MemoryMiner: Digital Storytelling for Museums

MemoryMiner is the award-winning Digital Storytelling application used to discover the threads connecting peoples’ lives across time and place. It lets you zero in on the stories depicted in your photos by linking them to each other based on people, places and time. As to me it could be well used to produce apps for [...]

Speakers MuseumNext Conference April 30 London

Home for MuseumNext will be the Wellcome Collection conference centre in London, a state of the art facility, free WiFi and a space to socialise with your fellow delegates. The Wellcome Collection is in central London, just a short distance from King’s Cross, Euston and surrounding underground stations. For MuseumNext London these are the international [...]

Art Institute Chicago: Online Sleuthing

A project as exciting as it is daunting, a new kind of web-based collections catalog is now currently being developed by the museum. It will deliver the broad array of scholarly, art historical information usually associated with a weighty bound volume in an easily used digital format. Over the next four years, curators Gloria Groom [...]

Campaign! Make an Impact: museums as your partners

If you’re from a school or college and are interested in engaging Citizenship activities for your school or college, then please read on… Campaign! Make an Impact Campaign! Make an Impact is an innovative partnership project involving museums, archives and schools. The programme aims to inspire young people to learn about historical campaigns through museum [...]

Apple iTunes Concert Ticket+ Patent interesting for museums

Getting promotional items from QR barcodes or SMS messages isn’t a new concept, but Apple is looking to take it one step further with its iTunes Concert Ticket+ patent. In this patent, tickets to the concert you desire can be sold through iTunes, and the ticket stored on your iPhone, ready to be presented when [...]

Museums and the volcanic ash eruption – curators stranded

Tens of thousands of stranded travellers around the world face further chaos for a fourth day on Sunday as the volcanic cloud that has shut down major airports across Europe continues to spread (Deutsche Welle). Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, [...]

Benefits of twittering during Conference Museums and the Web MW2010!

Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. On Twitter @museummedia asked MW2010 participants following question:”Do you experience Twittering as [...]

New: Museummedia Daily Paper

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BOOK: ‘Museum Web Sites and Digital Collections’

Published on: 16 February 2010 Museums adopted the Web early, building on their experience with videodisc and CD-ROM publications in the 1980s and early 1990s. From the first, they introduced experimental features including visitor feedback, three-dimensional 3D walk-throughs, and deep coverage targeted at niche audiences. Only with the maturation of the genre did they routinely [...]

How does your museumsite look on the iPad?

This one looks good and works great: Try your own website here.