigit... - am also excited to host a workshop here that will probably contribute to a “Culture #Storytelling Stack”. 🙌🏽
In 2019, for some strange reason, I made an excel sheet of all the colleagues across #museums in EU, UK, South Asia while working on two popular #socialmedia “hashtag campaigns”. So glad to have rediscovered it today - nothing like the good old #spreadsheet.
a pixel art of a person riding a unicorn .
ALT: a pixel art of a person riding a unicorn .
media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
In 2019, for some strange reason, I made an excel sheet of all the colleagues across #museums in EU, UK, South Asia while working on two popular #socialmedia “hashtag campaigns”. So glad to have rediscovered it today - nothing like the good old #spreadsheet.
The day has finally come to share something I’ve been working on for 2 years with the team at DicksonPoonSchool of Law @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
I’m slowly going to come out of my social media slumber - but meanwhile, here’s the link
theheritagelab.in/womens-work-worth-exhibition-main
I’m slowly going to come out of my social media slumber - but meanwhile, here’s the link
theheritagelab.in/womens-work-worth-exhibition-main
Women's Work/Worth: a time to 'care'
This exhibition explores the various forms of labour performed by women, both within the institutional domain of marriage and outside conventional societal structures - such as paid domestic work, sex...
theheritagelab.in
August 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The day has finally come to share something I’ve been working on for 2 years with the team at DicksonPoonSchool of Law @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
I’m slowly going to come out of my social media slumber - but meanwhile, here’s the link
theheritagelab.in/womens-work-worth-exhibition-main
I’m slowly going to come out of my social media slumber - but meanwhile, here’s the link
theheritagelab.in/womens-work-worth-exhibition-main
Am sort of excited for the #InternationalMuseumDay theme this time. Even though I was skeptical about another deliberation on “future of museums” … it is the second part that has me motivated — “in rapidly changing communities”.
May 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Am sort of excited for the #InternationalMuseumDay theme this time. Even though I was skeptical about another deliberation on “future of museums” … it is the second part that has me motivated — “in rapidly changing communities”.
After attending a very interesting lecture, I had the opportunity to have a little coffee-chat with the speaker..the conversation flowed into open knowledge territory (his upcoming book will be OA) & then he said “Wikipedia! Who writes those pages - we can’t trust it right?”. Owwch.
April 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
After attending a very interesting lecture, I had the opportunity to have a little coffee-chat with the speaker..the conversation flowed into open knowledge territory (his upcoming book will be OA) & then he said “Wikipedia! Who writes those pages - we can’t trust it right?”. Owwch.
One of the things that has pained me in the past has been #newsletters - creating, growing + reading the ones I subscribe to. So this month of March, I immersed myself into learning from the best, being inspired & taking my “irritation” (about museum newsletters) to “optimism”. 🌻
a black and white drawing of a paper airplane flying through the sky
ALT: a black and white drawing of a paper airplane flying through the sky
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
One of the things that has pained me in the past has been #newsletters - creating, growing + reading the ones I subscribe to. So this month of March, I immersed myself into learning from the best, being inspired & taking my “irritation” (about museum newsletters) to “optimism”. 🌻
Nothing like the comfort of working with old partners! The team at WikiUK and I have been reaching out to GLAMs for our fellowship project ! I heard from an old partner institution (protocol wise, have to wait to share) who said “yes” hours into the email outreach 🥹🥹🥰
March 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nothing like the comfort of working with old partners! The team at WikiUK and I have been reaching out to GLAMs for our fellowship project ! I heard from an old partner institution (protocol wise, have to wait to share) who said “yes” hours into the email outreach 🥹🥹🥰
Reposted by Medhavi Gandhi
That “why are you working when you can play with me” look.
February 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
That “why are you working when you can play with me” look.
We’re teaming up with @wikimediauk.bsky.social ( it’s now Insta-official too 🥲) to bring fresh perspectives, & uncover untold stories related to South Asian collections housed in UK-based #GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).
More here ⬇️
www.theheritagelab.in/open-knowled...
More here ⬇️
www.theheritagelab.in/open-knowled...
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We’re teaming up with @wikimediauk.bsky.social ( it’s now Insta-official too 🥲) to bring fresh perspectives, & uncover untold stories related to South Asian collections housed in UK-based #GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).
More here ⬇️
www.theheritagelab.in/open-knowled...
More here ⬇️
www.theheritagelab.in/open-knowled...
I sign my personal emails off with a signature that says “Always looking forward to working with good people and brave institutions” — it is difficult but possible to find these. 🥲 Super excited to announce a new collab with “good people” of a “brave” institution- an official statement tomorrow !
February 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I sign my personal emails off with a signature that says “Always looking forward to working with good people and brave institutions” — it is difficult but possible to find these. 🥲 Super excited to announce a new collab with “good people” of a “brave” institution- an official statement tomorrow !
Repurposing tech can be interesting! Our #mememaker is popular with readers & so I wondered if we can use it for our critical thinking challenges! Lets see how it goes. For now, testing it with a #culturalxcollabs experiment inspired by our Insta-community!
www.theheritagelab.in/world-war-ii...
www.theheritagelab.in/world-war-ii...
World War II : a critical thinking history challenge with a damaged 17th century Caucasus Carpet. | The Heritage Lab
How do war-time decisions shape societies and history? A WWII-damaged carpet fragment from Berlin sparks a critical thinking challenge.
www.theheritagelab.in
February 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Repurposing tech can be interesting! Our #mememaker is popular with readers & so I wondered if we can use it for our critical thinking challenges! Lets see how it goes. For now, testing it with a #culturalxcollabs experiment inspired by our Insta-community!
www.theheritagelab.in/world-war-ii...
www.theheritagelab.in/world-war-ii...
Reposted by Medhavi Gandhi
The Internet Archive hosts the Ideas Worth Saving Evening Extravaganza! 🎬 #StarWars & #Tolkien panels & film clips. Come in costume & win a prize!
📅 Jan 31–Feb 1, 6 pm–9 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave., SF
🎟️ $20 at the door
Details ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/event/ideas-worth-saving-evening-extravaganza/
📅 Jan 31–Feb 1, 6 pm–9 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave., SF
🎟️ $20 at the door
Details ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/event/ideas-worth-saving-evening-extravaganza/
January 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Internet Archive hosts the Ideas Worth Saving Evening Extravaganza! 🎬 #StarWars & #Tolkien panels & film clips. Come in costume & win a prize!
📅 Jan 31–Feb 1, 6 pm–9 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave., SF
🎟️ $20 at the door
Details ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/event/ideas-worth-saving-evening-extravaganza/
📅 Jan 31–Feb 1, 6 pm–9 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave., SF
🎟️ $20 at the door
Details ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/event/ideas-worth-saving-evening-extravaganza/
#GLAM friends : Do you know any #museums who have a diverse digital audience acquisition & retention strategy(i.e beyond social media)? If your museum is doing that / thinking of it, am looking to talk to you!
#museumsandtheweb #digitalculture #audienceengagement #museumoutreach #GLAM
#museumsandtheweb #digitalculture #audienceengagement #museumoutreach #GLAM
January 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
#GLAM friends : Do you know any #museums who have a diverse digital audience acquisition & retention strategy(i.e beyond social media)? If your museum is doing that / thinking of it, am looking to talk to you!
#museumsandtheweb #digitalculture #audienceengagement #museumoutreach #GLAM
#museumsandtheweb #digitalculture #audienceengagement #museumoutreach #GLAM
Reposted by Medhavi Gandhi
Sounds good to me 👍
Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
freeourfeeds.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Sounds good to me 👍
A very random image — 1. Because no workshop is ever complete without post-its. 2. Because such photos are always a great way to share the “stuff you can’t share yet”.
Currently trying to answer to the big question of how cultural institutions can respond to the dynamic changes in digital work.
Currently trying to answer to the big question of how cultural institutions can respond to the dynamic changes in digital work.
November 19, 2024 at 8:24 AM
A very random image — 1. Because no workshop is ever complete without post-its. 2. Because such photos are always a great way to share the “stuff you can’t share yet”.
Currently trying to answer to the big question of how cultural institutions can respond to the dynamic changes in digital work.
Currently trying to answer to the big question of how cultural institutions can respond to the dynamic changes in digital work.
Finally — friends from X are here & Bluesky ain’t so lonely anymore 🎉😀
November 18, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Finally — friends from X are here & Bluesky ain’t so lonely anymore 🎉😀
Reposted by Medhavi Gandhi
How to let museum guests find info with minimal fuss? 🤔
At SMK, we built a tiny cookie-free web app which shows the user the artwork label in his/her browser language (if it isn't Danish you get English). QR code-based, no cookies, almost no interface. Seems promising.
#musetech
At SMK, we built a tiny cookie-free web app which shows the user the artwork label in his/her browser language (if it isn't Danish you get English). QR code-based, no cookies, almost no interface. Seems promising.
#musetech
February 21, 2024 at 3:01 PM
How to let museum guests find info with minimal fuss? 🤔
At SMK, we built a tiny cookie-free web app which shows the user the artwork label in his/her browser language (if it isn't Danish you get English). QR code-based, no cookies, almost no interface. Seems promising.
#musetech
At SMK, we built a tiny cookie-free web app which shows the user the artwork label in his/her browser language (if it isn't Danish you get English). QR code-based, no cookies, almost no interface. Seems promising.
#musetech
Reposted by Medhavi Gandhi
A cartoon about libraries for the Guardian.
February 11, 2024 at 9:30 AM
A cartoon about libraries for the Guardian.