CM 2.0 Projcect: mobility of objects between museums of all European Member States

Museums have a long tradition of sharing the cultural heritage in their custody with other museums and institutions. Lending objects to other museums is one of their most important tasks. Through the mobility of collections European citizens can become acquainted with their own and other cultures and are able to pass on this heritage to [...]

New: Adobe Museum of Digital Media

Adobe recently announced the Adobe Museum of Digital Media (AMDM): a digital museum created to document and preserve great works of digital art and innovation. The museum will be a large online interactive experience and opens on August 2nd of this year. While few details are available right now, the Museum homepage offers a small [...]

VIDEO ‘Vervlogen’, exhibition by Annelies Dijkman, Netherlands

A work of art about death by Annelies Dijkman, Netherlands. The small white cabbage butterfly plays the leading role. Hundreds of butterflies are projected as moving light spots. Animation editor: Robert Busschots, Infofilm/Museummedia, producers of new and special media for museums.

Augmented Reality for your museum

Augmented reality can be a new feature for exposing cultural news and locations. Several companies are exploring this new technique: Layar, Wikitude. Junaio… Layar is one of the augmented reality browsers for Android and iPhone. Soon on Nokia. This latest video shows daily scenario’s of how Layar is used: to find a place to eat, [...]

Free iPhone App Guide for Italy’s Archaeological Sites and Museums launched on 1 July

An iPhone application that will provide information, ticketing and itineraries for the 40 most visited museums and sites in Italy is to be launched on 1 July. Released by Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (known in Italy as MiBAC), ‘i-MiBAC – Top 40′ is the first of a series of free apps produced [...]

Photographing visitors in your museum

Yesterday we were discussing the problem of photographing visitors in museums on Twitter. This post was the reason: At Too Many Museums, It’s Check Your Camera at the Door, June 14 | By David Saxe So, I asked on @museummedia May visitors take photographs in your museum? What are the conditions? (No flash, no tripod…?) [...]

Chris Dercon has been appointed the new Director of Tate Modern

Tate announced today that Chris Dercon, Director of the Haus der Kunst, Munich, has been appointed the new Director of Tate Modern, and will take up the appointment in spring 2011. Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate said: “Chris Dercon has made some outstanding exhibitions in Munich and has demonstrated a commitment to showing art from across [...]

Guggenheim and YouTube Seek Budding Video Artists

For artists, being included in a museum exhibition generally means first having to penetrate the well-guarded gates of a prestigious art gallery. But now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube are aiming to short-circuit that exclusionary art-world system, at least briefly, in much the same way that other hierarchical systems have been blown apart [...]

Display your museum tweets in public places with animation

Display your museum tweets in public places via Visible Tweets. You can use different animations. (Takes some while loading). Visible Tweets is a visualisation of Twitter messages designed for display in public spaces. If you want to keep abreast of updates to this application or if you want to let me know about features you’d [...]

Brooklyn Museum – Rethinking Twitter with ConnectTweet

This could be of benefit for a lot of museums using Twitter. Brooklyn Museum reports: “For as long as we’ve had the Brooklyn Museum Twitter account, I’ve been the sole voice behind it, but today we are trying something new.  Ben Hedrington, the developer behind ConnectTweet, has given us the go ahead to alpha test [...]