10 Museum Tweeters To Know Right Now

It's National Museum Month, and we're keeping the momentum going on HuffPost Culture with a new reason to love museums every week. Last week, we asked you to reflect on your favorite museum exhibits of all time. This week, we kept things in the moment by culling your, and our, favorite museum-oholics on Twitter. Some give us news, others commentary and others yet dig the depths of museum history.

This list is by no means comprehensive, so let us know who we missed in the comments! And be sure to test your museum smarts with our quiz.

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• Museum Nerd

  Just as his handle suggests, Museum Nerd comes with a wealth of museum knowledge, news-related and otherwise. Check out how wonderfully old-school the New Museum website looked like 12 years ago (left), and also how awesome the <a href="http://museumnerd.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/the-walkers-new-website-is-an-earthshaking-game-changer/" target="_hplink">Walker Museum's website looks today</a> (h/t, @museumnerd of course!).

• Nina Simon

  Nina Simon, exhibit designer and <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/40th-anniversary/Nina-Simon-Museum-Visionary.html" target="_hplink">champion of participatory museum experiences</a>, has her finger on the pulse of the discussions surrounding museums today. And as a bonus, she's funny, too!

• Future Of Museums

  When it comes to the <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/futureofmuseums" target="_hplink">future of our museums</a>, this is the act to follow.

• Houston Museum Of Natural Science

  Personifying dinosaurs? The Houston Museum of Natural Science knows how to <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/hmns/status/200642059911176193" target="_hplink">engage an audience</a>.

• Museum Directors

  <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/MuseumDirectors" target="_hplink">Museum Directors</a>, the Twitter feed of the Association of Art Museum Directors, directs you toward interesting links (<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/MuseumDirectors/status/199907558289457153" target="_hplink">find out how the museum gift shop got made by accident!</a>), along with the big news occurring in the museum world.

• Tyler Green

  An entertaining feed of museum news and commentary, brought to you by Art Info's <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/TylerGreenDC" target="_hplink">Tyler Green</a>.

• Google Art

  <a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/" target="_hplink">Google Art Project</a> allows you to wander through museums around the world, all from the convenience of your computer. It's Twitter feed is useful in that it points you to new exhibits/artists to visit online, and sprinkles in museum news, facts and commentary to boot.

• Jenn Nelson

  Museum lover <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/unmuseum" target="_hplink">Jenn Nelson</a> starts off each morning with enthusiasm for museum news -- proof enough that she's worth the follow.

• American Association Of Museums

  <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/AAMers" target="_hplink">The AAM</a> is a little more insider-y, but still a great resource for those interested in the industry.

• Babes At The Museum

  And for fun, we're including the tweeters over <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/museumbabes" target="_hplink">@museumbabes</a>, who tweet photos of babes at museums, and throw museum news and commentary into the mix. Don't be fooled, these babes are smart.

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Comments

[MuseumDancer]

03:14 PM on 06/29/2012

Don't forget the up-and-comming Museum Tweeps: @MuseumDancer (https://twitter.com/MuseumDancer), @Museumish (https://twitter.com/Museumish), @MuseumTrekker (https://twitter.com/MuseumTrekker), and @Museumninja (https://twitter.com/Museumninja). And not to forget the fun and funny @MuseumofNow (https://twitter.com/MuseumofNow)

[dylan k]

08:32 PM on 05/29/2012

@walters_museum has all sorts of good stuff.

[museumlife]

09:22 AM on 05/28/2012

@museumlife!

[MuseumResource]

05:15 AM on 05/28/2012

Don't Forget these Important Museum Tweeps!
@SumoJim
@NancyProctor
@museum140
@museumist
@jennifuchs
@MarDixon
@MuseoBlogger
@mpedson
@lyndakelly61
@MuseumTrekker
@MuseumResource
@MuseumSmurf
@MuseumNotations
@mia_out

[Sally Otis]

09:30 AM on 05/24/2012

Seriously, you didn't include http://twitter.com/#!/suethetrex??? Sue is the best and takes Museum Twittering to a whole new level. I particularly appreciate when she appropriates Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes.

[Sally Otis]

09:28 AM on 05/24/2012

Are you kidding??!!! You didn't include Sue the T. Rex from the Field Museum???!!!! http://twitter.com/#!/suethetrex My favorites are when she channels Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes.

[Isis Marina]

03:03 PM on 05/22/2012

Definitely should check out www.twitter.com/#!/ifwearedig . Stockholm curator Jen Lindblad interviews museum professionals from around the world!

[mambolica]

02:34 PM on 05/22/2012

I'm a museum curator, historian and avid tweep. I don't limit myself to museum content, but that's a lot of what I have to talk about, with inside knowledge, no less ! @mambolica

[adriannerussell]

03:06 PM on 05/17/2012

I'm going to be shameless and suggest myself! @adriannerussell

[MuseumResource]

05:16 AM on 05/28/2012

I agree!

[Mary Jo Gibson]

11:10 AM on 05/11/2012

One I would recommend for a second list would be http://thiswritelife.wordpress.com. Another social media master.

[Annemarie Dooling]

01:36 PM on 05/18/2012

Thanks for adding this.