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hart your own course at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City with AMNH Explorer-a new app that is part custom navigation system, part personal tour guide for the Museum's world-famous halls. Providing turn-by-turn directions, AMNH Explorer takes visitors from the edge of the universe to the age of the dinosaurs. Choose from a variety of Museum-designed tours or create your own from a list of popular exhibits, specimens, or artifacts.

Seductive Subversion opens today and the show takes a look at the impact of women artists on the traditionally male-dominated field of Pop art.  The exhibition team wanted to keep things simple in the gallery-a spare look, so the pop art would really pop out at you.  At the same time, the team had a plethora of research about each of the 25 artists featured in the show and wanted a way to share that with the public.   So, the goals of this endeavor became two-fold.  First, how do we share the research and, second, how do we do it in a way that won't overwhelm the visitor experience?  Wikipedia + iPads became the answer

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Salgado untersucht Partizipation von interaktiven Auststellungsstücken. Sie entwirft anhand von 6 Fallbeispielen Paramter zur Entwicklgn und Beurteilung von Partizipation: * Theme (chosen for participation, and the openess with wihich it is presented) * Atmosphere (of the piece) * Input-output modalities * Accessibility * Time: Ties to the actual time of the visit * Community: Ties to the community Konference-Beitrag an der "Museums an the Web"-Konference, 2008 in Motreal

Digital New Zealand is an initiative... "This interactive online video mashup uses EditorOne to let visitors create their own short videos using historic video images, still photographs, artifacts, music and audio clips."

Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web British Museum & UCL Study Day - Jan 13th The World Wide Web is an essential part of the Museum's toolkit for publishing information, engaging visitors and communicating across the globe. However, museum web sites and information systems are still largely silos that make it difficult for us to realize the benefits of bringing data together. The growing momentum of the Semantic Web movement means a greater investment in the technology and tools needed to convert its potential into practical opportunities that museums can utilise. Und: "A museum object is more like an illustration, or witness of the past, than information in its own right. Cultural historical research means understanding 'possible pasts', the facts, events, material, social and psychological influences and motivations. It lives from understanding contexts, by pulling together bits and pieces of related facts from disparate resources, which can typically not be classified under subjects in an obvious way. It lives from taking into account all known facts." 

"Steve is a collaboration of museum professionals and others who believe that social tagging may provide profound new ways to describe and access cultural heritage collections and encourage visitor engagement with collection objects. "

The Brooklyn Museum believes in community and in the importance of the visitor experience. In this area you'll find a number of ways to connect with us: blogs, photo and video submissions, podcasts, and more. We look forward to hearing from you.

Who is this mysterious and desirable community with whom museums wish to connect?

How do you design physical infrastructure that ties individuals together in meaningful ways?

How do you design physical infrastructure that ties individuals together in meaningful ways? 1. How do we let people personalize their identity in the museum such that they feel less like strangers and more like potential associates? 2. How do we design spaces that support sharing and intimacy among associated visitors?

"So what is spreadable media good for? * To generate active commitment from the audience, * To empower them and make them an integral part of your product's success, * To benefit from online word-of-mouth * To reach niche, highly interconnected audiences, * but most of all, to communicate with audiences where they already are, and in a way that they value. ...an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. Here are five reasons I think museums should have totally open photo policies:

museumnext is a two day event which will help you to develop concrete dsign strategies for engaging visitors as cntripbutors to and participants in museums exhibitions and programmes