Museum 2.0
JANUARY 10, 2008
In the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s four part series on comfort in museums, we get down to the basics: creature comfort. So for this last piece, we look at going the other way: making museums more physically comfortable. And on the walls, my friend explained, was art from the museum itself. There was funky music.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 6, 2008
Who's doing audio tours on iPods? Which museums have experience creating collection tagging systems? The Museum Computer Network and Museum Software Foundation have teamed up to bring you MuseTech Central , a site where you can share your own technical projects and search through a growing resource list of others.
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Museum 2.0
JANUARY 29, 2008
Nike+ is a combined iPod and shoe sensor product that allows users to track every step of their runs. In many ways, it's the IDEAL inspiration for museums seeking to create a pervasive, sticky visitor experience that extends beyond the visit and is not totally screen-bound. On the first level, we're talking shoes and iPod only.
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MAY 28, 2005
The use of podcasting has many implementations for museums. For starters, podcasting can liberate art lovers from the museum's clunky audio sets and enjoy the Museum's "Official Audio" more stylist piece of equipment. It can also liberate museum goers from hearing one view - that of the expert or curator.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 3, 2007
In this week's book club post , Elaine Gurian commented on the failures of NMAI, and of many museums, to find new palettes for interpretation and presentation of museum content, especially when the intended result is an emotional, spiritual, or non object-focused experience. Is it fun to read a magazine on the train?
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 26, 2007
Museum 2.0 I’m not talking about plastic fish that sing along with your iPod (HIGHLY annoying), electric knives, or a subscription to the latest web-based social network cum parallel reality. is on semi-vacation this week. I’m writing this from Lake Tahoe.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 3, 2007
It's Labor Day, and across the country, a working dichotomy is manifest in museums. For mostly practical reasons, museum staff offices have shifted over the last couple decades further and further from the public. Arguably, much of what happens behind the scenes at museums has little bearing on the visitor experience and vice versa.
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