WOULD BE GREAT: Museum Live Video Tours With Simultaneous Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace Chat

Here are some interesting possibilities to check out! On Mashable ADAM OSTROW writes: “We’ve already covered how viral the chat options on live video services like Ustream, Justin.tv, and Tinychat can be.By signing into these services with your Twitter Twitter, Facebook Facebook, or MySpace MySpace credentials and then having your messages broadcast as status updates, [...]

Museum Media on Facebook. Join now.

Museum Media is the meeting place on Facebook for curators and museum staff looking for the most up-to-date information on new media for museums and wanting to connect to one another. It’s for eveyone engaged in the use or production of (new) media. JOIN NOW.

Architectuurinstituut bouwt augmented reality

Het Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (NAi) gaat in samenwerking met Layar en IN10 een Augmented Reality (AR) applicatie voor mobiele telefoons ontwikkelen.
Doel van de applicatie is dat bezoekers hun mobiel op een gebouw kunnen richten, waarna ze allerlei informatie te zien krijgen, waaronder 3D modellen en maquettes. Niet alleen informatie over bestaande architectuur zal zo zichtbaar worden, [...]

3D Models of Ancient Artefacts on Show in Arizona’a Virtual Vault

In an effort to share their extensive collection of pottery from the American southwest with both museum and internet visitors, the Arizona State Museum is collaborating with the Center for Desert Archaeology on the Virtual Vault Project. Models of each vessel are being created using 3DSOM Pro, a tool for automatically generating 3D models [...]

Social Gaming netwerkdag

Afgelopen vrijdag werd de netwerkdag Social Gaming georganiseerd door Beeld en Geluid en Mediawijzer. Daarbij werden ontwikkelingen rond online sociale games belicht, waarbij werd gekeken naar de relevantie van deze ontwikkelingen voor het onderwijs, bibliotheken en de cultuursector.
Lees het verslag van de netwerkdag op Frankwatching en meer over mediawijsheid
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New Museum Lab van Nationaal Historisch Museum

Woensdag 28 oktober organiseerde het Nationaal Historisch Museum voor de eerste keer een conferentie over nieuwe media en technologie, samen met de technische universiteiten van Delft, Eindhoven en Twente en Mediamatic Lab, gesteund door ING. Algemeen directeur Erik Schilp maakte bekend dat het Nationaal Historisch Museum start met het New Museum Lab, een initiatief dat ten [...]

Video Active: creating acces to Europe’s television heritage

Video Active provides access to European television heritage through an online, multilingual portal. The project reached its final stage in August after three years of development and now contains over 10.000 videos, photographs and articles. This collection will continue to grow. The renowned media artist and independent filmmaker Péter Forgács has used the material from [...]

The Ashmolean, Museum of Art and Archaeology

Crossing Cultures Crossing Time CCCT is an approach based on the idea that civilisations that have shaped our modern societies developed as part of an interrelated world culture, rather than in isolation. It assumes, too, that every object has a story to tell, but these stories can best be uncovered by making appropriate comparisons and [...]

Economica: Women and the Global Economy – International Museum of Women

International Museum of Women: Economica! I.M.O.W.’s latest online exhibition explores the many facets of women’s experiences of and contributions to the global economy. Vist the site Economica: Women and the Global Economy.

Victoria & Albert Museum Puts Details of One Million Objects on Website

The V&A today announced that visitors to its website can now find online over one million records detailing objects in its collections ranging from well known treasures such as Tippoo’s “Tiger” to less familiar paintings and ceramics. People using Search the Collections, at collections.vam.ac.uk, will find images of more than 100,000 objects with more images [...]