In Taipei and London, digital archive projects are revolutionizing the modern museum’s role

The sheer magnitude of the numbers is staggering. The London-based British Museum BM bears the reputation of being the world’s most prominent museum because of the more than 7 million objects in its holdings, while the Taipei-based National Palace Museum NPM has earned fame because its collection of some 655,000 items constitutes the finest accumulation [...]

BlackBerry Application Canadian Museum of Civilization

This application is designed to enhance the visitor experience of Canada’s most visited Museum. Two 40 minute audio tours are featured that provide a glimpse into Canada’s fascinating social history and highlight the history and contributions of the country’s First Peoples. The audio tours are enhanced with visuals. Interactive floor maps help guide visitors through [...]

Sue Bell Yank: How Art Museums are Striving to Stay Relevant for a New Generation

This is a very readworthy post by Sue Bell Yank, Writer, Organizer, and Asst. Dir. of Academic Programs at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles “The upcoming American Association of Museums AAM conference happening here in Los Angeles in late May is called “Museums Without Borders” accompanied by some fuzzy language about “connection, community, cultural identity, [...]

John Falk, Rethinking the Museum Visitor Experience

Rethinking the Museum Visitor Experience, John Falk. His new research is showing that the public’s entering identity-related visit motivations play a pivotal role in being able to understand and answer all three of these important questions. Read more here.

New Method For Dating Ancient Treasures

Scientists today described development of a new method to determine the age of ancient mummies, old artwork, and other relics without causing damage to these treasures of global cultural heritage. Reporting at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society ACS, they said it could allow scientific analysis of hundreds of artifacts that until [...]

A mobile RFID-based tour system with instant microblogging in your museum

The self-guided tour system in a museum or an art gallery usually provides only one-way information to the visitor. The visitor follows a pre-designed route guided by the system and cannot freely choose any exhibit for detail information. This kind of systems lacks an interaction mechanism with the visitor. This research aims at designing an [...]

RFID Protects Tut’s Treasures

Active RFID tags and sensors, in tandem with video cameras, watch over the king's golden sandals and other Egyptian antiquities on display at museums. Arts and Exhibition International is using RFID technology to protect the treasure of King Tutankhamun's tomb as the artifacts are displayed at locations across the world. The system, provided by U.K. [...]

GRAMMY Museum Interactives

Second Story’s GRAMMY Museum Interactives encourages museum visitors to become part of musical creation through four inspiring visual installations. The installations were created with Adobe Flex 3, After Effects CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Photoshop CS3, and Illustrator CS3.

Inventory of Heritage Organisations in Europe

The ‘Inventory of Heritage Organisations in Europe’ team: PUT YOUR HERITAGE ORGANISATION ON THE MAP OF EUROPE and help us building a public access database of non-governmental heritage organisations in Europe! We hope this unique project will be the start of an open network, which will benefit all heritage organisations in Europe, including yours! You [...]

Foursquare for museums?

In his blog Stanley A. Miller II has some inspiring ideas: I’d like to see the system Foursquare uses to promote menu discounts and drink specials built out to route users to more in-depth editorial content. It’s a natural upgrade adding a lot of value, and the content providers getting their feet in the door [...]