The 2010 AAM Muse Awards

Recognizing outstanding achievement in museum media, the AAM Media and Technology Committee announces the 21st annual Muse Awards competition with a NEW Student category.The MUSE Award competition, now in its 21st year, recognizes excellence in media produced by or for museums. The 20th MUSE competition received almost 250 applications from institutions around the world. Categories [...]

Getty Museum Increases its Online Distribution of Video and Images

The J. Paul Getty Museum announced it has joined nearly two dozen museums worldwide in posting videos on ArtBabble, an online video-sharing forum created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art.On ArtBabble, the Getty joins the Guggenheim, Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA, LACMA, and others sharing their videos. “ArtBabble is a truly innovative, dynamic site for [...]

One internet of things please! Really cool use of QR codes and very playful.

Really cool use of QR codes and very playful. And about buildings, and about connectedness; can I please have the internet of things now, please. I was at the modern museum this weekend about to see an exhibition or two. I ended up with none. The queues were out of this world. Like snake on [...]

Nieuwe Case-Study: Musea in een digitale cultuur, hoe kunnen musea zich handhaven in de digitale cultuur?

Musea richten zich op het bewaren van kunstwerken. De wereld van het internet kenmerkt zich door flexibiliteit. En die wereld is zo invloedrijk, dat onze cultuur zich vergelijkbaar gaat gedragen, meent cultuurwetenschapper Martijn Stevens. De vraag is dan ook niet alleen: hoe moeten musea omgaan met het internet? Maar: hoe kunnen musea zich handhaven in de digitale [...]

BBC and the British Museum creates ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’

The BBC and the British Museum have joined forces in an original and unprecedented public service partnership, focusing on world history. At its heart is a landmark series on BBC Radio 4, ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’ which will broadcast from 18 January 2010. This series is a narrative global history told [...]

Canadian museum rolls out unique iPhone, iPod Touch app

To some the Canadian Museum of Civilization CMC might be an odd place to experience the power of the latest mobile technology. But a new initiative at the museum in Gatineau, Que. takes advantage of the iPhone and iPod Touch — and pretty soon BlackBerrys and Android phones as well. Just a week before Christmas, [...]

Zelf een tentoonstelling samenstellen voor het Kröller Müller Museum

Het is de droom van veel museumbezoekers: rondkijken in het depot van een museum en zelf een tentoonstelling samenstellen. Het Kröller-Müller Museum maakt deze droom werkelijkheid met de unieke tentoonstelling ‘De allermooiste werken op papier’. 100 meesterwerken van Jan Toorop, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso en nog vele anderen, zelden of nooit te zien en [...]

Connections: Cinema museum: RFID chip, research

In order for the museum to be taken outside its actual walls, the visitors need some kind of identification tag of badge that they could use to activate the different animations/reactions and also to keep track of their own visit afterwards, collect informations,… RFID chips could be a good solution as they are small and [...]

Art In Sight encourages museum visitors to take a closer look

Most people take five to 10 seconds to examine a work of art. It’s what they might miss about the objects in that fraction of time that prompted Beth Dalton and her team of students to spend the semester making the interactive Web site Art In Sight. Art In Sight makes resources of the Ball [...]

Made for the Museum: MT-50 Multitouch Table

As museums and other visitor centers are moving toward developing exhibits that foster more visitor communication and interaction: the MT-50 Table is a great platform for these types of exhibits. The playful nature of multitouch interaction and the large surface and low, ADA compliant table height all contribute to the visitor experience. The MT-50 Table [...]