A suggestion has come up at work (The Science Museum) to do some kind of wiki for museum objects, to coincide with an upcoming exhibition. So I’ve been starting to think about what form this might take. I’ve had a fair bit of experience with wikis, from being a participant in Wikipedia and Wikinews, and [...]
Thought I’d break blog silence (only just got internet at home again) to post a link to Launchball, a game that we’ve just launched on the Science Museum website. I’m immensely proud of it – even though an agency, Preloaded, did the actual design and production for us. Pushing through the idea of simply doing [...]
Just launched our new Science Museum website at work, although it may take a while for the new DNS entries to propagate. I’ve written a page briefly describing the new website structure, and will no doubt write more about the process by which we re-designed it over the coming weeks, but for now, have a [...]
Today and tomorrow are the last two days in which you can lend your favourite toy to the Science Museum, where it will sit on display in an exhibition open until the end of January. National museums, such as the Science Museum, have strict rules about object acquisitions, and so can rarely accept donated objects, [...]
Not sure quite how I feel yet about Giant Leaps, a book about science that the Science Museum has co-produced with The Sun newspaper. It has, however, received all sorts of praise from some high-profile figures, including Buzz Aldrin, Education Secretarty Alan Johnson, Sir David Attenborough, Robert Winston, Sir Patrick Moore, Jon Snow, and – [...]
Work was a hive of activity on Friday, as our new exhibition, Game On, had its media launch ahead of its opening to the public today. I’m told it was one of our most successful launches ever, in terms of media turnout, and so we got a great deal of coverage on tv, in print [...]
The Museum of London, which I visited for the first time a couple of months ago (see my photos on Flickr tagged museumoflondon, has recently launched a new mini-website called ‘The Postcodes Project‘. As someone fairly interested in London, history, museums and websites, I though I’d have a proper look through it, and write up [...]
Fiona and I encountered two interactive installations on Southbank on Monday, on the way back from having seen the Kandinsky exhibition at the Tate Modern. The first was play.orchestra, a sound installation from the Philharmonia Orchestra. Next to it, outside the Royal Festival Hall, was a fountain installation, which I find out in retrospect is [...]
Last Friday saw the closure of one of the smallest galleries within the Science Museum: ‘On Air’. Sponsored by Capital FM, this featured a tiny radio studio and had a set of computers with some interactive software. Mostly, if you walked past it, you’d just see a bored-looking explainer (the museum’s term for the staff [...]
On the way to and from work each day, I keep being overtaken by these kids gliding past me. The first time I did a double take, but then I realised that they were wearing shoes with wheels in the bottoms of them – a kind of trainer-cum-rollerskate. Judging by the number I’ve seen, these [...]