Iphone Application Isbmnh Launched By Team International

TEAM International recently co-developed iSBMNH, a free application available on the iTunes store. Now users can visit the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in the comfort of their home.
iSBNature allows museum enthusiasts to access the museum’s website, displays multiple exhibits including butterflies alive and provides a detailed map of the museum. The following [...]

Van Abbemuseum: Play Van Abbe

Saturday 10 April, during the National Museum Weekend, Play Van Abbe Part 2, Time Machines, will open. In this part, utopian museum models of the past and radical historical prototypes will be assessed to find out if and how they can be applied today. How does a museum tell a story through presentation techniques and [...]

MuseumMobile managed by Nancy Proctor

MuseumMobile is a forum for conversations about mobile interpretation – media & technology – for museums and cultural sites. It also aims to be a vehicle for connecting to related resources on the web, including:

The MuseumMobile Podcasts
The TEC-CH Online Course on Mobile Interpretation
The MuseumMobile Wiki
The Museums-to-Go mobile application development working group
Tate’s Handheld Conference Wiki, Sept [...]

Museum Planning Software, a nice list

The “Museum Planning” blog is a resource for board members, museum staff and museum consultants working in the field of interactive museums. Blog topics include; museum planning of new museums and centers, planning and the development of interactive exhibitions and the project management of exhibitions.
On the blog of Mark Walhimer is a nice list of [...]

Nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering

The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History presents NanoDays 2010, a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering, March 27 to April 3. The Lemelson Center is one of more than 200 science museums, research centers and universities across the country [...]

Museums, Mobile Devices and Social Media

Join an elite group of leading thinkers and museum experts for an incisive and up-to-the-minute analysis of trends in uses of mobile devices by museum and science center audiences. Hear assessments of current systems and projections about future possibilities in terms of how social networking and mobility tools can help museums connect with their audiences, [...]

Making Low Cost 3D Video for your Museum

A low cost apparatus for capturing stereoscopic video is described and footage from the apparatus is presented in anaglyph form:  Case Study 27: Making Low Cost 3D Video for your Museum.

Open Source Multitouch Gesture Library and Illustrations

GestureWorks ships with an open library of over 20 unique gestures. No longer constrained by the limitations of the OS, the developer has full programmatic control. The gesture library is built upon an open source gesture framework. Developers can customize their own gesture library by simply extending the Gesture object and setting fundamental parameters which [...]

There’s only 4 days left to submit your session proposal for TIE 2010!

Are you developing new exhibitions, interpretive programs, or public spaces that involve technology? Do you have a technology success story you’re eager to tell or a project failure you’re willing to share? Contribute your skills and experience by presenting a virtual session during AAM Technology, Interpretation, and Education 2010 TIE 2010, June 23 – 24.
TIE [...]

Damien Hirst, End of an Era, unauthorized video of one of the seasons most controversial exhibitions

James Kalm slips into the Madison Avenue branch of the Gagosian Gallery to bring viewers unauthorized video of one of the seasons most controversial exhibitions. End of an Era may be a cynical ploy by Hirst to vaccinate himself from complaints of his promotion of overly conspicuous consumption. Whether a preserved bulls head, or a [...]