museums
ReadWriteWeb wrote a recent article called ‘I Don’t Know Much About Art But I Know What’s Online’, in which they reviewed the different online offerings of art museums, and concluded that there weren’t yet any stand-outs…
I visited Chester Zoo recently. It’s a great zoo with loads of really well designed enclosures and lots of lovely animals. At the exit of the relatively-new Realm of the Red Ape enclosure (which houses the orangutangs), was this interesting badge vending-machine exhibit, titled ‘Home or Away?’ [...]
Last week I wrote about part 1 of the mini-project I’ve been working on called My Life As An Object. That part is over now, and we’re half-way through part 2. Before I talk a bit about that, I should just say that I thought the first week went pretty well. Greg did a great [...]
We launched a new mini-project at work yesterday. It’s called My Life As An Object (named by me in crass-TV-documentary-style), and the aim is to take museum objects and give them a ‘life’ online. I say ‘life’, because what normally happens when museum objects get placed online (or ‘digitised’, in museum parlance) is that they [...]
I was down in London on Tuesday to give a presentation as part of a training & development day for museums and archives with the palindromic title of Engaging Users, Users Engaging, taking place at the London Metropolitan Archives (pictured below). London Metropolitan Archives – photo by mermaid99, CC license My role in the day [...]
If you couldn’t tell from my Twitter feed, two weeks ago I was at a conference in Indianapolis, USA, called ‘Museums and the Web 2009‘. As the name suggests, this is an annual shindig, and as it happens, I also went to the previous conference, aptly enough titled ‘Museums and the Web 2008‘. One key [...]
I was in London on Monday for a mini-conference on ‘mobile learning’ for the museums & archives sector. My colleague James Boardwell was presenting, but I was just there to learn what other people were doing. One of the things that struck me was that when museums talk about ‘mobile learning’, what they tend to [...]
I’ve been thinking recently about visitor attractions – museums, theme parks, art galleries and so on – and the ways in which they can, either intentionally or not, create great photo opportunities which help to enhance the visitor experience. The link between photography and visitor attractions goes back almost as far as the invention of [...]
The full programme for the Museums and the Web 2009 conference was announced earlier this week. This means I can announce that as well as running a workshop on interaction design, I will also be presenting a paper at the conference on museums and wikis. I’m co-writing and co-presenting the paper with Rhiannon Loosely, who [...]