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Museums and the Web

An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.

Owney The Dog Twitter

People's Choice:
2 votes

Conference

MW2012

Institution

Smithsonian National Postal Museum

Designer

in house

Small Museum

Small Museum

Category

Social Media

Why

A taxidermied once-famous dog who acts as your ambassodor to the Smithsonian's Postal Museum. How could you NOT love this? Owney allows the museum to have a fun, engaging voice that can be difficult to obtain from a museum's official social media presence. Following Owney on Twitter is like hearing from a knowledgeable, witty friend who happens to be dead and living in an educational institution. You might learn something, but will probably be too busy laughing. 

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Year

2012