19th Century London Today on your smartphone with Augmented Reality

Source: GIZMODO Augmented reality might be the future, but my favorite application of it yet transports you far into past. StreetMuseum—an iPhone app from the Museum of London—overlays four hundred years of historic images on today’s city streets. StreetMuseum makes creative use of Google Maps and geo-tagging to show users how London used to look. [...]

1001 Stories of Denmark, crowdsourcing and digital storytelling

The website on Danish cultural heritage “1001 stories about Denmark” is a great example of crowdsourcing and digital storytelling. Here you can read stories from 1001 locations in Denmark. You can add and recommend your favorite locations in Denmark, comment on the existing places and stories, upload images, video, tags, write new stories or otherwise [...]

Foursquare op Erfgoed 2.0

Op het weblog van Erfgoed 2.0 is een blogpost (van 19 februari) aan Foursquare gewijd: http://erfgoed20.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/foursquare-ook-in-musea-in-nederland/ Tijdens Museums and the Web 2010 viel via twitter ook e.e.a. over foursquare te lezen. Als je zoekt op twitter naar Foursquare en Museum vind je al heel wat interessante links: http://bit.ly/95kCnl . Maar natuurlijk zijn ervaringen uit de [...]

The Textile Museum of Canada’s online Social Fabric platform works ingeniously well

Social Fabric works, and works well, because it acknowledges that no online presence can replace the visceral experience of visiting the Toronto museum, and instead opts to recreate the conversations one has with fellow visitors. I guarantee that even if you’ve only ever been to one Textile Museum show, at that show someone asked, “Would [...]

Ask a Curator – September 4th 2010

Ask a Curator looks to build on the success of ‘Follow a museum’ by once again staging a one day event using social media, but this time we will not just ask people to follow a museum, we want them to engage with participating venues by asking curators questions. While many venues will already encourage [...]

Foursquare as Museum Marketing Tool (3)

(Posted on Linkedin): I’m a Foursquare user and I’ve added my museum as a check-in location, but I think there are numerous challenges with Foursquare for cultural organizations (and other challenges, too). I think the Foursquare folks conceived it as a tool for restaurant- and bar-hoppers, and it works well for that, but as far [...]

Foursquare as Museum Marketing Tool (2)

Is there a list with museums who already use Foursquare? As user of Foursquare I find it quite limited, I hope this will change. It would be great to give out badges or stars e.g. for my favorite museums, in spite of only earning them. I would love to see Foursquare getting more interactive. I [...]

Foursquare as Museum Marketing Tool (1)

New comment (1) on “Good idea? As a museum you could use a new feature in Foursquare to engage your increasingly mobile visitors with foursquare “Specials,” (discounts and prizes you can offer your loyal visitors)” We have had a Foursquare Mayor special at the Minnesota History Center for free admission for a year now but [...]

Multitouch Mapping Exhibit at Oakland Museum of California

The California Land Grab multitouch, multiuser mapping application developed for the Gallery of California History at the Oakland Museum. This exhibit allows visitors to view detailed maps and other documents from the 18th and 19th centuries. High-resolution images along with descriptive metadata are drawn directly from Flickr into this mashup application. A scaleable magnifier tool, [...]

lleida2010, Seminar provides a panoramic view of the state-of-the-art in digital technology and cultural heritage

The rapid advance of the information and communications Technologies ICT applied to heritage documentation, management and exploitation increasingly enables tools to be rapidly replaced and greatly enhances the work of experts. However, developments are also raising new questions and posing new challenges. We need to pool technical advances in the photography and digitisation of museum [...]