International Museum Day (18-27 May) is round the corner and our museums are busy prepping for this year’s festivities. In fact, you might have already seen the Night at the Musuem-esque posters in a bus stop near you! On the virtual world, you’ll find the IMD2007 internet buzz on twitter and flickr and we want you in on it – so to entice you, we have four S$150 Borders vouchers to give away! Simply join the conversations on Twitter or tag your photos ‘imd2007′ on Flickr and stand a chance to win one of the four vouchers. Competition ends on 28 May 2007.

If you’re a Twitter user, add us at http://twitter.com/imd2007 and receive official event updates and find out what other IMD friends are up to. If you’re not a Twitter user, you still can follow the conversations on http://twitter.com/imd2007/with_friends. The IMD’07 team will also be uploading photos of fun and interesting findings from IMD on http://www.flickr.com/photos/imd2007. To join in the fun, simply upload your photos to Flickr and tag them ‘imd2007’.

If it sounds like the Museums Roundtable team is busy at work with this year’s programme, you’re quite right. Behind the scenes, Kevin Lim from theory.isthereason reports in while sitting in during one of the museum roundtable meetings with MICA.

Having mirrored Siva (aka Otterman) for the day, I’ve gone from lunching with our Mac friends at the National University of Singapore (NUS), doing my own work at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, to joining in the museum roundtable meeting at the Ministry of Information and the Arts (MICA).

I listened in to the roundtable discussion on Singapore’s plans for International Museum Day 2007 (aka IMD, which is actually week long), and I got a good sense of how all our museums coordinate their efforts for such national campaigns. This IMD festival will have an extensive programme, which is great for families and heritage buffs alike!

You can read Kevin’s account here.
So, what are you waiting for? Check out the official IMD2007 website here, start adding IMD2007 as a friend in twitter, and add your photos to the IMD 2007 photostream to stand a chance to win Borders book vouchers!

Tags: IMD2007, Museums singapore