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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

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Museum visitors can use the in-app camera to photograph individual works of art which the app recognizes to serve up information about the piece, comments from past visitors, and for some works, audio orientations from the artist. Historic St. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St. Louis, whereas others are august stalwarts like the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

This summer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Louis count it. Louis Science Center''s mission is to "ignite and sustain lifelong science and technology learning."

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Game Friday: Lessons in Environmental Storytelling from an Imagineer

Museum 2.0

When I’m in MOMA, at least I know that as I go from room to room of the main collection, I’m not “missing” any particular era, genre, or artist. The City Museum of St. Louis throws open every nook and cranny to be crawled through and explored. In my head, I say, “I am in a museum.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You can use different technologies for these things, as easy or as difficult as you want. So for me, I actually often pick my parents [when writing about technology], because they have dial-up, and they're not very tech-savvy. Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? Who identifies as an activist?

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