Information about travelling museums?

November 27, 2009 12:57 AM

Can anyone please help me remember the name of an artist, a woman, I think from the Philippines, who created and carried her own museum? Or similar projects of "mobile/portabe museums/galleries".
posted by bwonder2 to media & arts (9 answers total)

There are lots of donkey libraries. In Ethiopia, Columbia, Zimbabwe to name a few.
posted by mearls at 6:20 AM on November 27, 2009

Museum of Broken Relationships tours around and changes in each location - it's not quite museum-in-a-suitcase though. (I could swear I had bookmarked the one you're describing, but I can't find it.)
posted by carbide at 8:26 AM on November 27, 2009

Mrs. Thabombsheltersmith went to undergrad art school with a girl who started the IMA Gallery (get it??) It's a travelling, fully functional gallery space (complete with hardwood floors and lights!), that she wears on her person. Very cool, if you ask me.
posted by ThaBombShelterSmith at 9:09 AM on November 27, 2009

there's a group in Edmonton that has an ongoing project called The Portable Festival of Portable Art that's worth checking out. even if they don't have anything to do with the Philippines.
posted by spindle at 9:33 AM on November 27, 2009

The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things is a mobile museum in a minibus.
posted by moonmilk at 9:55 AM on November 27, 2009

The Suitcase Gallery.
posted by Sys Rq at 10:01 AM on November 27, 2009

Duchamp's Box in a Valise.
posted by scody at 1:37 PM on November 27, 2009

Are you thinking of Judy Freya Sibayan and her Scapular Gallery Nomad?
posted by vespertine at 4:59 PM on November 28, 2009

Yes! Thank you, and for all the other interesting responses.
posted by bwonder2 at 3:08 AM on November 29, 2009